--- In [email protected], "Virginia Tupper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >"Paddock Paradise" by Jaime Jackson
I am not an experienced horse owner--I've owned horses for just a bit over a year so I read a lot of books. I know reading and doing are not the same so I'm glad I can share my thoughts with experienced horse people here on the list--get opinions, hear what works and what doesn't. Anyways, what really interested me in this book was it seemed to be a fun way for a horse to live...the track always leads to something else of interest whether it be food or comfort or something for fun. When I go visit my horses at the boarding barn I see them standing around nibbling--the pastures are rectangular blocks of land, not very large, so, are they bored? To me it looks boring compared to the farm where I bought them where the horses were rotated to different pastures. There were trees, little brooks, they moved around, it was nice. When we buy our farm I doubt we'll be able to purchase as nice a place and maybe not as much land, so I was thinking I could make a 'Paddock Paradise' which would be much more interesting for my horses and I wouldn't need acres and acres. Anyways--just thinking and dreaming..... Virginia
