Temporary Horse Pasture - Fencing advice please

[MossflowerWoods]

If you need a third set of hands tomorrow, shoot me a PM. I'm off work, but finishing up on Christmas presents. I'll have a few hours to spare if you need it

Jon,

You are always welcome at our place. Remember we adopted you...

You can even come over when there is no work to be done...

If you have space in your schedule, I'm sure there will be a need where you can help out.

Thanks,
David

 

[jonnyc1999]

Sounds good, I'll see how my projects go and will give you a call

 

[Iplayfarmer]

...Apparently, a horse can find some way to injure itself on just about anything.

This is the truth. There are two approaches...

1) Invest a lot of time and money to make a good, safe fence.
2) Realize that no matter what you do the horse(s) will likely get hurt anyway. Build a cheaper fence and save the rest for the vet bill.

 

[MossflowerWoods]

Sounds good, I'll see how my projects go and will give you a call

Jon,

PLEASE finish your projects first!

My USN buddy from OK is coming for a couple hours this afternoon, we will make some progress...

Thanks,

David

 

[MossflowerWoods]

Yesterday my USN buddy and I finished the 48 foot section on the 176' run. Then we drilled the FAR southern post which will be a 293' run to the treeline, and we drilled the first 3 holes because that was all the posts I had left. We messed up the string and drilled the holes off and had to hand dig them larger

Today LstInThot came over and we finished digging out the holes, set the posts, cut & nailed up the last of the boards.

Then we went out and played tractors (he brought his Bobcat with a backhoe!) go see seat time for those pictures.

I did not get final wood fence pics yet, I will take them tomorrow.

But here are some updated pics...

Merry Christmas!
David

 

[SuperCobra]

David,
You may already know this but I don't think a couple of horses in 1.5 acres is a pasture. It is a sacrifice area as it will probably be barren in no time. I just bring it up in case it makes a difference on where you put the temporary fence in. If I could start mine again I would have put my first fencing (now my sacrifice lot) where the grass wasn't growing already. Sounds like you might be planning the same thing.
Randy

 

[MossflowerWoods]

David,
You may already know this but I don't think a couple of horses in 1.5 acres is a pasture. It is a sacrifice area as it will probably be barren in no time. I just bring it up in case it makes a difference on where you put the temporary fence in. If I could start mine again I would have put my first fencing (now my sacrifice lot) where the grass wasn't growing already. Sounds like you might be planning the same thing.
Randy

Hey Neighbor!

I've got ~5 acres logged and most of it mulched now. I am trying to get my horses "home" and on the property sooner is really the motivation.

I will spend the rest of winter and early spring clearing and burning the remaining slash, mulching debris, etc and getting grass planted. The area I am designating has been grassed and even the logging ops did not destroy it (all the grass came back soon as spring came). My plan is 1 acre per horse , so a max of 5 horses for now, until I log more in 5-7 years.

Be well,

David

 

[SuperCobra]

Hi David,
I went through the same thing. I fenced off a small area to get the horses home while I cleared and tried to grow grass in the rest. That is taking a while and I put them out on the "grass" area too soon and for too long so now I'm back to square one. I'm coming to finally realize that you can't keep horses on a piece 24/7 through the winter and expect to maintain grass. You need a sacrifice area to put them on while waiting for pastures to recover so plan on sub-dividing accordingly. I think even at 1 acre per horse you can't do 24/7 ops.
Randy

 

[Ken45101]

The "general rule of thumb is 2.5-3 acres per horse" but that varies widely depending on the soil and moisture. That's for good pasture, not something in Utah or Nevada.

One acre per horse will end up barren.

Ken

 

[bullbreaker]

The "general rule of thumb is 2.5-3 acres per horse" but that varies widely depending on the soil and moisture. That's for good pasture, not something in Utah or Nevada.
One acre per horse will end up barren.
Ken

How many acres per wife so neighbors don't hear her "grumbling" ?

Also David :
Slow down on The Sabbath and keep the Kioti nail gun in single firing mode.



Boone