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Stop Wasting Hay — And Let Your Horse Eat the Way They're Built To
The Easy-Up® Slow Feed Corner Floor Hay Rack sits at ground level with 2.5" slow-feed spacing on both the front panel and the lid, so hay stays contained and your horse eats in a lower, more natural position. Backed by the 5-Year Easy-Up® Warranty.
The Problem
Your Horse Is Eating Too Fast — And Paying for It
It is the end of evening chores, and you have just forked fresh hay into your horse’s stall. Before you finish filling water buckets, your horse has pulled a loose pile across the bedding. By morning, part of that hay may be mixed with shavings, manure, or damp spots where neither you nor your horse wants it. You bought good forage to feed your horse—not to carry it back out with the dirty bedding.
Every horse owner who manages stalled feeding knows the routine. Loose hay is easy to serve, but it is also easy for your horse to scatter, stand on, and push around the stall. A conventional elevated rack may contain it, yet it changes where your horse reaches to eat. A small hay bag can slow access, but it may require frequent filling and extra handling during an already crowded chore schedule. You are left balancing containment, feeding position, capacity, and convenience.
That balance affects more than the appearance of a clean stall. Wasted hay means buying forage your horse never consumes, using additional bedding around the feeding area, and spending more time separating clean stems from stall debris. If your horse finishes a small serving quickly, you may also find yourself planning another trip down the barn aisle. Multiply that routine across several stalls, bad-weather days, or an entire winter, and a simple feeding problem becomes a persistent drain on your hay budget and your time.
The frustrating part is that none of this means you are feeding carelessly. The setup simply gives your horse too many opportunities to pull hay out, spread it around, or consume the accessible portion before you intended. What is missing is a feeder designed to keep a useful quantity contained at floor level while controlling access from the first bite to the last.
Every horse owner who manages stalled feeding knows the routine. Loose hay is easy to serve, but it is also easy for your horse to scatter, stand on, and push around the stall. A conventional elevated rack may contain it, yet it changes where your horse reaches to eat. A small hay bag can slow access, but it may require frequent filling and extra handling during an already crowded chore schedule. You are left balancing containment, feeding position, capacity, and convenience.
That balance affects more than the appearance of a clean stall. Wasted hay means buying forage your horse never consumes, using additional bedding around the feeding area, and spending more time separating clean stems from stall debris. If your horse finishes a small serving quickly, you may also find yourself planning another trip down the barn aisle. Multiply that routine across several stalls, bad-weather days, or an entire winter, and a simple feeding problem becomes a persistent drain on your hay budget and your time.
The frustrating part is that none of this means you are feeding carelessly. The setup simply gives your horse too many opportunities to pull hay out, spread it around, or consume the accessible portion before you intended. What is missing is a feeder designed to keep a useful quantity contained at floor level while controlling access from the first bite to the last.
Why It Keeps Happening
Every Feeding Setup Solves One Problem and Creates Another
The problem is not you, and it is not your horse. Your horse is doing what comes naturally: sorting through forage, pulling out preferred stems, and moving while eating. The real issue is a feeding setup that cannot contain that normal behavior without creating another chore or compromise somewhere else in the stall.
Loose floor feeding offers a low eating position, but nothing keeps the hay in one clean, defined space. Open racks improve containment, yet unrestricted access can still let your horse lift and pull out large mouthfuls. Small-hole bags control access differently, but they must be filled, lifted, secured, and checked. Depending on the design and placement, a bag may also swing or encourage your horse to reach and twist while extracting hay. Each option solves one part of the problem while leaving another part for you to manage.
That is how the cycle keeps repeating. You sweep scattered hay back into a pile, discard what has become soiled, and add another flake because you cannot tell how much was actually eaten. On cold nights or during bad weather, you may return to the barn simply because the original feeder did not hold enough for your schedule. If you manage multiple stalls, every extra refill, knot, clip, and cleanup step compounds. The feeder may have looked economical, but the daily process still costs hay, bedding, and time.
Eventually, you are trapped between choices that all feel incomplete: leave hay loose and accept the mess, hang it higher than you prefer, use a smaller feeder that needs repeated attention, or keep replacing forage your horse has scattered. You should not have to choose between a more natural floor-level setup, slower access, useful capacity, and a cleaner stall corner. A well-designed feeder should address those needs together.
Loose floor feeding offers a low eating position, but nothing keeps the hay in one clean, defined space. Open racks improve containment, yet unrestricted access can still let your horse lift and pull out large mouthfuls. Small-hole bags control access differently, but they must be filled, lifted, secured, and checked. Depending on the design and placement, a bag may also swing or encourage your horse to reach and twist while extracting hay. Each option solves one part of the problem while leaving another part for you to manage.
That is how the cycle keeps repeating. You sweep scattered hay back into a pile, discard what has become soiled, and add another flake because you cannot tell how much was actually eaten. On cold nights or during bad weather, you may return to the barn simply because the original feeder did not hold enough for your schedule. If you manage multiple stalls, every extra refill, knot, clip, and cleanup step compounds. The feeder may have looked economical, but the daily process still costs hay, bedding, and time.
Eventually, you are trapped between choices that all feel incomplete: leave hay loose and accept the mess, hang it higher than you prefer, use a smaller feeder that needs repeated attention, or keep replacing forage your horse has scattered. You should not have to choose between a more natural floor-level setup, slower access, useful capacity, and a cleaner stall corner. A well-designed feeder should address those needs together.
- ✗Hay scattered and soiled across the stall floor — forage you paid for, swept out with the bedding
- ✗Head-up feeders that ask your horse to eat in a position they'd never choose in a field
- ✗A flake gone in twenty minutes, then hours with nothing in front of them
- ✗Hay bags to stuff, tie, untie, and repair — every single feeding
The Solution
Ground-Level. Slow-Feed. Backed for Five Years.
The Easy-Up® Slow Feed Corner Floor Hay Rack is built to address the whole feeding setup rather than trading one problem for another. It mounts in a stall corner and is designed for ground-level use, giving your horse access from a lowered feeding position while keeping hay inside a defined area. The front panel and top lid use 2.5-inch slow-feed spacing. Instead of leaving the full pile open, those barriers control how your horse reaches the forage from both the front and the top.
The lid is not simply a fixed cover. It drops farther into the rack as your horse eats, maintaining access to the hay underneath as the quantity decreases. Left and right stand-up bars help prevent the lid from tilting over, and the bars are plastic capped. For a horse whose behavior makes the exposed stabilizing-rod area a concern, the product instructions recommend placing a slit tennis ball over the top as an added precaution. That practical note lets you evaluate the installation for your individual horse rather than assuming every stall and temperament are identical.
Capacity is another part of the design. The rack is listed to hold 6–8 flakes of hay, depending on flake size, while still functioning with as little as one flake. Its front panel measures 30 inches high by 42½ inches wide, and the lid measures 27½ by 27½ inches. Because it uses the stall corner, it contains the forage without requiring a freestanding bin in the middle of your horse’s space. The package includes assembly and mounting hardware; setup involves joining the front panels, adding the flat floor plate and stabilizing rods, and securing the unit to the stall corner.
For your horse, the result is a contained supply that remains reachable as the lid lowers, with access moderated by the stated spacing. For you, it means fewer loose piles to reorganize, room for a larger serving, and a permanent feeder that does not need to be tied and untied at every filling. The Easy-Up® 5-Year Warranty provides a defined term of coverage behind the rack. It is a practical, horse-first approach from a family business trusted since 1948.
The lid is not simply a fixed cover. It drops farther into the rack as your horse eats, maintaining access to the hay underneath as the quantity decreases. Left and right stand-up bars help prevent the lid from tilting over, and the bars are plastic capped. For a horse whose behavior makes the exposed stabilizing-rod area a concern, the product instructions recommend placing a slit tennis ball over the top as an added precaution. That practical note lets you evaluate the installation for your individual horse rather than assuming every stall and temperament are identical.
Capacity is another part of the design. The rack is listed to hold 6–8 flakes of hay, depending on flake size, while still functioning with as little as one flake. Its front panel measures 30 inches high by 42½ inches wide, and the lid measures 27½ by 27½ inches. Because it uses the stall corner, it contains the forage without requiring a freestanding bin in the middle of your horse’s space. The package includes assembly and mounting hardware; setup involves joining the front panels, adding the flat floor plate and stabilizing rods, and securing the unit to the stall corner.
For your horse, the result is a contained supply that remains reachable as the lid lowers, with access moderated by the stated spacing. For you, it means fewer loose piles to reorganize, room for a larger serving, and a permanent feeder that does not need to be tied and untied at every filling. The Easy-Up® 5-Year Warranty provides a defined term of coverage behind the rack. It is a practical, horse-first approach from a family business trusted since 1948.
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Natural Grazing Position
Designed for ground-level use, so your horse eats in the lower, more natural position instead of reaching up into a wall rack.
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Slower, Healthier Consumption
2.5" slow-feed spacing on both the front panel and the lid means your horse works for each bite instead of finishing a flake in twenty minutes.
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Large Capacity, Less Refilling
Holds 6–8 flakes, so an evening fill lasts the night without a second trip down the aisle.
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5-Year Easy-Up® Warranty
Five years of Easy-Up® warranty coverage on a feeder that lives in the stall corner and gets used twice a day.
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What Riders Are Saying
★★★★★
"The way he stretches down to eat his hay now he has gotten a clean bill of health from his bodyworker and chiropractor! Made such a difference!"
✓ Verified Buyer
★★★★★
"These have been some of the best hay feeders we have ever had! They hold enough hay to last all night when horses have to stay in for bad weather. We love that they slow the pace of their eating, keep the hay contained, and hold enough for us to be able to feed truly free choice hay!"
✓ Verified Buyer
★★★★★
"These are beautiful and match the black metal touches in our barn. However it is impossible to attach these to the stalls due to a metal strip in our stalls. It would be great to have instructions and some detail prior to ordering. They are expensive to send back so we will have a carpenter build a platform to allow us to use."
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Side by Side
A Closer Look at Three Floor-Level Slow Feeders
These products all contain forage near floor level, but their form, feeding mechanism, capacity, dimensions, installation, and published warranty terms differ. “Not listed” means the cited manufacturer page did not publish that specification as of the date below.
| Feature | Schneiders Easy-Up® Slow Feed Corner Floor Hay Rack | Haygain Forager Slow Feeder | High Country Plastics Slow Feeder Saver |
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| Feeder format | Ground-level rack designed to mount in a stall corner | Cylindrical floor feeder with a sand-fillable base and optional wall-securing points | Rectangular floor feeder with a solid poly bottom |
| Slow-feed mechanism | 2.5-inch spacing on the front panel and drop-down top lid | Two interchangeable regulator grids: Easy and Standard | Top grate with small openings; opening dimensions are not listed on the manufacturer page |
| Published hay capacity | 6–8 flakes, depending on flake size; functions with as little as one flake | Up to 12 kg (25 lb) of forage | Not listed |
| Published dimensions | 30 in. high × 42.5 in. wide front panel; 27.5 × 27.5 in. lid | 70 cm diameter × 72 cm high | 39.5 in. long × 28.5 in. wide × 19.5 in. high |
| Published empty weight | Not listed | 13.6 kg (30 lb) | 55 lb |
| How the top follows the hay | Lid drops farther into the rack as hay is consumed | Regulator grid remains level and lowers with forage consumption | Moving or lowering action is not listed |
| Assembly or securing details | Assembly and mounting hardware included; mounts to the stall corner | Collapsible for cleaning and travel; base can be filled with sand and the feeder may be secured to a stable wall | Assembly and anchoring details are not listed on the manufacturer page |
| Published warranty | 5-year Easy-Up® warranty | 1-year warranty; regulator grids are excluded | Not listed on the product page |
What Makes the Easy-Up® Slow Feed Rack Different
Most hay nets and wall-mounted racks compromise somewhere — awkward to fill, too small to hold a night’s worth of hay, or they position your horse at an unnatural angle. The Easy-Up® Slow Feed Corner Floor Hay Rack is designed from the ground up to solve all three problems at once.
The 2.5" slow-feed spacing on both the front panel and the drop-down lid means your horse works for each bite — the way grazing was meant to work. The lid lowers gradually as hay is consumed, keeping access easy without letting what remains go to waste. Left and right stand-up bars with plastic safety caps keep the lid stable during use. Easy-Up® also recommends placing a slit tennis ball over the corner stabilizing rods if your horse is particularly active — a simple precaution worth taking.
At 30"H × 42½"W with a 27½" × 27½" lid, the rack holds 6–8 flakes of hay with room to spare. The corner-mount design uses otherwise dead space in your stall efficiently. Mounting hardware is included and assembly is a straightforward DIY job. The 5-Year Easy-Up® Warranty backs every unit — the longest coverage in the category.
The 2.5" slow-feed spacing on both the front panel and the drop-down lid means your horse works for each bite — the way grazing was meant to work. The lid lowers gradually as hay is consumed, keeping access easy without letting what remains go to waste. Left and right stand-up bars with plastic safety caps keep the lid stable during use. Easy-Up® also recommends placing a slit tennis ball over the corner stabilizing rods if your horse is particularly active — a simple precaution worth taking.
At 30"H × 42½"W with a 27½" × 27½" lid, the rack holds 6–8 flakes of hay with room to spare. The corner-mount design uses otherwise dead space in your stall efficiently. Mounting hardware is included and assembly is a straightforward DIY job. The 5-Year Easy-Up® Warranty backs every unit — the longest coverage in the category.
- ✓2.5" slow-feed spacing on front panel and drop-down lid slows consumption naturally
- ✓Ground-level floor placement encourages head-down grazing posture (replace with product photo)
- ✓Holds 6–8 flakes of hay — enough for overnight free-choice feeding
- ✓30"H × 42½"W front panel with 27½" × 27½" drop-down lid; corner-mount design
- ✓5-Year Easy-Up® Warranty — industry-leading coverage on every unit
Slower Eating. Cleaner Floor. Healthier Horse.
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The Takeaway
The easiest upgrade you can make for your horse’s digestive health and your hay budget.
The Easy-Up® Slow Feed Corner Floor Hay Rack solves three problems at once: it slows eating, encourages a natural head-down grazing position, and holds enough hay to last the night — all backed by a 5-Year Warranty that outlasts every cheap alternative on the shelf.
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