On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Karen Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My horses are out 24x7. If the grass gets too rich and/or tall (which > hasn't happened since last year's drought) I close off some of the satellite > pastures for a few weeks. I've come to think of pastures as rec-rooms, not > so much as dining rooms. Horses need exercise and mentally, they need to > graze and roam. Even the all-day moseying around mine do keeps them more > fit than merely standing around in dry lots. Is there a way you can add > some cross-fencing, expanding your "dry lot" and to provide some staggered > areas of richness of grass? Adding cross-fencing isn't so expensive, and is > something you can add as you get time. I know your property is big, but I > can't remember how much you had fenced. >
We will eventually fence more land but until then the horses only have the shelter with add-on pen and the pasture. Do you have run-in sheds in the pastures so the horses can hide from the bugs? Mine seem to like their shelter because it's not as buggy as the pasture. V
