Re: OT: Horse Fencing

Posted by Billy NY on March 04, 2007 at 04:24:22 from (64.12.116.141):

In Reply to: Re: OT: Horse Fencing posted by Allan In NE on March 03, 2007 at 10:12:43:

That's a good idea, and the more room the better, it's great to watch em run and play. From seeing your photos, that is a nice spread to let em run, just what they need and what they do in the wild.

Certain times of the year, they get stuck in the stalls, too icy or too wet, will turn up the soil and mess up the grazing, and that is when the boredom is high. Right now the snow cover helps, protects the sod. Fortunately, they ship most of ours if not all down south, with the other ritzy farm that we work with ( the barn alone is still beyond my comprehension, you could live in it at this place - north and south locations ) so they are kept busy, which is a good thing for horses.

In the summer they have grazing, but the bugs are a problem, or t-storms or some other darned thing, we've got 2 large pastures 20 acres each, and 2 small ones, but before they were all useable, rotating them in and out along with borders horses, can be tight when the place is full, then all of them need to be ridden everyday, they keep a schedule on that, and to be honest it's a royal pain in the butt to keep up on everything, this one gets along with that one, that one has to be alone, etc. etc. then other people see things their way and want to change this and that, and that's where I used to draw the line, and stay out of it. It's great when you've ones that get along, run and play, always fun to sit back and watch especially if you just have a couple and tha's all I'd ever own, no more than 2 !!!

Both pastures are nice, would make excellent hay, one has clover and timothy, the other got really depleted, so me being the equipment savvy guy say's, "I would enjoy replanting it", did get the entire field turned with a 2 bottom and my tandem disc's, then the committee gets involved, it never got planted, just rolled, to flatten some of the bumps, and here I am expecting weeds to no end, it came up thick with timothy, all timothy ! Still too many lumps, not sure what they want to do there, but the good grazing sure helps em keep their minds off trouble, and that field was plantain or plantin ( whatever that broad leaf thing is ) infested, grazing was nil and they were gettin into trouble. I still cannot believe how the timothy came up, was a blessing in disguise, PH in that field was not too far off as I remember, turned it in late summer, set all winter, even made arrangements to by a seeder, before the bottom fell out on the re-plant job.

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