So much for "self regulation": take that, ad libbers!
Quite ,mine have eaten a round bale put in on Monday replaced yesterday .
Two are out at night and in for a few hours during the day one has three hours turnout most days longer sometimes and ones out till six thirty so four horses .
I am now shutting them off it and gradually increasing the time they have none .
No one is slim it’s been a very easy winter despite the field being very bare the far fighting is not going as well as I would like .
I just unnet the bale and leave it I don’t mind some waste and it gives the outside horses somewhere to rest they lie and eat from the bale at night very sweet .
I would never use any sort of bale feeder I have seen to many nasty accidents over the years.