Anyone turned out 24/7 yet?

My field has held up surprisingly well in all honesty, and that's with me making a few mistakes with having them graze a part of it for a bit too long x I still have a ton of grass towards the bottom and over the hill of my field, but I gotta be careful with my two as Baggs is retired and prone to laminitis, and Rabbit my 3 year old has a mega sensitive tummy x

I'll probably look at switching them around to turnout by night by the end of April, but I might also try 24/7 turnout if I can get my hands on some more electric fencing posts....
 
ihatework said:
Yes, I only let them out on fresh spring grass on days I’m around. Will generally do 2-4-6-8 hours on consecutive days before 24/7

I reckon I’m a month off using the summer field still
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Yep, I threw them out on winter fields for an hour last night and will do the same for the next few days.
 
Heavenly - this morning I was able to walk out across gelding field - in my walking boots, not wellies 🎉 , to meet Chief marching towards me ready for breakfast (this was the pony we thought might be hard to catch🤣😂)
 
Mine are out 24/7 at the moment, but I'm supplementing with hay as they're stuck in the home field until Pippin's gelding wounds are all sorted. It's a bit of a shame as the grass is going wild and it's dry so they could enjoy it and give my poor home field a rest, but they (and I!) will just have to be patient.
 
Ours live out and have fared really well over winter, despite the easterlies and the mud. The easterlies have made the insides of their shelters wet and at one point the mud was so bad elsewhere that we had to lay a track of mud mats to be able to get the barrow in with hay and out with poo.

They have been rug-less 24/7 since Monday, despite it being chilly at night. I took a photo of my boy this morning to show my fieldmate the hair sheeting off him and sent him with a comment about his big tum! This is a horse who weaved and sweated constantly when in and had ulcers and frequently colicked so the slightly feral life he leads now clearly suits a lot better.

Their field is split in three and we rotate two of the three parts (the other is where the shelter and trough are) but unfortunately we're not seeing the type of growth that others are seeing on the rested part. I think last year's drought is still affecting the growth. So we are still feeding exorbitantly expensive hay twice a day to keep them going which is painful, although I am not blaming our supplier who has been great but is having to buy in from a long way away now so the price for the last two bales has been "ouch". But, on the other hand, we save a fortune on bedding!
 
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