no_no_nanette
Well-Known Member
We have some serious thinking and planning to do on the pasture that we rent at the moment, and one of the major problems is that about 1/3rd of our summer grazing, patches of which have standing water on them in the winter, seems to be crawling with pathogens! Every time our horses go out on it they get mud fever, and this year seedy toe for the first time ever!
Is there anything that we could or should be doing to try and improve the pasture and kill off the pathogens? We can't install drains unfortunately as the fields are not ours, but we could do anything short of this.
Also all the fields are very uncared for - lots of thistles, nettles, etc - any advice for how to manage both the winter and summer grazing from those of you who farm/are experienced in pasture management, would be gratefully received! (I'm posting this in Veterinary as well ...) Once we know what we need to do we can cost this and start negotiating with the owner of the land!!
Is there anything that we could or should be doing to try and improve the pasture and kill off the pathogens? We can't install drains unfortunately as the fields are not ours, but we could do anything short of this.
Also all the fields are very uncared for - lots of thistles, nettles, etc - any advice for how to manage both the winter and summer grazing from those of you who farm/are experienced in pasture management, would be gratefully received! (I'm posting this in Veterinary as well ...) Once we know what we need to do we can cost this and start negotiating with the owner of the land!!