Planning for Wintertime Horse Pasture Care
- Posted by Alayne Blickle
If you are fortunate enough to have horse pasture winter is the time to baby it. It’s also important to realize that a good stand of grass is critical for environmental health. Grass roots hold valuable topsoil in place and prevent erosion. Grass plants minimize pollution by filtering out nutrients and sediments and reducing runoff.
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The best winter care you can give your pastures is to confine horses in sacrifice areas, or winter paddocks, and off pastures. Here are what our paddocks look like at Sweet Pepper RanchCreate a free account with TheHorse.com to view this content.
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Alayne Blickle
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re: Planning for Wintertime Horse Pasture Care
Help HELP! Just move to a 1 acre irrigated bermuda property the is chalked full of burs and weeds. Like goats heads. And a LOT of gopher holes! The ground is packed. I am too chicken to use round up on the weeds and too chicken to let the horse o
re: Planning for Wintertime Horse Pasture Care
YES i GOT THE COMPACTION AND WEED INVASION
I OPENED UP 2 X 5 ACRE PASTURES TO GIVE APRROX 2 ACRES PER HORSE
AT MOMENT 2 YEARLING 2 X 2 YR OLDS AND ONE 4 YR OLD
TRYING TO WORK OUT PLAN TO RENOVATE PASTURE ??????
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re: Planning for Wintertime Horse Pasture Care
Thanks for posting this! I’ve kept my horses in much smaller paddocks in the winter and sometimes I’ve felt bad that they are more "confined" versus running on their 20 acre summer pasture. I also like that you commented on how short to let g