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Hay Steamers
Steaming your hay with a Happy Horse Hay Steamer has
many advantages over feeding dry hay, soaking hay or feeding haylage.
Help
to prevent respiratory diseaseOur increasingly changeable climate means that good
quality hay has become extremely difficult to find and repeated exposure
to the dust, dust mites and fungal spores in poor quality hay can
permanently damage your horse's respiratory system. Steam is used by the
Medical and Veterinary professions for sterilization - they do NOT
simply wash their instruments in fresh, cold water and the same
principles and benefits apply to steamed hay. Steaming your hay ensures
that fungal spores, bacteria and dust mites are killed off (something
that is not done simply by soaking) and all potentially airborne dust
particles are sufficiently dampened down and neutralized, helping to
prevent respiratory damage.
Retains
the nutritional value of your hayWe have all been told, "If you steam your vegetables
you retain all the 'goodness'". When we soak hay we lose much of the
nutritional value as essential vitamins and minerals are leached out
into the soaking water and then thrown down the drain! In comparison,
steaming hay ensures that all the nutritional goodness is retained in
the hay, thus ensuring a well balanced, natural diet for your horse.
Help
you to save moneyA
Happy Horse Hay Steamer is an investment. While there most certainly is
the initial outlay to consider, many of our customers have found that
they save them money in the long run. Haylage is an alternative to
feeding hay and is quite expensive. Steaming your hay gives you the
option of returning to feeding hay, which is a significant savings in
itself. When you soak your hay, the vitamins and minerals lost into the
water must be replaced in your horse's diet through extra feed or
expensive supplements, but steaming provides the maximum nutritional
value from hay. Additionally, steaming removes dust and mold which cause
respiratory disease, reduces illness in your horse, and helps to avoid
costly vet bills or missed competition expenses.
Easy and convenient to
use
Happy
Horse Hay Steamers are extremely user friendly. Simply
fill the chamber with hay, place water in the steam generator, switch
on, and off it goes! If you have ever had the misfortune to need to soak
hay on a regular basis, you will know what a messy and unpleasant job
it is, particularly in the depths of winter when you end up with
freezing hands and dripping wet clothes. A Happy Horse Hay Steamer can
make all this mess and hassle a thing of the past.
Helping to reduce
environmental damage
Waste water from
steaming hay is significantly less polluting than waste water from
soaking hay. The vitamins and minerals that are leached out of the hay
into the water dramatically increases the biological oxygen demand (BOD)
of the water left behind, which is a measure of a polluted water
supply. Happy Horse Products engaged Myerscough College to conduct
research (view report) regarding the pollutants found in hay soaked waste
water. The results showed the water to be highly
polluted with an excessively high BOD - up to 6 times greater than that
found in the waste water from steaming hay. With thousands of pails full
of waste water dumped down drains every day in the UK alone, horse
owners are unwittingly polluting our water sources. Additionally, it can
take up to 30 gallons of water to fill a container suitable for soaking
hay, whereas it takes just under 2 gallons of water to steam a full
standard square bale in a Happy Horse Hay Steamer. The sheer volume of
water, wasted from soaking, is a huge issue too.
The Traveller Steamer is completely portable and accommodates 8kg-10kg of hay loose (or filled into a haynet) within its heavy duty composite material bag.
This system has been a popular steamer since we introduced it in 2006 either as an add on to tho
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The all New Stable Mate for 2010 has been designed by listening to our customers who only have one or two horses. This half bale steamer will also do large hay nets as well as loose hay from small or large bales.
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The Happy Horse Bale Buster Hay Steamer is the option to choose if all you want to steam is small strung bales of hay.
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The Happy Horse Professional Hay Steamer features a large capacity hay steam chamber and can steam up to the equivalent of one whole small bale of hay at a time--our most popular model!
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