equinemarketwatch.myfreeforum.org :: Paddock Paradise- Jaime Jackson

Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 7:31 pm

daisydoo! well you fit in nicely here then

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Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 9:26 pm

Well I have spent the afternoon setting up the PP system in my field, infact it follows a lot of the natural tracks that the girls use anyway with lots of interesting hilly paths so they shouldn't get bored. Gave me a good work out anyway

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Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 10:16 pm

Oh good luck with it Daisydoo. It really is a great system. I am just really annoyed that I had to ditch it with my boys as Kiwiis going through a real trashing fencing phase at the moment

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Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 12:25 pm

hows it going daisydoo?
intersting to hear how you can see a change again Sam..such a pity you've had to lose it. We've got a cracking routine running with our oldies and fatties now. the 5 on the back track consist of Beau and Jim ( A/A and TB) both mid twenties, both need more than less ( like Kiwi) the other three are Chadd , willow and Mannie, all native, two with a pre-dispostion/history of past laminitis with, in Chadds case full pedal bone rotation and dropped soles, amess of a white line on all 4 although fronts worse than backs...and Mannie yearling mini shetland colt.
Routine is all 5 are out on the track at night with free access to stone yard and soaked hay for all around the yard...monring around 9-30am in come the big boys for their top up breakfast, in come the 3 ponies onto the stone yard. More soaked hay ad-lib...Oldies then go out but out into opened up centre of tracks where grazing is deep, herbage filled and lush for the whole day till 6pm...3 ponies remain on the yard with free access to barn and min/salt licks till 6pm when they go out back onto the track again.
Feet wise..whoosh! never have feet looked better..we're a long way off tight white lines (if ever) but we ahve got significant hoof wall changes, angle is correcting and concavity of sole is apparent again...trims are happening every 3 to 4 weeks stretching now to 4 to 5 weeks with me trimming in between where necessary..
without a doubt this must be the safest future for all equines in the UK...and it's so simple!
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Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 8:54 pm

I bought the Book when I read about it on Nagtraders and I've been working out how to incorperate it into my set up as it is great for Malaga's stringhalt (Although with two large fields to play around it doesn't worry him any more.
I'm fencing off the middle of each field (they already have a walkway to each which already helps)and the goats can have the middlebit.I want to set up a few poles and some jumps (Blue and Malaga do love a mad gallop over the ditch in their one paddock) to add interest but I may leave their "play paddock" as it is so they can go in there and chase the big ball around and trash the "car wash" if the goats don't get to it first!

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Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 10:18 pm

anyone struggling with a pp that resembles a swampy track ???

mines on sloping clay soil and it is treacherous all the way round!!!!!!! ive had to take them off until it dries a bit. its really deep in places and slippy all over. Will seems to fare better with his shoes on (hes not mine, and is making a great job of ploughing!) but bob (who is and is barefoot) looks like bambi.

im petrified they will break a leg, anyone in the same position - aside from hard core all the way round (which wouldnt go down well with bromsgrove council) im completely stuck as to what to do???

doesnt bode well for our first winter.

the only plus is that when the sun comes out and the wind picks up within 3 days it should be back to concrete like conditions, but what do i do till then????

Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 9:11 am

yep take them off track or cut a swathe through the middle so they spend time on that and leave the tack to repair. We're alright so far but we do slope nicely and we are running over bigger acereage probably. I've started offering a bit of edges to all on it now but was looking at the middle meadow yesterday and thinking we might open a middle track through there...more posts

The farmers must be tearing their hair out with trying to harvest the corn now...it's ready to cut but getting constantly soaked...up will go feed prices again up will go bread up will go everything!

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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 10:16 am

Our is looking very muddy at the momemtn too, but then our ground does get very wet and as it is flat and not free draining it makes it worse! I am thinking of opening up the middle section and let it repair itself a little.

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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 11:11 am

Yes my field the same

very slippy on the banks so opened up more of the field They are all moving in september to their winter field so will start again then as it really has kept them in trim

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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 11:17 am

oh no it gets worse. last night they got back onto the track ?????? never heard of horses escaping into sparse grazing/ mud????????? and were having a full on gallop round it this morning. its a wonder none of them broke a leg!

just read the forecast and the next 10 days dont sound like getting much better ........... relocation to somewhere like colorado is suddenly v appealing!!!!