How does everyone feed their hay/haylage?

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My horse will have to come in at night soon(ish) and I was just wondering how everyone feeds their hay/haylage?? And why?

(i.e, net, floor, etc etc)

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I give my mares a bit of both, i put hay on the floor so the dust doesn't get into their eyes, and it drains away any mucus. I also give them a bit of haylage in a net, so it lasts them longer.
 
My lad has to have 24 hour soaked hay as he is an elephant, and in a tiny holed haynet! Oh how i would love to have a normal horse who could eat dry hay from the floor!! x
 
Both on the floor. Used to use haynets, but for a time was a Public Monitor of Police Horses & Dogs. The police horses were always fed off the ground (avoidance of neck wrenching, inhaling dust) and as they were so superbly looked after in every respect I converted! This year it's going to be barley straw mixed with haylage.......
 
Hey, thanks guys.

Well, I give mine her in one of those big (giant) buckets things for when she comes into be tacked up etc but I know this wont be any good for the night.. So.. wondered if anyone used that hayledge thing! (like a metal weight so the hay/haylage cannot be lifted and pushed around the bed)?


Or does anyone else have any innotive methods?

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Rose Folly said:
Both on the floor. Used to use haynets, but for a time was a Public Monitor of Police Horses & Dogs. The police horses were always fed off the ground (avoidance of neck wrenching, inhaling dust) and as they were so superbly looked after in every respect I converted! This year it's going to be barley straw mixed with haylage.......
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Interesting thanks, that's what I am doing too, on the mix straw/haylage.
 
My fella - well soaked hay straight from the floor - better for back, teeth, respiration etc

Share fella - haylage (vets orders, he had a reaction possibly to the hay), and from a double net tied to the base of a haybar - he's a fatty so we're trying to keep him on a trickle feed rather than stuffing himself then having nothing for the rest of the night. Tied to the base of a hay bar to try and get the benefits of floor feeding while limiting his intake.
 
I have to use a smallholed haynet unfortunately as my lad is a greedy guts and I have to monitor his weight all year. He has his hay wetted down and in a small holed net - one in his stable and one outside in his 'corral' area.
 
Ali2 said:
My fella - well soaked hay straight from the floor - better for back, teeth, respiration etc

Share fella - haylage (vets orders, he had a reaction possibly to the hay), and from a double net tied to the base of a haybar - he's a fatty so we're trying to keep him on a trickle feed rather than stuffing himself then having nothing for the rest of the night. Tied to the base of a hay bar to try and get the benefits of floor feeding while limiting his intake.
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What a good idea. I was considering forcing OH to put some home made hay bars in our new stables when they are built. Do real hay bars have a tie ring or something to tie the hay net down - grey cells are now whirring away - 3 out of our 4 are greedy fatty boom booms.
 
I weigh their haylage in old Alfalfa bags so they get the right amount, and then tip it into large rubber/plasticy type pots in their stable so they can't get hay in their beds- (one is a central heating water storage tank but is perfect for feeding haylage in -and cheaper than proper hay feeders!)

In the summer I will feed from horsehage nets to slow down their eating, but I prefer to feed their haylage loose if possible as I reckon it must be better for their teeth etc.

My youngster has his hay fed to him in the large tub trugs pots.
 
Did use a haybar last year but he had to have restricted amounts as he's a fatty so he ate it too quickly when in on a night. Then started cribbing on the edge of it so had to take it out.

He now has his night nets double netted when in and day time nets in these which are great. Need to get some bigger ones for this year.
http://www.parellproducts.com/
 
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