Stop Burning Money One Flake at a Time
Your horse is eating fine — but up to 30% of every bale you buy ends up in the bedding, the water bucket, or under a hoof. The Easy-Up® Corner Hay Feeder Frame With Net changes that with a 2" slow-feed net that mounts neatly in the corner, exactly where wasted hay used to pile up.
Every Morning You're Throwing Money Into the Shavings
Walk into your horse's stall first thing in the morning and you already know what you're going to find. The hay you tossed in the night before — the good second-cut orchard grass you paid a premium for — is scattered across the floor, wet from the waterer overflow, packed flat under your horse's feet, and mixed into the bedding until you can't tell shavings from roughage. You pull out the fork and try to salvage what you can, but most of it goes on the muck pile. You tell yourself it's just the way it is with stall horses. It isn't.
The cost is bigger than it looks. Hay waste in stalls isn't a minor inconvenience — it's a compounding problem that adds up to hundreds of dollars a year per horse. When horses eat from the floor, they pick up sand, bacteria, and mold spores along with every bite. They eat faster than their digestive systems can handle because there's nothing slowing them down. And the hay that doesn't get eaten — the stuff that gets wet and trampled — creates a breeding ground for mold and ammonia right where your horse stands for 16 hours a day. The waste you're scooping out every morning was working against your horse long before you opened the stall door.
The daily grind of floor feeding is also pure labor. You pitch an extra flake to compensate for what you know will be wasted. You pick through the stall an extra time to pull out wet hay before it molds into the bedding. You burn through hay bales faster than your budget planned and watch your bedding bill climb because wasted hay forces you to use more shavings to keep the stall floor manageable. You've tried feeding smaller amounts more often, but that means more trips to the barn at odd hours. You've tried hay bags, but the ones without a rigid frame collapse as they empty, sag to the floor, and create a rope tangle your horse can get a hoof through at 2 a.m.
So you've tried the informal fixes. Stacking flakes tight against the wall and hoping the horse doesn't pull them all down at once. Hay nets that hang from a single hook, spin when the horse works them, and drop to ankle height when they're half empty. Plastic wall-mount bags that crack at the bracket in February and dump a full flake onto the stall floor overnight. None of it sticks. The hay still ends up on the floor, you're still paying for feed that ends up in the muck pile, and the corner of the stall — the one place in every stall where a properly mounted feeder would fit perfectly — sits empty while you look for a better answer.
Hay Waste Isn't Just Expensive — It's Costing Your Horse's Health Too
The math gets ugly when you actually run it. If your horse wastes an average of one to two pounds of hay per feeding — a conservative estimate for a floor-fed stall horse — that's two to four pounds a day, or roughly 60 to 120 pounds a month going into the bedding instead of into your horse. At current hay prices, that's $30 to $80 per horse per month, every month, year-round. On a two or three horse farm, you're quietly burning $1,000 to $2,000 a year on feed that never gets eaten. That's a saddle. That's a set of tires on the trailer. That's the vet call you couldn't quite fit into the budget last spring.
The cost you can't put a number on is harder. Horses evolved to trickle-feed over 16 to 20 hours a day, moving slowly across pasture and taking small bites almost constantly. Floor feeding in a stall gives them a pile and no reason to slow down. They eat fast, swallow air, and spend the hours between feedings without roughage in the gut — which is when colic risk climbs, when ulcers develop, when the hindgut acidity that feeds behavioral problems starts to build. The cribber in stall four. The mare who pins her ears at feeding time. The horse who quits hard rides early and you've been calling it a fitness issue. Fast, unregulated eating and long forage gaps are connected to all of it, and you know it, and you still don't have a clean solution mounted on your wall.
You've already spent money trying to fix this. The $18 hay net lasted one winter before a horse put a hoof through the mesh and you threw it away rather than risk an injury. The plastic corner bag from the farm store cracked at the mount point in February and dropped a full flake onto the stall floor at 2 a.m. The premium slow-feeder bag you ordered online came with a frame so flimsy it bent when the horse leaned into it on day three. Every workaround costs money, takes time, and doesn't actually solve the problem — and meanwhile the hay waste continues, the bedding costs climb, and your vet keeps gently asking whether you've thought about adding more forage structure to your horses' day.
- ✗Hay soaked and trampled into bedding every morning
- ✗Horses eating too fast — risking colic and ulcers
- ✗Cheap hay nets that collapse, sag, or break within a season
- ✗Paying premium hay prices to fill the muck pile
The Easy-Up® Corner Hay Feeder: 78 Years of Stable Know-How, Mounted Right Where You Need It
The Easy-Up® Corner Hay Feeder Frame With Net solves a problem that's simple in principle and relentless in practice: horses waste hay because nothing is stopping them from pulling it all out at once. The feeder mounts securely in the corner of any stall, positions hay at the right height for natural feeding posture, and uses a pre-attached slow-feed net with 2" holes that meters every bite. Your horse eats — but at a pace that matches how a horse is actually built to eat. The hay stays in the net, not on the floor.
The mechanism is straightforward, and it's the reason this works when flimsier options don't. The rigid frame — not just the net alone — is what makes the difference. Without a frame, slow-feed nets collapse as they empty and end up on the floor, which defeats the whole purpose. The Easy-Up frame holds the net in position from full to empty. The corner mount uses both stall walls as structural support, distributing the load of an eager horse across the mounting hardware and both walls — not concentrating it on a single hook that eventually pulls out of the wood. Four standard flakes fill it, which covers a full day's forage for most horses without a midday refill.
The cascade of benefits starts with the obvious one: less hay on the floor. But it continues. Horses fed through a 2" slow-feed net spend more time chewing, produce more saliva, and buffer stomach acid more effectively — the same mechanism that reduces ulcer risk. The extended eating time fills hours between hay drops with productive chewing rather than boredom behaviors. Owners with anxious stall walkers and cribbers consistently report reduced incidence of those behaviors within the first few weeks. And because the hay stays in the net instead of the bedding, your shavings stay cleaner longer, stall-picking takes less time, and your bedding bill drops alongside your hay bill.
Schneiders has been selling horse people exactly what they need since 1948 — 78 years without a corporate parent telling us to cut corners on materials or inflate margins on warranty service. The Easy-Up Corner Hay Feeder carries a 5-year warranty and ships free on orders over $99 to all 50 states. If it doesn't hold up in your barn, we make it right. That's not a policy statement — that's how a family-owned business keeps the same customers for three generations.
Rigid Corner Frame
Stays in position from full to empty — no sagging, no dropping hay to the floor as the net lightens.
2" Slow-Feed Holes
Slows intake to a natural trickle-feed pace, reducing colic risk and keeping horses occupied between feedings.
Holds 4 Standard Flakes
Full day's forage in one fill — no midday refill trip for most horses, corner-mounted for maximum space efficiency.
5-Year Warranty
Schneiders backs every Easy-Up feeder for five years. Family-owned since 1948 — we stand behind what we sell.
What Riders Are Saying
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"My OTTB mare Penny used to drag half a flake off the floor every night. I'd find it soaked in water or packed flat under her feet by morning. Three weeks in with the Easy-Up corner feeder and I'm going through a full bale less per month. She slows down, chews better, and I'm not picking wet hay out of the waterer anymore. Best $99 I've spent on her stall setup in years."
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"I barrel race three horses and feed in temporary stalls at a lot of shows. I used to just toss hay in a corner and deal with the mess. Mounted the Easy-Up at home for my main horse Diesel and it's become the model for all three stalls. He eats slower, isn't crampy on the road anymore, and I'm not hauling as much hay in the trailer. The net stayed tight through a whole show season — no sagging, no holes."
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"I manage 14 lesson horses and hay cost is my single biggest variable expense. After mounting Easy-Up feeders in six of the problem stalls — the ones with the heavy wasters — we saw the difference on our next hay order. The slow-feed holes also calmed down two of the anxious mares who used to inhale their feed and get gassy. Vet noticed the difference at the next farm call without me saying a word."
"How We Stack Up
| Feature | Schneiders Easy-Up® Corner Hay Feeder Frame With Net | Hay Chix Corner Net | Tough-1 Corner Hay Bag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rigid support frame included | ✅ | ❌ | ⚠️ |
| Pre-attached slow-feed net | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
| 2" slow-feed mesh openings | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
| Corner dual-wall mount | ✅ | ⚠️ | ❌ |
| Holds 4+ standard flakes | ✅ | ⚠️ | ⚠️ |
| 5-year product warranty | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Net stays rigid when half-empty | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Free shipping over $99 | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Family-owned US retailer | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Ships to all 50 states | ✅ | ✅ | ⚠️ |
Built for Real Barn Life, Not Just a Product Photo
The Easy-Up Corner Hay Feeder Frame With Net is designed around how stalls actually work, not how they look in a catalog. The corner mount uses both stall walls for support, distributing the load of an eager horse far more effectively than a single-point hook mount. Installation is straightforward: mount the frame brackets to the corner studs, hang the pre-attached net, fill it, and you're done. No special tools, no contractor, no half-day project. Most owners have it up in under 30 minutes on the first try, and it goes into the same corner where hay used to pile up and get wasted.
The net is pre-attached to the frame, which matters more than it sounds. With loose hay nets, you're re-threading or re-tying the net to the frame every time you fill it — which adds friction to a chore you're doing twice a day, every day, for the life of the feeder. With the Easy-Up, you open the net, load the flakes, and close it. The 2" mesh openings are sized to slow a horse without frustrating one — large enough that horses accept the feeder immediately rather than refusing it, and small enough that hay comes out one bite at a time instead of in fistfuls. The Easy-Up private label is a Schneiders original, engineered for the kinds of horses and the kinds of barns our customers actually have.
- ✓Corner dual-wall mount distributes load — no single hook failure point
- ✓Pre-attached slow-feed net — no re-threading at every fill
- ✓2" mesh openings — horse-accepted, waste-reducing, digestion-friendly
- ✓Holds 4 standard flakes — one fill covers a full day for most horses
- ✓5-year warranty, ships free on orders over $99 to all 50 states
What You Get
