Paddock management advice needed for a numpty!!!

Bertolie

Bertolie

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I am on a DIY livery yard that has individual/pairs turnout. I have an individual paddock of approx 1 acre and my daughter has one that is slightly smaller. Previously we have kept our horses together, rotating between the two paddocks, however due to circumstances beyond my control (her new horse wants to kill my boy!) we are having to separate them. My problem is that the grass in my paddock was virtually non-existant two weeks ago and as I wasn't using the paddock at the time, the YO sprayed the paddock for docks which meant that I had to keep Leo off the grass for 10 days. The grass is now knee high! I have sectioned off approx a quarter of the paddock but he is not even making a dent in the amount of grass and came in last night with a big grass belly and quite lethargic! I understand that long grass is better than short new grass from a sugar point of view, so should I just keep him in one small section or would it be better to ask the YO to top the paddock for me? If the paddock is topped, I assume I will need to get the grass removed before allowing Leo back in the paddock? As you can probably tell, I am new to paddock management lol! What is really annoying is that my daughters paddock is seriously short of grass and she is having to feed her horse hay!



Any recommendations/suggestions would be more than welcome.
 
Can't you swap paddocks with your daughter for a while? Let her horse eat some of your grass down? When we were on a livery yard I let my mums horse eat all the spring grass before turning my 4yo out on it (he goes far too hyper on spring grass!)
 
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