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On 7/4/06, Linda S. Flemmer <bluwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Depends on the grass you have growing and the weight at which you keep your
> horses.  Our timothy/orcharg grass has tested low in sugars.  Our guys are
> out on it over the entire growing season and acclimate.  Mowing to keep
> palatable grass in the entire field keeps them from nibbling on intensively
> grazed, short, hi sugar grass.
>
> Never a grass founder yet in more than 30 years.  I detest seeing horses on
> mud lots when I can enjoy seeing mine healthy on green pasture.  Of course
> if the horse is glucose intolerant/cushings - that's a different story.
>
> Linda

I reseed with Timothy every year, but we do have a great deal of
Clover that the munch on this time of year, so I tend to keep it short
and  the horse rotated a few hours at a time, we keep them in a gravel
dry lot and hay twice a day, my goal is to make it more like Jamie
Jackson's Paradise Paddock at our next place.. this one is set up and
I can not figure out how to redo it with the two herds.. but when I
start from scratch I will keep the pasture paradise format in my minds
eye to create a better moving set up for the horses...



            Debbie in SE MN

        The Eagle shows the way....

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