Automatic Slow Feeding Solutions to Regulate Individual Hay and Grain Intake

Feeding Your Horses Naturally

Frequent and Consistent Feeding - Without the Workload

Horses need regular meals spread evenly throughout the day to closely mimic their natural grazing behavior and to prevent gastric ulcers and digestive disorders. HIT Active Stable in Germany has used automatic horse feeding systems for hay and grain for more than 23 years, which allow you to divide the feed into up to 20 meals.

There are a number of different options available for forage and grain feedings. Choose from the different automatic horse feeding systems to meet your needs:

Computer-controlled Single Shutter Hay Feeders for individual paddocks and stalls
Time-controlled Shutter Hay Feeder for group/herd feeding
Transponder feeding stations to meet individual horse's hay and grain requirements while kept in a group/herd.

Transponder-Controlled Automatic Feeding Stations

The transponder technique allows you to feed horses that are kept in a herd individually and undisturbed.
The amount of hay and grain can be individually programmed for each horse on the same hay diet.
Feeding times can be programmed in small portions throughout the day, up to 20 times.

Includes Shutter Hay Feeder, Grain/Supplement Feeder, and fencing. Customer builds housing according to our specs.

A horse from behind leaving a feeding station

A horse walking out of a feeding station

How it works:
Each horse in a group receives a collar with a transponder, which opens the automatic gate of the feeding station at set times. The horse enters the feeding station for an individually programmed time to consume roughage as well as grain and supplements as needed for the specific horse. The feeding time is divided by several feeding intervals throughout the day with the aid of the transponder technology. Once the programmed time is up, the shutter of the hay dispenser within the feeding station closes and the horse leaves the feeding station through a gate or door. This way, horses in a group or herd can be fed individually without being disturbed by the others.

An automatic transponder feeding station

A group of horses spread throughout a paddock, with a number of automatic feeding systems

An automatic horse feeding station, accessed by transponder, with two horses in the background

A horse inside an automatic horse feeding station, accessed by transponder

For Time-Controlled Herd Feeding

Shutter Hay Feeders

Four equines of varying sizes and colors are seen from behind, eating from multiple feeding stations

Shutter Hay Feeders with multiple feeding slots are primarily used for horses living in a herd in large paddocks or pasture paddocks with similar hay feeding needs. We offer Shutter Hay Feeders with 1-4 openings slots depending on the size of the group and on-site conditions.

The smallest unit is HIT “SINGLE” Shutter Hay Feeder followed by the “DUO” model which has two Shutter Hay Feeders, whereby the largest unit “MAXI” has 4 shutter feeding slots. Housing structures for the automatic horse feeding system need to be built by customer.

For time-controlled feeding of larger herds and round bale feeding up to 16 horses we recommend 4 of the MAXI Shutter Feeders installed in a square and covered by a roof. See our examples what the housing structures could look like.

Multiple horses eating from a group hay feeder, taken from above

Two horses groom each other in the foreground, while three horses eat from a covered hay feeding station in the background

Three horses eating from a group hay feeder

Four horses feeding on a large round bale from the inside of a group hay feeder

From the inside of a group hay feeder, a dark brown horse is eating hay

A wide shot, showing a run in on the left side of a sand paddock, with a group had feeder on the right side, and a large hill in the background

A group of horses simultaneously eating from a covered, multi-horse feeding station with exterior access

A brown horse eats from a feeding station while a foal stands behind it

Time-Controlled

Shutter Hay feeder HIT-SINGLE

Hay feeder for individual horse paddocks and horse stalls

A horse's head reaches into a single automatic feeder to grab a mouthful of hay

The HIT “SINGLE” Shutter Hay Feeder is designed for horses kept in a single paddock and horse stall. This time-controlled slow feeder feeds multiple meals and easily holds an entire 120-lb bale of hay, enough hay to feed your horse for 5-6 days. The HIT Single Feeder is ideal for private farms and boarding facilities, saving the owner or caregiver labor cost and time. Housing of the Shutter Hay Feeder and hay needs to be built by customer. We will provide drawings and specs.

A horse approaches a single feeding station

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A brown horse eating from a single feeding station

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Multiple horses eat from their respective automatic single feeders that are built into the barn paddocks

A single automatic feeder integrated into the side of a barn, next to an open stall door

A single paddock feeder with a cover is inside a paddock with a row of stalls

A closeup of a brown horse's forehead and eye

A product image of the single shutter feeding system

Four horses are eating a round hay bale out of an automatic horse feeder.

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Automatic Feeders

Time-controlled shutter hay feeders for single and herd feeding.

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Description

Description

Automatic horse feeders can simplify even the most complex feeding processes. We offer computer-controlled single hay feeders for individual paddocks, time-controlled shutter hay feeders for group/herd feeding, and transponder feeding stations to meet individual horse needs.