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Stop Watching Your Horse's Hay End Up on the Floor
The Easy-Up® Safety First Hay Rack keeps hay up off the bedding, slows how fast your horse pulls each bite, and gives every flake a defined place — starting at $129.99 with free shipping on orders $99+.
The Problem
Every Flake on the Floor Is Money Gone — and a Health Risk
It's just after morning feed, and you're walking back down the barn aisle with a fork in one hand and an empty hay cart behind you. The flakes you put in your horse's stall looked generous an hour ago. Now part of that hay is scattered across the bedding, pressed under a hoof, or mixed into the damp edge of the stall. You can still see good stems in the mess, but separating usable hay from shavings and soiled bedding is no longer practical.
It's a familiar routine in a lot of barns. Your horse pulls hay from the pile, steps through it, noses it around, and leaves pieces where they become part of the next cleaning. Hay on the floor mixes with whatever else is on the floor. Even when your horse eventually cleans up most of a pile, you have less control over how much stays clean and how much you carry back out.
That matters when hay is a major part of your horse's daily ration and one of your barn's recurring expenses. You measure flakes, plan deliveries, stack bales, and try to keep feeding consistent. Then some of what you carried in leaves in the manure cart. The loss never looks dramatic at a single feeding, but the same scattered handfuls show up morning after morning, stall after stall.
The problem is not that you are careless with hay or that your horse is unusually messy. A loose pile has no structure to keep forage gathered in one place. Without a fixture, the stall floor becomes the feeder, the catch area, and eventually the disposal pile all at once.
It's a familiar routine in a lot of barns. Your horse pulls hay from the pile, steps through it, noses it around, and leaves pieces where they become part of the next cleaning. Hay on the floor mixes with whatever else is on the floor. Even when your horse eventually cleans up most of a pile, you have less control over how much stays clean and how much you carry back out.
That matters when hay is a major part of your horse's daily ration and one of your barn's recurring expenses. You measure flakes, plan deliveries, stack bales, and try to keep feeding consistent. Then some of what you carried in leaves in the manure cart. The loss never looks dramatic at a single feeding, but the same scattered handfuls show up morning after morning, stall after stall.
The problem is not that you are careless with hay or that your horse is unusually messy. A loose pile has no structure to keep forage gathered in one place. Without a fixture, the stall floor becomes the feeder, the catch area, and eventually the disposal pile all at once.
Why It Keeps Happening
Hay on the Floor Picks Up Whatever Else Is Down There
The problem isn’t you, and it isn’t your horse. A loose floor pile has no boundary between fresh forage and the rest of the stall. Once your horse noses, paws, or walks through it, usable hay can spread into bedding and manure. By the time you return with a fork, the clean portion and the discard pile may look almost identical.
The usual workarounds do not always address that basic lack of containment. Adding another flake gives your horse more hay, but it also puts more material within reach of hooves and bedding. Tucking the pile into a corner can gather it temporarily, yet the corner still has no frame to hold the hay in place. A conventional rack may elevate the forage, but rack dimensions, opening size, construction, and mounting setup vary widely. Those observable details matter because every stall, feeding amount, and horse is different.
When the setup does not match the stall, the consequences repeat through the entire barn routine. You carry in measured hay, then remove part of it with the next cleaning. You spend extra time sorting through bedding, guessing whether scattered stems are fresh enough to leave behind, and sweeping up material that was meant to be feed. If you manage several stalls, a small inefficiency becomes another recurring chore multiplied across every morning and evening feeding.
That leaves you in an awkward cycle: keep using the floor and accept the mixing, or choose a fixture without knowing whether its size, openings, construction, and capacity fit your needs. The answer is not a dramatic promise about how your horse will eat. It is a clearly specified place for the hay—one you can measure against your wall, your usual flakes, and your daily barn routine before you install it.
The usual workarounds do not always address that basic lack of containment. Adding another flake gives your horse more hay, but it also puts more material within reach of hooves and bedding. Tucking the pile into a corner can gather it temporarily, yet the corner still has no frame to hold the hay in place. A conventional rack may elevate the forage, but rack dimensions, opening size, construction, and mounting setup vary widely. Those observable details matter because every stall, feeding amount, and horse is different.
When the setup does not match the stall, the consequences repeat through the entire barn routine. You carry in measured hay, then remove part of it with the next cleaning. You spend extra time sorting through bedding, guessing whether scattered stems are fresh enough to leave behind, and sweeping up material that was meant to be feed. If you manage several stalls, a small inefficiency becomes another recurring chore multiplied across every morning and evening feeding.
That leaves you in an awkward cycle: keep using the floor and accept the mixing, or choose a fixture without knowing whether its size, openings, construction, and capacity fit your needs. The answer is not a dramatic promise about how your horse will eat. It is a clearly specified place for the hay—one you can measure against your wall, your usual flakes, and your daily barn routine before you install it.
- ✗Hay pushed into bedding and manure before your horse finishes it
- ✗Flakes trampled underfoot and swept out with the shavings
- ✗A flake pulled apart in one go instead of eaten at a steady pace
- ✗Hay you paid for leaving the barn in the manure cart
The Solution
The Easy-Up® Hay Rack: Mounted, Spaced, and Backed for Five Years
The Easy-Up® Safety First Hay Rack gives your horse's hay a defined, wall-mounted place instead of leaving it loose in the bedding. The frame is rounded 1-inch tubular steel, and the bars are set 2½ inches apart — narrow enough that your horse works for each bite instead of pulling a flake apart in one go.
Two sizes let you match the rack to the wall you have. The standard measures 23 inches high by 25 inches wide by 13½ inches deep. The large measures 27 inches high by 27 inches wide by 16 inches deep. Measure the space beside your buckets, doors, and partitions before you order, and pick the size that fits the way you actually feed.
Assembly is straightforward, but mounting is worth doing carefully. Choose a location and a mounting method suited to your stall wall and to your horse's size and habits, then check the fasteners the way you'd check anything your horse leans on.
Once it's up, the hay sits above the bedding inside a fixed footprint. For your horse, forage shows up in the same place every time. For you, it means loading a known number of flakes, seeing what's left at a glance, and pitching out less hay simply because it ended up in the shavings.
The Easy-Up® Safety First Hay Rack is backed by a five-year warranty. A practical barn upgrade from a family business trusted since 1948.
Two sizes let you match the rack to the wall you have. The standard measures 23 inches high by 25 inches wide by 13½ inches deep. The large measures 27 inches high by 27 inches wide by 16 inches deep. Measure the space beside your buckets, doors, and partitions before you order, and pick the size that fits the way you actually feed.
Assembly is straightforward, but mounting is worth doing carefully. Choose a location and a mounting method suited to your stall wall and to your horse's size and habits, then check the fasteners the way you'd check anything your horse leans on.
Once it's up, the hay sits above the bedding inside a fixed footprint. For your horse, forage shows up in the same place every time. For you, it means loading a known number of flakes, seeing what's left at a glance, and pitching out less hay simply because it ended up in the shavings.
The Easy-Up® Safety First Hay Rack is backed by a five-year warranty. A practical barn upgrade from a family business trusted since 1948.
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Cuts Hay Waste
Keeps hay elevated and off the stall floor — no more trampled, soiled flakes.
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A Slower, More Natural Pace
2½" bar spacing means your horse works for each bite instead of pulling a flake apart in one go.
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5-Year Warranty
Rounded 1-inch tubular steel framing, backed by a five-year warranty on a fixture that gets used twice a day.
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Simple to Mount
Easy assembly in two size options — standard and large — to fit your stall.
Quick self-check
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What Riders Are Saying
★★★★★
"These hay racks are wonderful! They're easy to mount, hold a lot of hay and are very sturdy. This is the 3rd one I've purchased!"
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"I'm really enjoying my new Easy-Up Safety First Large Hay Rack. Built solid and has a 3-inch bar width which my horse likes. Thank you Schneiders!"
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"Excellent quality and assembly was very simple. Product is exactly as described and works great."
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Side by Side
How the Easy-Up® Stacks Up
These wall-mounted hay racks differ in size, construction, capacity, assembly, and published warranty coverage. “Not listed” means the cited product source did not publish that detail as of the date below; no missing specification has been inferred.
| Feature | Schneiders Easy-Up® Safety First Hay Rack | Behlen Country StallMate Wall Feeder | Scenic Road Wall Hay Rack for Horses |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mounting format | Flat-wall mount with open-top loading | Wall mount with pre-drilled mounting holes | Flat-wall mount; mounting hardware not included |
| Published frame and bar construction | Rounded 1-inch tubular-steel frame with 9/16-inch tubular vertical bars | Fully welded construction with 3/8-inch smooth bars | Welded 1/2-inch powder-coated American steel rods |
| Published size options | Two sizes: Standard and Large | One size | One size on the cited product page |
| Overall dimensions | Standard: 23 in H × 25 in W × 13.5 in D; Large: 27 in H × 27 in W × 16 in D | 27 in H × 33 in L × 13 in W | 25 in H × 36 in W × 12 in D |
| Published hay capacity | Standard: 2–3 flakes; Large: up to 4 flakes | Not listed | Up to 1/2 bale |
| Published bar spacing | 2.5 inches | Not listed | Not listed |
| Assembly and hardware details | Ships for assembly; lower framing attaches with included screws | Fully welded; pre-drilled holes provided for installation | Welded construction; mounting hardware not included |
| Published warranty | 5-year warranty against breakage | 1-year limited warranty under Behlen Country’s general product warranty | Not listed |
What Makes This Hay Rack Different
Most hay racks are an afterthought — wire bent into a shape and bolted to a wall. The Easy-Up® Safety First Hay Rack was designed with your horse's wellbeing as the starting point. The 2½" bar spacing is tight enough to slow feeding without being so narrow your horse has to fight for every bite. The rounded 1" tubular steel frame eliminates sharp edges that can snag a halter or scrape a muzzle. Assembly is straightforward, and the wall-mount design keeps hay where it belongs — up off the shavings, out of the dust zone, and positioned where natural head-down feeding can still happen comfortably.
At $129.99 for the standard and $139.99 for the large — down from a compare price of $199.99 — this is one of the more straightforward barn upgrades you can make. Backed by a 5-year warranty from a family-owned business trusted since 1948.
At $129.99 for the standard and $139.99 for the large — down from a compare price of $199.99 — this is one of the more straightforward barn upgrades you can make. Backed by a 5-year warranty from a family-owned business trusted since 1948.
- ✓Rounded 1" tubular steel — no sharp edges (replace with product photo)
- ✓2½" bar spacing for natural slow feeding (replace with product photo)
- ✓Standard 23"H × 25"W × 13½"D or Large 27"H × 27"W × 16"D (replace with product photo)
- ✓Wall-mount design keeps hay elevated, clean, and dust-free (replace with product photo)
- ✓5-Year warranty — a one-time barn investment (replace with product photo)
A Cleaner Stall, a Calmer Horse, Less Wasted Hay
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The Takeaway
A wall-mounted hay rack that pays for itself in saved hay and healthier feeding.
The Easy-Up® Safety First Hay Rack removes floor feeding from your barn routine — protecting your horse from dust-related health risks and cutting down on wasted hay every single day. At $129.99–$139.99 with a 5-year warranty, it's one of the easier calls you'll make this barn season.
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Give Your Horse a Cleaner Feed — Starting at $129.99
Starting at $129.99, the Easy-Up® Safety First Hay Rack ships free on orders over $99. Available in standard and large. Backed by our Perfect Fit Guarantee and a five-year warranty, from a family business trusted since 1948.
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