MomtherOfDragons
Chillin' with the herd
Mostly a horse question.. South central texas area..
We have 38 acres, the front 6ish are fenced off and mostly cleaned up. Some weeds, lots of blue bonnets and knee (or higher) length grass. We have not had large animals on it for several years, but it was used for cattle before. We do have goats we have started rotating with electric netting but thats very small portions at a time..
My question is this (and I cant seem to get a good answer)... We have our horses at another pasture nearby that is mostly eaten down, we want to move them to our property, but we wanted to mow first to try to prevent them from colicing or foundering, but I’m finding advice saying to let them out on a fenced portion of the tall grass because it’s less rich. We can section them to small paddocks with electric tape but we dont have a barn to put them in to take them fully off the pasture for “breaks”. Would this cause them harm? To just put the 4 of them out on a couple acres and rotate when they eat it down? Or is there a possibility it could harm them for it to be tall?
It’s native grass, but I’m not entirely sure what kind. Our horses have been out on pasture for years, not grain fed at all.
Im sorry if this is a dumb question or if I’m over thinking this, we used to stall our show horses and had so many medical issues over the years when we were more hands on that I’m weary of making changes.
We have 38 acres, the front 6ish are fenced off and mostly cleaned up. Some weeds, lots of blue bonnets and knee (or higher) length grass. We have not had large animals on it for several years, but it was used for cattle before. We do have goats we have started rotating with electric netting but thats very small portions at a time..
My question is this (and I cant seem to get a good answer)... We have our horses at another pasture nearby that is mostly eaten down, we want to move them to our property, but we wanted to mow first to try to prevent them from colicing or foundering, but I’m finding advice saying to let them out on a fenced portion of the tall grass because it’s less rich. We can section them to small paddocks with electric tape but we dont have a barn to put them in to take them fully off the pasture for “breaks”. Would this cause them harm? To just put the 4 of them out on a couple acres and rotate when they eat it down? Or is there a possibility it could harm them for it to be tall?
It’s native grass, but I’m not entirely sure what kind. Our horses have been out on pasture for years, not grain fed at all.
Im sorry if this is a dumb question or if I’m over thinking this, we used to stall our show horses and had so many medical issues over the years when we were more hands on that I’m weary of making changes.