TinseLeneHorse
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How about a lie detector test for liveries - no-ones horse ever poos in the indoor school, no-one fails to clean up after their farrier etc etc ?
Horse ownership pet hates
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Ratface
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Back to original thread title. Darkness from 15:30hrs - 0730hrs. Wet everything. Lots of other things which can be sorted, more or less, if one feels motivated to do so. Currently, motivation on a go-slow.
throwawayaccount
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Sensor lights never being on long enough, or not enough lighting on the yard.
bad drainage/puddles collecting
making haynets when the hay has fallen down awkwardly and hard to pull out slices.. same for the straw
poo picking
Struggling with motivation.
bad drainage/puddles collecting
making haynets when the hay has fallen down awkwardly and hard to pull out slices.. same for the straw
poo picking
Struggling with motivation.
Indy
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Aaron, you need to look into the digital pulse checker and app idea
Gloi
Too little time, too much to read.
Having to breathe cold, damp air. I can wrap up in my big coat but my lungs really don't get on with the cold and damp
SEL
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I have tried letting it dry after soaking it and horses hated it. They would eat soaked though. Smelt grim.
ihatework
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Can’t imagine there is any commercial viability to pre-soaked hay ?
Digital pulse monitor would be something to explore. Perhaps as a package with some way to test sugars in grass/hay
Digital pulse monitor would be something to explore. Perhaps as a package with some way to test sugars in grass/hay
MagicMelon
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I want a concrete yard and an outdoor school, that would change my horsey life considerably. Fed up of years of riding in a boggy (or rock solid) field, fed up of mud. And more land, always want more land. Oh and off-road hacking on my doorstep (as in no roadwork at all). Dont ask for much ha ha!
Aarongeorge
Member
? best post so far!
Keith_Beef
Novice equestrian, accomplished equichetrian
Get on Kickstarter, take a look at some of the ideas based on Raman spectroscopy. There might be some ideas you could build on.
ETA: I just took a look, and the projects that I was thinking of (and that I haven't followed for a long time) have been abandoned.
I found a possible alternative here.
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PurBee
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Yeah, it’s always recommended to be fed fresh after soaking. When its left to sit, it goes funky and smelly, partly-ferments/stews.
Wet soaked hay couldnt be commercially available - it would be more deadly than the original bale.
For soaked hay to be commercially supplied - the hay would have to be washed in seriously hot water tanks, to kill most mould spores and quickly seep-out sugars - then it would have to be drained and dried again down to less than 15% in massive ovens, re-baled, and bales compressed and packaged in plastic bags. (To stop mould forming on outside of bales)
The energy/electricity/water facility required to do that would be an enormous cost, per bale to buy would probably hike to around 20 quid - if currently un-soaked compressed top quality hay mould-free in bags is 10 quid.
It’s do-able but not sure theres any/many horse owners willing to spend 20 quid per bale!
And nutritionally, i’d dread to think what was left after very hot water soaking tbh - fibre and insoluble minerals mainly calcium most likely - may as well just feed speedibeet for half of the cost! Thats @£10 per 20kg bag. It’s very low sugar and mould-free, high fibre and calcium.
I bought standard hay that had been dried in a massive hay-drier machine, cost was £300 per tonne, compared to market average of £80 per tonne at the time.
Any commercial processing of hay post-farm harvest tends to really hike the price way-out of most people’s budget.
Winters100
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Personally I would like something simple, inexpensive, and not requiring mains electricity, to keep the water buckets from freezing
spotty_pony
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For me, I hate filling haynets!
stangs
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Chuck a smaller-sized ball in the bucket? Knew people who used a football for troughs.Personally I would like something simple, inexpensive, and not requiring mains electricity, to keep the water buckets from freezing
Winters100
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Yes, I do this if it is just below 0, but where I am gets much colder, and then it doesn't help.