Stable door buckets.. good or bad?

[Hormonal Filly]

Really random post, call me OTT. I bought a stable door feed bucket on the weekend as I use it to load my gelding with ease, he sees the bucket, walks in and while hes eating it calmly I can do the bum bar up.

I fed him his breakfast in it this morning, I have a lower fence post (hes only 15.1) so it was at level with the bottom of his neck and he seemed to eat it with ease. He couldn't kick it over, push it around and ate it much quicker.

Question is, long term will it be bad for his neck? Photo of said bucket..

 

[milliepops]

i think for the short time that they are eating a bucket feed, for a horse who essentially has a healthy neck and back, it's not a big deal.
I use one for my TB on his stable door because he just kicks his buckets around otherwise and I need him to eat his feed, he eats it all in one go now but he used to eat a bit and then eat hay and come back to it later, and having it on the door rather than the floor meant it didn't get wasted.

 

[Hormonal Filly]

That settles my mind a bit, thank you.

He eats for barely 5 minutes so can't see it will hurt for that short period. Another food waster here, who gets excited and the front leg goes (he'll even drag a tyre around) so may stick to the door bucket!

 

[milliepops]

sometimes the benefits outweigh the disadvantages

 

[Quigleyandme]

I feed my two youngsters in these which I hang on a gate low enough to be comfortable but not so low Milo can get a hoof in it. I do prefer something bigger and rounder that a horse can really get his head into but sick to death of expensive stud balancer being kicked and trampled into the mud.

 

[JennBags]

I think it was Tim Stockdale who used to say that he fed all his horses over the door as it gave them a better neck/strengthened their outline!

 

[Quigleyandme]

I think it was Tim Stockdale who used to say that he fed all his horses over the door as it gave them a better neck/strengthened their outline!

And I would say his horses had a fair bit more feed than ours need or get.

 

[JennBags]

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I haven't seen it either, hence the exclamation mark, but I also doubt if would do any harm.