Fall Checklist for Preparing Your Horse Property for Winter
Alayne Blickle
October 8, 2023
Use this checklist of fall horse property chores to better prepare yourself and your horses for the upcoming winter months.
Use this checklist of fall horse property chores to better prepare yourself and your horses for the upcoming winter months.
Fall is a great time to renovate horse pastures and ready them for winter.
Can you pass Alayne’s test? Get advice for winterizing and making your horse property chore-efficient.
Here’s a brief look at “green” horse keeping techniques you can implement on your farm this summer.
Here’s a non-toxic insect control approach that can work for anyone: Encourage insect-eating birds to move into your yards, pasture, and barn areas.
March and April mark the return of these little birds that play a big role in horse-property insect control.
Have you ever used genetic testing to research your horse’s ancestry? Find out how a DNA test offered Alayne some surprise answers to questions about her BLM mustang’s ancestry.
How do you maintain a good relationship with your nonhorsey neighbors?
Meet some of the competitors from the 2015 Extreme Mustang Makeover in Nampa, Idaho.
Trying to beat those weeds? Here’s a homemade herbicide recipe for tank sprayers or spray bottles that’s low in chemicals and caustic substances.
Rotational grazing is a recommended pasture management “best management practice” to increase pasture productivity and prevent overgrazing and soil compaction. This technique guarantees fresh grass for your horses for a longer period of time during the growing season.
The owners of this recently purchased 17-acre farm are incorporating rain gardens in paddocks and on a mountain trail course to help with mud control.
Alayne Blickle, of Horses for Clean Water, shares how buffer or biofiltration strips can help control muddy runoff in your paddocks.
Interested in what kind of footing to put in your outdoor arena? Alayne Blickle, of Horses for Clean Water, discusses appropriate footing materials with reining horse trainer, Matt Livengood.
Liming horse pastures is one big way you can help most horse pastures become more productive.
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