Horses

[flick]

I was a little alarmed this morning to see that GB had coughed up some gunk onto the concrete outside his stable. But then I remembered that I'd been sorting photos recently and had seen a photo of the same thing (that I vaguely remembered taking in case it got worse and I needed to show the vet), so I found it and checked the date stamp: 25 September 2013. I'll not worry too much just yet, then.

Baby has done a number on his feed bucket, *again*. It's only about a month old, and it's supposedly a super-heavy-duty, utterly indestructible one:


(GB, in contrast, has had the same thin plastic tub trugs for several years now.) We obviously need a new solution, but I'm wary of giving him something made of rigid plastic / metal / wood in case he does manage to damage it and then has a sharp edge lying around in his stable.

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Re: Tilting Trough!

[inamac]

I've seen feed buckets designed to fit into the centre of a used tyre - might that be useful?

Re: Tilting Trough!

[flick]

My current plan, having looked around and seen a few people saying "Oh, my horses trash the super-tough tire buckets much faster than the thin plastic ones" is to hunt around for some very flexible plastic ones. In retrospect, they did last longer than the tire ones, but that may just mean he's getting worse.

If that fails then, yes, I think we'll go for a bucket in a tire.