Enjoying the New Pasture
August 26th, 2010 | 
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Up to their bellies in grass
It took a little time, but with Bill and our son Stephen using up their whole weekend off, we finally got the fences up on the back hay field in mid July and combined a couple of pastures of horses into that. All twenty one are happily mowing it down and putting on the needed pounds for winter.
My little paint stallion, Zip, being the sweetheart he is does not even mind the four geldings being in with him and his little band of mares. He even spends time scratching necks with them. We hope to get the other 50 acres of hay fields and 50 acres of bushland fenced when all the hay is off. That should shorten the number of days they will need to be on hay this winter. With the price of the extra hay needed because of the drought, any little bit helps.
the young ones
Meanwhile we managed to fence off a good chunk of bush for the eight yearlings/two year old’s to fatten up in. We will have to supplement their grass with oats and alfalfa pellets, to try and get some weight on the two newest yearling fillies we have taken in, as they are pretty thin. They will likely have to be penned seperately this winter to keep them up in weight, one being a Thoroughbred and the other an Arabian, they will need more feed than the quarter horses and paints.
Posted in Animal Rescue, Fencing, Horses | 
Tags: Alfalfa Pellets, Drought, Fences, Geldings, Happy Horses, Hay Field, Hay Fields, Mares, Oats, Paint Stallion, Pasture, Quarter Horses, Thoroughbred, Yearling Fillies, Yearlings
Hi Rose…Sure don’t envy you and the fencing project. That’s a lot of hard work in the heat. But I’m sure the rescued horses appreciate what you’ve done for them. Now if we only lived in the west, and not out here on the east coast, you would have had some extra hands to make the job go faster. Marilyn