Below are some comments from users of the Big Bale Buddy. We would love to hear your thoughts on this innovative new product- please  email us at info@bigbalebuddy.com

Hi,

I just wanted to tell you how much I STILL LOVE our bale buddy. So many benefits of this products, but here are some of favorite benefits:

**Easy to store – I use it between December and March. When spring comes, I hose it down, dry it out and store away in my barn.

**On sunny warmer days (and after the bales have been munched on for several days lightening the bale) I can easily move the bale out of the barnyard so my guys aren’t pigging out all day on hay

**Durable – this is our second year and the bale buddy is still holding up to winter weather.

** Compact and tight so it easily fits under my barn overhang

Thanks again for this wonderful product – still don’t know why any would bother with a heavy clunky round bale feeder!!

Best,

Cheryl Kelly

Mid-Atlantic Region - Feeding two handsome geldings

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Dutch Hollow Acres
Lindsay Klik LaBella
Avon, NY
585-991-6706
http://www.DutchHollowAcres.com
http://www.AlpacaBytes.com
Lindsay@lklik.com
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We love our Bale Buddy.  I was very skeptical at first, but it really
 is wonderful.  It is safe (even when our pony climbs in when the hay 
is almost gone), and the hay savings is huge.
  You really have a great product!
Lori Heins, Rochester, MN

 

We purchased our Big Bale Buddy several months ago. we are feeding 8 American Paint Horses of various ages and all genders. When we first tried to get it on a bale it was a little hard and we had to trim off some of the bale. On our second bale. the Buddy had loosened up and we had no problems getting it on without trimming any. Our horses have had no problem getting adjusted to it and we have had only  a handful of hay on the ground. I have suggested it to other horse owners and hopefully they will purchase theirs very soon. What a cost saver. Buddy is worth every penny and had already paid for itself in hay savings.   Sue Johnson

  " We are seeing a hay savings of 25% since we started using Big Bale Buddy.It is effective , durable, inexpensive and easy to use, also completely safe for our horses, everybody should have one!"

           Joanne and Marty White, J&M farms, L'amble Ontario

 Thank you very much Jenise, I am very pleased with my big bale buddies so
far. The first 2 buddies where used in 1) a paddock where our 2
broodmares and their 5 month old foals are with a run in. The mares and
foals adjusted to the buddy very well and I am on my third round bale
with them. It collapses just as you said it would and then I just dump
the last bit onto the ground for them to clean up. No tears or any thing
like that. The second buddy went into a daily turnout paddock where our
horses in training are turned out 1 - 2 or 4 at a time. We also put a
round bale in each of the other daily turnout paddocks and removed the
strings as we always have done in the past. We rotated the horses into
the buddy paddock in varying numbers. These are all active thoroughbred
3 day event horses with shoes and corks on all around. They all love the
bale buddy and have not attempted to destroy it as yet. The bale buddy
paddock still has a nice shape to the bale with it about half eaten, the
other round bales in the other paddocks, on the other hand are strewn
about and peed and pooped on. This test result is what lead us to invest
in 4 more bale buddies for all of our paddocks. We think you have a
great product and are recommending it to people. It is a much safer alternative than putting the bales out with the strings on or in metal feeder as both can cause leg injuries.

Dr. Usha Knabe, Equine Veterinarian,Orangeville, Ontario

   " Our horses are no longer using their expensive hay for bedding, thank you Big Bale Buddy! Your product has paid for itself many times over and I no longer have to worry about our animals eating dirty hay."

         Ron and Chris Durning, Windy Hill Pintos, Cranbrook B.C.

  I would recommend the Bale Buddy for several reasons.  One is that is doesn’t do any damage to a horses’ mane, like other bale feeders do.  The other is that they are very safe – no leg injuries or cuts and gouges like you can get with the metal feeders.  Nice and light to handle too – no heavy slugging to tip a feeder over.  The horses seemed to enjoy the fact that they could get much closer to the hay, and all in all, I think they worked very well.

        Penny Nicols, Highland Wilderness Tours, Maynooth, Ontario

 We feed Hay to our horses year round and  are going into the second year of using our Big Bale Buddy. Not only has it saved us money because we had to buy less hay, it has also saved us time because we do not have to clean up all that wasted hay. Thank you for a great product.

          Fern Norris, Ontario

I purchased the Big Bale Buddy hay bags in January and I couldn’t be happier with them.  They have definitely saved me a lot of money because the horses are just not wasting the hay the way they did before.  I think I have saved at least 20% on hay costs since I started using the Buddies.  We are also saving time with clean up as there are no strings to have to pick up after they have eaten their round bales. 

 I am happy with the safety aspect of the bags as well.  I have always been hesitant about getting steel feeders as I was concerned about one of the horses getting hurt.  There are no worries whatsoever with the Big Bale Buddy.  As an added (and unexpected) bonus, my horses are now fearless of tarps as they think now it might possibly hold food for them.

 I have to also comment about the service from Jenise at Buddy Incorporated.  She returns calls and ships the product promptly and has been excellent about replacing 2 of my Buddies that have gotten holes in them from the horses.  This is seriously one of the best farm investments I have made and I can’t recommend them highly enough.

Pat Gras

Rockridge Arabians

www.arabiansatrockridge.com

Home of:  ASPR approved Starglow Questor

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 We are using our Big Bale Buddy for our stallion.  He is very social and housed beside a small group of mares, foals a gelding and another stallion.  Having his own round bale of hay ensures that he can 'graze' all day and not get into mischief.  He has been extremely clean with the Buddy cleaning up any hay that drops out and lays around it.  We have been experiencing some strong winds over the last few days and are amazed at how well the hay has been contained and kept clean for him to eat.  We did have a slight struggle getting it on the bale as our hay supplier produces 6 to 8 hundred pound bales and it took two of us to cram the bale into the bag making a nice snug package.