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Advice on choosing a slow hay feeder, pasture management tips, and more

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A Look at Slow Feeding

3 Simple Ways to Slow Down the Fast Eater

Slow Feeding Systems

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Ideal Feed Frequency for Horses

Free-Feeding Hay: When Will My Horse Slow Down?

Articles by Clair Thunes, PhD

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Advice on Choosing a Slow Feeder for Hay

Pasture Management for Better Forage

Tips for a Healthy Hay Loft

Learn about Equine Guelph’s education, research, and news.

What Our Users Say

So nice, we bought it twice! The Optimizer slow feeder.  With the money that we saved on our first purchase, we purchased a second feeder a year later, we monitored the wasted hay from ground feeding, hay huts and the Optimizer. Hands down the Optimizer saved us money compared to the other two hay feed methods.

If you are looking for a safe and reliable hay feeding solution, that will save you money, the Optimizer is the one for you.

- Tracy G, Serenity Stables

My horse is a 17 year old, off-the-track thoroughbred who lives outside all year. She's a hard keeper, but by getting her the right amount of hay, whenever she wanted it, it was the first winter she didn't need an extra blanket.

- Laura T

We use 3 OptiMizers for our herd of 8 horses. We fill them about once a day, even on the worst days, and have found ourselves going through a lot less hay. I'm confident our OptiMizers will pay for themselves in the amount of money we've saved in otherwise ruined hay.

- Heather M

I've always had slow feed bags. I needed five or six a day to feed three horses. Last winter with the OptiMizer I could slow feed two bales in one place. This saved me a ton of time not hvaing to refill bags everday, plus I noticed it was way cleaner in the spring.

- Amanda M