This net works perfectly for holding a full average sized 50lb square bale. We built a box with two metal rings in diagonal corners and use a heavy duty metal carabiner clip to secure the bale down on both ends. It's the smallest holes I could find, probably a bit over 1" - my small lady hand for reference.

Been using it for about a month now- my two horses have access to it 24/7 and they manage to power through an entire square bale in a matter of hours, even with the tiny openings. So far, the net has no holes, no issues, and the two horses are a bit grabby at it and do bite and pull on it a bit.

One thing- if you're using it where the horses can access the opening part, the little strings it comes with aren't super hardy and they leave big gaps. The horses were just flipping the bag over and pulling the hay out of the bigger openings. I laced hay string through the opening and that did the trick. Problem solved with free haystring!

This product may be a life saver. It's slowing the donks down a little bit. While you shouldn't let horses overeat, you absolutely cannot allow donkeys to do so. They evolved to travel great distances on dry African plains in search of dry twigs and dry forage. Mine are only 5 and one went down from founder this summer in a sparse paddock.

Slows them down. Resist the temptation to fill for a 24 hour period as mine can polish it off in an hour.

I have been using this hay net for the past year now (ordered 1 year ago to the day), and it has no rips, tears or holes. My mare is not an aggressive eater but she does rub her head/face on it daily and it has held up well. Easy to fill with several flakes of hay, no problem! My net is in an open air barn and does occasionally get wet from blowing rain. It has held up fine (even thru the hurricane last year!). Highly recommend this net, will definitely purchase in the future if I ever need to!

These are perfect!! Light weight but Very strong and sturdy

I have 2 big horses, my 26 year old is 1/2 Percheron 1/2 Thoroughbred, and my baby is a 9 month old 1/2 Gypsy Vanner 1/2 Percheron, we live in Washington state at the ocean and it has been very, very wet here, between the rain storms and the snow the pasture is a shin deep mud pit which makes it difficult to haul hay out to the horses shelter, these slow feeders have been a life saver, not only do I have to haul hay out to them once every 2 1/2-3 days (I split one bale between both bags each fill up, and I do grain them in their shelter 2X's a day still) but they keep their hay off the ground and there is almost NO waste (see pictures 4 and 5, just crumbs and dust on the ground) by having hay available to them 24/7 they spend less time standing out in the mud and they help to simulate the natural grazing that horses need. I have only been using these for about 3 weeks but they are made well, hold up well to the horses and best yet they do not tear up their lips like the plastic net hay feeders, I have highly recommend these other horse friends out here in Washington and will get a couple more to keep in my horse trailer

I have attached it to the stall...just waiting for the feeding personnel at this time to use it. I am headed back to the barn in another hour to see the results.