____________________________________________________________________________________________
I have used this plastic water trough for just about every purpose under the sun, from dog-washing tub to splash

I decided to make another 24" x 48" feeder toy box with 24" sides to fit between the barn beam and the side of my fabric shelter.

It needed higher sides than the trough
because the horses will sometimes toss
the Nose-It out of the trough, where it will
almost invariably land hole-down in a mud
puddle.

Once the ground dries out, we may not need the toy boxes. However, I will probably continue to use them to keep the cubes clean since we are actively and intentionally churning up the turnout track to eliminate grass.

Another option which works well to contain
a Nose-it and keep it off the dirt is an 18"-tall
hay crib (in the linked photo it needs a solid
floor and removal of the triangular top corners.)










This picture shows how the new feeder
toybox fits in the unused space along the
side of my fabric shelter, which I call a
"run-through" shelter. It's open at both ends
and the floor is covered with pea gravel over
landscape fabric.

Stella thinks the shelter's a big scratching post, so I hauled some barn beams over from the wreckage of the dairy barn here and propped them up on old milk cans that I'd dug up out of the field. Now that's Recycling!

As you know, I never use tie strings on my
small-mesh hay nets. Instead, I used those
tie strings to lash the barn beam to the upright
posts on each side of the doors.


~JoAnn Johnson
March 25, 2009
_____________________________________________________________