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Patti's second slow feeder
I started with treated 2x4 to go under the feeder floor. The floor Three sides Three sides from the front Almost
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Spotted T's Slow Feeder
on. Finished feeder, holds 3-4 bales of hay. Spotted T's Slow Feeder - I did have to use a reciprocating saw on the grate
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Barrel Slow Feeder
This was a test to see if I could make a slow feeder from a used, food grade, plastic barrel. I never ended up doing a second version, but I believe
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Patti's hay feeder
slow feeder box on the next page . I am STILL THRILLED with this concept! 11/09 New addition on 3/29/09. Our horses got the grid out once
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Barbara's hay feeders
(with minor updates, added 12-9-08) Easy slow-down feeders, made by putting "gridwall" metal grids
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Freedom Feeder Large SMHN
does not ship to the USA or Canada. The new Freedom Feeder SMHN seems to fill the bill. Made with the same 1.5" spaced mesh as the Smith Brothers
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Fenceline Forage Feeder
to be an even better method of slow feeding. One that combines the foraging and nibbling of our stationary small-mesh hay nets and Nose-It! feeder
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Slow Feeders
Jackson points out that wild horses expend time and energy finding their food. He calls unlimited lush grass a "founder trap." Slow feeder designs
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Side view
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 Slow feeder
The boys caught on very quickly
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 Slow feeder
1 bale of hay filled it about 1/2 way
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slow feeders
I made a slow feeder with one of those blue barrels in the pictures. It has an open top with the plywood on the insidewith holes in it. The opening on top is 36" from the ground but I'm still worriedhe's gonna get his foot stuck in it. Hershey is about 16 hands. He likes to paw at his hay when it's on the ground. I'm scard to leave it in the barn over night. Can anyone tell me if he can raise his leg higher then 36"?
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Slow Feeders
I haven't explored the site fully, or read many old posts, so apologies if I am covering old ground!
The problem I see with slow feeders is that they are static! So having one or two doesn't keep your horses moving, which is a big part of the track mentality. However, I am a realist, and also know that if you scatter hay on your track in windy weather, it will probably be wasted. The solutions that have worked for me are to created tying points on any posts or trees on my track, where I can hang (as low as possible) a small mesh net. The areas that lack hanging points I fill in with tires. No, I don't put the hay in the tires, I tie a piece of rope around the tire, and then tie a net to that. I don't use tractor tires, just large pick-up sized ones. The great thing is they are easy to move about, so I can keep the horses guessing and avoid certain areas don't get too footworn, muddy, etc. The horses do drag the tires around a little, but not far, and rarely push them under the track fence.
Kris
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Apr 26 2009, 1:13 PM EDT by
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 Slow wall feeder
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The Secret Dental Benefits of Head-Low Slow Feeding
.) My personal goal is to find ways to make slow feeders work efficiently on Paddock Paradise tracks. I think slow feeders can provide that missing
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 Patti with the slow box feeder
It is FINALLY DONE!
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Feeders
Different horses may do better with different grid sizes. It seems that for a hard metal grid, three inches works as a slow feeder in some cases. Other horses need hard metal grid as small as two inches. Some have reported good success with two-and-a-half-inch grid holes.
Hard metal grids work differently than the soft mesh of small-mesh hay net slow feeders -- those holes need to be about an inch smaller than metal grid holes to dispense the hay at a comparable rate.
JoAnn
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 Prototype of a slow feeder
Built my slow feeder box first out of paper plates, chop sticks and cardboard
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 First slow feeder attempt
Left to right: Savannah, Latika and Rodeo trying out their new slow feeder, many changes will be made after this yet!
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 Sierra & Libby's slow hay feeder
Sierra & Libby's slow hay feeder
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