Elim-a-net - reviews?

[Trouble]

My two are getting fat with being out of work....nothing I can do abut the work side of things whilst I still have a broken knee, but I can cut their gorging a bit!

They currently have a net full of hay each night, small holed haylage net style, but can both finish what I consider to be too much hay, in night. I have the smallest holed nets I could find....but have now seen the elim a nets which cut the net holes in hal...thinking this might be a good way to keep them occupied all night whilst also reducing their food intake, but also making sure theres always food to be had?

Anyone used one? Are they go or not worth the money?

[basilhorse]

I don't know anything about them sorry. I used to use 2 small-holed haynets one inside the other to make the holes even smaller.

[Trouble]

I've used 2 nets before but get annoyed with filling them and losing hold of the inner net...but someone on HHO has just suggested threading 2 haynets onto one drawstring, utter genius! So I will be buying some cheap cheerful ones and doing just that, because I have no doubt that a certain grey baby, though very cute, will continue his path of destruction!!!

This way I can cheaply replace the inner or outer as they get eaten away....!!!

[jill]

Can you supply them with a net of straw to eat when their haylage is finished? Caspar used to have finished his by about 8 p.m., leaving him around 12 hours with nothing, but I have some very low feed value late cut haylage left from last year so he has that under his good stuff (in his floor rack).

[2 bays & a grey:D]

Don't bother!! I spent £40 on four then realised the holes were no smaller than haylege nets . I was really annoyed, they have basically taken hay nets (not haylege nets), reduced the holes and are conning people, just stick with the bog standard haylege nets I say!!!

What is it about greys & fooooooooooooood

[Trouble]

Can't use straw for Snip because of his RER.....straw from cereals!

[christi]

i seen these in my local tack shop last week ... i was Not impressed at all the holes in them are huge !! i would not waste my money !

what i do use are these haynets , they are fantastic , and the only haynets my horse has never chewed through and the holes are very small , keeps her occupied and slows her down .

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[Bella]

I have to weigh and soak my hay for my good doer and I use the shires small holed haynets and double net.

I ordered 4 Elim-a-nets, the pony size ones as they had the smallest holes but I don't know if I'm all that impressed with them. The black cord that runs through the the net seems to be coming away, it may be that that the soaking is making this happen. It does seem to slow my mare's eating but I'm not sure I'll order any more.

[julz]

can you not cut thier hard feed and increase the hay?

IME the more you try to slow down their eating of hay the more stressy over food they become.... If you give them their hay in one normal haylage net, I think they will learn to regulate thier intake of the hay and not gorge... by making it harder for them to get the hay, you are only making them have more of a need for the food.

One way of slowing them down is to split the nets...

Do you hay from a round bale or square bales? If square, then split the amount you give ..say.. if you give 4 slices... split it into two nets.. two slices per net.. but leave the squares packed, ie dont shake them out... by doing this, this will slow them down, and having two nets in different area's of the box will make them move around more.

[Trouble]

Their hard feed is already just a token with supplements....I've always found the opposite, that slowing down the hay consumption makes them less stressy because they are kept busy!

I'm not talking obese native types her, Snip is WBx and Rhythm is ID, and neither is 'fat' just growing a belly. But we get very lush spring grass here and I like them to come out of winter on the thin side of perfect, not the fat side of it!

[lisap]

We've used small hole haynets as it reduces the amount of hay that falls on the floor and reduces waste, but we have noticed that some of the horses get quite aggressive with the haynets as they can't pull out enough each time for a big mouthful, and we are rethinking the use of these nets as a result, especially for those horses that are a bit food anxious. We'll either feed from the floor or go back to large holed haynets if any of the neds has to come in for a couple of hours.

[mandal]

Dec 31, 2010 10:31:18 GMT 1 Bella said:

I have to weigh and soak my hay for my good doer and I use the shires small holed haynets and double net.

Soaking is another option but with your knee it may not be.