Feeding help please anyone....

[miamibear]

My horse is rather protective over his feed, he will lunge at one horse in particular at feed time.

I leave his feed for a friend to drop in because she likes ours fed at the same time although when im there i put it to the back of the stable facing the wall and he never bothers, she just drops it over the door. I leave about an hour before her

Im not particularly worried apart from its obviously not a very nice experience for him because he is stressing about all the other horses getting his food.

Do you think it would be worth installing a manger in the far corner, he will be facing the wall definately then and getting people to feed him in there.

Is there anything else i can do?

BTW feeding all horses at the same time on a night is not an option althogugh i feed at the same time for everyone on a morning so tea time is the only problem

 

[Kelly1982]

I think getting a manger would be a good idea otherwise its just going to make him bad tempered and upset everytime he is fed. Either that or ask your friend to feed him at the back of his stable?

 

[miamibear]

Hmmm i thought so, hes not bad mannered, i make him wait and not push for his tea and hes fine with me in there but friend is a bit frightened of him now and rightly so because he is lunging at other horse and kicking the partition, i dont think he would do this to a human.

I have to find a solution, will speak to YO as he is the one that will feed when im not there and see what he says, if he wouldnt mind popping the feed to the back in a manger and then get one.

Think a friend has one going spare, may be able to buy it off her

Thanks Kelly

xx

 

[AmyMay]

I agree with the manger. Amy is terrible with her feed as well, and I never leave it by the door for the same reasons as you.

Alternatively you could just feed the horse yourself rather than going to the expense of a manger.

 

[miamibear]

Yes i could but a manger may be better then people will start to get to know the manger is where he gets fed so if i cant be there he still gets fed in it away from the others.

Thanks

xx