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[RC] Manger Style Trailers - k s swigart


Terry said:


Their ramps are also too short, steep and slippery. 


Since trailers with hay mangers come in step up as well as ramp load, the 
adequacy of a trailer's ramp is independent of whether the trailer has a hay 
manger or not.


The upper doors that wing out can blow back onto the
?loading/unloading horse, 


Not all trailers with hay mangers have "upper doors" (like the step up 
variety), and some of those that do (like mine that has a ramp) has hooks on 
the upper doors so they can be secured open (and those that don't have hooks on 
them to secure them open can have hooks installed on them for this purpose if 
you are really concerned about it).


There is nothing wrong with a straight-load position,
?but with a chest bar only~ no manger!


If a horse can get its feet up into a hay manger, it can get its feet up over a 
chest bar as well.? Personally, I would rather have my horse have its feet in a 
hay manger than on the wrong side of a chest bar...and I have never seen a 
horse try to get UNDER a hay manger, though I have seen them try to get under a 
chest bar...and get their heads caught under a chest bar when they put their 
head down reaching for some hay or something that may have fallen on the floor.

There are advantages and disadvantages to all types of trailers.? The primary 
advantage that I have found to the straight load trailer with a hay manger is 
that it can most easily accommodate a variety of sizes of horse.? I could put 
a12.2 hh pony in the same trailer as a 17.3 hh draft cross mare.? I could even 
put them in the trailer next to each other, and not have to make a single 
adjustment.? Yes, it is an extra tall, extra wide trailer (so it was big enough 
to accommodate the moose), but I don't have to make any changes to it to haul 
the pony equally as safely.? And I have used it to haul everything in between 
those sizes as well.

kat
Orange County, Calif.
:)

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