OMG..I LOVE my Trickle Net!!!

I think your all bonkers!!! Those who have paid that for one anyway.
So when you say you have hay left in the morning, it's because the horse has got a bit annoyed trying to get it out??? And given up?? Hence cleaner stable. So why not just give less hay in a small hole net.
Iv worked it out £240 it would cost me to buy all my crew one. |o|
 
thatsmygirl said:
I think your all bonkers!!! Those who have paid that for one anyway.
So when you say you have hay left in the morning, it's because the horse has got a bit annoyed trying to get it out??? And given up?? Hence cleaner stable. So why not just give less hay in a small hole net.
Iv worked it out £240 it would cost me to buy all my crew one. |o|
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If it's really important that your horse doesn't put on weight but you want to ensure a steady trickle of fibre as recommended to keep a horse happy and healthy surely its a good investment?

No more than a pair of brushing boots and if you use it everyday for several years and can feed less hay and have a horse with a healthy gut and no colic or ulcers it should pay for itself easily.
 
sussexbythesea said:
If it's really important that your horse doesn't put on weight but you want to ensure a steady trickle of fibre as recommended to keep a horse happy and healthy surely its a good investment?

No more than a pair of brushing boots and if you use it everyday for several years and can feed less hay and have a horse with a healthy gut and no colic or ulcers it should pay for itself easily.
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I'm SO against it, however, you do what you gotta do and I agree with your statement here... when all is said and done, it is up to the buyer!!!

I'll keep my £30 for some sherry!!! :D:D:D:D

p.s. will wait for the copycats to manufacture one for £3.99 then I might buy one... nowt like a northerner as they say :D:D:D
 
Tallyhohoho will do the same, wait for a decent price one.
And for now will carry on with my nets and limit their in take with no colic in sight.
 
Well I've had mine for a week now and my boy is actually happier for having it so in my mind it's paid for itself fo that fact alone.

My boy has problems, physical amd mental, and he is unable to regulate himself with anything, so I have to find ways to regulate him for him...this DOES do a better job than a triple netted set of normal small holed hay nets and I estimate that I have cut my boys hay consumption down by a third, yet he's having hay going through him for longer...and that's important for him as he has had ulcers in the past (but I can't truly ad lib him because he is fat, ties up on too much food, and has recently been diagnosed as insulin resistant)

So, a third less hay per week saves me 1.5 bales of hay per week, at £3.50 per bale that's a saving of £5.25 per week, so approx £21 saving per month, when you look at it like that then it will only take 6 weeks to pay for itself.

Other benefits are at he is taking smaller mouthfuls, so drops less (and he always drops over his door and then it blows away and is wasted!) so what I put in the net, goes in the horse, not across the yard and I HAVE noticed a difference in my yard sweep up since using it.

I just looked at the link for that netting, and when you bear in mind the minimum purchase quantity you end up having to buy more than you need, then you need rope for the top, and then there's the time spent making it....for me, personally, it still came out as expensive (in time and money) and I'd rather pay that bit extra to have it made up for me (plus if he eats through it and breaks it in a fortnight, I'll have a company to go to for demanding a refund/replacement)

However, they ARE expensive, but I suspect as the company grows they will be able to offer a more competitive price anyway.

I would like to see a choice of mesh sizes, I actually think my boy's dexterous little mouth could easily cope with the holes being 0.5cm smaller. I plan to buy one for my Draft horse on my next pay day and I suspect it will be harder for him so he'll likely have it alongside a normal net (currently gets two triple netted hay nets per night...six hay nets costs about as much as one of these anyway! Lol)

Thumbs up from me!
 
Tr0uble said:
Well I've had mine for a week now and my boy is actually happier for having it so in my mind it's paid for itself fo that fact alone.

My boy has problems, physical amd mental, and he is unable to regulate himself with anything, so I have to find ways to regulate him for him...this DOES do a better job than a triple netted set of normal small holed hay nets and I estimate that I have cut my boys hay consumption down by a third, yet he's having hay going through him for longer...and that's important for him as he has had ulcers in the past (but I can't truly ad lib him because he is fat, ties up on too much food, and has recently been diagnosed as insulin resistant)

So, a third less hay per week saves me 1.5 bales of hay per week, at £3.50 per bale that's a saving of £5.25 per week, so approx £21 saving per month, when you look at it like that then it will only take 6 weeks to pay for itself.

Other benefits are at he is taking smaller mouthfuls, so drops less (and he always drops over his door and then it blows away and is wasted!) so what I put in the net, goes in the horse, not across the yard and I HAVE noticed a difference in my yard sweep up since using it.

I just looked at the link for that netting, and when you bear in mind the minimum purchase quantity you end up having to buy more than you need, then you need rope for the top, and then there's the time spent making it....for me, personally, it still came out as expensive (in time and money) and I'd rather pay that bit extra to have it made up for me (plus if he eats through it and breaks it in a fortnight, I'll have a company to go to for demanding a refund/replacement)

However, they ARE expensive, but I suspect as the company grows they will be able to offer a more competitive price anyway.

I would like to see a choice of mesh sizes, I actually think my boy's dexterous little mouth could easily cope with the holes being 0.5cm smaller. I plan to buy one for my Draft horse on my next pay day and I suspect it will be harder for him so he'll likely have it alongside a normal net (currently gets two triple netted hay nets per night...six hay nets costs about as much as one of these anyway! Lol)

Thumbs up from me!
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Rope for the top - Whats wrong with orange universal fixer!?
 
Nothing wrong with it, I've used it before, but I do find it irritating to use as it doesn't release as well as proper hay net ropes.
 
I'm giving Hattie the same amount of hay but with the Trickle Net, she can't suck it out in one foul swoop like she does when I use multiple nets as she knows how to move the holes so they line up and that's with a haylage net!!

There isn't loads of hay and straw left in the Tricklenet, probably half a flake of straw and a few handfuls of hay.

She has been cribbing less too as there is less time that she standing around doing nothing. Usually when I get to the yard in the morning, she is cribbing away but the past few mornings, she has been occupied with getting the last bits of forage out from the net.

With regards to a cleaner stable, it means she is not walking around her stable bored and trampling all her poo all over the place so I reckon the net has already started to save me money with shavings (I won't need to top up this week) and has helped curb her cribbing.
 
Holes are about half the size of the shires ones. I had been using the shires ones tripled up (still do for one boy)
 
Oh it makes me laugh that so many people do not understand that it is not a normal small holed haynet! I have 2 of them and they are amazing!!!! Will never use anything else now :D

The lady who owns the company has been on here a few times and explained the £30 price tag. If you search Trickle Net you can have a read :)
 
thatsmygirl said:
I think your all bonkers!!! Those who have paid that for one anyway.
So when you say you have hay left in the morning, it's because the horse has got a bit annoyed trying to get it out??? And given up?? Hence cleaner stable. So why not just give less hay in a small hole net.
Iv worked it out £240 it would cost me to buy all my crew one. |o|
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Err no its because the net makes the horse graze the hay instead of eating mouthfuls, therefore it slows them right down therefore they have hay all night!!! I cannot stand people who leave horses in stables with nothing to eat for hours on end, it is sooooo bad for them. And I for one cannot give my horse ad lib hay from the floor as he'd be the size of a whale. With this net he ALWAYS has hay and stays the right weight........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IzlQvfuzlQ
 
Fortunatley there are quite a number of hay nets with 25mm holes on the market which are alot cheaper and are good quality.
 
Yes please tell, my three managed to get through an entire large bale of haylage last week thats approx 12 ( ish) bales of hay......... :( I always use the shires small haylage nets and give them a net each moorning, noon and night as I can't bear the thought of colic / ulcers etc but they are costing me a fortune and I am mucking out 5 barrels of poo every morning........ :(

But cannot justify £90 on hay nets OH would kill me :(
 
Beatrice5 said:
Yes please tell, my three managed to get through an entire large bale of haylage last week thats approx 12 ( ish) bales of hay......... :( I always use the shires small haylage nets and give them a net each moorning, noon and night as I can't bear the thought of colic / ulcers etc but they are costing me a fortune and I am mucking out 5 barrels of poo every morning........ :(

But cannot justify £90 on hay nets OH would kill me :(
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I'm totally the same as you and in the same position as you Beatrice5... you took the same words right out of my mouth!!

All you bloomin horse and hound forum members just keep adding to my want / need list of things i need for the horses aaggrrhh!!
 
Ebay have some 25mm hay nets. Prices from £8 to £15. anyone tried these?

One is made from fishing netting by the looks of it and the other is the Elim a net . Comments / pros / cons....?
 
Boysy said:
Elim-A-Nets are a waste of money, i have them, all snapped within a couple of days and have had to be tied up with string..........
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Loads of people have been saying that.... I was tempted.

Well in 6 months I have bought 4 £8 ish small holed haynets which madam has destroyed, so as long as it lasts at least 6 months I'll be happy.
 
One of mine has elimanets, they last him a week, that's over £40 a month! I find they're very flimsily made! Okay if your horse isn't a net trasher though! Getting a trickle net!!
 
My ponies live out, but if they didn't I would have no problems paying £30 for a net for them if it meant they had hay all night long.

Save money elsewhere......... like don't buy another rug!! :D
 
Beatrice5 said:
Ebay have some 25mm hay nets. Prices from £8 to £15. anyone tried these?

One is made from fishing netting by the looks of it and the other is the Elim a net . Comments / pros / cons....?
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Elim a nets are rubbish! The holes are huge, and they stretch/break very easily.

None of the 25mm haynets are the same as a Trickle Net........honestly you have to see one and then you'll understand!
 
MillionDollar said:
Yes, I bought 4. They are good, but they are tiny (as made for small ponies). So my horse, and 2 of the fattie part liveries have them hanging from a rope, so they are more like a toy. Work really well, but you would need other haynets as like I said they are tiny.

If you look at my You Tube video you'll see it hanging beside my horse.
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Hi, would you fit 2 slices (horsehage bag sized slices) of haylage in one do you think? :)
 
lara b said:
Hi, would you fit 2 slices (horsehage bag sized slices) of haylage in one do you think? :)
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If they are the ones I'm thinking of (IV horse) it says on the website that they hold three sections of hay and are 100cm long, so they should be ample big enough for two horsehage sections - probably best to email the stockist though to check! I'm considering one myself and need a fairly big one. :)
 
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