How do you feed your hay overnight?

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I always feed mine off the floor as im paranoid about them getting tangled up in their haynets :confused: However haynets are so much easier. How do you feed yours?
 
I use 2 Elim a nets as my horse won't eat hay off the ground, any he drops he churns up with his shavings, am not mean enough to say "tough s**t if you are hungry you will eat it" he is very messy with his hay hence the elim a net
 
I much prefer to feed from the floor, but am thinking I will need to put the new boy's haylage into a net as he ears far too much far too quickly :rolleyes:

I put it into a net to weigh it and carry it & then empty it onto the floor -
 
Horse is out 24/7 so he eats it from the round bale! But the sheep get it from the floor. Used to put it in a haynet to reduce waste as they mix it with their bed, and made sure i tied it up high, so the little one could just reach it. Checked them one night to find said little one has got her back leg caught up in it. She must have jumped and got it caught, otherwise she never could have reached. Cue me panicking. Luckily she hadn't panicked too much, had made it very tight but not cuts or breaks (thank god!) Took me blooming forever to cut off and I vowed from the day to never let any of my animals eat from haynets again unless they were accompanied at all times whilst using it. I would rather spend an extra few quid a week on wasted hay than end up with an animal with a broken leg!
 
I have used a piece of plywood across the corner and put the hay in that. Similar to the eezehay but cheaper.

Some horses are just messy and will pull the hay out of the rack and spread it all over the place so I put theirs in nets which drop down behind the ply so it is low but cannot hang over the ply into the stable.
 
My Shires always got their ad lib hay in HUGE haynets hung very high, for obvious reasons. Whenever I put it on the ground or floor, they invariably peed or pooed on it and the waste was appreciable. I have just taken possession of a tombstone ring feeder for 4 horses...it is simply the bees knees!!!!! My 3 broodmares share the feeder inside the pole barn where they overwinter. My 2 youngsters are actually quite tidy when it comes to hay on the floor and finish every morsel without soiling any of it. They will be living next to the girls in a separate section in the pole barn come the bad weather. My haynets hold almost 3/4 of a small bale, which I used to hoick very high to avoid any accidents. Touch wood, never had a problem. However, as my bad back has gotten worse as I get older, lifting massive haynets vs throwing sections of bales into the ring feeder was a no-brainer. So easy: I roll a bale onto a small, flatbed wheelie thingy, push it to the pole barn and over to the ring feeder, cut the baler twine and throw the sections into the feeder. Bob's your uncle!!!
 
Haynet - double netted. During the day he'll get turnout, but if he can't for whatever reason, he'll have his hay on the floor. Even on turnout days he'll have hay put on the floor of his stable as extra.. Greedy hoss :rolleyes: At night though he gobbles it very quickly, so to keep him amused and reduce waste he has a double netted haynet, tied up against the wall. He used to have it in his hay rack, but he can empty it quicker than any horse I've ever seen :eek: xx
 
on the floor. at first he would leave a small amount and that would get dragged in his bed but now he eats it all. he does go through it quite quickly though but i dont want to give him ad lib as that would work out very expensive for me! so thinking of getting a hay net...
 
In a haynet, would much rather feed off floor but he eats it far too quickly and can't afford to go through loads of hay in a winter!
 
I feed 2 from haynets and 1 from a hayrack, tried a haybar for one of mine but he wouldn't touch his hay so had to go back to haynet.
 
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