I have 5 acres and 4 horses in TX. OK well not sure if
it really counts as 4 horses as 2 are arabs and 2 are minis – so maybe
more like 2.5 horses?
Anyway I have about 2.5 acres in pasture. I have my
pasture area sectioned off into 4 smaller areas. The one area is all dirt
– this is where the horses spend most of their time. I call it the
hay area because this is where I feed them hay. This area opens into all
of the other grassy areas and is always kept open so the horses have access to
hay at all times. I have a larger grassy area, and two smaller grassy
areas as well. I rotate them in and out of these grassy
areas. Each area is about one day’s worth of grazing each
week. I also have another grassy area around my barn that has temporary
fence on one side (made of hay strings) that I allow the big horses to graze
one day a week. (One has figured out how to roll under the hay string
fence and got banned a couple of weeks ago – strangely enough he didn’t
break the fence at all.)
My pastures are not irrigated unless I drag out the lawn
sprinkler which is a pain in the - you know what.
Someday my dream is to have most of the 5 acres in pasture,
but alas, I have a non-horsie husband who is too lazy to help me remove all of
these darn east Texas
trees. My setup is not ideal, but I’ve made it work.
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