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sandi_84

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Ok get your thinking caps on!
My sister's cob always tips his feed out and spreads it around so she's thinking of buying some bucket or another that attaches to a bracket so it can't be tipped but it's not exactly cheap. She can't use the good old put it in a rubber tyre idea as she is allergic to rubber.
So.... ideas for a cheaper/homemade alternative anyone?
Tasty treats and alchoholic beverage of your choice to those who come up with something :D
 
You can buy the corner ones that fit into brackets which can be picked up secondhand a lot cheaper than new.
Or alternatively, depending on the bedding used and what feed is used why not harness the cobs addiction to tipping and playing with his food by buying a ball he can push around at will?
Supplements ( if given) could be encased into a treacle sandwich or a round of bread with a smear of something the horse likes in order to get him to eat it.
If the horse is on a mix see if there is a cube or pellet alternative and put into the treat ball.
It will keep horsey amused and he will get his daily feed too, just has to work for it?
 
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I think they often like to eat more naturally picking through the feed, I have in the past, with horses that tip the bowl over, just tipped it in a pile on the floor and let them get on with it, the food does not get spread around so much if you put it there rather than the foot doing it.
The other option is a wider feed bowl so they spread it out more, deep buckets are not always popular with horses and the over the door mangers are very small they cannot eat comfortably at all imo.
 
........alternatively tip feed on a mud free flat piece of ground. I sometimes do that when I get fed up watching my WB stick his forefoot in his dinner spreading in deep mud holes :D
 
Broke_But_Happy said:
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Tinsel Trouble said:
why is this a problem? My pony tips his feed all over his stable floor and he hoovers it up?

I wouldn't find it a problem, but for some unknown reason my sister finds it offensive to the eye :rolleyes: she's a bit OCD

what about those hanging buckets? You can put it on the stable door, or hang them on fences? Or a tyre bucket and just tip his feed into it using another bucket. it doesn't need to be touched that way!
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She has one of these already, (see above picture) but because it's better for the horse to feed with his head lower down than hanging it on the door allows she's after something else. I think she just can't help herself, she buys a lot of gidgets that in my opinion are useless/unnecessary and I just want to try and help her save a bit of money as unfortunately she's not exactly rolling in money.

Persephone said:
Who is allergic to rubber? the owner or the horse?
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Yes the owner of the horse is allergic to rubber and she doesn't wear gloves either for some reason :rolleyes: Got to love her she's my big sis... but honestly, she's a bit mental! :rolleyes::D

PaddyMonty said:
Fix cheap tie up ring (£2) to wall, obtain clip off old lead rope (free)
Use clip to attach bucket to tie up ring (priceless).
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Ooh that IS brilliant! You clever monkey! :D I'll suggest this to her and hope the idea takes! Thank you! :D
 
One of ours does this, seems to be the way she likes it! I must admit I think if she just ate it out of the bowl it would be easier when I watch her carefully licking it off the floor!!!
 
My friend's youngster is a bit prone to temper tantrums around mealtime, and his new thing is to tip his trug over the second he gets it, flip it back up and then trample through the split stuff to get at the remainder :rolleyes: so now we just tip it in a pile on the floor and there are no more histrionics.
 
PaddyMonty said:
Fix cheap tie up ring (£2) to wall, obtain clip off old lead rope (free)
Use clip to attach bucket to tie up ring (priceless).
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Silly question tho... how would you get the not clip end of the clip on the ring? Use the lead rope cut off short? or am I just being daft?
 
Just hook the clip though both the tie ring and bucket handle. Needs to be one of the bigger type lead rope clips, not the sill y little things on some lead ropes.
 
be positive said:
I think they often like to eat more naturally picking through the feed, I have in the past, with horses that tip the bowl over, just tipped it in a pile on the floor and let them get on with it, the food does not get spread around so much if you put it there rather than the foot doing it.
The other option is a wider feed bowl so they spread it out more, deep buckets are not always popular with horses and the over the door mangers are very small they cannot eat comfortably at all imo.
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Ditto.
 
My horse does the same, I resorted to just making it in the bucket then tipping into neat pile on his stable floor or on the grass in his field, it's the bucket that seems to spark off the pawing and waveing of the head which then tips the bucket over, but yes when it tips over or they paw it all over the place they then waste and walk the food into the bed, not good when your adding expensive supplements into the feed!

Tyre doesn't work for my boy neither, he just throws the tryre round his stable too, although he does have a tyre for his water which keeps that in place, he used to tip that all over the place as well.

I'm sure he has rave up in his stable through the night :D big fish...litte fish and all that. ;)
 
How about if your horse lives out, as mine does? I feed int he same place in the field, so as to minimise muddy patches. He has a heavy black rubber skip type thing - low and wide - to eat from, but almost always tips it up. Wouldn;t mind but when its wet, the food then gets mixed/trodden into the mud.

Only have elec fence so can;t hang a bucket on fence.

Any ideas for a bucket to put on floor and is un-tip-over-able?
 
Brandy said:
How about if your horse lives out, as mine does? I feed int he same place in the field, so as to minimise muddy patches. He has a heavy black rubber skip type thing - low and wide - to eat from, but almost always tips it up. Wouldn;t mind but when its wet, the food then gets mixed/trodden into the mud.

Only have elec fence so can;t hang a bucket on fence.

Any ideas for a bucket to put on floor and is un-tip-over-able?
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Think outside the box here. Hows about putting a rubber stable mat down where you feed so if bucket gets tipped over the feed goes on the mat, not on the mud?
 
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