The Portable Hay Soaker on Castors, we have have found it one of the best, cost effective and most sizeable portable hay soakers on the UK market. Soaking hay renders it more suitable for over-weight horses, those that have Equine Metabolic Syndrome, especially those who have or are recovering from laminitis. But it's not just the sugar content that you want to reduce, soaking also removes some of the protein, but that takes longer to leach out. I then bought a large (bath shaped) plastic tub, sort of long and thin with nice shallow sides but have to fill this to the top to soak the full length of the hay sections and then its pretty heavy to lift up one end to pour off excess water. You do need to renew the water for each new load of hay to avoid fermentation starting especially in warmer weather.

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If your stables have an overhang with exposed beams, you can easily erect an actual pulley system to make it even easier. Pitchfork underneath, lever the hay up, resting the fork against the rim of the tub to let the excess water drain out. The fact that the rope is going through the ring gives you a primitive pulley system so it isn't a strain on the back. However, the tap at the bottom of the butt doesn't appear to work properly anyway because I put my hay in, then put the hosepipe in and look down and all the water is coming out of the tap! A short time before you are ready to feed, open the bung or tap in the bin and let the water flow out.Steaming is wonderful if you need to reduce dust and spores - and produces a much more palatable product for the horse as well as leaving less mess everywhere - but unfortunately it doesn't reduce the nutrient value of the hay, which is what some of us need to do.

If it's too heavy - just make sure not to put too many slices in and just give more haynets of 2 slices would make it much easier to haul out the water.Now position the dustbin ( you may need to use three or four bricks ) above the drain, and fit a tie ring above it, at height you can reach reasonably easily.