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Homemade Hay Feeders For Goats. Cattle rings and standard bunk feeders are too large and cumbersome to be practical for the small-livestock farmer. I love my goats but they waste much hay. After years of trying to stop my goats from turning much of their hay into bedding i ve fi. Discussion in Goat Management started by laurenlewis24 Jul 6 2013.
Less than 4000 and Papa Bear cut it into 4 pieces with some heavy duty cutters to make 4 feeders. This is a great goat hay feeder for a large herd of animals and can be used inside or out. 5152020 We are all about low cost and recycling. In the past I have tried all kinds of hay feeders but nothing has worked until we tried this most recent version. 152013 I open the top of it daily and stir it around but the half a bale of hay I put in there a week ago is just now needing replacement. I didnt come up with the design on my own we modified a design that goat breeders shared on a goat Facebook page.
If youre new to raising goats you may not know that goats are terrible hay wasters.
Various types of wooden pallets are very useful for making feeders quickly and easily. Materials for making homemade goat feeders may include chain nails cement PVC primer different pieces of dimensional lumber and plywood screws PVC pipes with different widths etc. 362012 If you are just feeding a couple goats a box frame that is wide enough to slip a slab of hay in works well with either 4x4 or 2x4 welded metal fencing in the front and framed out with wood. I didnt come up with the design on my own we modified a design that goat breeders shared on a goat Facebook page. This feeder was again born from the idea that goats waste too much hay dropping it on the ground. Raw materials for this project are as follows.
