Thought i would share this recent discovery

We discovered these recently to. My greedy cob can finish a hay net in 1/2 hour, whereas a meadow brick keeps him going for hours. When he starts coming in at night I am going to chuck one in with him to pick at when his hay & straw have gone.
 
14.30 for 20 - cheaper than I thought :) - but might have to add delivery or buy lots more stuff to get free delivery.

Our feed shop had something similar sold individually - brilliant for guinea pigs :)
 
I wouldn't give them as a hay re-placer, just as something to break boredom and keep them ticking over between hay nets. Not sure about the teeth issue, prob no worse than pulling at a hay net. They sort of fluff up at the edges and are not totally solid.,
 
I bought some a while ago while Alf was on boxrest/pen turnout. He loved them, but took about 5 mins to demolish them, so they weren't massively effective as a boredom breaker/hay replacer!
 
My boy thinks they're brilliant, although he has discovered that if he launches them into his water bucket, it saves all that time gnawing away at them. They're like giant weetabix.
 
Auslander said:
I bought some a while ago while Alf was on boxrest/pen turnout. He loved them, but took about 5 mins to demolish them, so they weren't massively effective as a boredom breaker/hay replacer!
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I got a free sample of the Feedmark ones and I don't exactly how long they took but when I came back from filling a haynet it was gone and a large warmblood still looked hungry.
 
Polos Mum said:
Would these wok for an oldy with no back teeth that can't che hay/ stemmed forage. Front teeth all goods so grazesshort grass well?
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Do you feed any soaked forage like Simple systems blue bag or lucie nuts? He could have lots as a forage replacer and good for dentally challenged horses
 
hoggedmane said:
Do you feed any soaked forage like Simple systems blue bag or lucie nuts? He could have lots as a forage replacer and good for dentally challenged horses
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I feed the red bag grass nuts and they're fab. You can also soak the grass bricks and they swell and are easy for oldies. I feed Halley's but you might only get them in Scotland? Not sure.
 
hoggedmane said:
Do you feed any soaked forage like Simple systems blue bag or lucie nuts? He could have lots as a forage replacer and good for dentally challenged horses
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Yep he gets tonnes of grass nut soup which he loved I just thought this might add some variety and be useful to last him longer over night, he's at home so I feed soup late and early but he does scoff it like it's chocolate bars !!
 
I don't feed them as a hay re-placer. I give mine one each in the evening to amuse them and also a treat. My boy is on haylage and these don't seem to irritate his dust allergy.

You can feed them wet or spray with water to soften as per a earlier post.


To those asking about the postage we got a consortium of people wanting them then ordered and got free postage , every one wanted either 2 or one bag.


another livery gets her usual hay but she throws in half a dozen of these for him over night
 
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