VIDEO of Trickle Net in use

Great vid! They look fab, just the thing for keeping my fatties entertained during long winter nights.
Gorgeous nag too, I'm such a sucker for the black with white star combination. Must be a childhood/black beauty thing!
 
Good grief - someone is having a laugh. Have you seen the price ?

I have bought three 'trickle nets' from my local saddlery, they have small holes which is ideal for my ponies, and they work; the hay lasts longer and the ponies do not get frustrated and these were about £8 each !
 
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Good grief - someone is having a laugh. Have you seen the price ?

I have bought three 'trickle nets' from my local saddlery, they have small holes which is ideal for my ponies, and they work; the hay lasts longer and the ponies do not get frustrated and these were about £8 each !
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So have I (cheapy haylage nets) and that looks like it takes a lot longer to get through...

Hmm definitely a lot more interested than I was yesterday - but what's the betting my fatty cob just eats his straw bed instead... :rolleyes: :D
 
Honestly i have tried EVERYTHING else, i have a bin full of all different kinds of haynets and nothing comes even close to the Trickle Net. The lady who owns the company has explained why they are so pricey on the other thread. Elim i nets are rubbish!!!
 
I like the idea of them very much, and the price would probably justify itself. The thing that concerns me though is the amount of neck action needed by the horse in the tricklenet video. The horse has to acquire the hay in jerks, rather like a goat foraging, which isn't natural to a horse. I used to be a public monitor of police horses, and the ones I monitored were always fed loose hay off the ground, as haynets and the jerking action involoved were considered bad for the horses' necks. Would be interested in Ellen's (Equimo's) response
NB How very nice to have the designer/manufacturer on the forum to explain things. Full marks there
 
I bought 2 Eliminets and despite hanging them up exactly as instructed, they both fell to bits within TWO DAYS. I would never ever waste money on them again. 2 haynets, 1 inside the other, work just as well.
 
Rose Folly....he doesn't do that much at all. The video was taken just as soon as he had been brought in so he was hungry hence his lack of patience. The majority of the time he doesn't jerk at the net but uses his lips instead which is what they should do.
 
Hmmm still think it costs too much but thanks for justifying it on the other thread. Have to say I would get one if I had to, but at the moment my horse is doing fine on a small holed haynet. My horse is not gutsy but it would be handy for horses suffering/being treated with lami where they are so restricted on the amount of hay.

I had to triple net my horses nets when he had lami and he got a sore on his nose/lips from trying to get the hay out so I'd be interested on long term users as to whether this happens over time
 
Thanks very much Milliondollar! Fab video. I really ought to do a promotional video. I'll add that to the list of things to do, but I am so busy sending these nets out recently!

Yes some horses will have a good old tug on the net. Some will get thier heads under it to throw it about! Each horse develops his / her own method to extracting the hay. I have had one who was really aggressive with the net, and another who was too gentle and I fed a normal haynet with the Trickle net as he wouldn't take enough out of his trickle net. (He did not need a Trickle net, just used him as a case study.)
Most horses learn that the best method is to graze. By that i mean they will actually seek the hay they can grab, and use the lips and teeth gently to extract the hay. If the horse tries to force too much hay from a hole, it will usually block the hole.
So yes there is an amount of neck jerking involved, but each horse develops his own method and one horse may throw himself about while another quietly nibbles.
We've certainly had no reports of this being a problem. In fact some owners have told me how great it is to see thier horse having to burn some calories to seek out thier forage!
 
18 months of use in horses varying from sec A stallions kept 24hrs in stables to 17hh hunters and everything inbetween. Horses on box rest, laminitics, travelling ponies, hung out in a field for oldies...... so far no reports of any problems occuring to any horse through useage of a Trickle net.

Have had reports of successful weight loss, reduced boredom and lots of comments about saving hay while horses are munching for longer spells.

I had also tried every small holed net I could find on the market. Spent a fortune on various nets, and having to replace them. Double and triple netting was a chore twice a day with soaked hay too. I found that it doesn't work well anyway, as they only need to get a couple of holes to meet and hey presto big hole again.
Trickle nets are not indestructable, but nothing comes close to them for quality and strength.
 
OK, I give up - I think my pony is just a genius. My trickle nets arrived yesterday. I put one in for him with the hay in a haylage net inside it. Hay must have evaporated because it had gone in double quick time. I was hoping I would get away with this to save me time but it seems the trickle net is the equivalent of a double net - ie I still need 2 haylage nets 1 inside the other inside the trickle net to give the equivalent of the 4 I was using or if I use 3 then it does actually slow him down :rolleyes:

On the plus side they are incredibly well made and sturdy feeling and I think they should last a long time. Also he hasn't yet managed to pull the strings through from the other nets so that's good.
 
I muzzle my Shetland so he only has a 25mm hole to get his hay through, but it's on the end of his nose :) If I ever get a problem with the muzzle I'd consider one of these, it looks quite good.
 
The horse is not frustrated at all.....and really you can tell that from 1 minute?

dalidaydream.....yours must truely be an expert....that is unbelieveable. A few of my liveries also use these nets with serial hay scoffing experts ;) and they still have hay in the morning.
 
These have 25mm holes. The shire ones are very similar to those but after a few weeks of use the holes stretch to a lot larger than 25mm, prob to twice the size. That's the big difference with the trickle net......there's no stretching or gaping holes.
 
Please gently correct me if i am wrong - but i would be concerned about the possibilities of ulcers forming as the eyes would be showing the brain who would be telling the stomach there is food available and so the acids in the stomach would be getting ready to digest this food that is about to come readily down the stomach and the more the horse tries to get at it surely the more acid in the stomach would be produced but instead it is just in very small amounts surely not enough to absorb/utilise the amount of acid that has been produced, yes/no!!
 
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Please gently correct me if i am wrong - but i would be concerned about the possibilities of ulcers forming as the eyes would be showing the brain who would be telling the stomach there is food available and so the acids in the stomach would be getting ready to digest this food that is about to come readily down the stomach and the more the horse tries to get at it surely the more acid in the stomach would be produced but instead it is just in very small amounts surely not enough to absorb/utilise the amount of acid that has been produced, yes/no!!
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No. What Oberon said, horses produce acid all of the time which is why these nets are great as it means the horse has forage ad lib or the majority of the time. Unlike when horses scoff their haynet down in 2 hours and then go the rest of the night with nothing...........now that is 100 times worse!

Oberon.......thanks! He is my gorgeous boy :D He very rarely actually uses the Wee Haynet (that's hanging from the rope) as that is there just in case he does finish the Trickle nets, then he does use it. So basically he never runs out of hay. I can't think about him being in with no forage.
 
my greedy cob has a small amount of hay in his hayrack to eat first and to "line his stomach" and a larger amout of hay in a haylage net. i hope this avoids the ulcers issue.
 
I have to weigh and soak my hay with my mare. For the last year I have used elim-a-nets(these are coming away at the top) and the shires normally double netted. I must admit the shires do stretch especially when soaking hay.

When payday arrives I think I may invest in a couple of Trickle nets.
 
thanks for your reply, i must say i didnt think of what happens when they are left without any food, i might invest in one for my piggy cob,
 
beeswax said:
thanks for your reply, i must say i didnt think of what happens when they are left without any food, i might invest in one for my piggy cob,
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It's fascinating, isn't it. I'm still just learning a the moment.

The whole system is designed around eating fibre all day - even their saliva (which they produce lots of when eating) contains bicarb to neutralise the acid in the stomach.....and their large bowel (huge vat that ferments the fibre with millions of bacteria) if left idle, the bacteria starts to die and causes toxins (linked with causing laminitis) to build up and cause havoc. Which is how you can get starving horses suffering from laminitis.

It's really scary considering most horses have finished their nets by 7pm
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I've no intention of spending £30 on a net though :)
 
Oberon said:
It's fascinating, isn't it. I'm still just learning a the moment.

The whole system is designed around eating fibre all day - even their saliva (which they produce lots of when eating) contains bicarb to neutralise the acid in the stomach.....and their large bowel (huge vat that ferments the fibre with millions of bacteria) if left idle, the bacteria starts to die and causes toxins (linked with causing laminitis) to build up and cause havoc. Which is how you can get starving horses suffering from laminitis.

It's really scary considering most horses have finished their nets by 7pm
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I've no intention of spending £30 on a net though :)
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This is very interesting, I have a mini Shetland who is suffering yet another bout of lami, his weight is spot on according to my vet but he seems to be getting less forage than ever. Fingers crossed that a trickle net could be the answer for him.
 
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