Katie__Connie
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Do you tie your haynets up to string, or tie them straight onto ring/stable bars? And why?
Friend and I are debating which is safer
Friend and I are debating which is safer
In typical HHO style, I will give you an answer you weren't looking for. I don't use haynets, always put hay on the floor. Better for their backs.
In typical HHO style, I will give you an answer you weren't looking for. I don't use haynets, always put hay on the floor. Better for their backs.
I use a doubled up haynet, as my mare is a fatty. I hang it straight off the ring, at above my head height (around 5'7 at a guess), as if I hung it on string it'd come down due to her jerking and tugging at it to gobble faster!
Do you tie your haynets up to string, or tie them straight onto ring/stable bars? And why?
Friend and I are debating which is safer
When I do use a net, I tie straight to a ring. However, if possible, I feed from the floor. I say 'if possible' because when a horse needs soaked hay I always net it in a trickle net, but don't hang too high as don't want them reaching up and yanking it. Bad for their necks and back. Also I have one horse who pulls his haylage all over his bed and then seems to 'knit' it into his bedding and poo. Then he drops weight because he's soiled it all. So he gets his in a hay rack.
Unfortunately the ring is fixed to a solid concrete wall, so no way of moving it, and my mare needs her hay soaked or else she coughs. It's double netted to slow her down, or else she gorges on her straw bed which in turn also makes her cough!
Edit: whoops, was meant to reply to bepositive!
I tie mine, when I use them, low down directly to the ring, they are all small holed, only used for some horse to keep the hay from being spread about and they are tied as low as possible while still being off the floor, if the rope is tied to the net the thin net strings will break if they get caught, I recently had a horse get its rug caught on the net a quick tug and he freed himself without pulling the net down. Most of my horses are barefoot so no risk of a shoe getting caught if they decided to paw at the net.
In typical HHO style, I will give you an answer you weren't looking for. I don't use haynets, always put hay on the floor. Better for their backs.
ETA for travelling, tie straight to the ring.