How do you feed your hay in the stable?

[tye_bo]

I'm just wondering how you feed your feed and why you choose that method?

 

[SirenaXVI]

I feed mine from a haybar

 

[MillionDollar]

When I had a large stable, 25 x 15, I fed off the floor, but in my new 12 x 12 stables they waste so much so I have gone back to haynets. I tried XL TubTrugs, but they were no good so I'm now going to try corner hay racks but have them quite low.

 

[moneypit1]

Want to put "off the floor" but have to confess I use nets. Want to try and get haybars for next winter as i do worry about the unnatural position nets enforce. Don't like putting it on the floor as a) I can't judge how much I am giving! and b) they bloody poo on it!

 

[JoBo]

Haynets otherwise it just ends up everywhere. Bodey doesn’t eat a lot of hay in the stable anyway, he prefers to be out in the field, where we feed hay from the floor.

Should add ours are out for about 20 hours a day.

 

[MizElz]

On the floor - the most natural way for a horse to eat! If I had a majorly messy horse I may consider a hay rack, but never, ever a haynet. A friend of mine went down to the yard one day to find his beloved pony dying of a twisted gut, with both his hindlegs caught up in an unyielding haynet and broken in many places. I use haynets only for soaking, never for feeding.

 

[Irishcobs]

Tub on the floor and a Hayball.

 

[shadowboy]

you didnt have an option for Haybar- mine is a homemade version though...

 

[tye_bo]

Sorry, whats the difference in a haynet and haybar?

In a big tub sounds like a good idea, it combines a natural way to eat with keeping it together and keeping track of how much you are feeding.

 

[Folara]

Haybar for me as well. Great invention - especially for my messy monster.

 

[Three]

Haybar for me too, except for the girls who live out - it's on the floor for them

http://www.haybar.co.uk/Product%20info.html

 

[Thistle]

Big tub trugs

 

[Gorgeous George]

haybar for George too - fantastic!

 

[pelly]

On the floor as french haynets are trosh!!

 

[Eaglestone]

One in a haynet so it reduces the amount that he wees on and chucks about ... the other on the floor

 

[spotty_pony]

On the floor as it is most natural.

 

[BigBird146]

haynets!

 

[Nari]

One has his on the floor, the other prefers nets. Voted for on the floor as that's my preference.

 

[appylass]

Mine uses a munch station. Love it!

 

[jesterfaerie]

Off the floor.

 

[Serephin]

haybar

 

[JM07]

tubstrug or on the floor...

haynets have been/are proven to cause neck/shoulder/back problems....

 

[benji12]

haynet

 

[JessPickle]

Haynets he makes too much mess otherwise and poos on it!

 

[Leary]

Off the floor, nice and easy.

 

[Moggy in Manolos]

currently on the floor until i can afford a haybar or make one!

 

[YorksG]

Amber has a hay bar which she empties on to the floor every night, she then eats from the floor.

 

[Emma91]

Haynets

 

[Salcey]

Large Tubtrugs

 

[the watcher]

From the floor