Round bale hay feeder for goats

Weld together a few pipes, attach a wire cattle panel, and you've got a big round bale hay rack for goats. Gail Truax and her husband, Gary, came up with the idea to feed goats.

Last month, I lost almost an entire round bale to summer heat and a heavy down pour. It was awful and many tears were shed. In all my years of feeding rounds, I’ve rarely ever lost much hay. …

Well, if you read the DIY Square Bale Slow Feeder article, you know that our horses’ paddock was set up for square bales, not round. Round bales are a whole ‘nother ball game.

Since we got a tractor and can actually move a round bale without use of PVC pipe as rollers and only the strength of Chuck's back, he has been experimenting with making hay feeders. He's made some pretty good feeders for grass hay by the flake, and a commercial horse feeder works fine for the lespedeza because the large openings between the bars work fine with the tightly packed lespedeza stems. The round bales were a challenge, though. How to make a feeder the goats could get the hay out…

Round bale hay feeder for horse and goats that we built #farmerintheheel

OMRO Round Bale Feeders for Goats and Sheep

For the last several years, I've been forking hay over the fence to my sheep each day, or putting out a round bale for them to eat free reign. Last winter was ugly, and free reign, a bale was only lasting them between 7-10 days. It was a less than successful way to feed sheep, but since I didn't have many of them I just "put up" with the mess it created over the winter months, and cleaned it all up in the spring. This year I have some nice Katahdin ewes, along with a few of my Barbs and I…

Our round bale feeder. We've completely eliminated hay waste!

anybody ever build (or see) a covered round bale feeder for cows? I'd sure like to see how you did it and how it works......... lot's of waste with the...

Square bale hay feeder for goats! What a great idea for goats! Homestead DIY