Porta-Grazer tm Natural Grazing Slow Feeder / Soaker
Porta-Grazer ™ comes with several options to choose from whether you need a Mini, XL,
Corner Feeder, or a Soaker with auto shut off. All models include a drain plug.
Different pan hole sizes to choose from to insure the best fit for your equines needs
Second Only To Nature
Approved, Owned and Sold by Veterinarians and Equine Dentists!
See for yourself why stabled horses prefer Porta-Grazer™ over other feeding methods.
No More Messy Hay Nets!!
Hay nets are wasteful, and even if your horse does eat the hay that lands on the ground, he is ingesting the dirt, sand, parasites etc … Not good at all!
The Patented Locking System Keeps the Pan Secured in the Feeder Even When Rolled Around.
Many Digestive Ailments
- Sand Colic
- Impaction Colic
- Ulcers
- Laminitis
- Founder
- Parasites
- Weight Control
- Insulin Resistance
- COPD
- TMJ
- Choke
- Bad Stall Habits, such as chewing wood, kicking walls, cribbing, weaving and more
- Conformation- Back, Hock, Neck issues
- Dunking/Soaking
Finally a Hay Feeder that Fits Your Busy Schedule and Your Horse’s Digestive Needs
Take a minute to look at your horse’s world through his eyes. He has evolved from the beginning of his time to be on the move, twenty-four hours a day if necessary to survive. He is agile and fleet of foot to evade the always present predators looking for him to be their next meal. He travels light, having a small stomach (about 4 gallons) carrying little food constantly eating and moving. This is the mind and body of the pet in your paddock. Compare his natural feeding routine to the one you have provided him and you will see why he is not as healthy and contented as he could be.
It is natural for a horse to travel and search for food constantly. Everywhere he looks there is food. He stands in it, walks in it, and lies on it. This is his world, he is a hind gut fermenting grazer. Meaning he searches, pulls, tears, chews and swallows in a continuous manner whenever he is hungry eating only enough to be satisfied and never to be full. Unlike humans that produce stomach acid when they eat, horses secrete a constant ongoing supply of stomach acid (16 gallons per day) to digest the constant supply of forage they require to survive. Horses do not have a gall bladder like humans to infuse large quantities of bile into their small intestine as they eat a meal. A horse’s liver supplies a constant supply of bile (10 liters per day) to the small intestines whether they are eating or not.
When grazing, horses search and tear each bite to a size that can be chewed thoroughly. Well chewed forage mixed with saliva is the beginning of the digestive process. Saliva production (10 gallons a day) is dependent on the movement of the jaw muscles. This alkaline mixture of saliva and forage buffers the stomach acid as it is being digested. He relies on the ph balance in the stomach to indicate when he has eaten enough. Remember horses do not eat to be full but only enough to not be hungry, thus the term trickle feeder.
The Porta-Grazer™ is designed to allow the horse to graze hay in a naturally slow continuous manner in the correct posture. Restrictive hay feeders and nets are designed to slow the horse down by force. Being restricted and forced heightens anxiety and can result in gastric ulcers and an unhappy unhealthy lifestyle. Horses are the only ones who know how fast or slow the should eat and each one has its individual needs. Porta-Grazers patented design offers hay to the horse in such a manner that each bite is pulled and torn to size resulting in a slowed rate of consumption. Searching-pulling-tearing while chewing and swallowing is natural and that’s Porta-Grazer™
–Walt Tharp
