Trickle Nets........are amazing! Will save you so much hay + keep your horse amused!

I bought mine a couple of months ago for my box rested horse who is on a diet. The Trickle Net is well made and easy to fill. My horse gets haylage and now she's used to the trickle net, it doesn't slow down her eating as much as I'd hoped. Once she's pulled the first few wisps through a hole she seems to be able to grab a decent mouthful of forage every time.

It IS better than a normal hay net and it IS better than double bagging but a determined horse can still empty it in 3-4 hours. Still, its better than other products on the market so I'm not complaining. I'll just have to wait for someone to design one with even smaller holes! LOL!
 
just ordered one with discount code,

cheers :D

sick of triple and quad haynets, and he still works a clump of hay in line with all the holes and then empties really quick. Dont like the idea of him stood all night with no roughage going through him or food in his belly.

Will put a review up when it turns up :D
 
Ali27 said:
Hopefully the review on horsemart and all the positive comments on here will stop people from thinking that this is an advertising post!
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Sorry to state the obvious but ........ ehm, this is just what it is innit??? What else?

I've said this before and I'll say it again, it sounds like a good product but is way overpriced IMO. And please don't anyone go banging on about how much £££ I'll save. I've got two horses and would need to shell out £60 to sort out both. £60 is a lot to find all in one go.
 
I think the OP was reviewing/commenting on a product, it didnt start as an advertising thread. (The bit in the middle from the manufacturers was pretty blatant I agree, but the thread as a whole...not really).

If you dont want to buy one MJR2BT, well no-ones saying you should :D:D
 
Dam wish I had seen this yesterday (as could have given my friend the code), I brought one just before Christmas, lent it to a friend to try and she ordered one today as was so impressed.

Seriously thinking about ordering a 2nd one now.
 
I actually bought one each for my mares for the sake of their health and well being! It has definitely helped to have them coming out of winter at a perfect weight! I really don't care about the price or if it saves me money but I'm more concerned about my horses welfare and happiness unlike some people on this thread, it would seem!
 
Ali27 said:
I actually bought one each for my mares for the sake of their health and well being! It has definitely helped to have them coming out of winter at a perfect weight! I really don't care about the price or if it saves me money but I'm more concerned about my horses welfare and happiness unlike some people on this thread, it would seem!
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Blimey! Lucky for you that you don't care about price, many people aren't in a position to 'not care', especially those struggling financially or with multiple horses. I think the statements from people that won't spend £30 on a haynet when you can double net for a fraction of that price are fair enough. Certainly doesn't make them care any less for their horses welfare.
 
What I am actually trying to get across is that £30 is nothing compared to a vet's bill for laminitis or ulcers (as horse is stood for hours with an empty net)!
 
Ali27 said:
What I am actually trying to get across is that £30 is nothing compared to a vet's bill for laminitis or ulcers (as horse is stood for hours with an empty net)!
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Agreed, however the same results can be achieved by double netting haylage nets and providing low calorie forage to pick at for those who find them too expensive.
 
applecart14 said:
Sorry haven't had time to read all the reply's so sorry if i have copied someone else with this but aren't these the same for half the price?? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Elim-Net-...ipment&var=&hash=item8bb44c858a#ht_1267wt_905
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No they are not the same, better off double netting than parting with your money on one of those sorry to say. My friend spent a fortune on those in different sizes and they are rubbish.

I have to stick up for the trickle net person here, you can see the difference in quality/design between the 2. But still expensive at £30 sorry to repeat myself
 
Ali27 said:
What I am actually trying to get across is that £30 is nothing compared to a vet's bill for laminitis or ulcers (as horse is stood for hours with an empty net)!
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Fair enough - perhaps you should have just said that..

Ali27 said:
I really don't care about the price or if it saves me money but I'm more concerned about my horses welfare and happiness unlike some people on this thread, it would seem!
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Whereas that just came across as an attack on those that didn't think the nets were good value. Non of us that aren't impressed with the net's price have said that we don't take other measures to avoid the above problems..
 
touchstone said:
Agreed, however the same results can be achieved by double netting haylage nets and providing low calorie forage to pick at for those who find them too expensive.
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Have double netted in the past and the tricklenet is miles more effective! Even double netted my mare could get through a net within hours. She always has strands left in the bottom of her tricklenet. The standard haylage nest (shires) etc are also not as tough and when you have a greedy horse ripping away at it they just fall apart. I went through 4 in 6 months! Had my tricklenet over 3 months now and there is no sign of wear at all.
 
Interesting thread.

My horse is just about to move livery yards and where he is going the YM seems to prefer to use haynets. Normally this isn't my preferred way of feeding, but for current horse who is a bit of a fatty, it probably wouldn't be a bad thing for him to have a small holed net such is this.

My main concern though is that I don't want him inverting his neck/back to forage as he is a dressage horse and I feel very detrimental to correct muscle development.

Therefore interested to see feedback from people feeding from a haynet tied low down. Can I ask how low you are tying it? To the point it touches the floor (so with the ring 3ft ish high?).

I appreciate the actual net holes too small for real safety concerns but what about the fact that you still have the rope fastening - likelyhood of getting a leg through it?
 
Mine have theirs on the floor but then they are barefoot. I fasten it with a screw type carabiner across the middle of the opening and then pull the rope really tight. There is no way even the 10.2hh pony can get a foot in the top of the net like that. The net is then tied at floor level and the knot on the end of the rope that goes round the top of the net is left undone so there is no loop there.
Works brilliantly with mine - they are feeding at a natural grazing level and at a natural pace - in the wild they would just be nibbling here and there not taking great clumps of food in their mouths in one go.
Only problem that might possibly happen with a horse that is shod is if a clench has risen and gets caught - however the material the net is made of is really thick unlike any other haynet so that probably couldn't happen.
 
IHW - My girls neck/topline has not altered at all since I bought one of these (actually it has increased, but that is due to her schooling! ;) ). In fact, watching her, because she has to use her lips and can only get small amounts at a time she is LESS viscious with it than she was with a single/double netted standard haylage net.

I hang the top of the net at her eye height. It is a very long tube, so although she is not stretching down like she would off the floor (which is the ideal), she is not stretching up.

I would like to feed her off the floor in an ideal world, but she'd too greedy and she would be obese if I gave her enough to last her even the majority of the night.
 
I'm quite tempted to invest in one of these... mine will have his hay restricted very soon and he can polish off a couple of slices of hay in minutes usually then spends all day in his box getting more and more angry...
 
NOISYGIRL said:
No they are not the same, better off double netting than parting with your money on one of those sorry to say. My friend spent a fortune on those in different sizes and they are rubbish.
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Hmmm that's a shame as they are a lot cheaper. The trickle nets sound like a good idea. I have to tie the bottom of my net to the side of the stable bars as he sticks his head under the bottom of the neck and pushes it over the top of the stable (open topped stables in indoor barn) and it ends up outside and him hungry! Would tying a trickle net by the bottom ring in this way alter the way the horse accesses the hay in anyway. Thinking maybe the same principle as if you hang one of those dangly likits from the centre of the stable rather than the side to make it more difficult.
 
ihatework said:
Therefore interested to see feedback from people feeding from a haynet tied low down. Can I ask how low you are tying it? To the point it touches the floor (so with the ring 3ft ish high?).

I appreciate the actual net holes too small for real safety concerns but what about the fact that you still have the rope fastening - likelyhood of getting a leg through it?
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Mine is tied at about 4ftish. I tie it by looping the string through the top (not the bottom of the net), so there are no rope loops in foot/leg range. My girl is shod, but doesn't paw nets so unlikely to get clenches caught in the little hole. My net probably hangs about 6" from the bedding as they are quite long. As other have said as the horses get more out by using their lip, she is less vicious with this net than others. Again in an ideal world I would feed from the floor, but then 14lbs of hay would all be gone by 7pm!
 
My friend's cob has chewed a big hole in his trickle net! Seems like he's the only horse in the country to manage it though.
 
I can appreciate the costs involved in the manufacturing of the product, but I cannot appreciate the postage costs. Surely this can be done cheaper?
 
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