Hay feeder/shelter
- Thread starter fredsaid2
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WhoCares
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I can just see it now. Horse eating hay happily. The invisible boogeyman comes up and scares the horse.
Horse jerks head up in shelter getting a big cut which requires stitches, and farm call.
Horse jerks head up in shelter getting a big cut which requires stitches, and farm call.
persimmoncf
Persimmon Creek Farm
Looks like a kids playhouse. I would be conserned with the horses not seeing more dominate ones coming to push them away. I wonder if they could bite the plastic up into peices. And how do you load it...flip it?? Im thinking that our taller horses would lift head and drag it a bit. I have the open round bale feeders. They are easy to fill. Even with the small bales and bricks cause I have no round bales this year.
They are very cute. The kids at the barn would want to campout in it at night.
fredsaid2
New Member
I thought "Little Tykes" too!
happyappygirl
Rocky Mountain High!!
I don't THINK so.
Looks like an airline dog crate to me. Wonder if it would blow away with no hay in it?
Phyxius
Zoooooooom
I don't THINK so.
Looks like an airline dog crate to me. Wonder if it would blow away with no hay in it?
It weighs 220pds
happyappygirl
Rocky Mountain High!!
I live on rolling hills. Nothing sits flat at my place.
One push....TIIIIIM-BER.
BZHorseMomE
Hunter/Eq. Trainer :-)
I'd love to have a camcorder in hand the first time the horses get to meet this new Hay Feeder. Plenty of snorting, prancing, & running around.
fredsaid2
New Member
For curiosity’s sake I looked up a few traditional feeders. Only a few weighed more and only by about 40 lbs. Most weighed 60 lbs or more less. I guess it just looks lightweight! Now the best kind would be one w/ doors that slowly close off the openings at timed intervals so the horses occasionally pull their heads out of the hay to breathe.
devinej
New Member
oh yes automatic timed feeders that would be awesome - and if it would pour out a little bit of grain twice a day too, how nice would that be.
my TB wouldn't eat much if he had to eat out of there i feel. pony - no problem. i feel like there would be scary scuffles with more dominant ones finding a better hole to eat through and paranoid horses if you had to go walk up and get one that was eating.
my TB wouldn't eat much if he had to eat out of there i feel. pony - no problem. i feel like there would be scary scuffles with more dominant ones finding a better hole to eat through and paranoid horses if you had to go walk up and get one that was eating.
