haylage feeding

[ILuvCowparsely]

I am interested in other views.

My mare has uveitis and wheres a cashel hood in her stable to keep out stable dust.

last week a piece of hay must have gone through the hood and punctured her cornea resulting in an ulcer which is being treated

I used to use a haylage wal rack but again thats at eye level and the same thing could happen

she was using a haylage net at the time when the incident happened

my first idea was to hang the net really low so she eats down so eyes safe( i am aware of dangers of low hung nets)
any ideas any 1?? how she can eat haylage safely

 

[appylass]

I use a Stubbs Munch Station which basically feeds from ground level, I don't think hay could puncture an eye using this as it would just fall back behind the bars. It is expensive but has saved me afortune in wastage and I like mine to eat from the ground without finding most if it in their beds!

Here's one on ebay :
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/STUBBS-MUNCH-...&ps=63&clkid=776791510134752967#ht_500wt_1203

Hope your poor horse is better soon.

 

[ILuvCowparsely]

thanx for that

i could put her net inside that couldn i??

Never seen one of those

 

[GingerCat]

Safest way would be to feed the haylage loose on the floor, it may be wasteful but less risky than a low slung net

 

[appylass]

thanx for that

i could put her net inside that couldn i??

Never seen one of those

You could, but unless you secured it to the bars in a few places it would fall back and she wouldn't be able to reach it - I haven't tried it but that's my guess.

 

[ILuvCowparsely]

Safest way would be to feed the haylage loose on the floor, it may be wasteful but less risky than a low slung net

thanx but haylage needs to be fed in small haynets so i dont want her wolfing the one section down in 10 mins then going all night with nothing i want her to eat it slowly

 

[GingerCat]

thanx but haylage needs to be fed in small haynets so i dont want her wolfing the one section down in 10 mins then going all night with nothing i want her to eat it slowly

I do understand that, but anymore damage to the eye and she may end up losing it.

Maybe try a hay/haylage replacer that can be fed from a bucket?

 

[mainpower]

thanx but haylage needs to be fed in small haynets so i dont want her wolfing the one section down in 10 mins then going all night with nothing i want her to eat it slowly

I feed my horse's ad-lib big bale haylage, is your mare on a strict diet? My stables both have home made hay bars, simply sheets of ply which slide behind battens fixed to the wall. My youngster has his loose in there, but my older horse who's messy has a large hole haynet tied at floor level behind his.

 

[ILuvCowparsely]

well yes she is on a diet allbof them are she tooo fat has to be kept leaner than she is

we have so muich grass they out from 7- 4pm

soon to be out 4pm till 7 am so all my horses and liveries get overweight

 

[LMR]

could you not get a haybar or make something similar then tye the haynet inside?