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 looking good as well. The grass is short in there, but it is there holding the soil together and preventing erosion. I am thinking though to make the yards a bit bigger, increasing the size from 8mx8m to 8mx12m to allow me to have horses in there all day if needed, plus I want to put an area in there specific for feeding, using concrete pavers to create a 'clean' feeding area. My guys seem to delight in eating off the ground, regularly emptying their feed bins onto the grass. I tried to stop it by using fixed bins, but though it stops them tipping the bins the feed still finds it's way onto the ground.

I am now also thinking of building another set of yards which I eventually want to cover and enclose turning them into large stables, to which I want to attach day yards.

It's still all in the 'thinking about' stage... so watch this space.

I will go out tomorrow and take some photos of the track as it is now.

Cheers