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 large Hay Hutch. It was made from flexible plastic boards and had a lid.

The immediate success of the large prompted a request for a small 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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Design registered

Pl;ease note that Hay Hutches are an original invention with the design registered at the UK Intellectual Property Office. Any attempt to copy the design with view to sell will be met with legal action.

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