For those of you who feed round bale hay know, the hardest part is keeping the bale dry so it doesn’t mold before the animals have time to finish eating it. Rain and warm air can destroy a …

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…

Want to save money on hay this year and not have so much go to waste? Check out these DIY round hay bale feeders I found on Pinterest. They are so cool!

Sharing the design of hay feeders for round bales and logistics of feeding hay to sheep in the winter.Various companies offer round bale hay feeders for

800-1000lb 4x4 round bale hay feeder. Rough dementions, sled 8ft, feeder 4ft high x (5 ft would have been better) x 6 for long x 5ft wide.

This DIY Hay Feeder is perfect for round bales and also useful in my donkey habitat areas to help keep hay bags dry and offer some shelter when eating.