Achinghips
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Can you keep a TB twonk with a companion on 1.5 acres, if you stable every night and have a menage that you can turn out in? Good draining soil, but TB hoons if without companion and churns up ground.
Acreage question - sorry
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Dubsie
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Lady at the end of our road keeps one and a Sec A on about that but only a field shelter, no stable, no menage, well drained, not a lot of grass, feeds the TB well, suppliments with hay. And yes the TB hoons too (so does the SecA, but she's currently unshod and does minimal damage)
Achinghips
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Interesting, thanks.
Thistle
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Yes I would think you can. Management would have to be spot on, poo picking etc and probably fertilise.
You would prob be best to split into 3 so you can vary grazing as necc.
You would prob be best to split into 3 so you can vary grazing as necc.
Honey08
Waffled a lot!
It really depends on the ground. 1.5 acres on our clay soil would be ruined in no time, however 1.5 acres in somewhere with better ground would be fine - I'm presuming that the menage and stables are not included in the 1.5.
You may have to bring in at night all year round, and supplement with hay/haylage in mid winter. Turnout on the menage in really bad weather, and keep half back, at least, for summer - so the winter bit gets to rest and recover over the summer...
You may have to bring in at night all year round, and supplement with hay/haylage in mid winter. Turnout on the menage in really bad weather, and keep half back, at least, for summer - so the winter bit gets to rest and recover over the summer...
Achinghips
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Thanks. Stables are solid field shelter/stables on the 1.5, menage is separate. Well draining soil
Dubsie
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This is true - she poo picks each morning and night (while waiting for the TB to eat his hard feed) and the SecA is kept away while he eats. it's also sectioned into 3 and she rotates the bit they're grazing.
L&M
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I managed to keep two 14.2 cobs and a shetland on 2.5 acres, with only stabling overnight in the winter, so totally possible. I split the grazing into 2 and rotated it, and was meticulous with poo-picking, harrowing and rolling etc. I often would have too much grass in the summer, even with them out 24/7, and on a couple of occasions had to have it topped.
However, I was lucky as it was gently sloping, coupled with a sand/clay loam, so was well draining in the winter and fertile in the growing season, so guess that had a big influence on the grass quality.
However, I was lucky as it was gently sloping, coupled with a sand/clay loam, so was well draining in the winter and fertile in the growing season, so guess that had a big influence on the grass quality.
Milkmaid
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Yes, definately do-able.
Plenty of livery yard kept horse certainly don`t get paddocks that big! I`ve got two atm but have had three on a tad over 2 acres. I stable over night in winter and daytime in summer.
Instead of a menage for turnout when wet i`ve got scalpings pens (each 15m x 15m roughly) so they can go out for a leg stretch and these help massively in keeping the fields from getting trashed.
Plenty of livery yard kept horse certainly don`t get paddocks that big! I`ve got two atm but have had three on a tad over 2 acres. I stable over night in winter and daytime in summer.
Instead of a menage for turnout when wet i`ve got scalpings pens (each 15m x 15m roughly) so they can go out for a leg stretch and these help massively in keeping the fields from getting trashed.