We built ‘wood-henge’ for the cows around this time last year, so that we could feed them large rounds of hay without the help of the farmer who had been putting them in the field with his tractor (he stopped selling hay). It is great because we can get it rolled in without getting covered in mud - they can only access and poach 3 sides of it and we roll the hay in off the drive from the 4th side.
However they have been throwing hay on the ground, which is good to a point as it soaks up the mud and makes it dryer for them to stand on, but it was getting too much, so we are trying putting the bale in a giant hay net to see if they can still get enough to eat, but waste less. We shall see!
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