Round bale protection

[hally]

Can anybody recommend a good net to protect a bale stack from bird damage. Tia.

 

[hendrebc]

Secure covers? Those green ones you put on silage pits so you don't need as many tyres.
I just use some cheap netting I bought in the local co-op for covering bales can't remember what it's called but works ok.

 

[spin cycle]

skynet

 

[sawdust]

skynet

 

[HarryB97]

We have 4 galebreaker covers with sand bags. They're fantastic dead easy to sheet a stack on your own as they're very slippy and a 10 year guarantee. Only ordered another two the other day

 

[Pan mixer]

It may be a stupid idea but I always put a random bale here and there on top of the stack - on the fourth row - which all the birds seem to go for leaving the rest. I do wrap triple though.

I do have trouble with rabbits though and we fence it with those sections, this picture was taken just as we finished wrapping yesterday before we put the fence sections on the new front.

 

[Muck Spreader]

Ruddy cats here, using their claws like crampons to climb up the bales. The up side is I never have any problems with birds or mice on them.

 

[1594mac]

Secure covers!! I use after having tried a few different methods which didn’t work

 

[Poorbuthappy]

If birds are a real problem even with nets, put tyres on the bales under the net to space it up off the bales.

 

[Great In Grass]

http://www.securecovers.co.uk/bigbalestacks.html

We sell lots of them and they work really well. @Poorbuthappy 's quote above is a very good tip.

 

[Dry Rot]

I don't know the current position but commercial fishermen were virtually giving sprat netting away. I got a trailer load of new netting for my game pens just for taking away. Might be worth a few phone calls if you are anywhere near any fishing ports.

 

[holywell farmer]

It may be a stupid idea but I always put a random bale here and there on top of the stack - on the fourth row - which all the birds seem to go for leaving the rest. I do wrap triple though.

I do have trouble with rabbits though and we fence it with those sections, this picture was taken just as we finished wrapping yesterday before we put the fence sections on the new front.

Hear if out bales on bed on sand rats can't dig into them

 

[Pan mixer]

Hear if out bales on bed on sand rats can't dig into them

We have got a bit of sand under some but the ratman stops the rats.

We need a rabbit man

 

[landslave the 2nd]

If birds are a real problem even with nets, put tyres on the bales under the net to space it up off the bales.

And put 3 or 4 (depending on shape of stack ) 1mts high foam insulation ( blue water pipe ) wedged in top row to WAFT ABOUT IN THE WIND.

 

[holywell farmer]

We have got a bit of sand under some but the ratman stops the rats.

We need a rabbit man

What about fence around the bales, rabbit fencing can be partly buried

 

[Pan mixer]

What about fence around the bales, rabbit fencing can be partly buried

That is what we have on the fixed side and a portable, sectional fence on the other two sides, it is there in the photo somewhere.

 

[Dry Rot]

I saw a post some time ago where some clever fellow had split blue water pipe lengthways, then inserted the bottom of edge of rabbit netting into the slot. So the wire netting was insulated by the water pipe. Once the net was connected up to a fencer it kept the rats and rabbits out!