[Lesley Silvester]

Made myself a new hayrack today that I can fill from the outside so they can't 'help' when I am trying to stuff a whole bale in at once. Don't know about everyone else but I find it lasts longer if it is put out a bale at a time and left compressed? If I fluff it up they just waste it!

That must be a huge hayrack.  It is easier to fill them from outside.  I don't fluff mine up - just put it in in slices, but they still seem to get loads on the floor.

[colliewoman]

Yup I replaced one wooden panel with a long hurdle then fixed another hurdle to the outside about halfway up. I tilted the outside hurdle to an angle sufficient to take a bale and fixed it in place with good old baler twine! Then I used some waterproof membrane and a few well place knots to make a cover for the open top to keep the rain out
If after a week it prove still to be sucessful I will replace the twine with chain to make it more permanent.
I do need to rig something up to catch dropped hay still as they still waste it


I am rather please with it, all four big girls can eat from it at once without squabbling and in nice weather they can eat from the outside of it too!

[Lesley Silvester]

I am rather please with it, all four big girls can eat from it at once without squabbling and in nice weather they can eat from the outside of it too!

Mine have two racks in their shed but always have to eat from the same one and usually from the same section.