Allan hay for Wife's hosses!!

Snapped this picture on the way home from Mosas Lake, WA this afternoon. 3 more fields just like this one. Everyplace in this part of the country bale 1 ton square bales. Everything is stacked outside.

Keith & Shawn

1 ton bales

How do you feed it to horses, especially if the horses are in groups of 5-6 and only require 30# of hay, per day, each? Special feeders perhaps, that hold a whole bale?

Do you have to limit access to the hay then?

In my herd, the dominant horse would chase the timid ones away. We circumvent that when feeding small bales by distributing the flakes of hay far enough apart so all can eat and one horse cannot dominate it all!

I have successfully fed large round bales---the circular feeder is big enough to actually "accomodate" as many as 10-12 head, except that with dominance in horses, only about 6 will fit.

What shape is the feeder for these big bales? Got Pictures?