Trickle Net ® - The Most Effective and Strongest Slow Feeder Hay/Haylage Net for your Horse. Recommended by Vets for laminitis weight control or digestive disorders. Buy wise, buy once!

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Haynet is a leading rural life blog, telling stories from the stables, kennels and the fields. If you love living in the countryside, riding your horse, farming the fields or walking your dogs through the woods – then you will feel right at home here! Oh yes! This is the top of the range in luxury equine weight management, and your friends will want to stroke the soft silky netting whenever you're not looking! :) We’ve had a lot of interest from top riders at YHL over the years and it’s also where we met Sharon Hunt, who is now our high profile sponsored rider and a great ambassador for the brand. These nets are super strong, heavy duty and made to do a very specific job. They can take a few weeks to 'soften up’, and using them regularly will break them in best. The new resource has been developed over several months, and uses data pulled from the latest available research in approximating the dry matter forage requirements of horses and ponies on a grass and hay diet.

would have marked our 4th year at YHL and while we are really sorry that the event won’t run in its regular fashion this year, we’ve been reflecting on some of the great opportunities and benefits YHL has afforded our small business over the years. We started with a little 3x3 stand in 2017. We had no graphics and all the products piled up in boxes. It was a bit bohemian! Wow what a show though, we were so busy! Built with guidance from Louisa Taylor BVM BVS (Hons) BVMedSci (Hons) MRCVS of Vetrition, the calculator requests horse owners to input their horse’s weight, hours turnout and type of pasture with the amount of hay fed and the feeding goal. The results are instantly available to the user and displayed with a host of recommendations and advice around feeding horses on a weight control diet. All of our products are kind to your horses’ teeth. Our products are all made with various modern plastic compositions which are no match for healthy tooth enamel. In place of seeing you all in person this year, we will be putting some special YHL exclusive offers online, so you don't miss out on our bargains! We recommend using the round bale net with UN SHOD horses, ponies, and donkeys. We recommend you use a feeding ring if your horses are shod to prevent them from catching a shoe in the netting.

This feeder has a plug and drain that allows you to soak the hay easily. There is a choice of three regulator hole sizes – 70mm, 90mm or 100mm. There was a horse on our old yard who couldn't have ad-lib hay, or access to much grass because of a mouth ulcer and tooth problem- he's had it for ages and had always been hungry (they wondered why their cob wasn't fat ) but it was an undiagnosed problem, eventually the concerned tooth fell out itself and he gorged himself so much he kept getting colic. So if you are going to ad-lib, increase it slowly! Dr Tamzin Furtado of Care Equine Education and University of Liverpool believes the forage calculator will be extremely useful. This hay ball makes grazing a bit more of a challenge with holes either 50mm or 70mm. It is suitable for indoor or outdoor use, is made from a tough plastic and has recessed holes to prevent dirt getting in. One of ours has to have ad-lib for his stomach, which is quite sensitive- he's a bit of a fatty now because of all the lush grass we've had, but on just hay in the winter he isn't fat. He has his in a small holed haynet so that it takes a bit of effort to get it out, but so that he can eat as much as he pleases (we have found a haynet so big I can fit inside it quite easily!)

With the change in temperature for the past three days, I've started mixing straw in with Hattie's hay to give her extra fibre to burn off to keep warm without extra calories (she is the weight I want her to stay) along with her slices and there has been probably about half a slice of straw and the same amount of hay left in the morning when I get there so it's been lasting all night. Before, when I double netted that amount of hay and straw, it would be all gone by the morning, now she is still nibbling it when I get there. Owners often ask us about the amount of forage to feed and we found ourselves repeatedly running through the same calculations when giving advice. I thought it would be ideal to have an online tool for owners to do this themselves and learn more about dry matter intake (DMI) requirements. I then wanted to make this tool more comprehensive and useful for owners, so I began to look more closely at pasture DMI and started reading the research.” Ellen added that the calculator can’t be 100% accurate as each horse is an individual but explained that it gives “a very good ballpark calculation, which is a big step forward for owners who could not easily access this important information before”. The tool provides a good starting point for owners looking to manage their horses’ weight but does not replace veterinary advice and/or working with an equine nutritionist. A good baselineWhile this won’t necessarily slow your horse down, this feeder is installed in a corner of a wall or fence and encourages your horse to adopt a more natural feeding position.

Ellen continues: “We have created a unique resource which gives owners a good baseline to start from. Using the specific feeding goal, weight loss, maintenance or weight gain the calculator takes the numbers we know work. It then approximates on the DM requirements based on the owner’s Suitable for indoor and outdoor use (-18 °C to +30 °C), this feeder is available with interchangeable feeding discs with holes of 70mm and 90mm. It has a watertight bung for soaking and draining hay, plus four fixing points that mean you can secure it to a fence post or stable wall. We don't advise soaking with this product. The netting is waterproof, but the nature of the weave may retain water and harbour bacteria as a result. If you do use this net for soaking, we recommend regular washing with high-pressure hosepipe.So - for 8 years she was alone in 8 acres and was very fat. Then she went to someone as a ridden companion for a laminitic and she had sporadic turnout (out every day but for a couple of hours then in for the afternoon - then out again). It’s also great for determining how much your horse is overeating by – using the calculator made me realise that it’s no wonder my boy is getting fatter as spring comes!” Owners often ask us about the amount of forage to feed and we found ourselves repeatedly running through the same calculations when giving advice,” she said. These nets are super strong, heavy duty and made to do a very specific job. They do take a few weeks to ‘soften up’ and using them regularly will break them in best. I thought it would be ideal to have an online tool for owners to do this themselves and learn more about dry matter intake (DMI) requirements. I then wanted to make this tool more comprehensive and useful for owners, so I began to look more closely at pasture DMI and started reading the research.