Who has to restrict grazing all year round?

[cblover]

So, Scrappy has settled in very well in her new home and I’m very happy with my decision to keep Sox my cob. She’s 3 now and 15hh of sassy loveliness. Literally I could kiss her all day long and she’d let me. Perfect!

But of course, I’m having to manage her waistline without a big clydesdale to help keep the grass down. I have a little cob to keep her company for now and they get on great. I’ve got a wet two acre field that needs a rest and a one acre field with grass too green and perky for my liking. Lol

Who else needs to restrict grazing all year round? I really don’t want Sox to get bigger but I was hoping winter would be easier (silly me) and didn’t include me having to buy electric fencing.

Hey ho....but she’s worth it.

 

[planete]

I have a PPID/laminitis prone oldie and a coblet who puts on weight looking at grass. I have run out of plastic fencing posts - again. You have my sympathy.

 

[cauda equina]

I do
At the mo it's a complete PITA because the summer field still has enough grass to keep the fat man going but it's getting horribly poached. And it's raining again

 

[GoldenWillow]

I have to restrict grazing all year apart from February-March, usually by then they are light enough weight wise and they go out on whatever foggage I have left. The last two years Spring/ summer I've used a sort of track with a paddock each end incorporating the stables which has worked the best of the various ways I've tried. I'm currently strip grazing and also need to buy some more posts!

 

[vmac66]

I do. Horse had laminitis last year and shares her paddock with a pony that has ems. Ground gets completely trashed in winter which isn't a bad thing come the spring

 

[Errin Paddywack]

We do. My sister's two are very good doers and both are prone to laminitis so restricted all year round. I need to start restricting my old mare, looking a bit too well at the moment, so she will be joining them on their track next summer subject to the gelding (former stallion) being ok with her. Biggest problem is how wet our land is in winter and the fact that the paddocks nearest the barn mustn't get churned up because they are needed for lambing. Good doers are a nightmare.

 

[AutumnDays]

I do! Got my girl in March, and she came to me very fat... managed to get a fair bit of weight off her, then with illness stopping me riding, and her being on livery at a dairy farm, some of it has crept back on. Spent the morning creating 3 mini paddocks and one access lane within her acre paddock to enable restricted intake and rotation all year, without having to move fences all the time (new fencer with a wallop also added, as she had no respect for the fences previously!) I am sporting some serious wounds from the eye daggers she has been throwing at me!!

 

[zandp]

I do, one with PPID and EMS and both are barefoot. And we're on livery which can make it interesting, although my current yard is happy for me to do what I want with my fields and they put in wooden corner posts for me that I use with my fencing - I'm always running out of handles and posts.

 

[cblover]

It’s not easy is it. I sold most of my electric fence stuff a couple of years ago so now I need to buy an energiser again and some tape. I still have a few posts.

Can anyone recommend a good energiser? Maybe I’ll start a new thread looking for reviews on them. Thanks everyone ?

 

[maya2008]

Grazing muzzle (bucket type) on 24/7. Had no issues with this approach for years when we had an enormous field and way too much grass. They groomed each other with the muzzles! The Shetland currently gets ridden twice, at speed, and is doing fine without a muzzle, we are working it off her!!