Oh, you are so right. It doesn't change the nutrition value of the hay,
it just helps them to eat more of it.
Mr. FH cannot abide rolling a bale of hay out with a tractor tire.
He loves his hay processor. He used to come in griping all the
time about unrolling the big round bales. When you hate
something that bad, you better find a different way. He wouldn't
go back to unrolling bales any other way, I can tell you that.
And this way we use the tractor and dont' need another pickup
for a bale bed. If we had more cattle, he might look at a bale
bed, but we don't.
I hate to see cows standing on hay with the other end in their
mouth. You can feed with a bale processer and the cows eat
ALL the hay because you can make the windrow as narrow as you
want.
To each his own.