The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Pets & Working Animals => Horses, ponies, donkeys & mules => Topic started by: Hermit on November 11, 2012, 02:10:51 pm
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I have put this in the horse section as it was horses I saw but this can apply to all stock.
The point is when will people EVER learn that prevention is better than cure! Today I saw too horses that had their feet on two dangling hay nets. The nets were full and were tied to a gate that we could not stop at as it was no kerb and a fast main road so could not do anything, they belonged to a chuffing livery stables. What an example! I was always taught to tie hay nets up so even when they were empty they were still above danger level. If they had to tie haynets in a field they should be high and tight, they had a shelter which was high enough to suffice. Next thing they will be wanting sympathy for a panicked horse ripping or twisting its leg! These were supposed to be responsible folk .
Prevention is better than cure is a lesson we all should know and with Winter and dangerous , muddy conditions about even more so. Laziness and could not care less attitudes are all it takes for an accident to happen with stock. :rant: Over. No offence
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Friend lost a foal years ago when it got caught in a haynet and broke its neck. In the shetlands field I have a large old tractor tyre that I put the hay in. works a treat. Indoors hay goes into the hay racks or on the floor for foals. I hate filling haynets so try not to use them apart from when we are at show.
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Tractor tyres do work well with Shetland ponies. When I looked after some once I started using a tyre for them as they were just walking on the hay on the ground.
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We use this.....Im sure the council intended it to be used this way :-DDD It is very well cable tied to the massive post and strainer cos of our gales. In the stable (have to use nets for one horse as she has to have soaked hay and made to eat it slowly as prone to lami) I tie it as normal and then the long end gets hooked through the centre of the net to lift it up and tied again so there is no dangling net. Not ideal posture for them but at least its safe!
(http://i342.photobucket.com/albums/o405/lachlanandmarcus/P1030017.jpg)
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What a good idea!