Hay steaming not only helps with your horse with coughs it also makes the hay more palatable. Steaming hay can be a great way to encourage your horse to eat the hay while helping to reduce or eliminate coughs and kill moulds and spore forming bacteria. It is very common for horses and ponies to develop a cough when stabled for long periods. It is thought that this is due to a mixture of issues such as bedding, forage, ventilation, stable hygiene as well as genetics. Despite no visual indicators of dust, bacteria or mould in hay, research has shown that they are present in all hays which can be a respiratory irritant. Traditionally you would soak hay, however, over recent years research has become more widely known that doing so can increase the bacteria build up as much as 5 times if soaked for 9 hours.
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The Simply Steam hay steamer has been a real game changer for us. We have two veteran horses with dental issues and I have a serious back problem. I had been struggling with nets full of soaked hay so the steamer has made a huge difference. Extremely prompt courier dispatch to Greece, really good technical support and superb customer service. Can’t recommend too highly!
Great product, a fraction of the price of the market leader but works absolutely fine for our 2 horses, our horses always cough if fed dried hay but the cough has vanished with this, it’s easy to use and lighter weight to carry than traditionally soaked hay, and no cold water to unge my hands into, our horses love it. We bought a cheap timer switch in Amazon so we can set it up and forget about it until we need it.
My partner brought me one of your steamers recently and I would just love to say wow, its amazing, so simple to use and my horse does not leave a single piece of hay!, even tries to eat it whilst warm, great product many thanks
Easy to set up, holds two good sized nets, most importantly the coughing stopped immediately. We have a seasonal cougher, she’s on soaked hay this year so we thought she’d be okay but no. Then our thb started to cough and after a bit of research and purse searching decided to plump for the simply steam steamer. Coughing stopped immediately. I find 2 big nets need over an hour, I’ve had them in for an hour and coughing started again so have a timer set up and give it about an hour and a half. All good so far.
