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    Anyone from Canada using Bale Bonnets?

    These looked like a good ticket to cover my hay bales. I store them on pallets and/or on gravel and feed one or two bales at a time so I liked the single bale bonnets. Unfortunately shipping per box of 16 is like 100 bucks! Just wondering if any other folks from Canada is using a similar...
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    Is this hay worthwhile?

    I usually pay $45 for 4 x 5 bales of second cut timothy/alfaalfa mix. Heck I have to get it trucked from a little bit away to pay even that! Local guys charge $50-55 for the same given the market here is all horse owners. The field across the road for me is all timothy and was just baled 4x5s...
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    Hay waste

    I too am finding that there is waste that I could do without at the feeder. I have two feeders. One for my 5 mature animals - 4 cows and 1 bull. Another for the 4 calves. The first group goes through a bale in 5 days. The next takes two weeks. I see quite bit of hay makes its way outside...
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    Month you start feeding hay

    First full year with the cows is almost up. We put out hay mid November as the pastures looked wanting about then. In the spring we feed till early to mid May. The cows want out by the end of April when they see the lush green grass but we try to keep them in the barnyard with hay anyway as...
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