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| Tipping and/or pawing their feed pans? I have no way to hang anything on the fence because my pasture is completely hot wired. I feed them on top of rubber mats to help keep the feed off the ground. Soon as I put their feed pans down, they immediately paw and tip them over spilling the grain all over the mat and ground, it infuriates me! I need to figure out something , I feel like so much grain is getting wasted. I'll be building a barn within a few months so that'll solve it but was just wondering if anyone had any tips or ideas too keep them from dumping their feed out and pawing it into the ground |
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Location: IL | Hang the buckets on a gate. |
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Warrior Mom
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| merdth6 - 2016-04-28 9:04 AM
Hang the buckets on a gate.
I don't have a gate, everything is hot wire. |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | Bigger feeders....that are up off the ground.....bunk style feeders would be best....m |
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Location: Kansas | I use big mineral plastic tubs for my feeders. So far they haven't tipped them over |
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Location: In The Land of Cotton | I don't do bunk since my neighbor had one get caught under it and died.
Take the bigger rubber pan. Run a bolt about 5 inches long through it. Get a coffee can and fill it full of concrete. Stick the pan with the bolt in it. Dig a hole. Put the can in the hole. They can't tip them over. |
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Location: mi | screw them down to the rubber mat they are standing on. |
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Location: NE Texas | Put them inside of an old tire.  |
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Warrior Mom
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| hoofs_in_motion - 2016-04-28 9:10 AM
I use big mineral plastic tubs for my feeders. So far they haven't tipped them over
I might give that a shot.. I've got 3 of them laying around. 2 of my horses stick their feet in their pans and then start pawing the feed out, the bigger buckets might help! Thanks! |
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Location: N Texas | Put your feed pans inside an old tire.
ETA: the problem with permanently attaching them to something is if they get full of water or poop, they can't be dumped out.
Edited by Gunner11 2016-04-28 9:16 AM
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| Buy a non-tip bucket.
http://www.nontipfeeder.com/
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Bunk style feeders is what I use for the pasture.
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| I have old cast Iron Bath tubs. They are hard to find though. |
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Location: IL | Put your buckets in old tires, so they can't knock them over. |
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Warrior Mom
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| I put their mineral blocks in a feed pan inside an old tire... only issue I have with the tires is how full of water they get in the rain and how hard it is to get the water out! And a few neighbors have told me they had a problem with snakes getting in them and horses won't eat. That and yellow jackets made a home out of it before. |
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Location: Texas | I got a stall mat and cut it up. bolted tubs to it. The mat is just big enough that my horses will stand on it with their front feet. They can paw all they want but it won't turn over. |
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Wow!! Those are cool! I watched the video of the horse, that's exactly EXACTLY, what my horses do to their pans! For $30, I might just place my order!
Thank you for sharing |
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Location: Somewhere in the middle of nowhere |
Wow! My SO made some of these out of wood....had them for years! It only takes 4 boards that are 2x6's or you could probably use old trailer floor boards. He also used our old trailer boards and made a feed trough so they wouldn't go to waste. |
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Warrior Mom
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| nmeastplains - 2016-04-28 10:27 AM
Wow! My SO made some of these out of wood....had them for years! It only takes 4 boards that are 2x6's or you could probably use old trailer floor boards. He also used our old trailer boards and made a feed trough so they wouldn't go to waste.
My hubby is pretty handy and can build just about anything, it's just getting him to actually do it... as in, I'm still waiting for my custom made trash can he promised ohhh, 5 years ago lol! |
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Location: Where the pavement ends and the West begins Utah | Screw the rubber feeder to the rubber mats. Use the large deep ones so they can't nose it out. Someone used plywood with same results. |
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Warrior Mom
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| The big muck buckets worked like a charm tonight. . No one spilled or pawed at them, they just ate their grain with no fuss. Hope it lasts! |
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| I buy plastic barrels and cut them in half lengthwise with a jigsaw. I feed hay in these and feed even in stalls. |
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Warrior Mom
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| streakysox - 2016-04-28 9:58 PM
I buy plastic barrels and cut them in half lengthwise with a jigsaw. I feed hay in these and feed even in stalls.
That's a great idea! |
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Location: That part of Texas | You may be able to sink a pole in the ground and attach two of these together against it to make a feeding pole or even use some old pallets stacked together to screw the bottom of the barrels to and keep them off the ground a bit.
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Warrior Mom
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| Red Raider - 2016-04-29 8:01 AM
You may be able to sink a pole in the ground and attach two of these together against it to make a feeding pole or even use some old pallets stacked together to screw the bottom of the barrels to and keep them off the ground a bit.
That's really neat! I'm really hoping they will keep eating without tipping the muck buckets, like yesterday. Hopefully it just wasn't because it was a new thing to them lol! My 2 yr old still pawed the ground but he wasn't able to get his leg up into the bucket so he gave up and just ate quietly. |
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Location: Jersey Girl | I feed my one gelding in a 40 gallon water tub. It is the only feeder I have found that keeps him from spilling it all over the place. |
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Location: Texas | Put bucket inside a tire |
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Location: Texas | Or those huge black ones at tractor supply or Atwoods. Put hay and feed in them together |
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