Marigold4
Well-Known Member
I think I'm going to find myself with one horse too many soon. I'm moving to a house with 3.25 acres and have 3 small horses. Two x 15 hh small WBs and a 14.2 connie. The land I'm going to is in a pretty poor state - needs spraying for weeds, harrowing, rolling, re-seeding and re-fencing. It's wetter than my previous rented land and has a thin layer of clay over chalk so gets poached. It doesn't look as though it produces much grass at the moment but I think it will improve after we've dealt with the weeds and reseeded. I can stable at night.
Do you think that will be enough for 3? I'd like the ground to recover and worry they are going to trash it over winter. They are all barefoot.
So I'm thinking of either selling or putting on loan the connie but he's only 4. He's been professionally started but obviously still very young - and he's developed a sarcoid. Would he be too young to loan to a competent teenager? He's a really nice chap, keen to please and sensible. Would he be impossible to sell with a sarcoid? It's not on his face and nowhere near any tack.
Do you think that will be enough for 3? I'd like the ground to recover and worry they are going to trash it over winter. They are all barefoot.
So I'm thinking of either selling or putting on loan the connie but he's only 4. He's been professionally started but obviously still very young - and he's developed a sarcoid. Would he be too young to loan to a competent teenager? He's a really nice chap, keen to please and sensible. Would he be impossible to sell with a sarcoid? It's not on his face and nowhere near any tack.