Swivel Mangers, anybody use them?

[mil1212]

I am currently planning rebuilding my stable yard, and I was just wondering about swivel mangers. At the moment some of my stables have the plastic corner mangers, but the horses tend to scratch/sit on/ pull/ break them, so am think of an alternative sort of manger, buckets on the floor have a similar problem too!
Do any of you have swivel mangers, and do you like them, would you have them again? I think I'd want plastic ones, not galvanised, can anyone recommend a supplier for them?
Mine are external stables if it makes a difference?

 

[loopylucifer]

Have them on a large internal yard. works really well as saves time at feed timeand easy to see if horse not been fed or if they have left any when bowls turned round. down side is not totaly robust but easy to put back on if they do come off, they are obviolsly not eatting from the floor they can be tricky to clean. But overall would recommend

 

[maggiesmum]

We have them on our livery yard and TBH I think they're a bit of a waste of money, I don't use them at all, they'd work ok on for example a racing yard where the horses were fed a dryish feed but my horses have a speedi-beet based feed so I need to clean buckets out after every use, the mangers have to be unbolted to be removed and cleaned and I don't think theres a drain hole so they couldn't be cleaned in-situ.
There are 10 stables in my barn with them and I think i've seen 1 person use their manger a couple of times.

 

[ruth83]

Definately make usre they have a drain hole if you get them.

They are pretty good time savers if you have a fair few to feed - means you don't have to go in to the corner manger and horses can't throw their buckets over etc. The biggest problem is when you get a 'smart' neddy who thoroughly enjoys the fact that he's worked out how to spin the manger himself and make lots of noise with it. They are great if you've got a crib biter or scratcher though. (my experience is a large riding school so a fair variety of horses using them. Believe me, it's always the geldings who work out how to spin them round).

I'd want some assurance on external stables that the workings would stand up to weather erosion.