Soaked hay when staying away

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So Amber is now on soaked hay which is fine whilst we're at home. She's on it as she developed a bit of a cough about 6 weeks after coming in overnight; soaking hay and respiratory supplement has stopped the cough.
But our shows tend to be at least 1 night away and sometimes more and I know that keeping forage the same is better in terms of colic risk etc.
So any tips on soaking hay when staying away for up to a week? What about a net for travelling? Would taking an old feed sack and chucking boiling water on to steam it be good enough do you think?
For the months we'll be out an about she'll be living out full time when at home so not really on any hay at home.

I just wondered if anyone on here has experience of similar and good solution.
 
I take a couple of big trugs and soak hay near the taps at the place we are staying - generally one of a number of people soaking hay. I take made up haynets if I have enough haynets and if not have some large gardening bags I put more hay in, and then soak at the show. It does help if the show has nice hardstanding around its water taps.
 
would normally just soak it in big trugs outside stable.

if its purely for dust not sugars, steaming or damping with a watering can suffices short term for mine
 
Can she have haylage ?
Might be worth buying one ofthe 20kg bags so no soaking required quick and easy and no stress (hopefully lol) x
 
Me too, when I was soaking hay I packed bagged haylage for holidays. Fortunately my horse seems pretty happy just to switch between hay and haylage, but we usually go places where there's some grazing available which I imagine helps.
 
I usually take one or two presoaked nets plus a bag of haylage
Worth experimenting a bit as mine much prefers some haylage to others.
 
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