How to stop my youngster karate chopping her feed bucket

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As above we have tried every type of feed bucket hanging fence buckets, buckets in tyres, tyre buckets, regular buckets, tub trugs but every feed time she manages to karate chop and I mean this literally a lot of force tends to go into chucking it over. Any suggestions of buckets or how to keep feed in the bucket as she will then refuse to eat it off the floor.
 
Unfourtunatly she point blank refuses to eat it off the floor, but she also karate chops her hay, bumble bees etc so shes a bit of a fool all round :P


lol at carefreegirl she'd probably still attempt it with her nose :P
 
I had one (cheeky cob youngster) that constantly pawed at trugs and buckets. He made such a racket that he put all the others off eating! In the end I gave up and just fed him from the floor but he would still paw at it and spread it around the stable.... but then spend ages finding it all again afterwards!

We did have some success with one of these...

http://www.rideaway.co.uk/galvanised-wall-bucket-holder/

... and a bucket with the handle removed... although he still managed to put a split in the bucket! And we had to nail a piece of carpet to the stable wall below it as he had great fun pawing that and making a huge din instead!!!

Good luck, you have my sympathies!!! :D
 
Miss L Toe said:
I suspect she would eat off the floor if she was hungry enough.
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This is true but she is turned out 24/7 and even if seperated away from others she will refuse to eat it tried stable, field, school nothing seems to be good enough for her :P also she needs the feed as she is not a good doer at all and growing fast !
 
domane said:
I had one (cheeky cob youngster) that constantly pawed at trugs and buckets. He made such a racket that he put all the others off eating! In the end I gave up and just fed him from the floor but he would still paw at it and spread it around the stable.... but then spend ages finding it all again afterwards!

We did have some success with one of these...

http://www.rideaway.co.uk/galvanised-wall-bucket-holder/

... and a bucket with the handle removed... although he still managed to put a split in the bucket! And we had to nail a piece of carpet to the stable wall below it as he had great fun pawing that and making a huge din instead!!!

Good luck, you have my sympathies!!! :D
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Hahaha she split about 5 normal buckets in 5 days so given up with them, her newest are the heavy tyre buckets but she just flips them literally across the stable , scaring her self in the process and spreading the food even further :P although they are the only ones yet to not break. All would be okay if she would eat it afterwards although she will eat it if someone picks it all up again for her, its just wayyyy to time consuming to do it twice a day everyday.

She is just a fool.
 
My lad does this, best results have been using hay as a dinner plate and putting a hanging bucket hung from the hayrack, there's nothing for him to bang against underneath, so far this is working but he's started banging the actual bucket. Just occurred to me, try suspending a bucket on string, if there's nothing around it, might work.
Good luck and keep us posted
 
Both my 3yo and 2yo do this, 3yo seems to be growing out of it but 2yo still does this spectacularly every feed time.. they both hoover up off the floor and then turn the bucket over again with their noses to check they've not left any. I leave them to it!
 
A rubber tyre skip bucket, a nice deep one, like the 33lt one on tyrerubber.com. Two tie rings on either side of a corner in just the right places. Tie the bucket handles to the tie rings, add two more lower down and tie rope around to stabalise the bottom if needed.

Alternativley you could try putting cement into a large trug and setting a smaller one into it. It should make it heavy enough to stop her being able to flip it and the small trug means she won't have to eat off the cement.

I will admit to crouching next to feed buckets and holding them still to stop my thugs throwing feed about. They did eventually grow out of the habit of flipping buckets though the rising 4 yr old still holds her foot up whilst eating.
 
Put a breezeblock flat in the bottom of a large bucket then jam another inside with the feed in, tie the handles together if you need to.
You mention she'll eat once you pick it all back up again? In that case a small sacrifice feed could be given first, made with a handful of the cheapest chaff you can get, then tip the real feed into the bucket.
 
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