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Location: Jersey Girl | How are you doing it? Round bales, small squares, slow feeders?
Also how do you prevent the easy keepers from getting too fat? |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | I feed grass hay in a slow feed hay net inside of a round horse bale feeder. My others that are in seperate pens are fed in a tire and I just feed them twice a day but I fill it so full that they always have some left over at the next feeding. The problem with that is they do pull it out and make a mess. I highly suggest the slow feed hay nets for large round bales |
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | We only have access to 3 string bales here. I throw out enough flakes of Bermuda that they have leftovers the following day. Repeat... lol. They learn to slow it down when it's always there. |
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| Mine are all in separate pens as well but what I do is just load up 3-4 flakes grass hay in a net and tie it up head level and it lasts them about 3-4 days then I refill. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | I do about the same as Flit, my horses are in their own pens at night, they get turned out during the day and in the evenings they are put up in their own pens I load their hays nets with 3 to 4 flakes of hay so they wont get bored and start picking on each other, then they get turned back out in the mornings. So I load their hay nets about evey other day. |
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Location: Texas | I put out round bales of grass hay. My horses are in big turnouts and this really saves work for me. |
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Location: Jersey Girl | Thanks for the replies!
I board but take care of my own horses. Only go out once a day to feed. Either put a full bale (small square about 50lbs) in a slow feed net or break it up between 2 slow feeders. They have nothing left usually by the next morning. Have considered putting 2 bales out in slow feed nets but I feel like they will devour any amount I put out. And they are chubby......They have grass but it's only enough to keep them busy doesn't really fill them.
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| We feed small bales free choice in nets in the coldest winter months, if we fed it year round they'd be tubby and we'd be broke, but I wish it wasnt that way. Oddly enough they seem to self regulate better on pasture, but if hay is available they'll eat it all as fast as they can.
When we haul them over long weekends to jackpots I do keep quite a bit of hay in front of them and plan to use the nets for that too. |
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Location: Kansas | I feed round bales of brome, i just keep the fat ones legged up |
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Location: Where you need a paddle... Oregon! | I have one of the large round plastic water tanks. I drilled holes in the bottom and I keep it underneath a covered area. Every 3 days I go out and put an entire #120 bale of orchard grass in it. I have 2 out there and neither are the kind to be chubby. They come and go as they please to it. They are on about an acre and more, but not much grass out there right now because we get rain every day still and no sun. |
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Location: NE TX | Round bale and for an easy keeper, one of the sow feed nets that go over the bale or a muzzle during the day and off at night. |
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Location: Where the pavement ends and the West begins Utah | Add some kind of fat to their grain.like flax seed, crisco, bacon grease, athlete. Start with 2 regular coffee cups if they start getting the runs,back off to one maintain for a month then back off to 1/2 Cup. About this time your horses should have reduced hay consumption. |
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Location: Georgia | I feed my hay different ways.. Normally I keep hay in some sort of HayChix slow feeding hay net at all times. Sometimes I will also put a couple of loose flakes on the ground to fill them up then they can graze of the HayChix nets. |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | I keep a round bale out at all times. They usually don't pay much attention to it. Unless it's summer and extremely hot. The round bale is under a cover that's open on all sides so they prefer the round bale then.
I throw them a few flakes of alfalfa and orchard grass into their feeders at night to keep them busy. We have the metal hay feeders. |
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I hate cooking and cleaning
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Location: Jersey Girl | mandita8907 - 2017-04-17 9:19 AM I feed my hay different ways.. Normally I keep hay in some sort of HayChix slow feeding hay net at all times. Sometimes I will also put a couple of loose flakes on the ground to fill them up then they can graze of the HayChix nets.
I do the same....ususally give them a break from the nets and feeders once a week and will usually put a few loose ones out too when I due use them. |
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| I use a slow feeder out in their paddocks AND in their stalls.
Paddock one is a HayWise. www.haywisefeeders.com
Stall one is PortaGrazer. www.porta-grazer.com
Both have lids so you can close them up when you want. I love them! |
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