Personally, I would not risk having the horses in the
pasture with the mounds of cut grass. Fermentation occurs very quickly in warm
weather. My neighbor was just weedwacking on the
outside perimenter of their horse’s pasture on
a warm day, the horse stuck it’s head thru the boards and ate some of the
clippings and colicked within a couple of hours. Just
not worth the risk…
Kathy
Last year, we were never able to make even
one hay crop due to our drought.This year, we are practically flooded out and haven't been able to get
anyone to cut and bale our fields.So we
are just having to mow the fields to keep fresh growth
available for the horses to graze.However, this year the mowing has left huge piles of cut grass here and
there which we'll probably harrow in.Currently, I'm concerned about the horses getting into those grass
mounds before we get them spread out.Some years ago, I read somewhere that we should not feed freshly clipped
grass to horses and I can't remember why.Any thoughts on this?Thanks.
