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Just wondering really, do you feed your horse aways off the floor,(buckets and hay) or do you use hay nets and bucket on the door etc?

Mine is fed off the floor but does anyone have an ideas how to slow him down eating his haylage off the floor?
 
A mixture really.
Yearling gets fed off the floor as he has ad lib forage and is too young/stupid to contend with hay nets, and SWUO gets a token bucket feed on the floor, and her forage in a small holed net as she's a fatty and is always on a diet!
 
with regards to my hay i feed my to from haynets i find it last much longer than feeding from the floor and there no hay in the bed (pet hate)

and with regards to hard feed i alternate i have a door hanging bucket, makes it easier when im feeding several
 
Feed in a skip on the floor & hay normally in small hole haynets fixed fairly low to the floor. Feeding hay on the floor is great but it gets mixed into the bedding & becomes a mess.
 
hard feed - bucket on floor

Hay - always on the floor except when travelling - I HATE haynets. it is an unatural p[osition for a horse to be eating at, plus all the gunk they have in the lungs and nose, falls out when they eat of the floor Much better
 
Feed- bucket on the floor
Hay- also on the floor but in the process of getting my dad to put something across the corner so she doesnt make such a mess!
 
My mare used to get her hay in a huge tubtrug on the floor, and her feed in a rubber skip on the floor. She was prone to nosebleeds and this helped to stop them. Everyone else on the yard gets their dinner in a manger on the wall, and hay in haynets except one or two horses. It's just far better for them (and safer) IMO to feed like this, but there are some at the yard that make so much mess and waste so much hay that, especially now we're facing a hay shortage, the owners just can't afford to do it this way. I will always at least feed dinner from the floor now, if not hay as well.
 
Corner manger and small holed nets for me. Alee is far to fussy to eat anything off the floor. Have tried it but she just mixes into her bed makes a mess doesn't eat all night then will scoff a net in 10 mins flat in the morning coz she's starving!!
 
Feed hay in large tubtrugs, it works brilliantly as it doesn't then get mixed up in the bed. I did think greedy welshie would woolf it straight down, but he surprised us.
Feed gets fed in rubber skips on the floor
 
feed- in an old belfast sink on the floor (its safe, and co its got a plug enables easy cleaning)

water- in a tubtrug in the corner manger (needs the water at chest height cos this is the only thing that stops him sh*tting in it)

hay- in a low (yet safe) haynet, my pet hate is hay in the bed.
 
feed, in his corner manger, hay in a net next to the door, because he wont eat it if its in the rack at the back - too nosy
 
Rubber bowls in stalls or field and hay on the ground. I don't even possess a haynet anymore, although I do have a haybag, just in case, but it has never been opened.
 
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