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Here is a cool trick... go buy a big outdoor trash bin, the kind with wheels... cut a 10" X 10" hole in the bottom front of it and fill it with hay... attach it to the stall wall or fence... as the horse eats the hay it keeps falling to the bottom... Voila! Dry fresh hay, free choice, without the waste.
I saw that on Pintrest or somewhere. :)
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Location: Borger, Tx | I don't feed cubes but do have free choice round bales and with my colt he has a slow feed hay bale net that I use, and I throw the entire thing in an old stock (water) tank that doesn't hold water anymore. I have found that even feeding the hay loose that those are deep enough they can't throw too much of it out:)
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Location: NE Texas | grinandbareit - 2015-10-14 8:07 AM Here is a cool trick... go buy a big outdoor trash bin, the kind with wheels... cut a 10" X 10" hole in the bottom front of it and fill it with hay... attach it to the stall wall or fence... as the horse eats the hay it keeps falling to the bottom... Voila! Dry fresh hay, free choice, without the waste. I saw that on Pintrest or somewhere. :)
I have wanted to try this for so long. Went to buy my trash cans and they were $100 or something and I just couldn't afford that for each pasture at the time. Thanks for the reminder....may go back and do this now. :) |
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| Herbie - 2015-10-14 9:01 AM
grinandbareit - 2015-10-14 8:07 AM Here is a cool trick... go buy a big outdoor trash bin, the kind with wheels... cut a 10" X 10" hole in the bottom front of it and fill it with hay... attach it to the stall wall or fence... as the horse eats the hay it keeps falling to the bottom... Voila! Dry fresh hay, free choice, without the waste. I saw that on Pintrest or somewhere. :)
I have wanted to try this for so long. Went to buy my trash cans and they were $100 or something and I just couldn't afford that for each pasture at the time. Thanks for the reminder....may go back and do this now. :)
Awesome Idea. Once they stopped spooking at it I bet they would like it. lol Walmart has them or Home Depot. Yea. They are not cheap
How hard are they to destroy???? LOL
Edited by FLITASTIC 2015-10-14 11:45 AM
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | FLITASTIC - 2015-10-14 11:38 AM Herbie - 2015-10-14 9:01 AM grinandbareit - 2015-10-14 8:07 AM Here is a cool trick... go buy a big outdoor trash bin, the kind with wheels... cut a 10" X 10" hole in the bottom front of it and fill it with hay... attach it to the stall wall or fence... as the horse eats the hay it keeps falling to the bottom... Voila! Dry fresh hay, free choice, without the waste. I saw that on Pintrest or somewhere. :) I have wanted to try this for so long. Went to buy my trash cans and they were $100 or something and I just couldn't afford that for each pasture at the time. Thanks for the reminder....may go back and do this now. :) Awesome Idea. Once they stopped spooking at it I bet they would like it. lol Walmart has them or Home Depot. Yea. They are not cheap How hard are they to destroy???? LOL
I'm wondering how long it would take my mare to stick her foot or nose in the hole and cut herself on the plastic. |
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Location: Beggs, OK | Three 4 Luck - 2015-10-14 12:55 PM FLITASTIC - 2015-10-14 11:38 AM Herbie - 2015-10-14 9:01 AM grinandbareit - 2015-10-14 8:07 AM Here is a cool trick... go buy a big outdoor trash bin, the kind with wheels... cut a 10" X 10" hole in the bottom front of it and fill it with hay... attach it to the stall wall or fence... as the horse eats the hay it keeps falling to the bottom... Voila! Dry fresh hay, free choice, without the waste. I saw that on Pintrest or somewhere. :) I have wanted to try this for so long. Went to buy my trash cans and they were $100 or something and I just couldn't afford that for each pasture at the time. Thanks for the reminder....may go back and do this now. :) Awesome Idea. Once they stopped spooking at it I bet they would like it. lol Walmart has them or Home Depot. Yea. They are not cheap How hard are they to destroy???? LOL
..or a pen gets flooded and it fills up with water, lol
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Location: 31 lengths farms | Does anyone make a decent grass cube or oat hay cube that isnt' rock hard? |
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| run n rate - 2015-10-14 11:01 AM
Does anyone make a decent grass cube or oat hay cube that isnt' rock hard?
I feed a Oat/Alf cube that is nice and soft. Tractor supply carries them..
I bet you could Duct tape the opening and keep them from getting cut.
Edited by FLITASTIC 2015-10-14 1:55 PM
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | FLITASTIC - 2015-10-13 3:15 PM Nevertooold - 2015-10-13 1:05 PM I keep coastal hay in front of mine and for what ever reason, he is good and keeps it all neat in the corner of his stall. LOL
Mine are probably spoiled and just fling it everywhere... We don't have round bales here in CA!!! LOL
I jinxed myself...I don't know what happened or got into my horse last night but this morning he had his hay spread all over his stall and in his pen were a bunch of long tail hairs strewn around. I'm wondering if I coyote came in. |
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Location: North Dakota | find the magic flake size of what they clean up vs what they make a mess out of.....
I'm still trying to figure out how 20 bales get old when you have 2 horses......I buy 40-50 small squares in August in hopes they last until next August (stored inside) and 30-50 large rounds stored outside....
If your horses are in pretty good sized runs why not make a corner feeder just using some longer 2X6, 2 X 8 or 2 X10 in one corner? Make a triangle high enough so that can't really get a leg over but so the hay can't blow out of it either.- They might still crap in it but but at least they won't walk through it.
Also, I've seen the trash can feeders mounted on the fence a little ways up so the water doesn't set in it-maybe a foot or so-and I don't really think they are tough enough to tear a horse up. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | FLITASTIC - 2015-10-14 1:49 PM run n rate - 2015-10-14 11:01 AM Does anyone make a decent grass cube or oat hay cube that isnt' rock hard? I feed a Oat/Alf cube that is nice and soft. Tractor supply carries them.. I bet you could Duct tape the opening and keep them from getting cut.
Pippy would eat the duct tape off. She is Dennis the Menace in red mare clothing. |
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| I tried the trash can feeder thing, they tore it up pretty much in one night.: pulled off the duct tape around the hole, that hole ended up a split clear up can, got it un-attatched from fence and stomped it around. |
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Location: Jersey Girl | FLITASTIC - 2015-10-13 3:52 PM I am a firm believer in keeping forage in front of my horses 24/7. However my horses are pigs and they seem to waste a lot of hay just throwing it around. lol I don't have access to omnis cubes or any of the other premium cubes some of you do. What I DO HAVE access to is a super nice alfalfa/Oat cube that is clean, my horses love them etc. Does anyone JUST FEED cubes? THanks! Will add, these cubes I can get are very soft and do not need soaking. If you feed just cubes, how do you keep hay in front of them all the time?
I use a slow feed bale bag. If I don't do they blow thru it in no time flat and waste alot of it.
My dad is building me a slow feeder like this:
http://buddyfeeder.wix.com/buddyfeeder#!services/c21w2
Edited by fulltiltfilly 2015-10-15 5:24 AM
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