What's your favorite bucket/bowl/device for feeding your horse's meal out of?

[gumtree]

[QUOTE=MysticOakRanch;8461111]
http://www.horse.com/item/fortiflex-over-the-fence-feeder/E000523/

If you have a place to put these - my horses come in to a pipe panel mare motel for feeding, so I have these on the pipe panels, then I use a small chain to keep them from removing the feeders when they are done. Far prefer these to buckets because there is no metal handle for them to get hurt on.

You can put quite a bit in them - I’ve done as much as 8 pounds of pellets plus all the supplements, and it was only about half full. They last quite a while - a few of my guys pound on them and play with them quite a bit.

Horses in pasture eat out of the huge fortiflex tubs - and those do get beat up - mine step in them and drag them around. They are EXPENSIVE and seem to last a couple of years before they are totally destroyed. Muck buckets are too fragile - you have to take them out afterwards, otherwise they break easily and do have sharp edges that can hurt a horse who puts his foot through it.[/QUOTE]

We didn’t have much luck with these. Not very well made. Horses that like to “dig into” their buckets will break the the bracket. Doesn’t take much have thrown out several not long after buying.

Probably fine with “gentle eaters”.

[poltroon]

I like the big wide tub for the horse that gets lots of food and is a sloppy eater. The horses fed in those are out in pasture, so I carry food out in one (or two!) large standard buckets, and pour it in. The large tub is nice because it captures more of the dribbles, especially.

I have the ergo buckets for one of my ponies. She doesn’t get a lot of food. I’d say I’m satisfied with that for her, but they’re a little tippy on the ground and it’s kind of awkward to carry more than one of that shape at a time, so I don’t know that I’d want a whole barnful of them, or if I did, I’d probably change my process a little bit. So I like them, will buy them again, but I’m not full-throated enthusiastic.

[csaper58]

[QUOTE=Texarkana;8459907]
I like feed bags, but if I have to feed in a stall, I’m a big fan of the Dan’s Super Belmont Feed Tubs with a lip hung in the corner.

In a perfect world, I’d rather feed horses in a container on the ground, but it seems for horses getting any sort of large volume of feed, at some point you’ll experience at least one major incident of feed wastage.[/QUOTE]

These are my fav. also.

[walkinthewalk]

I have pipe panel stalls and really like these hook over 20 quart feeders.

https://www.southernstates.com/catalog/p-8949-duraflex-20qt-fence-feeder.aspx

I’ve had three of my four since 1998. They get washed twice daily, cloroxed as several times a year and are still going strong.

[skipollo]

My horse is both a food flinger AND a large amount eater. I got a rubber feed tub from Tractor Supply for like $10. It’s not the shallow one–it’s their “medium” sized one. I can fit two scoops of Ultium in it comfortably with a few inches of space to spare.

This is his feed tub and his pig friend (she cleans up the crumbs he leaves behind.)

He can’t eat out of a hanging plastic bucket because he bangs it against the stall wall. We also fed him off the cement ‘wall’ in his stall, but he started flinging the grain EVERYWHERE and then wouldn’t eat it (for reference, eating alfalfa pellets on the ledge.)

They make an even deeper rubber ground feeder tub at TSC, and you can get rubber or hard plastic ones with a base that makes them almost impossible to tip or flip over.

[drawstraws]

I use the ergonomic ones for my geldings that have ginormous heads:
https://www.smartpakequine.com/pt/the-better-bucket-9839

They come in two sizes and mine have the bigger ones for their grain. My one gelding really does have a hard time fitting his noggin into a regular shaped, flat-backed bucket now (he’s a headshaker who is often set off by eating so that could be part of it). I do also have a bucket-slinger though, and I’m tempted to just dump his grain on the floor of his stall since that’s where a lot of it ends up anyway.

I’ve picked mine up at Farm & Fleet when they’re on sale.

[MysticOakRanch]

[QUOTE=gumtree;8461252]
We didn’t have much luck with these. Not very well made. Horses that like to “dig into” their buckets will break the the bracket. Doesn’t take much have thrown out several not long after buying.

Probably fine with “gentle eaters”.[/QUOTE]

Guess I’ve been lucky, I have several that are 5 years old and still going strong, and mine are vigorous eaters.

[Montanas_Girl]

For grain, I just use basic over-the-fence feeders. For my older horse who gets compressed alfalfa, I use a ground-level wide/flat rubber feed pan, to try to keep as much of the hay off the ground as possible. Their grass hay gets fed directly on the ground.

[silverdog]

I the “Better Bucket”. Easy for the horses to eat out of, easy to clean and they can’t throw the food all over the place. I take mine to shows as well.

[stb]

I’m currently using tubtrugs. So far I like them. The only downside is they are light and sometimes I find them pushed around a bit, but I figure that gives my nosy boy something to play with. They are very easy to clean. I was using rubber pans but they were a pain to clean.