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I got a mare that when she eats she pushes her food around hard enough she actually slings it out the sides and when she's through eating the food in the feeder, she starts eating what she pushes out...
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Cheryl, my gelding is one of those "got to get it all in one bite before any others get it" kinda guys. He opens his mouth as far as he can and dives, and I do mean DIVES into the bucket doing a side...
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Try hanging a feed bucket from the ceiling by a rope. When your horse tries push the feed to the side the bucket will swing. Shouldn't take long for it to figure out that to eat she must not push side...
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I had a QH that did that and we just put some large rocks in his feed box and it was solved! This also works great for a horse that eats too fast.
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I'll probably try the rocks, her feed bucket was hanging and she would just swing it all the time dumping most of the food out and eating it off the ground. We had to put it in place where she...
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I have heard of people putting large objects in the feed bucket to slow the horse down. Have you thought of this......put a tire on the ground and sit the bucket inside the whole of the tire. The tire...
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Karen That might work too. I'd like to find a way to get one of our horses to quit sticking her head through the fence. She's got her mane pulled out. Might have to put some fire to it.
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I have an electric - high tensil wire fence. I turn it on about once every couple of months. Its enough to keep them away. I can verify that because I accidentally touched it myself. I felt the hair...
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We're going to have to do something cause we're going to have to redo our whole fence when we make more pasture and because of her tearing up what we have now.
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Electric fence does do the job. To electricfy a reguler barb wire (shudder!!) fence. You geather up some old plastic water hose . Cut it in peaces about 3 to 4 inches long. Cut down the lenth of the...
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We use the braided fence tape and a weed whacker charger. Keeps the weeds from growing up over the fence and will knock you silly. The old boss mare hit it once and told all the others. They know it's...
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Thanks for all the advice. I'm going to change her barn name from Lady to Mohack!!
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A weed chopper has been known to start fires in areas where the weeds will grow above the charged wire. Using the center fence strand as the ground you can extend a fence charger three to four times...
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I think I get it, Mowhawk, like the punk hairdo! For rubbing off her mane...am I right?
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Captain , Cheryl says you are right. Mohawk : The name of a indian tribe that cut all thier hair except a narrow band in the middle of thier head. I've got to tease her about that.
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Have you tried to get a "feed sack?" I know this may sound strange, some friends use them on their re-enactment horses, they just slip over the years. The horse can do just about any normal pushing...
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They do have feed bags that you can carry and use when you go camping with your horses. Its just a bag with a strap that you slip around their ears. I was looking at Jeffers and they have a ring you...
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