#Best goat hay feeder plus
#Best goat hay feeder free

As you know when horses are bored they eat!!! Not anymore. The feeder will self feed if we leave town, but I really appreciate being able to control the amount daily consumed. Since purchasing our JSI waste less hay feeder, not only do we have the ability to control the amount of wasted hay, we have the ability to control the amount of feed consumed daily.

#Best goat hay feeder plus

The cost of wasted hay plus time and effort to clean it up, makes them well worth the cost. Just wanted to let you know how happy we are with these feeders. Bonus – when we decided we didn’t need this anymore – I sold it for $800 bucks. My husband built a wood frame for the hay to sit on and put skids under the feeder, but that was the only modification that was made. Each year, we only picked up one wheelbarrow of hay from both sides – that was the extent of the waste. The hay never got wet and in the spring cleanup was a breeze. Loading the feeder was never a problem in the winter and the horses found it great to eat from as they could get their heads out of the blowing snow to eat.

#Best goat hay feeder free

We live in Northern Wisconsin where hay is fed most of the year due to the cold climate and short growing season.It was easy to separate horses and let them eat free choice, but limiting their intake so they didn’t get too fat. We fed many horses out of this feeder, using the 2 pasture method. I purchased mine in 2008 and used it extensively until 2014 when I decided to sell it. I just want to say I can’t say enough about the Wasteless Hay Feeder.

This one load is what I cleaned up around the hay feeder after feeding my two horses all winter. A wire can also be run through PVC pipe or hose to connect an electric fence to and placed across the back of the feeder. This would also prevent them from rubbing on the door.

The front of the feeder can be placed with the doors in line with the fence or back just a little so you don’t even have to go in the pen to let the panels down or to put another bale in the feeder. This picture was taken March 2013 after feeding my 2 horses all winter notice this is the waste including snow, manure and the hay! This is the sixth year of using this same feeder and as you can see it can be used many more and then sold to someone else to use! This is the amount of waste after feeding eight round bales on loose sandy ground in the JSI Wasteless Horse Hay Feeder. Comes assembled including a steel roof to protect from rain and snow.Lock can be turned back so panels free fall if you want to leave for a few days.All steel construction, except 2×6’s – also comes with a roof.Convenient – just a turn of the crank to feed hay.This feeder will last a very long time if set up in the fence line and protected in the back to prevent rubbing.PVC pipe over rods helps prevent hair loss.Horses can’t put their head down into the hay which prevents dust in their eyes and nose.Spaces between rods are very easy to change.Horses eat over the top of the bale so leaves fall back on top of hay, not the ground.Very little waste to haul out which saves labor for clean up.

Saving hay means you don’t need as much land to grow it on and not as much area to spread waste and manure on.

Controlled access allows you to feed as much as you want them to have.

Our patented horse hay feeder comes assembled including a steel roof to protect from rain and snow. If any falls on the ground you don’t let the panels down as much which forces them to eat what is on the ground first. When they lift their heads up, the rods wipe off the excess hay which falls back in the feeder. They can only fit their nose through the rods which prevents them from inhaling the dust. Panels lay over the hay and can be easily adjusted down controlling how much they have access to. Notice that leaves fall back on top of bale, not on the ground! Panels lay over the hay and can be easily adjusted downward allowing animals to eat only as much as you want them to and you can make them clean up what is on the ground before you let the panels down more. Less waste to haul out and less land to spread! Also means, less labor! Less waste means less hay to purchase and less land to grow it! It was still #1 for least waste.ĭuring normal use with controlled access when you don’t let the panels down more, or as much if there is hay on the ground, so horses clean it up, the waste is much less! It comes as no surprise that this feeder recorded the least waste of the 9 feeders evaluated at U of M, even though, in the test, they raked up all the hay around the feeders each day and did not limit the amount they had access to which defeated the purpose of the JSI Wasteless Feeder. Click here to view our JSI WASTE LESS HAY FEEDER MOVIEĬONFIRMED NUMBER 1 FOR LEAST WASTE IN THE 2010 FEEDER EVALUATIONS CONDUCTED BY THE U OF M!