haybar size, piccies, my dilemma

[NeverSayNever]

my horse is very naughty with his hay... I feed it from the floor as in the year I have had him i have worked really hard to get the muscle off the underside of his neck. However as soon s the hay is put in his stable, he paws at it to get tp the stuff at the bottom

and then pees/poos on what h'e's pawed back thus wasting loads. His neck is finally looking better, so i didnt want to go back to haynets, so got a haybar.

He is *just* 15hh, with a shortish neck, and the large one looked really big, so got the smaller one... however he has already pulled hay out of it onto the floor

Please tell me he would have been able to do this with the bigger one as well? Is it big enough do you think?

 

[FMM]

Ours are much taller than that - they have to reach into them and really stretch to get to the bottom of it.

 

[PoppyAnderson]

Hhmmmm, does look a touch small. Think the larger one might have been better - sorry - but if he's determined enough, he could have pulled hay from the bigger one too.

 

[legaldancer]

I have the larger size haybar for a 16hh & he still pulls loads out overnight. However, I fill it up to the top every evening & I think he digs around for the tastiest bits. I'm sure it's cut down on wastage though.

 

[jewel]

what about moving it up the wall a bit higher

 

[Baileyhoss]

my 14.3hh has the full size one and even though his ration fills it level, he still comes in, sticks his nose in deep and turfs it all out!

 

[laura05]

I have the small one for my Shettie and large one for 15 hh cob ,she pulls it straight out on the floor.

 

[kerilli]

i've got the big ones and they still pull it all out onto the floor if they want to!
i'd try putting a weight on top of it, or a mesh with smooth edges, tied at the sides, so there's something on top of it.

 

[VLHIEASTON]

Well that is the reason why i won't buy these !

 

[LankyDoodle]

I have the bigger ones, even for my 15hh. He has to stretch to get into it but that's all part of the 'exercise' so to speak. George does tend to pull some of it out, but he does the same with nets (more than with the haybar). I would only use a small one with a little pony.

 

[Enfys]

Can you not just raise the bar up a bit?

One of my horses does that in the field, hay goes in feed bin (bale size wooden crate) he sticks face in and chucks it all out, then kills it by rolling in it. I have no sympathy, he either eats it, or goes hungry, his choice.

 

[Spyda]

I got a Hay Bar for my yearling for the same reason as you, but found mine just pulled it out all over the place too. And pooped and peed on much of it. Such a flaming waste.

I'm now using a hay bag. I can fit 4 or 5 slices of hay into it and find that she no longer tugs too much out in one go. It's working much better than the Hay Bar ever did, and was a lot cheaper to buy. Now I've a flipping Hay Bar littering up the tack room, redundant. Wish I hadn't bothered spending the money on it