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If so do you like it? Has it held up well? Looking for options for my feed slinging, bucket destroying boy.
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Location: Central Texas | Anybody??? Can ya'll see the picture? Any thoughts? |
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| I had one that was similar to this at a bording facility that was old school and made out of 2x4's ... worked really nice! |
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Location: Red Raiderland | I know several people that use them and they seem to really like them. I would like to check into getting them in my stalls. My question is, if your horse is not a good clean up horse does the hay have to be cleaned out often and is it difficult to get to it? I don't know if that even makes sense  , but that is always my first thought when I see them. I do have stall slobs that love to move hay all over the place and these would be great for those guys. |
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| they do suck if you have to clean them out often ..... my mare really liked to drop piles into hers because it was in the back left corner of her stall - which in every stall on the planet is her preferred place to dump!  The one I had was wide and deep enough that you could scoop it out with a shovel. |
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Location: Central Texas | barrelracr131 - 2015-01-21 1:25 PM Mine would poop in it. LOL
Aww dang I had not even considered that as a possible problem.  |
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| I used to have a bucket slinging horse. I took a piece of wire and wrapped the wire around the bucket and tied it to the fence. It wasn't a perfect solution, but it helped. |
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Location: Central Texas | JAG18 - 2015-01-21 3:21 PM I used to have a bucket slinging horse. I took a piece of wire and wrapped the wire around the bucket and tied it to the fence. It wasn't a perfect solution, but it helped.
My horses goal at feeding time is to put all of his food on the ground. His current feeder is bolted to a wall but he is not happy until it's all on the ground. I was looking for options that would let him eat on the ground or at least at a more natural level without actually eating on the ground. I tried feed pans on the ground but he is also a pawer and he would just flip the pan/bucket over. |
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Location: WI | We have these in each stall of our barn, we really like them. For the most part our horses clean up after themselves, every now and then one will poop in their's but we have ours in the front corner of each stall so that rarely happens. Cleaning them out really isn't that big of a deal.
If you have a horse that likes to trash their stall with their hay (if you feed hay on the ground) then these are a gift from God.
I have a few hay tossers and every now and then they will push the hay out of the bin but that only happens when we don't have both feeding buckets in the feeder. |
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Location: Oklahoma | GraciousLegacy - 2015-01-21 3:32 PM JAG18 - 2015-01-21 3:21 PM I used to have a bucket slinging horse. I took a piece of wire and wrapped the wire around the bucket and tied it to the fence. It wasn't a perfect solution, but it helped. My horses goal at feeding time is to put all of his food on the ground. His current feeder is bolted to a wall but he is not happy until it's all on the ground. I was looking for options that would let him eat on the ground or at least at a more natural level without actually eating on the ground. I tried feed pans on the ground but he is also a pawer and he would just flip the pan/bucket over.
I have a gelding like this... he literally eats standing on three legs because he has one of his front legs folded up like he's pawing (It's pretty funny to watch... lol). I like to feed as close to ground level as possible and so I put it on the next to last bar on the panels and he won't mess with it if it's above the ground... but it sounds like your horse would! My other gelding doesn't move his pan (it's a round one and stays on the ground), but once I let them mingle after eating the other gelding goes in and picks up the round pan with his teeth and tosses it around to get his "fix". |
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| Rubber pan that is a size that fits inside an old tire. Good luck pawing that over. |
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| Try a mowl???!!! I'm not sure how big the rubber mat is that holds the feed pan on the ground .... but the basics are the horse stands on the mat, the pan is attached to the mat, when the horse paws, the pan doesn't go anywhere! I've always thought they were cool but have never used one ....
ETA - I believe these were developed to help with sand colic issues ....
http://www.valleyvet.com/ct_detail.html?pgguid=a4e708f0-89fa-4d57-ac2b-7d4cb9e83b09
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Location: Southern Oregon | Yes, I use to have these in my stall and I HATED THEM!!!!!! They were always disgusting and needing scrubbed. |
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Location: Oklahoma & Texas | I have regular corner feeders for grain that thankfully are just deep enouth the feed doesnt get slung out lol...for mine ive turned to putting their grass hay in those big classic equine hay bags and their alfalfa in big rubber tubs the black ones that tractor supply sells ( 39 bucks) they are about horse knee high and probably 3 feet wide more of a water trough than anything but it keeps em from slinging their alfalfa in the sand...i have to separate the alfalfa from the grass because if i dont they will sling every stalk of grass hay from the tub into their shavings looking for alfalfa stems lol...but i waste zero this way and they get every leaf of alfalfa cleaned up without dirt or sand ingested. I like the big black tubs because some of em like to put a foot in it but it doesnt turn it over and they dont hurt themselves because they can step out if it and i can turn it over and dump the dirt out of it each day so its easy to clean if need be...i also keep a big redmonds salt block in each one. |
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| I fed my pawers in half barrels on the ground. To tall to flip over. Also good for bolters because they kind of have to "chase" the feed around the bottom because of the size. |
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Location: Central Texas | LoudAppy - 2015-01-21 4:01 PM Rubber pan that is a size that fits inside an old tire. Good luck pawing that over.
This was the first thing I tried. Took him all of two feedings to destroy the pan. lol I had a hard time getting the rubber pan in the tire....it was tight and I was sure that I would never get it out again. Came out the next morning to find the pan out of the tire and in pieces. I'm talking about a thick black rubber pan. There stood my boy looking all proud about his accomplishment.  |
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Location: Central Texas | Guess I will just have to experiment some more. Still considering the one in the picture. My boy is older and gets a very runny mash everyday.....I just hate that he slings it all over the ground and it mixes with his shavings and ends up wasting half of it. |
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Location: Central Texas | RoaniePonie11 - 2015-01-21 10:42 PM I fed my pawers in half barrels on the ground. To tall to flip over. Also good for bolters because they kind of have to "chase" the feed around the bottom because of the size.
A regular metal barrel? |
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Location: southeast Texas | Right now, I'm using a Rubbermaid water trough. No water though. He can toss it back an forth and not loose feed. |
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| It's been years ago, but my high school barrel horse was like your horse. My dad cut a plastic barrel in half, cut 3 holes in the barrel, set the barrel in the corner of the stall and somehow used a chain to fix it to the stall. That sucker was so mad that he couldn't paw or sling his food. Worked like a charm for him. |
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Location: Central Texas | bowersk - 2015-01-22 8:33 AM It's been years ago, but my high school barrel horse was like your horse. My dad cut a plastic barrel in half, cut 3 holes in the barrel, set the barrel in the corner of the stall and somehow used a chain to fix it to the stall. That sucker was so mad that he couldn't paw or sling his food. Worked like a charm for him.
I'm thinking I will try something like this. |
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