9tails
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I use a carabiner off the ring and clip my net into that. You won't see me hauling heavy nets into place. Horse is an accomplished net feeder, she doesn't yank at the net but nibbles daintily.
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.
Just to add my two cents - when Pops was on straw, I fed him hay and haylage from the floor - if he dragged it into his bed it didn't matter/it didn't get wasted. Now that he's back on shavings, he gets a net - hung from the ring - in the manner Dry Rot describes. I tried feeding him from the floor when he first moved over to shavings (at new yard), but he wasted sooooo much of it that I gave up. Hay bars and racks are a waste of time with him - he just sees them as gigantic playthings and spends a happy ten minutes turfing every scrap of hay and haylage out of them onto the floor - so nets it is.
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I use a haybar
Surely if it's too high you can just lower the ring or put a new one up...? !
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.
If I remember correctly, the Pony Club mantra (from many years ago) was:
'Horse on the string, haynet on the ring."