I can try leaving them up in the air next time but I'm just worried the bale would fall apart before I can get the feeder around it which has happened on occasion. A lot of it depends upon how old the bale is and how long it has sit in the mud.
We can usually pull up the old piece of netting on the ground unless there is too much wet stuff on top. We sometimes set new bales right on top of old bale remnants depending if we need to beat a storm or something and don't want to waste the hay still in the feeder. We try to move the bales over to a new spot every so often just keep the ground from being torn up too bad by constant feeding and the wasted hay from piling up too much in one spot.
A good thing about the netting is that it seems to dissolve in the wet ground over time after feeding but that is not good for a bale that sits a year or two in a mud hole waiting to be fed. It is less of a concern about getting caught up in a horse hoof. The rub on twine is that parts gets stuck in the ground and then a horse can catch a hoof in it, get it wrapped around, and lose circulation.
The net wrapping seems to hold good as long as a bale is still round. But when a bale has sit for a while in a place to where the bottom of the bale has flattened out, all bets are off regarding moving that bale without losing the bottom.
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