Re: RC: mares & poop

[Teresa Van Hove <tvanhove@uswest.net>]

Follow the earlier advice of giving them a spot with some kind of
bedding to absorb the splash, and cut the amount of hay you are feeding
in half or to the amount they are eating - its quite common for horses
to use excess hay as bedding, but most wont spoil the food supply if
they are only fed what they need to maintain themselves.

Teresa 

> lkgower wrote:
> 
> I'd like help with this problem also.  My two mares poop & pee on
> their hay, then won't eat it.  I tried hanging metal feeders on the
> fence.  They just pulled the whole flake of hay out and eat some of it
> off the ground. So I bought big 140 gallon water tubs and put their
> hay in those.  It helped somewhat, but the mares throw the hay out of
> the tubs (to get to those little bitty alfalfa leaves), then again
> poop & pee on it and refuse to finish it.  My gelding never poops on
> his hay but does pee on it, but eats it anyway.  I do waste a lot of
> hay and don't know what to do.  Maybe I should try haynets.  Would
> they work tied to the fence?  Would they last in the heat and sun &
> rain?  By the way all the horses are in their own corrals.  No stalls,
> just shade covers.  And I clean the corrals twice a day (unless it is
> raining).
> Lindak

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