Hay feeder for sheep

It was a busy weekend with lots of household chores and necessary paperwork (ugh). Aside from the normal weekend routine, Saturday morning we found two of my 9-month old goat kid siblings, Sweet An…

Why our feeders please… Minimal waste. The panels prevent silage or hay from being pulled into the pen and onto the ground. Goats and sheep must work for each mouthful. Less risk of injury. Entering the pen is not required—so even children can safely feed hay and/or grain. Grain, silage and hay can all be […]

Through the years we have gone through various iterations of hay feeders for our sheep. The first ones were made of leftover or scrap lumber and worked okay but were either too heavy, or allowed too much hay chaff to get into our fleeces. We tore them apart and rebuilt them a few times but finally scrapped them altogether and came up with a new design. These feeders are great and work well for us. They have a nice deep tray for the hay to sit in while the sheep are sifting through to eat the…

When it comes to feeding our livestock on the homestead we have been become very innovative, if I should say so myself. We are always looking for solutions that will help us conserve the feed. Remember the diy plastic drum goat hay feeder as well at the diy old futton hay feeder. The hubby recently

Since we got a tractor and can actually move a round bale without use of PVC pipe as rollers and only the strength of Chuck's back, he has been experimenting with making hay feeders. He's made some pretty good feeders for grass hay by the flake, and a commercial horse feeder works fine for the lespedeza because the large openings between the bars work fine with the tightly packed lespedeza stems. The round bales were a challenge, though. How to make a feeder the goats could get the hay out…

Elizabeth from the blog "Ohiothoughts" in collaboration with 1001Pallets shares how to quickly make an easy-to-build Pallet Hay Feeder using one single

In case you didn’t know, Michael has a side job of building goat feeders and selling them. You may not have noticed, but we have a “For Sale” page on our blog. We sell milk, eggs…

These homemade hay feeders for goats are amazing and so effecinet. Easy to build these hay feeders will save your feed bill!