Those WITH TRICKLE NETS

[piebaldsparkle]

When yours arrive was it wider than it was deep?

Mine arrived today and is about 2'9" across the top (where the string goes through) and bottom, but only about 1'6" deep...........

Thus it has a MASSIVE opening, that I'm not sure will close tight however I tie it and is the most odd shape also as is much wider than it is deep.

Additionally it has a join running diagonally though it from a top corner to a bottom as well as a join along the bottom.

So do they really stretch/reshape that much?

Do they all have 2 x joins?

Can't use it till Thursday, but frankly it looks like it will be a pain in the arse to fill and tie...........

 

[SavingGrace]

They sounds huge... I was between getting one of them or a haybar... I think I will go with the haybar :/

 

[Goldenstar]

Yup mine was the same strange shape they are easy to fill I am sure you will like it.

 

[Goldenstar]

They sounds huge... I was between getting one of them or a haybar... I think I will go with the haybar :/

The Tricklenet is to slow horses down eating the haybar makes it very easy for horses to eat large amounts in a natural neck lowered position I have both, you need to decide which your horse needs.

 

[galaxy]

Yes, I thought the same. But they stretch so easily into a more "normal" shape.

The fact the opening is so huge makes it the easiest haynet I've ever filled! Another positive for the money

 

[Goldenstar]

Yup mine was the same strange shape they are easy to fill I am sure you will like it.

I should have added they go normal shape when you use them.

 

[Ali27]

Mine were a strange, wide shape at first but soon changed to a normal "hay net" looking shape

 

[katherine1975]

Mine was a rectangular shape when it arrived. Was very easy to fill, easier than a normal net and went to a round shape when filled.

 

[piebaldsparkle]

OK fingers crossed it does stretch out then...


Do they all have the 2nd join running diagonally across them??

As the join doesn't look very stretchy at all and also look rather rough.

 

[katherine1975]

Did you see my video http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=502438 this was the first time we used it. She had the net for 6 hours and still had some left, wish I'd invented them!

 

[galaxy]

mine has a diagonal join.

The whole thing has stretched well. I thought it may be difficult to fill enough too when I first saw it, but it is so easy. I can get 8kgs of haylage in it and get the hole done up tight enough so she can't eat out of it!! (they recommend you loop the string through near the top opening when you tie it. I have found if I pull it over the top of the opening then there is no possible way of her getting into it )

 

[Fantasy_World]

I was thinking about getting some until I saw the price! Think I will wait until popularity sets in and the price comes down a bit

 

[piebaldsparkle]

OK that's encouraging, guess I'll just have to wait and see Thursday when I can try it.

 

[FairyLights]

Basically Yes to all the questions. They soon become longer than wider when stuffed full of hay.They hold a huge amount BTW. I think they are fantastically good.

 

[horsesatemymoney]

It sounds great for one of mine, but I just can't justify £30- far too prohibitive- that's nearly a week's livery!

 

[Fantasy_World]

It sounds great for one of mine, but I just can't justify £30- far too prohibitive- that's nearly a week's livery!

I know lol that's what I thought too. I got a cargo? net a few years ago from ebay secondhand but like new for around £11 and it is still going strong after 5 years, apart from an odd hole or two repaired. These nets were very small holed and I think probably similar to the trickle as the holes look about the same. They are smaller than your small holed nets you can get anyway. If I can get more of them I will as they do slow them down.

 

[Randonneuse]

Sorry to hijack the thread but...if I get a trickle net can I put it on the ground in the field?(my unrugged and barefoot horse lives out 24/7 but last year was on ad lib hay -on the ground without a net- in the Winter and got fat!)

Thanks!

 

[Hen]

This is really useful information as I have one on order and would probably have had the same reaction as OP.
Has anyone using a Tricklenet had experience of one breaking or tearing? Are they really as long-lived as advertised?

 

[piebaldsparkle]

Used tonight and was amazed how big it stretched on filling - easily got 8kg in.

Holes looked tiny, but that didn't seem to bother Sparks or slow her much!!! In 2hrs I recon she had eaten 1/2 the net!!! Think I may have to hang it from a rafter (rather than against a wall), so it swings too.