How do you divide your paddocks!

[moneypit1]

I only have 3 acres (between 2 horses) and another 2 acres that I rent (for 2 liveries). I have divided my 3 acres into 1 x 2 acre padock and 1 x 3/4 acre paddock and a small starvation paddock. They are all post and rail. The rented bit is 2 acres also post and rail and neatly joining my land. I poo pick and have the grazing topped regulary and treated for docks every year. This year we have had too much grass. The horses are ridden daily for between 1 and 1.5 hours and are still fat! How do you manage your paddocks?

 

[Tia]

All of my pasture fields are about 10 acres per field. Most of them are post and stock fenced or post and rail. All of my fields have their own individual corrals which lead out into one large corral.

Our fields are harrowed and topped and reseeded every 2 years.

 

[kerilli]

i've got a 5-acre field for the youngsters and the nanny (3 horses in it all the time) and an acre-and-a-half which my mare lives in, and four small paddocks of about 1/3 acre each, up near the house, kept for emergencies, worming, controlled turnout, new horses, visitors, whatever. all electric fenced off from each other, all poo-picked daily except the biggest, which gets away from me a bit!

 

[soph21]

ive got a 2 acre field divided in to 3 and it works ideal, they are in the paddock furthest away from yard until winter when they be in the top 2 so its not so far to trapes with food and haylege!

 

[rara007]

We have our competition ones in 3 acres between 4, 30 acres bettween the other 7...

 

[miller]

We have a 3.5 acre paddock - it is split down the middle for winter and summer and each of those are then sectioned into 2.

All summer they do 3 weeks on half the summer one, 3 weeks on teh other half.

The winter one is topped over the summer and weed treated.

We have 2 16.2's on it and they are fat too! Winter one has gone mad!

 

[ihatework]

We have 5 acres between 3 at the moment. Perimeter is post and rail and it is divided up into 3 bigger paddocks and 3 smaller paddocks using wooden post and electric tape.
Poo-picked weekly, harrowed and sprayed annually, topped 2-3 times a year.
Horses rotate between paddocks depending on weather/grass/condition of ground etc.

 

[amandaco2]

at current yard the fields are divided with post and rail
we have two larger paddocks with shelters in and 4 smallers ones with their own shelters.
i will divide my paddocks(i get two small ones one big one for winter) with electric when there is too much grass.