PFLA Webinar - Tall Grass Grazing for Horses
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- Опубликовано: 1 авг 2024
- Horse paddocks often resemble tightly clipped lawns, offering little nutritional value to the animals and offering no benefits to the soil or wildlife.
PFLA member and scientist Dr Radka Gromnicova supplies 100% beef and lamb to customers through a meat box scheme. While researching the regenerative farming practiced by her farmer suppliers, Radka wondered whether tall-grass grazing would work for her two horses
In this webinar, hear how using small areas bounded by electric fence and daily moves has transformed the pastures. Radka no longer needs to buy horse feed and offers much less hay in winter. Muddy gateways and poached areas are a thing of the past and the fields do not burn out in hot summers. Manure is not picked up, fertilising the ground naturally. Putting a five-week rotation in place means the risk of worm infections is nil.
Radka will explain exactly how she plans and manages this way of grazing and describe the effects this has had on her pocket, the horses, the soil and wildlife. 
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This is an under-discussed topic. Very interesting. Thank you for recording it!
This is wonderful! Thank you for sharing what you have learned. This will benefit many of us.
I have been using regenerative grazing alongside a track system for the past 3 years and my soil and grasses have improved incredibly. This system creates and builds the microbiology in soil which plants (grasses) need to grow and be healthy. It has eliminated cow food (rye) and I now have predominantly Australian native grasses throughout my horses pastures 💕
Native grasses convert energy to starch, which is what horses need and not to fructose which is what cows need and which comes from rye and other grass species.
Regenerative grazing is definitely the future of horse keeping .. I’ll never go back to that old way of overgrazed, sick horse pastures again !!
Fantastic video
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I am going to use this method for my horses. Thank you!
Could explain what you mean by you hammered it yourself? (Around 17 minutes in)
Thanks very much! Absolutely loving all you're sharing
Hi, great talk. I am attempting to change a cattle fed field that is all rye and clover to meadow. I am throwing poop onto the ground( horses are tracked at the moment) any bare patches I am throwing meadow seed. My problem is the clover..how can I get rid of it? It seems to be loving the horse poop😢
I love this idea however my concern is not allowing horses enough room to gallop and move freely. While the land management is excellent it seems this would encourage horses to stand in one spot. Thoughts??
I agree, this would not suit mine at all- I worry about badly constructed electric fencing too- it's in loops!! I use electric fencing and I strip graze my hay field- horse do not LIKE long grass- they prefer medium to short- not sheep cropped but certainly not long......
Also horses are herd animals- with this system when do they get to roll play scratch one another? If they tried any of this they would get caught up in the tape and injure themselves. A normal sized horse needs at least an acre to be able to live a rested, fear free life- in the tiny paddock things a horse would be instinctive looking for ways to escape- as in a small area like this instinct alone would tell them that they are trapped and defenseless- far more likely to cause colic than over eating is!
You could probably very easily combine this with a track system or keep a part of the field for this purpose. My horses also love to have some play time in the arena with each other, then you have the best of both worlds.
Keep water at one end of the paddock and salt mineral licks at the other end and the horses will move the length of the paddock getting proper exercise.... Make sure you have enough land before buying livestock/horses
I accidentally read that as 'make sure you have enough horses before buying land' 😂...