Hook Over Manger - Blue

Hook Over Manger – Blue

The blue hook over manger: a plastic feeder with a hooked back that drops over a gate, a fence rail or a stable door so a horse eats at head height instead of off the ground.

Blue is the easiest of the four colours to pick out across a field, which matters more than it sounds when you are collecting mangers in at dusk in November. It is sold under Animall's own label, and no manufacturer specification is published for it, so no capacity or dimensions are given below.

Performance & Benefits

• Hooks over a fence rail, gate or stable door without fixings or tools.
• Moulded plastic, so it rinses out and cannot rust.
• Lifts off in one movement for washing or for moving to another horse.
• Blue is easy to spot across a field when you are collecting feeders back in.
• Feeding at head height keeps the ration off the ground and out of the mud.

Suitable For

• Feeding at a field gate or over a post-and-rail fence.
• Stable doors, and temporary stabling at shows.
• Yards where mangers are set out around a field and gathered up afterwards.
• Horses that tip a bucket over as soon as it goes on the floor.
• Not a fixed stable manger — where the feeder never moves, a corner manger bolted to the wall is the better answer.

How to Use

• Hook it over a rail or door of a thickness it sits down onto squarely, and check it does not rock.
• Feed, then take it off — do not leave it hanging on the fence between meals.
• Wash it out with warm water after wet or soaked feeds and let it dry.
• Keep one per horse if you feed different rations.

Specification

• Colour: blue.
• Moulded plastic with an integral hook-over back.
• Barcode 5055517000550.
• Also stocked in black, pink and white.
• No manufacturer specification is published for this manger under any name, so capacity, dimensions and material grade are not stated here.

Care & Caution

• Take the manger off the fence once the feed has gone. Left hanging it becomes something to chew, and a horse can catch a headcollar or a rug strap on it.
• In a field with more than one horse loose, only feed from mangers if you can separate them — a feeder fixed at head height is something to be pushed into.