Eating from a hay bale

This morning after moving my irrigation pipes I discovered Maria and Diamond were eating from a hay bale I recently put at the hay shed.  They had figured out how to get through one of the wooden gates.  They either tore or ate some of the net wrap around the bale and were eating the hay bale when I found them.  I got another corral panel and placed it to block them from the hay bale.  They weren't too happy about that.

This is how the bale looked before the cattle started eating from the left bale.

I also laid a tarp over the area they had eaten.

Eaten bale