Messy eaters - what do you do ?

[DJ]

My youngster is SUCH a messy eater ... he gets it everywhere, he paws at the bucket (tried trugs/rubbers/over door ones) and tips it over, he smooshes it into the mud, he throws it everywhere and is generally a real mucky pup !!!

By comparison, my other lad is so neat, eats carefully, not spilling a drop, and licks his bowl clean, only ever having spillage if his teeth are a bit sharp and need doing.


So, my youngsters teeth are fine, and he`s always eager for his food. So, does anyone have any hints and tips ? ? ? ? ...... as it`s not great forking out hard earned cash for feed and supplements, when in his case the majority of it ends up trampled into the mud.

Ta muchly

 

[whirlwind]

We fed one of ours that was like this in a really tall, high sided bucket fixed into a tyre so he couldn't flick feed out/ knock it over.

 

[PandorasJar]

I like the tyre idea.

I did the opposite with a messy mare. Fed in a very wide shallow bucket. The rubber heavy kind. Didnt find she pawed at it to get to it after that. I think she was compacting in in tall slim bucket and booted to get at it more easily.

 

[TigerTail]

One of mine was like this - used to put her foot in it, kick it, pick it up and throw the bucket at u etc

I now have a tall rubber thing, like a trug but really high sided which i bungie tie to the fence! When shes finished she amuses her self pulling it back and letting it twang

My other mare eat, but dribbles it all down the gate or nearest person

 

[Captainmouse]

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I got mine in scats and got a tyre from my garage,

I tried the big shallow bowls and he would stick his feet in and tip over. When in corner manger works but out in the field or on the yard this seems to work

 

[Foxhunter49]

I have had them tip over the tyre bowls!

Get a big barrel and cut it in half so it is about 3' high. Place a concrete block in it and feed from that.

 

[HeresHoping]

I use a tyre - a big deep one. However, I do have make absolutely sure that I don't leave it in when he has finished because he likes to do party tricks with it - namely hula hooping around one leg or the other, but once I found it round his neck. I had left him all of 5 minutes whilst helping with an emergency.

 

[FfionWinnie]

I have a hang on the gate type and tie wrap it or bungee cord it in position. Then legs etc aren't involved (hopefully! )