Small Acreage Horse Keeping

It's been a while since I posted about my 'Paddock Paradise'. The system is working really well , especially in view of our very dry Winter here in SE Queensland. Last year my paddocks looked pretty sad during Winter, short grass that just disintegrated when you walked over it.

This year... I have loads of grass with good length which is providing a near solid ground cover. It is somewhat brownish, but it is holding up without much discintegation. The yards are still look...

Well, my paddock paradise is pretty much finished and the horseswill be introduced into it tomorrow morning. They are still at theneighbour?s paddcok and I am looking forward to see how they react tothe new layout of their paddock.

Here is  a slideshow of the track and the layout of the paddock.

I got my book a few days ago and started reading immediately andwow. I am loaded with ideas and have been working on my paddockparadise for past two days and I am now waiting for some tread-in poststo finish off my track.

I am quite stunned at how much track I can have on just 1.75 acres,which also has a 20m x 40m arena, a  13.5m (44?) round yard and 3 yardsof 8m x 8m. A rough measure of the track had me smiling broadly as itis roughly 300m long and if I do add the driveway and wal...

One of my biggest problems is that I really don?t have enough room to house 3 horses with about 1.75 acresof space for them on our 2.5 acre block. When I enquired at council inregards to the regulations about having horses on your semi rural (akaperi-urban) block I was told that having 1 horse per acre isacceptable. Now that is one acre of pasture, not meaning a one acreblock. So you can see, I actually have a bit of a dilemma? 3 horses oneffectively 1.75 acres of pasture. Ooops? I am severly...