Harrowing, field rest

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Has anyone harrowed thier field yet?
With the dry days we have been having (over 7 days now) the muddy pit has now dried out lovely and is nice and dry and crumbly. Ponies are being moved in the next few days whilst the field is tended to, ie harrowed and rolled. Hoping to get a decent cut of hay this year......its 3acres and has 2 ponies and 1 TB mare grazing on it. How long do you think it will be best to leave the horses off it before they can go back on after its been harrowed? i was thinking late april - mid may time for them to come back as only renting the other grazing.......
 
All fields were poopicked today when the horses were in, they are staying in tomorrow so the fields can be harrowed; and will go out if there is time for them to go out!!
 
Who does the harrowing? Or where is the best place to find someone who will come and do it? And do you do the whole field, or just the bits that have been poached and become rutted? This has been the first winter of renting my field (I have always been on DIY before where everything was taken care of by the YO), so I am still on a learning curve.
At the moment what I have done is fence of a big circle so Harvey can just graze round the outside to try and rest the grass and give it a chance to grow.
 
the livery yard is part of a farm; so everything is done by the farm workers.. there are over 50 horses at the yard; so poopicking is done by machine.. harrowing is done by the harrowing thingy they use; and all of the field is done!
 
QR, Sorry if i have read your post wrong, but if you are going to get a cut of hay from your field, you won't want to be putting your horses back on it until afteryou have had the hay, surely.:confused:
 
CeeBee said:
Who does the harrowing? Or where is the best place to find someone who will come and do it? And do you do the whole field, or just the bits that have been poached and become rutted? This has been the first winter of renting my field (I have always been on DIY before where everything was taken care of by the YO), so I am still on a learning curve.
At the moment what I have done is fence of a big circle so Harvey can just graze round the outside to try and rest the grass and give it a chance to grow.
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Its best to do the whole field you can ask a farmer or farm contractor or better still get your own chain harrows and DIY!! you can chuck some seed on the bare patches then its a good idea to roll it afterwards if you dont have a tractor you can use a 4x4 or a quad you can buy equipment to suit quads which suit smaller acreges...
 
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