Which, of course they do as you well know, but only on odd occasions. You would need to make your own to suit your bales, but the wastage is minimised with a big trough right around the raised feeder and with a 4" high lip to prevent hay being pulled out unless the goat actually has a mouthful and purposely walks away and drops it. A lot of good ideas come out of these countries where they still operate a peasant based agriculture - as in southern Europe. The title of the article is "Development and Evaluation of Improved Feeders for Goats Suitable to Stall-fed Management System". 6, 2005 with some basic plans for feeders - using natural materials, or bought in metal. I cannot give a link because I printed off the info and do not have the website, but I found a Nepalese site a few years ago and it was an article in the Nepal Agric. There is always a trough underneath, because as you well know and have posted, goats are very wasteful feeders. The rods (I will convert to the nearest Imperial measurement) are 1/4" to 3/8ths" set at 3" centres. Absolutely everybody (except me) has useless dogs that are just allowed to wander, and so it is necessary to shed stock at nights. It is a different set up here to other countries where I have lived. The general goat feeder in places where goats are the main livestock in the area is made of vertical plain rods not mesh. I do like them for cattle, but not for goats. Have most of the materials, just no time as of yet, and new shop not set up yet.Ĭrowbar, I think that mesh panels are not satisfactory for goats. I have had several people want me to build them one. I now just put enough in the feeder for a feeding, and make them clean it up. You wil note all the wasted hay on the ground, due to my particular gelding. The ends are removable on each end, so as to load from either direction. Actualy, I spent more time building a tubing bender to get the 8' radius reels, down to 6' radius. At the time I built it, I had approx $100 - $125 in materials. So., made skids on the bottom from 4 X 6's. And theirs mounted on 6 X 6 posts, where I wanted mine portable, so as to move to clean the paddock. Then saw a "Big-O" round bale feeder at the Qtr. Got part of the idea from a cradle type feeder for sheep, but I wanted it covered. I did have a few goats, and they had no problem eating from it.īuilt from conduit reels, some angle iron, square tubing from the centers of the conduit reels, expanded metal for the bottom, so as to not hold water, and later on the bottom sides to keep the horse from reaching underneath, and sheet metal top. Built for horses, but a person can make it as tall as you want. It's actually in another thread here in the B-I Y section. Here's a couple pics of one I built a few years back. So I like this design where the bale is off the ground and they have to pull one bite at a time through the wire. Ideally they would have to spend all day at the feeder to get enough hay. ![]() The more you can make them work for their food the better. The other thing about goats is that they get bored if they don't have enough to do and they get mischievous. You need the feeder to be big enough that one goat can't keep another from eating which is good too. ![]() So I like this design where the holes aren't big enough for them to put their heads in. They butt hard enough to break ribs, and a bully goat will keep another from eating. If you have the style of feeder they have to put their heads into they are vulnerable when their head is in and another goat can and will butt them in the side. ![]() One thing about goats is that they can be quite rough on each other. This design looks good, if you have a tractor to load it: Generation Farm Kiko Goats: Hay feeder part deux
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