![]() ![]() If the weather is going to warm up for the day but is below freezing overnight, unroll early. If your flock needs a lot of hay, you’ll be making quite a few trips to get enough hay to the sheep. It didn’t last all winter, of course, but for longer than we figured. This is how we fed the ewe lambs last winter. When your sheep need some hay, but are still finding some grazing, as well, the loader method works well. Feed loose hay with a loaderĪnother partially by hand method of round bales to sheep is to use a loader or your truck bed.įill the loader with hay you peeled off of the bale, then drive in to the pasture and spread out the hay by hand. If you have the larger diameter round bales, 800+ pounds, you’ll need to be unrolling hay mechanically. Unrolling by hand is not as hard as it sounds, as long as you are on pretty flat ground and using a smaller sized round bale to start with. Usually, we would unroll it after moving it to the field on a bale spear, but if the bales we close to the gate, we’d just roll the bale right in. As you can tell, there are a few cows out here, as well! Unrolling round bales by handīefore we had the hay unroller, any time we ended up purchasing sheep hay in round bales we would roll the bale around the pasture by hand. ![]() We use this hay unroller to feed the main flock of sheep for the winter. ![]()
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