I like my cratches, sheep & cattle also manage and the 4ft ones I can wheel out of the quagmire when it appears.
However, Knickers has long legs, Mary is shorter but she too can stretch her neck, then tongue.
To make life easier for the Wiltshire Horns, I am considering (if I can find one in the area and my price range (I doubt)) purchasing a sheep ring feeder for horned sheep. HOWEVER, the only type I can find that horned sheep suit are the horizontal bars kind, apparently the tombstone cattle type, doesn't come in sheep version.
If I could find a decent feeder, has anyone, who runs cattle in with horned sheep (do any of you??) cut off the top horizontal bars and the uprights so that the feeder is low enough for the cows to reach over? I ask as my larger cratches, when the bull was here on his "holiday" earlier this year, to save my cratches, I opened the lids on the 2 that slid right to the floor and when he wasn't by them, the sheep nibbled. But that was 5 sheep, now there are an additional 8 WH hopefully to lamb in Jan/Feb time.
Or has anyone made a horned sheep feeder that cows can stretch into? They all live happily together but not all the cratch lids slide to floor and no I cant remove them.