Anyone else's grass so rich and growing so fast?

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Anyone else's grass very very rich at the moment and growing so fast?

Its frightening!

i have 10 acres for 4 horses! Currently got them squashed in 3 acres and still worried there is to much grass! ALthough very active and ridden daily one of them has gone very cresty!

A friend of mine has had one go down with lami...
 
2 TB's on 2 and a half acres 24/7 - they are not even taking the top off of it!

It is lovely and lush but in hindsight, if we knew how the weather would have been in April/May we would not have fertilized.

On the plus side, we probably won't need to hay until December! :D
 
Rose Folly said:
No, no, no. Plese can I come and live with you? The ground is cracked and brick hard, and grass is hardly growing at all.
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Ditto this ^ however my 2 live off fresh air so it's having a positive effect on their waistline but rock solid ground is making my arthritic sore.
 
Ours is the same, we have to be so careful at this time of year.

I went away for a short break with OH and parents last week and worried every day about my horse grazing and not getting any exercise! She's in overnight anyway but I still worry she might get lami. Luckily she was fine when I got back but you never know when they might get it...especially the native types like mine.

Hopefully we will have some warm, dry weeks over the summer to stop it growing so fast!!!
 
I wish! My mare has dropped so much weight in the last 3 weeks I'm now embarrassed to say she belongs to me. The grass is barely growing at all and has way too many horses on it so there is no chance of anything at all this summer. Not what I had in mind for her last few months :(
 
mine got lami mildly last autumn despite being in a bare field :-((( so I am hating this time of year. She was muzzled for months, but now unmuzzled in a smallish field but only after it was completely eaten to the ground by the sheep, and she is only out 6 hours a day and the sheep are let back in for the other 18 to eat any grass so there is none for her, just a tiny moorland type nibble!

I can tell it must be fairly effective as she is starting to whinge to me that theres nothing to eat and she will waste away (very unlikely....).

Still worried tho, hate the colour green in grass now....am longing for it to turn straw coloured!

On the positive side our hay fields are growing very nicely, assuming we get any dry weather to make any later in the summer....
 
My field has never looked so green and lush and with grass to my ankles. I am checking my two daily for pulse, hot feet, droppings and so far their waistlines are ok. Ground is hard but we are having some rain which is keeping the grass going.
 
The grass in our area is so lush atm! Its like an emerald green colour and is the best i've ever seen it. Probably a mix of the heavy rain a few weeks ago and the hot weather up to now. Our vet said in one day she'd seen 8/9 horses come down with lami. Keeping a close eye on my mare!
 
Our four are squashed onto about 2-3 acres where they've been for a week now. We let the fencing out bit by bit. but I don't think we'll be doing this for a while atm! Just need to de-ragwort the field they've just come off and eaten down, then they can go back in there in a few weeks, oh how I hate ragwort. :( Two pronged attack this year though, weed spray and pulling.
 
No - quite the opposite where we are. Our soil is pretty rubbish anyway (clay) and first it was too cold and then too dry. We've only mown the lawns 3-4 times too!
 
Rose Folly said:
No, no, no. Plese can I come and live with you? The ground is cracked and brick hard, and grass is hardly growing at all.
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Same here (though I'm pretty close to you). But I have plenty of grass because I halved my paddock when we had all that rain. I move the fence along about 4 inches each day.
 
we have clay soil too..
but our grass is far too long, and green! i dont know what to do, i topped a field but it grew back overnight, literally! weve got 8 horses on about 7 acres and i thought it would 'just do' but theyre not even taking the top off it :(
 
I've got two on quarter of an acre! they are strip grazed by about a foot at night, they both look good :) the rest of my field, about 5 acres has grown up to my knees since they came off it 8 weeks ago!!

I'm going to have lots of lovely hay :D
 
I'm still waiting for mine to grow - though it is doing so albeit slowly slowly. We've gone from 5 to 3 ponies so I've taken mine off haylage as the quality of their grass intake will be improving.

I'm really annoyed at how fast the buttercups have sprung up though - I'm literally having buttercup-induced nightmares as to how to get rid of them when I don't own the field myself.
 
I'm in Somerset and we have so much grass. My cob is having to stay in during the day and only go out at night.

Very worrying about the amount of lami around :(
 
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