A Comparison of Three Conventional Horse Feeders with the Pre-Vent Feeder

This study compared a feeder with molded cups on the bottom (Pre-Vent feeder) with a commonly used rubber tub and hanging bucket feeder to determine differences in time spent eating and feed wastage. Nine Quarter Horse geldings were fed a 12% crude protein pellet diet at 0.75% body weight twice dail...

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Published in:Journal of equine veterinary science 2012-04, Vol.32 (4), p.252-255
Main Authors: Carter, Mark J., Friend, Ted H., Coverdale, Josie, Garey, Shannon M., Adams, Amber L., Terrill, Cooper L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
body weight
crude protein
diet
Feeder
geldings
Horse
ingestion
Pre-Vent
Quarter Horse
rubber
Time Eating
Waste
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Summary:This study compared a feeder with molded cups on the bottom (Pre-Vent feeder) with a commonly used rubber tub and hanging bucket feeder to determine differences in time spent eating and feed wastage. Nine Quarter Horse geldings were fed a 12% crude protein pellet diet at 0.75% body weight twice daily from one of the three feeders twice daily for 3 days, and then switched to the next feeder, following a 3 × 3 replicated Latin square design (n = 9). The horses spent more time eating from the cup feeders (31.15 ± 1.43 minutes) than from bucket (19.39 ± 0.42 minutes) and tub (18.87 ± 0.49 minutes, P 
ISSN:0737-0806
1542-7412
DOI:10.1016/j.jevs.2011.09.073