That looks like a good setup, unless you get a lot of snow. If that happened, I would worry about the snow sliding off the roof and landing in a huge pile just where I would want to drive to feed the cows.
When I was a kid, my Dad and I built a long, covered feed bunk that was attached on one end to our old hay barn. We only fed small square bales of conditioned mostly alfalfa hay, and the feed bunk made it possible to get hay waste down to almost nothing. It also was fairly easy to pull the bales down to the end of the bunk by hand and distribute hay the length of the bunk, and since it was covered, I didn't have to fight the snow. On the side of the bunk where the cows ate, we had a nice ramp with some slope to it, so the manure mostly just flowed off, giving the cattle good footing and a good place to eat. The shed roof over the bunk made the snow slide off on the other side from where the cows were. In those years, sometimes we would have snow piles 12 feet tall from where the snow had slid off the metal barn roof. I sure liked that feed bunk--it was lots better and easier to use than the way we fed before, and there was very little waste. One of my Dad's best ideas!
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