#DIY PALLET HAY FEEDER FREE#

These tires are HEAVY, they stay where you put them, even with help from horses. Drill some holes in that lower side, so that if water gets into it, it can drain away. Leave the rim on the bottom part, it elevates the hay you put in it off the ground. On it’s side as a feeder, it is about 3’ high, and 5’ wide, and horses CAN NOT toss the hay out onto the ground out of them. The BEST type of tire is called a “floatation” tire, which is a tire that allows heavy equipment to drive over soggy, swampy land.

#DIY PALLET HAY FEEDER FREE#

They are free at your local tire store, ask the employees there for the right type, the type that you CAN cut the rim off (no metal in the sides).

Large used heavy equipment tires, with the top rim cut off them with a saw. Would it be nice to have a hay hut or one with a roof? Sure but it isn’t in the budget especially since I don’t own the property. They put out flakes from the big rectangular bales and there is quite a bit of waste since it gets muddy/peed on/pooped on. I plan on making a few for the new place I board at for the fields my horses are in. The corral was easy for two people to move but if I could move it by myself if I had to. It kept them from trampling the hay, sleeping in the hay, peeing/pooping on the hay. We would just lift it over the round bale once it was in place on the pallet. It was sized to barely fit around the round bale. We had a short piece of 2x4 in the middle of the 2x4 just connecting the 2x4 but not going to the ground. The corners were 4x4 with a top and middle rail of 2x4 glued and lag bolted to the 4x4. I am no longer at that farm to measure them. I don’t remember the exact height since we built the original ones about 3 years ago. We selected the height based on the top rail in the low/to mid chest height. Just wanna keep them occupied, and not wasting hay.įor round bales we were placing the pallet under the round bale and then we build a basic corral with no top. Just looking for any other ideas that people may have!! Not gonna roll in whole round bales, too much waste even with nets, and these boys are not hurting weight wise.

I’ve tried a kiddie pool, which worked really well till they trashed the crap out of it (boys!!!) I feed from round bales that I fork out and just fill the wheelbarrow to dump in the paddock, which works great when it’s dry. (I have ordered a couple more, so I can fill them the night before to hang up in the morning). I do feed sometimes with haynets in the shelter, which works pretty well, but the mornings I have to work, it is too time consuming to fill nets. I try to keep it picked out, but once it gets muddy, feeding hay on the ground is a real pain, as they churn it into the mud, pee on it, and then I have to clean it out or else the mud gets worse.

I have two geldings in a smallish paddock, with a run in shelter, and when we get the copious amounts of rain that we’ve gotten this past summer, it can turn into a mud pit.

Diy pallet hay feeder