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So the feeder seemed to have worked well. The horses were all in today and were standing around it munching. One of the things I need to try is putting the hay in loose. I made the mistake of dropping a whole bale in and just pulling the twine off of it and packing loose around it. When I got down there this morning most of that bale was still in there.

it is working pretty good so far, but it does need a little reworking on the design. I think for the next one I build I'm going to use cattle panels so i don't need to break the hay up. The holes in the cattle panels are much bigger so the horses will be able to get a big bite out of a compact bail. As it stands now I have to break the hay up and drop it in the top so they can get to it. It's also been pulled out of square a bit from all the tugging they have been doing on it but it's lasted pretty much all winter so I'd say it's a success so far!