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Hi Amber:

I'm over in east Texas and would much prefer to feed round bales than square bales.  I don't like them out in the weather.  We will cover them with a tarp to keep them out of the weather.  We don't have a hay ring, but I'd love to get one to keep the rounder together.  We don't have much waste, my 5 horse eat a large rounder in about 5-6 days, depending on how piggy they are being.  I prefer bermuda/alecia/tifton to bahia.

Carolyn Burgess

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Subject: [RC] Feeding round bales
From: "Amber Roberts" <Amber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, December 25, 2008 3:31 pm
To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

We live in Texas and have always fed small square bales of Coastal Bermuda.  We have the opportunity from one of our boarders to start feeding round bales but we have no knowledge about how to do this.  The square bales have always been stored inside our barn, but round bales would have to be outside, in the weather.  Do they have to be stored up off the ground?  If so, how?  To feed hay this way, do the round bales have to be inside feeders?  We have 5 horses.  Do we need more than one feeder?  When a bale gets eaten down enough to be replaced, do you have to move the feeder?  Do you have to clean up left over hay on the ground?  We don't know if we'd be better off sticking with square bales or trying round bales.  It would save us some work at feeding but perhaps the cleanup would negate that advantage?  Any thoughts would be appreciated.

 

Amber

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