Wednesday, November 2, 2011
It's been a loooooong time!
Wow! It's been a very long time since I've posted anything here. Going to have to get in the habit of checking in more often! Lots of things have changed since the last post. New job for me now - left Lockheed Martin to work for Global Traffic Technologies about a month ago. It's been a good change so far.
Back to the slow feeding - I still haven't got the barrel feeder back up, but plan to before winter sets in. I've been replacing my old bags with some different ones made by Cinch Chix (www.cinchchix.com). Their bags are better quality and they have several different sizes of mesh, from the standard small mesh at1.75" x 1.75", to the slower 1.25"x 1.25" to the smallest at 1"x1" (extreme slow feeder). I'm using the standard and the smallest in combination and just ordered the 1.25" mesh for winter. I'm going to take one of my old standard bags and stitch it on to the barrel feeder when we get it hung up. Only small mesh hay nets for my horses! We won't be wasting any hay this year!
On a related note - I used a full bale bag at the last endurance ride in October - what a great way to make it easier to take care of the horses! I hung the bale from the post of the high tie lines and put a horse on each side. They could eat to their hearts content and I only had to add hay once all weekend! And no wasted hay on the ground to clean up at the end of the weekend. Winner all the way around! :)
Back to the slow feeding - I still haven't got the barrel feeder back up, but plan to before winter sets in. I've been replacing my old bags with some different ones made by Cinch Chix (www.cinchchix.com). Their bags are better quality and they have several different sizes of mesh, from the standard small mesh at1.75" x 1.75", to the slower 1.25"x 1.25" to the smallest at 1"x1" (extreme slow feeder). I'm using the standard and the smallest in combination and just ordered the 1.25" mesh for winter. I'm going to take one of my old standard bags and stitch it on to the barrel feeder when we get it hung up. Only small mesh hay nets for my horses! We won't be wasting any hay this year!
On a related note - I used a full bale bag at the last endurance ride in October - what a great way to make it easier to take care of the horses! I hung the bale from the post of the high tie lines and put a horse on each side. They could eat to their hearts content and I only had to add hay once all weekend! And no wasted hay on the ground to clean up at the end of the weekend. Winner all the way around! :)
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