What feeder do you use in the stable?

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Charlie makes such a mess using his corner manger that I am looking for something different! Any Ideas? What do you use?
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I always, always feed off the floor. Not just off the floor - she gets breakfast out of a rubber skip bucket, hay out of a huge TubTrug, and water out of a large TubTrug... all on the floor. If she makes a mess then fine, but I know her eating and her lungs are healthy. If she made a huge mess I'd probably opt for a tyre and a tyre bucket
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My old boy will happily eat out of a manger, however if you put it in a skip on the floor, it will be spread everywhere
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.... he prefers it at shoulder height so that he can keep his nose in it and continue to munch away happily
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TB is quite happy for it to be on the floor (in a skip) .... although sometimes he just chucks it up side down and eats it from the actual floor
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Absolutly everything off the floor, if needs be secured to the wall on the floor.

Where my filly is living uses haynets and I do hate it but it can't be helped, she will be back to eating off the floor when shes home and it will have only been for 2-3 months.
 
Tubtrugs, the mares don't move them, the geldings both tip them over as soon as they get them and unless they have been tipped on to the patch of floor swept clean especially for this eventuality, they then spend happy hours sifting crumbs out of their beds. Used to use the heavy shallow black tyre-rubber buckets which are really tough but they are so heavy with a big, wet feed.

 
I usually dfeed out of a haylet because my mare is so messy and wastes hayledge if I put it on the floor (yard is short of hayledge) so I may try a tubtrug, I have enough of them! Bar that my mare is fed on the floor, with a rubber skip at feed times.
 
I feed hay wetted on the floor with out a bucket or tub trug or anything, she eats up every last bit and none of it gets in the bed. She gets her feed on the floor in a bucket and her water the same. If you feed from a haynet and a manger then they can develop unnatural neak mussels. She has hay in a het for breakfast because i leave it out for the yard to put up and i dont want it blowing away over night!!
 
Rubber bowls for hard feed. Haybars for haylage/hay and very large tub trugs for water.
If they leave any hay/haylage on the floor my donkey get's the scrap's!
 
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