Meet Pearl, New Horse

[flowerbug]

She is doing good. Still thinner than I like. Wish we had a field of grass for her. It’s been so hot and dry, all we have is dust and sand. Going to close them off the newly cleared area, to get grass growing and established.

thank you for the update! i was kinda worried at the silence for so long but i figured you were busy. *whew!*

 

[seedcorn]

She is doing good. Still thinner than I like. Wish we had a field of grass for her. It’s been so hot and dry, all we have is dust and sand. Going to close them off the newly cleared area, to get grass growing and established.

Are you able to ride her?

 

[ninnymary]

Would love to see a current picture of her.

Mary

 

[baymule]

Are you able to ride her?

Yes, but in this heat, I don't ride. It's not much fun.

 

[baymule]

Would love to see a current picture of her.

Mary

I took this one in August. She is still on the thin side, but has come leaps and bounds from where we started.

 

[Prairie Rose]

She is beautiful and obviously well cared for. I have seen a lot of thin horses this year, with weather ruining vast amounts of hay. You should have nothing but pride in how much her condition has improved!

 

[baymule]

She is beautiful and obviously well cared for. I have seen a lot of thin horses this year, with weather ruining vast amounts of hay. You should have nothing but pride in how much her condition has improved!

Thank you. The horses have a round bale always, get fed a good 14% pellet. In the picture above, we had the woods forestry mulched to clear it. We are going to push the mulch back in strips so we can plant Triploid Rye grass and Crimson Clover, but it is so dry that we won't go stir up a choking dust cloud. Waiting on a good rain. In the spring, we'll plant giant Bermuda and Bahia. We have a couple of other pastures, but the grass has had it, due to drought. I feel she needs grass to gain any more weight and we don't have any.

 

[seedcorn]

She looks so much better. Glad to know that once you got her in condition that what put her in cull pen wasn’t a problem for you.

 

[Prairie Rose]

Around here so many of the pastures are nothing but dirt and dust...too many people never learned even the basics of grass management because they have never needed to before and now they have nothing for their animals to eat but expensive, often poor quality hay. I miss having a horse or two, but I am glad to not have to buy hay this winter.

 

[flowerbug]

Around here so many of the pastures are nothing but dirt and dust...too many people never learned even the basics of grass management because they have never needed to before and now they have nothing for their animals to eat but expensive, often poor quality hay. I miss having a horse or two, but I am glad to not have to buy hay this winter.

diversity in plantings. as many different species you can find that will survive the broadest range of conditions.

in areas of high sand content you can make seed balls out of clay/manure and seed blends and toss them around as you walk through. the little clumps of clay will hold enough moisture from a rain to help get a seed established and then you hope it will survive on what rains come.