The Heavy Duty Round Bale Pasture Feeder offers a metal pan for the horses to eat out of. The Heavy Duty Round Bale Pasture Feeder offers a unique and innovative design, ensuring both the safety of your horse and the preservation of their hay. Sharing the design of hay feeders for round bales and logistics of feeding hay to sheep in the winter. ![]() I did try to improvise the same thing out of some tarpaulin and bungee straps last winter which was a lot more cheaper but less effective at reducing wastage. This is Cashman’s premium round bale feeder. I am currently using just the BBB inside a big field shelter and it is working well. It also came with metal pegs to hammer in which i didn't use and I am not sure I would have been happy about them. It does have a way of gathering it together when the bale shrinks. The big haynet are only for use with unshod horses unless covered. Construction of a round hay bale feeder will require power tools. A variety of bolts and nails would also be required. If the roof is constructed, 2-by-4 and 2-by-6 boards and corrugated steel roofing would also be needed. I used it once and not going to use it again as my dominant horse decided he was going to try and hog the whole bale and the other horse ended up with a shredded rug. The feeder is constructed from 1 1/2-inch square steel tubing, 20inch round steal pipe and 20-gauge sheet metal. That’s why we went with a homemade hay feeder. Unfortunately, most hay feeders will cost you anywhere from 50-100. ![]() I also got one of those big haynets to use inside it. When you have an animal that eats primarily grasses, a hay feeder is a must. Horses will make the area round the bale muddy if not on hardcore. It is easier with two people to be honest but possible with one and does gets easier after the first few times. It is a bit of a learning curve to know how much hay you need to wind off the bale to be able to get the BBB on over it. I got a big bale buddy in the autumn and so far I have found that it keeps the hay in and there is lot less wastage than when just bale out without anything. I don't use the nets, kinda goes against my philosophies of adlib as I actually want my horses to eat as much as possible, and don't want to slow them down lol. Bale buddies are the worst invention ever imo. Personally, for my own two horses, we use a round bale hay net in combination with a feeder that keeps the bale off the ground. Do you have hay houses over there? I have too many fields/horses to use these but for those with only a handful of horses they seem to work fabulously! And there's little wastage from what I've heard. There is a lot of wastage with hay feeders though we run at between 25% and if the hay is very fine then this can rise to 40-50% at times. I lift them with the tractor spike if I'm moving them about the field though and then I put the bucket on the tractor and scrape all the poop and hay mess away from the area and then move the hay feeder back. The horse feeders split into 3 pieces so can be disassembled if needs be or they can be tipped over to allow a bale to be rolled in. No way would I ever get them all hayed each day if I had to go around and feed hay daily. ![]() I have 50 horses here so every field has one or two metal hay feeders (the horse ones not the cattle ones!). ![]() Farm chores □ really love the DIY large square bale hay feeder on a sleigh! Round one was a success.You really need to have around 5 horses in a field to make the best use of metal hay feeders otherwise the hay will sit there for too long.
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