Haybars and haynets

[Donnie Darco]

How can you slow down a horse feeding from haybar?

I know some peeps use haynet in haybar, but doesn't this defeat the object of the haybar? The horse having to pull hay out of the haynet therefore using "incoreect" muscles that the haybar is designed to prevent?

I love my haybar, and i'd loath going back to haynets, but I know Lyla scoffs her hay real quick but i can't feed her more as she is a fat tank

But I worry she's a long time without hay

And on this note, does anyone know barley/oat straw supplier in Newbury area?

Thanks for any views/advice!

DD x

 

[DougalJ]

I have a hay bar and I don't think there is much you can do to stop them scoffing it if you have a scoffer! Mine turfs it all out and dumps it all in his bedding so I've now stopped using it and gone back to haynets.

 

[Theresa_F]

Some people put the hay in a haynet which they then tie into the haybar. Horse still eats low down but stops them pulling it out and scoffing it too fast.

I am considering putting a ring under my haybar so I can tie a net in as Stinky has taken to throwing hay out and them trampling it in the bed and won't eat it. Farra is a good girl and whilst she does throw some out, she then hoovers it all up.

 

[Lu1]

I sold my haybar as i couldnt get on with it, he used to pull the hay out and drag it across the bed. I tie up his haynets to his door, well away from where he lies down in his bed and this seems to work well. I think haynets/horsehage nets are the only things that slow them down...