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RoperAB
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| Ropper get one of those plastic feeders for round bales for your horses-I think UFA sells them. They don't have any vertical bars in them and actually are pretty strong. They are designed so that no way a horses can hang up in them. |
Yeah but are they just going to blow away? Im in about the windiest part of AB. Like my corrals are 100lbs panels and they just shake in the wind. It blows so hard here sometimes that you cant even breathe if you face the wind. 60MPH wind is just a breeze here in the winter. Sometimes it blows so hard that you can hardly walk in it.
Its our elevation and our position on the eastern slope. I cant leave my trailers empty or they would blow over. I have to put bags of feed in them for weight and position them so they are not sideways into the chinook winds.
Lots of days I have to feed alfalfa cubes because hay will blow away before the horses could ever eat it.
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Northern Rancher
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 12:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Well I saw them being used at Gull Lake wthin about a mile of twenty of those big old wind turbine windmills-if it's that windy there the dust will blow out of your hay too lol.
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RoperAB
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 2:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Northern Rancher wrote: |
| Well I saw them being used at Gull Lake wthin about a mile of twenty of those big old wind turbine windmills-if it's that windy there the dust will blow out of your hay too lol. |
Well there are going to be days that I will have to feed cubes and fence off the round bale feeder.
If its plastic and can be lifted by hand that might work out good because on windy days I will have to wrap ropes around the open bale or the hay will just blow away bit by bit.
When I go to town I will check them out. The price sure sounds right because the steel ones are not cheap.
Here is another concern. Will colts eat the plastic? Even on my steel panels each panel has two plastic covers about an inch in diameter to plug off the round tubing. Colts tend to nible on these and lots of them are chewed off. I think its just the one colt that does this.
I know there like beavers if you throw a piece of wood in there.
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kolanuraven
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Good Lord man.....that's windy!!!
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Northern Rancher
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:47 pm Post subject: |
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| They look like pretty hard plastic to me-why not chain it to a post at the bottom. I saw a steel feeder get blown across the yard and into the bull pen at my buddies in Ten Sleep,Wyoming once. Not sure if the colts will chew them or not-might be easier on manes than steel feeders are.
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katrina
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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| I've used round bale feeders for twenty years and have never had a problem. And yes they are the ones that won't mess up the manes. But we only feed enough hay in them that the horses have it ate in a couple of days. We don't fill them full.. And they are the ones with the closed bottom. So they can't get their feet in the rings........
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RoperAB
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RoperAB
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 5:40 pm Post subject: |
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| katrina wrote: |
| I've used round bale feeders for twenty years and have never had a problem. And yes they are the ones that won't mess up the manes. But we only feed enough hay in them that the horses have it ate in a couple of days. We don't fill them full.. And they are the ones with the closed bottom. So they can't get their feet in the rings........ |
Steel or plastic?
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katrina
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 5:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Steel...... We have one especially for horses and then we have one that is for bulls, I think they call them bull feeders, ah heck, ya think so??? I can go and look. That would be the best idea..... They are heavy and have legs( not really legs, what am I wanting to say???) on the bottom so they don't sit on the ground.
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Northern Rancher
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| Posted: Mon Jul 31, 2006 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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| I used to sell bulls to a guy south of Ten Sleep-it's a nice drive over the pass to there from Buffalo,
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L.E. Stevens
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 5:53 am Post subject: |
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| I've got a couple units that look like a horizontal semi-circle bunk feeder. They're steel, sit about 4' off the ground & ya lay the bale in on its side. There's legs at the corners only; nothing under the feeder. The horses feed just like they would in a manger setup. I've added skids to them so I can move them around the traps to keep the ground from getting tore up.
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RoperAB
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