Post by spotti on Mar 10, 2014 13:18:12 GMT
A question really for Scatty ( as she mentioned in another thread that she had one of these nets for Eddie), but anyone is welcome to answer!
As the title says - I'm intrigued as to how anyone else has introduced their horse to using a TN. It has taken Faith a good week to get used to the idea of it and to bother trying to eat more than a few tufts...and this is coming from a horse who is super used to wearing a small-holed grazing muzzle, has been having double netted small-holed net [approx 40mm, so the TN is ate a bit smaller at 25mm] and has been having her day time hay from a double-netted hay ball hung from the middle of her stable so that it spins and is pretty difficult to eat from!
*will try to post a pic of our 'hay ball contraption' soon*
The thing that seems to have worked the most has been to:
A) Put a bigger holed net over the top of the TN (don't ask why! Faith is not a normal pony LOL).
B) Fill the net with a mix hay and haylage (instead of just hay).
and
C) Gradually reduce the amount of 'normal access hay' that's been in her stable, almost forcing her to try to eat from the TN (although she has been choosing to eat straw instead, hence trying to tempt her with haylage...which seems to have done the trick!).
Just curious about how anyone else has introduced their horses to as smaller-holed hay net than they would have previously had.
P.s. Even though it's been a bit of a faff trying to find something that works well enough to slow Faith down when she's eating hay (even with a small-holed double-netted hay net, she can still manage to scoff it in record time!), in 2 weeks she has lost around 15kg
and is now happy with quite a lot less hay than she was previously getting (gone from around 12-15kg per day - with minimal access to grass - to around 8-10kg per day. She still had around half of the TN left this morning and didn't seem to realise that it was breakfast time until she saw me arrive 
.
As the title says - I'm intrigued as to how anyone else has introduced their horse to using a TN. It has taken Faith a good week to get used to the idea of it and to bother trying to eat more than a few tufts...and this is coming from a horse who is super used to wearing a small-holed grazing muzzle, has been having double netted small-holed net [approx 40mm, so the TN is ate a bit smaller at 25mm] and has been having her day time hay from a double-netted hay ball hung from the middle of her stable so that it spins and is pretty difficult to eat from!
*will try to post a pic of our 'hay ball contraption' soon*
The thing that seems to have worked the most has been to:
A) Put a bigger holed net over the top of the TN (don't ask why! Faith is not a normal pony LOL).
B) Fill the net with a mix hay and haylage (instead of just hay).
and
C) Gradually reduce the amount of 'normal access hay' that's been in her stable, almost forcing her to try to eat from the TN (although she has been choosing to eat straw instead, hence trying to tempt her with haylage...which seems to have done the trick!).
Just curious about how anyone else has introduced their horses to as smaller-holed hay net than they would have previously had.
P.s. Even though it's been a bit of a faff trying to find something that works well enough to slow Faith down when she's eating hay (even with a small-holed double-netted hay net, she can still manage to scoff it in record time!), in 2 weeks she has lost around 15kg
and is now happy with quite a lot less hay than she was previously getting (gone from around 12-15kg per day - with minimal access to grass - to around 8-10kg per day. She still had around half of the TN left this morning and didn't seem to realise that it was breakfast time until she saw me arrive 
.
for so much hard work we thank ye!!