Why do we bother...

[L&M]

maintaining our grazing!!

I have lost count of the hours spent rolling, harrowing, and weeding my grazing over the spring and summer mnths, to watch it all being trashed by the horses within a few days of the start of the wet and windy weather....

Also where do the nice well behaved, mellow, horses go as soon as the weather turns - it was like leading in a bunch of hooligans tonight and will be wearing a hard hat tomorrow if this behaviour continues!

Car also got a puncture today from hedge trimmings (happens every autumn) so not in a good mood today......

 

[juliag]

I rotate my (small) paddocks, roll them once in the spring and poo pick. I tend to sacrifice a paddock over the winter which invariable looks pretty dreadful but because I dont have a lot of land my ponies are stabled and tend to go out just for a few hours each day to stretch their legs. This paddock soon picks up though after being rolled and certainly by the summer has picked up and looks fine. I dont have fantastic rich grazing but its adequate for our ponies. my daughters 2 comp horses are at livery where they have masses of land, and i think they pretty much let their sheep deal with it. I hate the mud though, during the winter i try to turn a blind eye to it.