Worried about bringing your horse in for Bonfire Night? ๐
Trickle Nets are a great way of keeping your horse entertained, and the slow feeding means their hay lasts longer!
Order now and check Express Delivery at Checkout to get yours shipped next day!
Video of the fabulous Jazzy who loves her Trickle Net ๐๐ฆ
We had to share this. Did you know Australia is short of hay? It's a major problem over there, but clever horse owners like Kerry Hazel come to Trickle Net. What can you replace hay with? Yes, chaff. Who sells the best and only slow feeder for chaff? Yes, we do! ๐
Here's Splash with his Shake & Graze nets, perfectly demonstrating how very useful they are for horses who may need chaff as a hay replacer. Splash you're adorable, and thanks to Kerry for allowing us to share โค๏ธ
How tough is a Trickle Net?
Here's a throwback to our visit to Gawsworth Track Livery last year.
Finding Trickle Nets in bushes? What a lovely surprise ๐
#buy the best #healthyhorses #buywisr
How long do you think it would take a food focused horse to work out the Shake & Graze Chaff Net?
Well, here's our beautiful Bessie to show you!
Not only is this brilliant enrichment, it's also a fantastic way to prolong your horses forage ration by replacing some of that dreaded soaked hay with chaff. It's also really good fun ๐
Why is it so useful to replace some of your hay ration with chaff?
Well, because the bag will tell you exactly what you're feeding, but the bale doesn't. That's incredibly useful for the health of our horses.
A recent study by students at NTU Brackenhurst found that the use of the Shake & Graze Net did not increase the heart rate. Why is this important?
Because this suggests that Enrichment is NOT Frustration. Horses can learn new skills, and in the case of Trickle Nets, that new skill is foraging. It's natural to them, but some require a little time.
We need to feed horses as horses! Kick the bucket feeds. We are working towards HUGE steps forward in more species appropriate feeding and management. Here at Trickle Net we believe it's fundamental in turning around the welfare crisis in Equine obesity and association inflammatory conditions such as laminitis.
Who would have thought you could regulate chaff with a net!? We did..... now what's next? ๐ค
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Frustration with Trickle Nets?
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We should all understand that feeding changes must be introduced gradually to our horses. BUT - this isn't restricted to what you put in a bucket. ๐๐ฃ ๐๐๐๐ฉ, ๐๐ฉ'๐จ ๐๐จ ๐ข๐ช๐๐ ๐๐๐ค๐ช๐ฉ ๐๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ค๐ช ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐จ ๐๐ฉ ๐๐จ ๐๐๐ผ๐ ๐ฎ๐ค๐ช ๐๐๐๐.
Sometimes customers tell us their horse can't get on with a Trickle Net. They won't even try. They stand and sulk, They haven't eaten anything. Most of the time, these customers have not given their horses a chance. Some horses need a couple of weeks, some just a couple of minutes!
This is really important - please absorb this. A Trickle Net is very different to your horse, and it's not a 'normal' small hole net. They are very specifically designed to do an important job.
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We recommend you introduce a Trickle Net beside the net or method your horse is used to. Try 50/50 - share the quantity betweeen the two. As your horse will have eaten forage from his usual net before tackling the Trickle Net, he/she will be more relaxed when he tries to negotiate the small holes. This alone will reduce initial frustration and help them learn to use the Trickle Net. When your horse can almost finish the Trickle Net, you can take the older method away, and rest easy as your horse now has constant controlled forage. Just as nature intended.
If your horse is struggling to master the technique, we have some top tips and lots of info on the website. Including a blog full of advice from real customers who have been there themselves, and successfully weaned their horses
Yasmin Ingham talks about Trickle Nets to prevent Ulcers in her horses
We are so excited to support Yasmin Ingham Eventing this season. With Yasmins insane talent, and some incredibly exciting horses, who knows how far they can go?! ๐ค ๐๐ฅ๐ ๐
Trickle Net Mini - fill it, weigh it, tie it up!
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It's been an ongoing battle of ours for years. With our products being so tough and long lasting, we rank pretty high on sustainability there. Though packaging our products has been a challenge. Over the years we have tried shrink wrap (terrible waste single use and no strength) bespoke cardboard boxes (very expensive and takes up too much space) and now we use the PVC zip bags. We hope that customers are re using these bags as they are not single use. However some feedback suggests they are unnecessary, and one customer even sent hers back. - Fair enough.
Our larger products (eg. Round Bale Net) certainly do need the carry bag. Though we are toying with the idea of supplying our Original and Mini nets without packaging, just tied up with twine and a label. What do you think?
Firstly, this would mean we can avoid any price rises for the foreseeable.
As founder and designer at Trickle Net, I always want to bring you the very best for your horses. I see this as a bigger opportunity to add value for our customers.
What if we get rid of the PVC bags on the smaller products. (Our Softee Nets are already package free) and re vamp the product info to build a booklet label which includes the usual information AND;
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a BCS chart (body condition score) with guidance on how to accurately body/fat score your horse.
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Information on early detection of laminitis,
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Information on forage feeding and guidance on amounts required
Anything else you can think of?
What do you think? Yes? No? Why?
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To our wonderful customers, your horses, ponies and all of your families.
From all at Trickle Net.
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Oh, we love this!! How many times have you been through this cycle?
This great little video is a shared creative collaboration between Sally, who came up with the concept, and our talented intern, Ben, who brought it to life with animation.
Can you relate to this?
Please give it a share of you like it.
Gawsworth Track Livery University of Lincoln @horseweighbridgenortheast Equinutrition Sharon Hunt Equestrian Yasmin Ingham Eventing British Equestrian Trade Association (BETA) Dengie Horse Feeds
Are you weighing your hay? (Or haylage)
It's a great way to save money, but also regularly weighing your horses forage ration helps you learn what the right amount looks and feels like.
We can feed the right amount at the correct rate, with a Trickle Net.
For the health and happiness of your horse, and the benefit of your pocket!
We sell two types of scales on our website to help with this. The digital version is really easy to use, as shown in this video.
#healthyhorses #fitnotfat #beatlaminitis #teamtricklenet #equinehealth #equinenutrition
We had such a great time in Summer meeting the horses at Gawsworth Track Livery, and hearing about how Trickle Nets fit in perfectly with their natural lifestyle roaming the track. This method of keeping horses is far more natural, and brings a host of benefits too large to write about here. The wonderful one and only Bethan Thornicroft explains perfectly how the track works, why it works and what are the obvious benefits to any horse kept this way. She also explains what role Trickle Nets play in track life, and why she thinks they rule! (They really do ๐)
Grab a brew, put your feet up and have a watch.....
I must also say, the rehab work these guys do is re-writing the traditional rule book on laminitic rehab. Check out some of their success stories!
Gawsworth Track Livery #healthyhorses #fitnotfat #secondtoasack #equinewelfare #beatlaminitis
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