Posted 2023-11-20 9:40 AM Subject: Hay Net vs Feeder
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What do you find more beneficial when feeding round bales in the winter? I am trying to decide between a large round bale hay net and a round bale feeder.
Posted 2023-11-20 7:03 PM Subject: RE: Hay Net vs Feeder
Witty Enough
Posts: 2954 Location: CTX
We have both, attached a round bale net to the round bale feeder. Put out a bale, take the string/netting off and flip the feeder with the net over the bale. Easy peasy.
Posted 2023-11-21 8:25 AM Subject: RE: Hay Net vs Feeder
Born not Made
Posts: 2930 Location: North Dakota
raenallday - 2023-11-20 9:40 AM
What do you find more beneficial when feeding round bales in the winter? I am trying to decide between a large round bale hay net and a round bale feeder.
Thank you!
Both. I use a Hay Chix large round bale net (6 foot) with the livestock size holes, and then I put an old fashioned metal horse hay feeder around it.
I have one horse that wears shoes on his front feet all year round, so you need to have a feeder to prevent their shoes from hooking the hay net.
Posted 2023-11-24 9:17 PM Subject: RE: Hay Net vs Feeder
Both are amazing and have benefits! I work for Texas Haynet, and I'm partial to our 3" hole nets. The nets help conserve so much more hay than the rings, but I definitely wouldn't want to feed in nets on large rounds without a bale ring, although lots of people successfully do so.
Hay Net vs Feeder
