homemade ring feeders / keeping hay clean

[spark_28]

does anyone have any good homemade ring feeder ideas to stop sheep spoiling the hay? its for big bales

just need a quick fix for the year, will get a proper one next year.

 

[spin cycle]

upside down hurdles or hurdles with odd bar out?.......make a wooden square one outta cls?

 

[delilah]

Crowd control barriers work a treat. They are exceptional value if you visit a local building site out of hours .

 

[honeyend]

Pallets, with baler twine.

 

[Woolless]

Would a proper one with diagonal bars at £130 really hurt that much?

 

[Bury the Trash]

Would a proper one with diagonal bars at £130 really hurt that much?

Do they make a good difference to wastage ? Wouldnt mind some, my straight bar ones are getting pretty tatty now.....

 

[Woolless]

Do they make a good difference to wastage ? Wouldnt mind some, my straight bar ones are getting pretty tatty now.....

Yes, I think they help but don't eliminate wastage. Mine are bigger than the (older) straight bar ones I have, which helps too.

 

[spark_28]

Would a proper one with diagonal bars at £130 really hurt that much?

like i said, just need a quick fix right now, could be ten days until i get one in here.

 

[CollCrofter]

Is the hay going in a ring feeder just now? Heston bales?

 

[TheRanger]

Looking for some heavy duty ones for feeding ad lib straw in beef shed. The ones for sale these days through various merchants look incredibly flimsy.

 

[DeeGee]

Would a proper one with diagonal bars at £130 really hurt that much?

Can’t believe a Scotsman is advocating spending £130 on frivolities, when a few old pallets and some used baler twine will do the job perfectly well and still allow me to count my money on dark and stormy evenings while I take my bowl of gruel by the light of a guttering candle.

 

[Bill dog]

Fairly sure it was @Al R who knocked the 2nd bottom rail out of a couple of tattie boxes to make feeders . Looked a good job !

 

[Al R]

Fairly sure it was @Al R who knocked the 2nd bottom rail out of a couple of tattie boxes to make feeders . Looked a good job !

Don’t blame me for that, that was dad, they pull as much haylage out as they eat It’s been there 30 years now mind and was used for clamp silage only for the first 12 years. with only a few rebuilds.... i was hoping horizontal bar round feeder would do a better job. If you really want a photo I can get one tomorrow.
when we did all small bale hay we had a few of those 10ft wheeled hay racks, forever blowing over and rolling across fields until they were left were they landed, I boarded them up with ply board in 2018 and turned them into bulk creep feeders for feeding weaned lambs, worked really really well but the middles needed blocks under them when you had half a tonne of nuts in them on a bit of flimsy tin floor.

 

[Bill dog]

No need for photos. I have 3 boxes lying in a shed, but they’re full of tat. I nearly chopped one up when I saw your dads “ engineering!”
The amount of waste cant be any worse than a ring feeder . I’m feeding 4 lots of ewes a bale every second day, and have stopped moving the feeders. At least the waste gives them a dryish bit to stand on !

 

[Al R]

No need for photos. I have 3 boxes lying in a shed, but they’re full of tat. I nearly chopped one up when I saw your dads “ engineering!”
The amount of waste cant be any worse than a ring feeder . I’m feeding 4 lots of ewes a bale every second day, and have stopped moving the feeders. At least the waste gives them a dryish bit to stand on !

I’ll get a photo of waste off it and waste off a ring feeder in the other side, far less waste with the ring feeder!

 

[Al R]

With the spud box I park a bale next to it to the side with no sheep and chuck it in by hand what they need plus a bit because if I fill it up they’ll drag a hell of a lot out.

 

[honeyend]

If I do use a ring feeder, I have bought hockey nets, but I supose lorry nets would do. They get thrown over and tied to the ring. Depending on the animal I do not take off all the bale net. They get about a foot. I can not stand waste and hay makes poor bedding and muck. If its loose in a box they get new twice a day, if they are hungrey they will eat it or the straw they are bedded down on.