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I am about to buy a haybar this weekend, (my boy is currently in transition to barefoot) I had a look at them in the tack shop yesterday and they look enormous, I am not sure my boy would get his head in down to the bottom but the lady at the tack shop says I need the big size, My boy is 15.3hh and a thoroughbred.

Any advice would be welcome.

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I would think if you can hang it low you should be fine with a large size, they do tend to look huge when they are not attached to the wall!
 
if you sit it on the floor (or more precisely floor level ) they will get down to the bottom - mine are set 6 inches off the floor (no choice) and they can still reach the bottom - my 2 are 15.2 and 16h - they are great devices - soo much quicker than nets
 
Echo the above, they're not as big on the wall as they look. Although do situate it a few inches above the floor so that the dust and tiny bits can fall out and be swept away. Good luck with yours, one of my girls pulls all her hay out of the haybar and throws it on the floor before she eats it!
 
I got rid of mine. The boys chucked all the hay on the floor which was so wasteful that I went back to haynets.
 
I stopped using mine after a few months! As others have said, you need to site the haybar at least 6" off the floor so you can sweep under it to get the loose dust and stuff out. Take my advice and site it as high as possible so you can get your broom underneath to make life easy! But if you then shake the equivalent of a full haynet out into the haybar and the horse doesn't eat it all, it's a pig to reach down inside to the bottom to get all the hay out! My horse has haylage and you wouldn't believe how quickly the temperature from left over haylage a couple of days old and compressed at the bottom got! YO worried about combustion like in muck heaps. I rang the manufacturers and the lady said I needed to shake the amount of hay/lage I intended to put into the haybar right out completely, spread all over the floor, only then to pick it back up and put it loosely in the haybar. Yeah, right! Back to haynets. Anyone want a haybar, PM me and you can have it for free if you come and take it off the wall.
 
They do come in different sizes, I have a really small one for my 11.2 and large of my 14.2 & 15hh. Like its been mentioned if you can't sit it high make sure you can clean the bottom of it out as the hay / dust etc sits in the bottom. Remainders of soaked hay in the bottom can ferment. Alot easier than hay nets just lean in it and clean it out a couple of times a week.
 
mine never drag their haylage out - the secret is to only put a days worth in there and then top up when all gone so they eat down to the botom - never found mine went manky.
 
I have a haybar and love it. i dont find the horse wastes too much hay but above all i know she is safe...my last horse got his feet caught in his nets overnight and nearly fractured his skull struggling to free himself, he ended up looking like he'd gone 10 rounds with mike tyson and had swollen and cut legs....hence the reason i now have a haybar.
 
I love haybars. I keep a rubber feed bucket in the bottom of mine, although round they end up triangular. VERY easy to keep clean this way. I feed soaked hay so the bucket catches all the drips and hay seed bits.
 
I got the large size for my 14'3, but it was too big for her, so my Dad made a shelf about half way down it, and then it was fine.

She kept dragging it into her bed tho and wasting it.

So anyone local who wants to buy one please pm me :-)
 
Haybars are a great idea, but didn't work with my horse. She pulled all the hay out and ate it off the floor. She then decided to dismantle the haybar (god knows how she managed it:eek:!!). She is such a madam!

The Haybar has now gone and I've gone back to feeding off the ground!
 
I like the idea of them and have one, but if you are trying to restrict intake its not so easy, and my horse sticks his head as far down as he can then throws it all out onto the floor, then carries bits over to his water and dunks it in there then he eats it!! I alternate between haybar in the winter when i am feeding adlib hay and haynets in the summer when intake is restricted. They are an excellent invention but not for everyone. I remember years ago having a stable with a manger in the corner for hay, they dont build them like that anymore!!
 
NooNoo59 said:
I like the idea of them and have one, but if you are trying to restrict intake its not so easy, and my horse sticks his head as far down as he can then throws it all out onto the floor, then carries bits over to his water and dunks it in there then he eats it!! I alternate between haybar in the winter when i am feeding adlib hay and haynets in the summer when intake is restricted. They are an excellent invention but not for everyone. I remember years ago having a stable with a manger in the corner for hay, they dont build them like that anymore!!
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http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?p=10953607#post10953607

You can look at the above thread.

I use a 75ltr Tub Trug for old boy and it works fine.

For The Tank, I simply tie a small holed haynet to the bottom of the wall and stuff the rope into the net.

Another option is to get a large tub trug, put a hole in the bottom of it.
Put a small holed haynet into it upside down and feed the rope through the hole.
The tie the rope to a ring on the bottom of the wall.

I wouldn't use nets on the floor with a shod horse, but BF is OK.

They use ground nets more commonly in Europe.
 
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