Jingley
Active Member
Hello
Very silly minor question but im having a baby in December and am thinking of feeding large bales from the field.
I currently have my haylage stored in a barn and feed my two horses on two separate paddocks a load in the morning and a load in the evening in corner hay feeders in their shelters; horses on separate paddocks as they fight. For ease of whoever i ask to look after my horses when i go into labour, i was thinking about rolling a bale each into their shelters around my due date so they can ad lib for a week or so when i have baby. One horse is unrugged so thats not an issue, the other is a TB who is heavily rugged due to hating the cold.
I was just wondering with regards to how to feed the bales, do you completely remove all packaging or just the plastic haylage wrap and leave the netting on? Or just cut a hole in the top. Trying to think of the safest way to do this so they dont get tangled up, also so the TBs rug straps dont get caught in the netting too? Im not going to buy one of those large haynets that goes over the bale as ill only be doing it this once then will be back to feeding morning and eve when the bale is gone?
Any advice would be great.
Very silly minor question but im having a baby in December and am thinking of feeding large bales from the field.
I currently have my haylage stored in a barn and feed my two horses on two separate paddocks a load in the morning and a load in the evening in corner hay feeders in their shelters; horses on separate paddocks as they fight. For ease of whoever i ask to look after my horses when i go into labour, i was thinking about rolling a bale each into their shelters around my due date so they can ad lib for a week or so when i have baby. One horse is unrugged so thats not an issue, the other is a TB who is heavily rugged due to hating the cold.
I was just wondering with regards to how to feed the bales, do you completely remove all packaging or just the plastic haylage wrap and leave the netting on? Or just cut a hole in the top. Trying to think of the safest way to do this so they dont get tangled up, also so the TBs rug straps dont get caught in the netting too? Im not going to buy one of those large haynets that goes over the bale as ill only be doing it this once then will be back to feeding morning and eve when the bale is gone?
Any advice would be great.