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Stop Wasting Hay. Start Feeding Smarter.

The Easy-Up® Pro Fold-Up Hay Feeder combines a 1" pro-grade drop-down frame with a 1.5" knotless slow-feed net — so your horse eats at a natural pace, your stall stays cleaner, and your morning chores take half the time. Backed by a 7-Year Warranty from Schneiders, family-owned since 1948.

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7-Year Warranty
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The Problem

Every Morning, the Same Mess

It’s 6:00 a.m., the barn aisle is quiet, and you are already holding a fork over a stall full of yesterday’s hay. Some is mixed into clean shavings. Some is damp near the water bucket. The rest has been pawed into a mat your horse will not finish. Before you can measure the next feeding, you have to sort usable hay from bedding and carry another heavy forkful to the muck cart.

Every horse owner recognizes some version of this routine. Loose hay can migrate across the stall as your horse noses through it, while a conventional hanging net may turn each refill into a two-handed wrestling match. You gather the net, force flakes through a narrow opening, find a secure place to hang it, and hope it stays manageable until evening chores. Feeding should be straightforward, yet the equipment can make a simple job feel unnecessarily awkward.

The cost is more than a messy floor. Hay mixed with manure, urine, or bedding is no longer feed you want to put back in front of your horse. You replace it sooner, use more bedding during cleanup, and spend extra minutes separating the stall instead of checking legs, filling water buckets, or getting ready to ride. In a multi-horse barn, that repeated work follows you from stall to stall and feeding to feeding.

What you need is not another loose net that creates the same loading problem. You need a feeder that keeps hay contained, gives your horse measured access, and opens wide enough for you to refill without turning every morning into a test of patience.
Why It Keeps Happening

Wasted Hay Adds Up Fast — and Your Horse Pays the Price

The problem isn’t you, and it isn’t your horse. Your horse is doing what comes naturally: sorting, tugging, and working for preferred mouthfuls. The frustration starts when the feeding setup gives that movement nowhere to go except onto the stall floor—or makes you fight the equipment before your horse ever takes a bite.

Many basic hay nets are designed as bags first and loading tools second. Their small top openings collapse while you are trying to insert flakes, so one hand holds the net open while the other pushes hay into the corners. Once filled, the net still has to be lifted, tied, and positioned. Open racks may be faster to fill, but without a closely fitted net, pulled hay can scatter beyond the feeder. A fixed frame can also remain in the stall whether it is full or empty.

Keep repeating that routine and the little inefficiencies begin running your barn schedule. You refill sooner because part of the ration is mixed into bedding. You remove more material during stall cleaning because scattered stems are tangled through the shavings. Evening chores start with retrieving, opening, and restuffing nets instead of simply loading the next feeding. Multiply those steps across several stalls, and a minor annoyance becomes a job you have to plan around twice a day.

The usual choices force an unsatisfying tradeoff: easy access for you, better containment around your horse’s hay, or a feeder that stays out of the way when it is not needed. A practical stall setup should not make you choose only one. Until the frame, net, loading opening, and wall position work together, you are still managing the feeder instead of letting the feeder simplify your routine.
  • Hay trampled and wasted after every feeding
  • Standard nets hard to load, hang, and refill
  • Horse bolting hay, raising colic and choke risk
  • Stalls dirtier faster — bedding ruined by scattered hay
The Solution

Built for How You Actually Feed

The Schneiders® Easy-Up® Pro Fold-Up Hay Feeder Frame with 1.5" Knotless Net brings the frame and slow-feed net together in one wall-mounted setup. Instead of squeezing flakes through the gathered mouth of a loose net, you lower the frame to a 90-degree position and load hay through the open top. Once the feeding is in place, the locking bracket secures the frame flush against the wall. The included knotless net has 1.5-inch openings designed to encourage slower access while helping keep the hay contained.

Its specifications are built around everyday stall feeding. The 1-inch pro-grade frame measures 36 inches long by 20 inches high and holds approximately four flakes of hay. That gives you useful capacity without requiring a full-bale installation. The net is matched to the frame, and the drop-down design creates a broad loading area rather than asking you to pack each flake through a small opening. When the feeder is not needed, the frame folds flat to save stall-wall space.

For your horse, the result is a consistent place to find forage rather than a loose pile that can be spread through the bedding. The 1.5-inch knotless mesh regulates access without relying on a dangling tie rope or a bag that shifts every time your horse pulls. Because the frame locks back against the wall after loading, the feeding station remains in its intended position while your horse works through the hay.

For you, the payoff appears at every refill: lower the frame, place in up to approximately four flakes, raise it, and secure the lock. There is no need to hold a limp net open while stuffing it or search for a new hanging point after every fill. The wall-mounted format also gives the feeder a permanent home, making it easier to establish the same repeatable routine at morning and evening chores.

A seven-year warranty backs the frame’s published design, adding long-term reassurance to a feeder intended for regular barn use. It is a practical combination of measured capacity, 90-degree loading access, knotless slow-feed mesh, and a fold-flat wall profile—made by horse lovers, for horse lovers, and Trusted since 1948.
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1.5" Knotless Slow-Feed Net

Encourages your horse to graze at a natural pace, reducing the risk of colic, choke, and digestive upset caused by bolting hay.

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90° Drop-Down Frame

Pro-grade 1" frame opens fully for hands-free loading — fits up to 4 flakes without cramming, wrestling, or awkward angles.

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Locking Wall Mount

Secure locking bracket holds the frame flush to the wall while your horse eats, then folds away clean when feeding is done.

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7-Year Warranty

Built to outlast bargain alternatives. Backed by a full 7-Year Warranty from Schneiders, family-owned since 1948.

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    What Riders Are Saying

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    "Easy set up. Easy to use. I'm changing my entire barn over to these."

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    "I purchased 2 of these for my draft horse and mule. I absolutely love them. They no longer waste hay and keeps their stalls cleaner. They are big enough to hold half a bale of hay."

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    "Schneiders never disappoints. Trusted since 1948 for a reason."

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    How the Easy-Up® Pro Compares

    These wall-mounted feeders take different approaches to loading, capacity, and net configuration. Published information that was unavailable is marked “not listed” rather than inferred.

    Feature Schneiders
    Schneiders® Easy-Up® Pro Fold-Up Hay Feeder Frame with 1.5" Knotless Net
    Easy-Up® Wall Mount Hay Net Frame with Hay NetJ&E Foldable EZ-fill Hay Net w/ Knotless Heavy Duty Net
    Feeder configuration Wall-mounted frame drops open 90° and folds flatFixed flat-wall frame with an open topWall-mounted fold-down frame that folds flat
    Net included Yes—1.5" knotless netYes—slow-feed net with 2" holesYes—heavy-duty knotless net
    Published hay capacity Approximately 4 flakesUp to 4 flakes, approximately 20 lbOne small square bale
    Published dimensions 36" L × 20" H30" L × 17" D23" W × 15" D
    Net replacement design Replaceable net supported by safety hooksReplaceable net; rounded hooks accommodate most standard hay netsReplaceable net with quick-clip attachment
    Installation hardware Not listed in supplied product dataIncludedIncluded fasteners
    Published warranty 7-year warranty5-year frame warranty; hay net excludedLimited lifetime frame warranty and 1-year limited net warranty
    Published use setting Wall-mounted stall feederFlat-wall barn or stable installationInside stalls only; not for fields or paddocks

    Everything You Need to Feed Cleaner and Smarter

    Schneiders® Easy-Up® Pro Fold-Up Hay Feeder Frame with 1.5" Knotless Net
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    Trusted Since 1948

    Schneider Saddlery has been making gear for horse owners — not just for catalogs — since 1948. Three generations of family ownership means every product we carry has been evaluated by people who actually use it in the barn. The Easy-Up® Pro is a Schneiders original, developed at our Chagrin Falls, Ohio headquarters with input from working horse owners and barn managers across the country. When we put a 7-Year Warranty on something, we mean it.

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    The Takeaway

    A hay feeder that pays for itself in wasted hay alone.

    If your horse is trampling hay and your stall cleanup is suffering for it, the Easy-Up® Pro solves both problems in one wall mount. At $159.99 with a 7-Year Warranty, this is the barn upgrade that earns its keep the first week.

    Ready to Clean Up Your Feeding Routine?

    The Schneiders® Easy-Up® Pro Fold-Up Hay Feeder is $159.99 — compare at $229.99. Free shipping on orders over $99. Backed by our Perfect Fit Guarantee and a 7-Year Warranty. If it's not working for your setup, we'll make it right. Made by horse lovers, for horse lovers.

    Schneiders® Easy-Up® Pro Fold-Up Hay Feeder Frame with 1.5" Knotless Net
    $159.99

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