The idea

Gilly Metherell (right) has been looking after horses since she was five. Feeding hay in fields or in the stable takes up a lot of time and can be messy and wasteful. She figured that you could contain hay in a container made of old tyres!

Her husband and business partner, Richard Guy (right, below), developed the idea into a rather farm built but very workable field scale "Maxi" Hay Hutch. It was made from flexible plastic boards and had a lid.

The immediate success of the maxi prompted a request for a "Mini" Hay Hutch to go inside stables.

Immediate benefits

Once in use, the benefits of these prototypes became immediatlely obvious:

# No more hay getting wet in the field and then having to pick it up or watch it get trodden into the ground and kill the grass underneath.

# No waste.

# Ad lib feeding becomes possible as the fodder stays dry.

# Filling the Hay Hutch right up means less feeding trips and less labour.

# Your sward or yard substrate are protected from damage caused by a fixed feeder or rotting hay on the ground.

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