We have access to some beautiful hay in round bales for $75
a ton (family friend). We got 2 bales as
a test, because I knew it would not work well in our situation, which is a
boarding facility with primarily stalls and runs for the boarded horses.Our horses are all together in a pasture, so
we can feed the round bales easily to them, but at that price, I sure would like
to find a way to easily feed it to the stalled horses.
The difficulty of course, is carrying loose hay around and
making sure that you feed enough.
I heard that some people use a “hay saw” to cut
up the round bales for distributed feeding.Has anyone done anything like this and can it make this a workable
situation? We use a gator to take the
hay around, but it takes 4 trips to do what could be done with one and regular small
bales.
