Homemade horse round bale feeder1/11/2024 Young horses or large horses would likely benefit from a slow feeder. They are unable to eat as much or as quickly as younger horses. Older horses that have worn teeth and diminished appetites will likely do fine with a fast feeder. Open feeders leave the hay exposed to open air and allow horses to eat as much as they want as fast as they want. Slow feeders use netting or holes to make it harder for the horse to eat the hay. It can be bad for a horse’s digestive system to continuously eat, and it can lead to dangerous impactions. Some horses need slow feeders to regulate their eating. There are slow feeders and fast (or open) feeders. Watching that to see how it goes.There are two types of hay feeders. I saw someone with a kids play-house, one of those plastic things with window shutters that open/close over a bale. ![]() I would still need to design a way to elevate off the ground for airspace the round though.:think: I would love a hay hut.but $$ is prohibiting me. I "sniff" carefully my hay every day and discard, burn any that I question if is not cost thrifty to have vet bills for sick horses.nor good for my hooved friends and my one guy, my piggy concerns me he might try questionable hay to taste :icon_rolleyes: Underneath the hay is a plastic barrier, but great caution is used that water tunnels off and away from the bale sitting area so no standing moisture accumulates to mold the bottom hay. Once the bale is really smaller, collapsing on itself I pull the cradle thing out from under it and at that point remove the netting that wrapped it when full and new. Made this way there is no opening a hoof can get stuck in.its filled with hay, period. I place the bale with my tractor on the cradle. The short ends are also 4x4 so even weight distribution and height is achieved. ![]() I used 4x4 for the long side placed slightly on edge so the bale sits in it.screwed to the bottom is a 2x4 for stability and to raise off the ground. My rounds are 5'x5'.1100 pounds or so I'm told. Sorry, just realized this is meant for me. No hoof can get under the cradle thing so no hung-up foot.:smile: Made from 4x4 in a rectangular shape, the bale sits in a cradle looking sort of holder. When the horses are restricted, my hay is tarped carefully to keep excess moisture/rain off and is off the ground with a plastic barrier under my homemade bale holder suspending it 4" off the ground for ventilation. My one horse is a pig and never stops, just doesn't quit gorging his face so unlimited will not work.he is no different on pasture so yes, he is limited so I don't have a horse sent over the edge of good health. With each round feeding only 2 it lasts me near 5 weeks.yes 5 weeks of free-choice chowing for about 8 hours a day. I do meticulously clean-up daily what is pulled off and dropped, feed it for dinner every evening. I built a section of my paddock that can have gates opened and the horses can eat free-choice, no one being trapped or chased off the way I place the bale my "bully" can't be everywhere guarding. I use rounds for mine at particular times of the year. I also see many use a hay net on the round bale then they put a feeder ring, horse style around that so "pancaking" isn't possible. ![]() I just saw alternatives with similar design and $ friendlier if you look online for them. They're expensive but if they work and reduce waste and weather protect the bale then to me the savings would pay for the investment in a years time or so. ![]() Hayhuts Horse Hay Feeder | Covered, Round Bale Feeder
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