Feed Buckets?

[Delta99]

What bucket can I use to stop my boy throwing his feed all over the place?
Have tried putting the round buckets inside a tyre but he gets the bucket out.
Have tried the ones that hang up but he throws them on the floor or takes a mouthful, then looks up and the food goes everywhere while he's chewing....
With the price of feed these days I really don't want to waste it...

Don't mind it in the evenings really, he can rummage through his bed all night but in the morning I'm always late and he's turned out with another horse so can't even put it in the field for him....

 

[CracklinRosie]

Nosebag?

 

[Bugly]

My old horse used to do this; we ended up finding a huge durable plastic box that was 1m x 1/2 m. He had that on the floor in his stable and he was unable to upend it/fling it around. As it was so big he was happy to chuck his feed about -within- it if you see what I mean. Anyway I had 8 happy years of feeding him like this: the only problem is we got the box from a tip and I have no idea where you could find something similar, perhaps take a trip to a builders merchants, Travis Perkins or similar say?

 

[tikino]

in used to have the same problem with me horse . i therefore bought one of the deep corner mangers got me dad to put the frame up and have never had any more problems

 

[Nosey]

Or the old fashioned round metal feeders for outdoors - they are very heavy. I gave up in the end though with a horse who flung feed around whatever it was put in. Gave her a rubber indestructable one and as she is on matting give her feed on a clear bit of mat then she can hoover up easliy afterwards.

 

[Jericho]

Have you tried tub trugs? Mine tipped all his shallow feedbuckets over and then have to hoover the floor which I thought would end in waste. Now I feed in tub trugs and even if he pushes them over the feed mostly stays inside.....

Some horses are messy feeders and some just dont take their nose out of the bucket until the last morsel is gone!!

 

[sachak]

mine does this and is bloomin terrible for it - my mate donated me a corner bucket and braket andhaven lookd back sincex