06/18/2025
🐎 Anyone who has tried our hay nets knows just how beneficial they can be in the management of your horses, ponies, and livestock. 🐎 There are numerous advantages to adopting a slow-feeding approach. However, have you contemplated the sheer multitude of these benefits?
We have identified at least 13 major benefits to slow feeding, some of which you might not be aware of!
Please let us know if you have discovered other benefits that we don't have listed here. 😉
🐎 Simulates grazing for physical and mental health - horses are supposed to eat 16-20 hours a day.
Most of us know that horses are supposed to eat 16 to 20 hours a day for both their physical and mental well-being. Access to fibre is just so critical for their digestive health, whether it be a horse, cow, sheep or any livestock.
🐴 There are so many negative health effects from not eating enough fibre and using slow-feed hay nets enables you to provide access to fibre for whatever period you would like. 🐴 Be that 24/7 such as when you are using our Round Bale or Large Export Square (8x3x4 / 8x4x4) hay nets, or even our Extra Large (two small bales) or Large (one full small bale) hay nets that take a full small bale. Or if you want to provide shorter periods of hay access and a more constant feeding schedule, then you can use our Extra Small, Small, and Medium hay nets.
Starvation is one of the worst things to do when managing any laminitic, EMS, IR or any metabolic suffering horse. Constant stress causes cortisol to be constantly released which inhibits the coffin bone/hoof wall connection and therefore delays healing in the hoof. 🐎
