So like- I thought I was being all super spiffy to the horses by ordering them some new nice feeders for their hay and grain. I want to keep them from eating off the ground, getting possible poo and pee or even a bit of sand or gravel in their mouths. Eating these things can cause them to get really sick and die.. Especially Sunny, being as old and delicate as she is...
(I hyperlinked the image to the feeder on Country Supply.)
The feeders came today and they are fantastic! They are bigger than I thought. I put them together and fed the horses in them as soon as I got them put up on the fence.
Well, Sunny- my old smart Arabian mare- knows what she wants.. She pulls her lips back and stretches her teeth out and very gently pulls the hay through the slots and the pulls back until she has a good thick strand of it and she places it on the ground. She keeps doing this until it is all on the ground- aaaaannnnd then she eats.. Damn it. She beat the system. I figure she has given up and wants to die. At least she doesn't do this to the grain..
Conquistador just goes with the flow and eats from the feeder. Good boy.
Now, what else can I waste money on... We are getting a little money from that Stimulous package (the advance on the supposed 2009 tax refund we are not getting).. Ha!
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