Keeping very good doers & poor doers together - how do you do it?

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How do you manage yours when together?

My TB who is temporary (maybe permanently) out of action for the foreseeable future (who is a good weight and would like her to stay that way for winter) is coming home soon and i have a greedy fat cob for company, native pony and a welsh yearling colt who are all strip grazed and out 24/7 365 days a year, i may need to move the cob onto the bald only and feed soaked hay as shes getting too fat. Trying to figure out where to put them/arrange them so they have a friend for company and none get too fat and the TB gets enough!. Typically the fatty cob and TB are both mares and the colt is still entire (undescended testical) so he is with the native gelding pony.
I have a 4 acre field part of it has been grazed very short and is strip grazed the other half is waist high meadow grass............
I have lots of electric tape and posts, just need ideas :)
 
Either muzzle fatties & continue to strip graze (tho larger moving of tape), possibly allowing for TB to have a feed as well.

Or, put TB in with the 'crew' if possible (would you be happy to do this, as you have cob mare in the 'crew' already?), and then into her own patch next door at night, returning her to the 'fat gang' each morning.
This overnight bit would be part of the patch the 'fat gang' can go onto the next morning. eg, allowing TB to mow the top off before the fat-gang get their gnashers on it.

Just an idea.....

If was me, would put all together if poss & be muzzling fatties & allowing bigger strip each day for whole gang, allowing for possible feeding of TB too in shyte weather days (if colt was okay to do this tho - only you will know that!)

Good luck whatever you decide :)
 
Split the field in half, use paddock paradise round the outside of the half with the most grass, put the 2 boys in to the PP, the TB in the middle and the fatty cob on the bare half of the field.

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if you need to strip graze the fatty mare then you could. I guess it also depends if this is all your land as obviously you wont have much grass left for winter.
 
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We rotate our paddocks, approx four acre field split into 7 paddocks. Three horses, poor doer goes in paddock first and good doers follow along behind once eaten down - if necc we also strip graze. Works ok for us xx
 
I like paddock paradise system... never tried it - can't really where I am. Have done what SuperTrooper at another place a few years ago and worked well.

Sorry, wasn't adding anything really just providing back-up opinion :D
 
Ditto using a track system, I manage several with a variety of food needs, the fatties are on the track, the less good doers stay in the middle. One of the things I really like (apart from controlling weight!) is that even if there is a horse on their own in the middle section, they don't seem to stress about being on their own as they can do in separate paddocks.
 
In winter I had to bring in the 37 year old skinny bones to stop my greedy cob eating all of his hay. It was hard work and this way suited me. I did have to split them up as we were trying to keep weight on poor old boy in the end.
 
I used to section off the field, poor doer goes and does munching, fatties go on after when the grass has been taken back. Poor doer goes on to new section while fatties are in fatties corner :)
 
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