Removable feeders?

[dmalbone]

Anyone use anything other than just a plain ol' bucket to feed grain in that's NOT fixed to the wall? I hate fixed corner feeders because they're a PITA to clean.

[shakeytails]

You actually clean your feeders? My horses keep theirs spotless! The only time I have to clean a corner feeder is when the stall's been empty and it's accumulated dust and cobwebs.

I'm not sure exactly what you're asking- are you looking for types of floor feeders or something that can be easily hung up at feeding time, then removed or removed as necessary?

[dmalbone]

Lol, I must have pigs because they get NASTY! Scum around the edges, sticky food, attracting flies, etc... I guess I just want something that hangs up that I can easily take down to clean. I wouldn't be opposed to using a pan on the floor, but I've tried before and my guy's a comedian... it's usually in his neighbor's stall or down the barn aisle if I leave it in there in the morning. :lol:

[shakeytails]

Well, you could just hang a flat back bucket with a double end snap, or you can get an over the fence feeder or you could hang a regular corner feeder (or the round style like they use on the track) with double end snaps.

[Tornado Run Farm]

I like the round tub, hung with snaps. I hang mine with two snaps on each side and one in the corner, making it tilt towards them. Makes it easier for them to get every last little oat shaft without crimping their neck. Taking tubs up and down are, well, a snap. ;)

http://www.doversaddlery.com/product.asp?pn=X1-2804&ids=343056716&bhcd2=1247802811

[Bluey]

We have used this kind for years and years and years, some may be over 50 years old.
You can hang them with three eyescrews in the stall at feed time or just leave them there all the time.
For some horses, you can leave them on the ground for them and they are practically indestructible and a horse can't hardly find a way to get hurt with one.
If a horse is a slinger of grain, then you may want a deeper one and for those, we used some bigger metal buckets.
They clean easily:

http://www.doversaddlery.com/rubber-feed-tub/p/X1-2844/cn/196/

[Seven-up]

2 of my horses eat from those shallow rubber pans on the ground. I HATE them. My thin horse (wonder why she's thin:rolleyes:) promptly flips it over, and her xtra calorie supplements are forever lost in her bedding, along with about half her feed. I think she's anorexic. At any rate, I know she does it on purpose. She's getting a corner feeder, but I have yet to hang it up because I'd like to secure it with bolts that I can unscrew periodically to clean, like the OP wants to be able to do.

As far as hanging up buckets with clips, I prefer to use (sorry, don't know what they're called) those clips shaped like a C with a little section that closes the C by screwing closed. Haha, anyone follow that? Anyway, it's a carryover from when I used to have an enthusiastic eater who went thru 4 double end snaps a week. Those things break so easy!

[2DogsFarm]

I agree about the fixed corner feeders - a friend once had a haydunker and he ended up with his own little oatgrass garden in the corner where the feeder was.
Funny - unless you're the one who owns the wood rotting from being soaked all the time...

My guys eat their grain & hay from the ground. I have "placemats" of discarded rubber roofing that I keep near the stall doors & just shake out before placing the hay & feeding pans on them. That way any spilled grain gets hoovered up off the mat instead of falling into the bedding.
I use the black rubber pans - similar to Bluey's - and yes, they often end up in odd places - moreso because my stalls are open to the outdoors 24/7.
Occasionally one gets used as a toilet too :uhoh:
Amazing how they manage to position their butts right over the pan.....

[MistyBlue]

dmalbone...I had the corner feeders too and my horses got their the same way...crusty gunky messes. And they'd drool/gunk up the snaps they hung from making it toough as heck to remove them for cleaning. I finally took them down and tossed them out.
I had hay dunkers...2 of them and since both were such slobs back and splashed water all over soaking tons of bedding I finally got pissed off enough to go out and buy two 44 gallo rubbermaid trough/tubs. The oblong oval ones, heavy black rubber. I'd place one under each dunking bucket in each stall to catch the splashed water. They worked great and since they're large I started tossing their hay in those too. (each can hold 1/2 bale easily) That stopped both from dragging hay around the stall as they picked through it.
Now I have two non-dunkers but still use those big tub/troughs. They go under their snack buckets (I hang a 5 gallon bucket of soaked cubes and dengi soup every night as a combo treat/more water trick) and I put 3-4 flakes of hay in each and then next to it or on top of the hay I pour their grain. Works like a charm! Nothing to gunk up, no splashes to soak the bedding and no hay strewn all over. I can set them up for the night turn in every morning and they're also easy as pie to bring outside and hit with the horse if they get yucky.

[ChocoMare]

Anything "affixed" to the wall is a pain to clean, so I stopped A-fixin' and went totally with Flexible Buckets (http://www.horse.com/Tubtrug-Flexible-Tub-BSA71.html)(aka Tub Trugs). I use the smaller ones for feed and the big ones for water. I've driven over them (accidentally, of course :winkgrin:), thrown them, had water freeze in them and seen them trampled by my big mares. They're still going strong....no cracks, splits, etc. They're easy to clean and stack/nest together. You can hang them if you want with a double-ended snap clip, but the ground is easier, even if they do dump them over.

[Kimberlee]

I just hang the feed bucket up to eye bolts with double ended snaps (with the snap part facing away from the horse). Carabiner style clips can work too (again with the clip part facing away from the horse). My mare is a big flipper of her feed bucket, but the arab just eats his politly out of the bucket on the ground.

The "oval screw links" Seven-up mentioned always get the better of me, so they have all been given to hubby to use in his shop, LOL;).

[aiken4horses]

Yeah, some horses have thumbs on their tongues and can lick the double ended snaps open!

What about securing removable tubs with the oval hooks that have an opening that you twist/screw shut in the middle, don't know their name but I use them for everything. They come in all sizes, I even use a huge one to attach the harrow when I drag paddocks.

I remove all the feed tubs each day to rinse. Even if they "look" clean, spraying them down in the wash rack gets rid of any saliva, which deters flies, then I hang them back up on the ouside of the stall until tomorrow.

[Jennwarr84]

I have been using the bucket rings for about a week now, and so far I love them. I just take the bucket out when the boys are done eating, and the ring lays flat against the walls.

We are ordered these:
http://www.nationalbridle.com/product-p/1-6942.htm

Hubby didn't like the fact that it was adjustable. They were kind of a PITA to get adjusted, but I have seen the solid ones in country supply and farm tek.

[Bluey]

Yeah, some horses have thumbs on their tongues and can lick the double ended snaps open!

What about securing removable tubs with the oval hooks that have an opening that you twist/screw shut in the middle, don't know their name but I use them for everything. They come in all sizes, I even use a huge one to attach the harrow when I drag paddocks.

I remove all the feed tubs each day to rinse. Even if they "look" clean, spraying them down in the wash rack gets rid of any saliva, which deters flies, then I hang them back up on the ouside of the stall until tomorrow.

That is the way we managed our stable when training race horses, at home and at the track, it was standard, for several reasons.
One, you knew each bucket had been looked at, to be sure the horse ate it all and each had been cleaned and also to leave one less thing for a horse to bang around.
You can see that we painted one circle at the bottom with our stable color, as a decorative accent and so tubs were not as apt to grow legs and wander off;):

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a298/Robintoo/Scan050March272007.jpg?t=1247845658