Enrichment ideas for small dry turnout area

paddy555 said:
you could try opening the field gate and then fencing a 16 x 16 or 20 x 20ft square/rectangle around it. Leave the gate open, they can't get into the field and you have a cheap rolling area until you can sort out better. It will be small amount of mud but will brighten up their lives to be able to roll. That is electric fencing.


this sounds a very good idea.
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I like that idea, hopefully not necessary this year (weather dependent) and they do roll in their stables.

Thank you. I wish I had the money for the "ideal" set up, right now this minute, but unfortunately I don't, so I'm slowly but steadily trying to improve my set-up for them (and me!). Hopefully in a decade or so, I'll have the luckiest horses ever and in the meantime, they don't seem too miserable.
 
Titchy Pony said:
I like that idea, hopefully not necessary this year (weather dependent) and they do roll in their stables.

Thank you. I wish I had the money for the "ideal" set up, right now this minute, but unfortunately I don't, so I'm slowly but steadily trying to improve my set-up for them (and me!). Hopefully in a decade or so, I'll have the luckiest horses ever and in the meantime, they don't seem too miserable.
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I have done more or less what you are proposing next year. Nothing professional and didn't cost much. I just looked at every area we had and how I could use it. The front garden was in the way. Then I realised it had a lovely dry concrete path that got from the stable to the small paddock. Bit of fence to keep him off the grass and I already had part of a dry walkway on my small track. Fence a square in the paddock and we had a rolling area. Everywhere I looked I saw bits of track and not much to do to link them. A few banks with safe vegetation on them and we have some interest. It's surprising what you can do with very little.


Total PITA when we need to get vehicles out but I put plenty of gates, electric fence ones etc in.
 
My lot have hay bags that were made from someone on fb, 2 are flat and one rolls, so those are on the ground and then some haynets tied up, so they can eat at different levels, a cow scratcher which I have mounted to a post, water buffets (they love herbal teas so I often make a pot and add) and access to a rolling area.
 
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