Small Acreage Horse Keeping

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 walk ways to itsurrounding in the house yard I get another 300m which is covered inroad base and will do a wonderful job of giving my horses a trim. Iwill have to take photos soon and put them to this post.

The ground at my place is rather varied naturally, sandy, gravellyand somewhat rocky areas. I do have a dam we dug last year and thehorses love to go have a play in. The grass around my place is mainlynative, though I have oversown some low oxalate tropical grasses. Thiswill be an occasional diversion from the track for them to have a treat.

Well? once I have my extra posts and have finished the track ? itwill be interesting to see how the horses react. I will put my plan topaper and post it on here as well; at the moment it?s all still in myhead, so stay tuned.

Cheers