Asked February 21, 2018, 5:17 PM EST
Hello,
I have my horses at home and not boarded and for the first time, I will be in charge of their grazing habits. At the boarding facility, they were always on dry (mud) lots for the winter, only eating hay, so introduction to pasture came very slowly in May. I now have a dry lot, a "throw away" couple acres of field/grass, and a brand new pasture that is still being fenced that has never been grazed. I have let my horses wander and munch on the dormant grasses all winter long in the throw away lot (a pipeline is going through, so I don't care if they eat it down and turf it until pipeline done). If I continue to let them have access to this area for 10 - 14 hours a day as the grasses come up and mature, do I have to worry about the spring grass? There will likely be a big difference in the grasses between the lot they are in now and the new pasture, so I would introduce them more slowly to that area after we get a cutting of hay off of it.
Wayne County Ohio
