Protection device for bales

A protection device comprising a series of at least two overlapping elongated slats, said elongated slats having at least one projection on at least one side adapted to insure that said protection device will retain at least one air passage between said protection device and product being protected when said protection device is in place to protect said product, and having a flap along one edge of each of said elongated slats adapted to overlap an abutting slat, said elongated slats having means for holding adjacent elongated slats in movable relationship with each other and means for connecting together a series of said elongated slats to form said protection device, said protection device having associated therewith an end panel adapted to prevent animals from feeding from the end of the bale when said protection device is in place.