HELP!! Grazing advice needed!

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ErinBlack10

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Hi everyone.
I'm soon to move my cob to a new field, however at the moment it's really overgrown.. In some places it's up to my waist.
I've had a couple of different people say different things about what to do. Some have said chop it back before I put her on there & others have said just leave it & others have said split it into sections so she doesn't have all of it. I haven't had this problem before as the fields she's always been on have never been this overgrown, so I'm unsure what to do!

So as I've heard a few different things, I wanted to see what everyone else would recommend?

Thank you in advance, all advice is greatly appreciated :)
 
Get some electric fencie posts, electric fenc tape and an electric fence energizer and create a small area to graze in (staring from where the water trough is) and then expand it a small amount each day. That way your horse can not eat too much.
 
As above.

Make sure you squish down the long grass along the electric fence or it will short out.
 
Use at least 2 strands and the higher posts. My porky pony used to limbo under one strand to get to the lush grass on the other side.
 
Strip graze with electric, but if the grass is up to your waist and you're not going to move your horse for a week or so I would be inclined to mow and rake up the grass in the bit you are putting the horse into as a start.
 
Sparemare said:
Strip graze with electric, but if the grass is up to your waist and you're not going to move your horse for a week or so I would be inclined to mow and rake up the grass in the bit you are putting the horse into as a start.
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I was also told to mow grass that is too tall.
 
Strip graze - we've just moved to our summer field which are this sort of length and they have a small area now and as they graze that down they'll get more and mroe space. The long stuff has less sugar in than short, grazed/cut grass so although looks like lots it's actually safer
 
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