This message is from: ILANGELA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>As for grass, I have the opposite problem. I have to keep my equines >>in their pens and feed hay because I have too much grass, and right >>now it is too good (starting to make seed). Fjords are so "fuel >>efficient" that they can easily get too fat, then founder if their >>food is too good. They are permitted to graze only two to three hours >>each day. whe have got to much grass also. but luckely whe have a small meadow that is 1/2 hectare. i have got also a shetlandpony.he is allowed to graze in the daytime in the small meadow. at night i put him in the paddock (sand ground). Ido (fjord) and Cleo (connamara) are permitted to graze a couple of hours (depend on the season) at the big meadow (4 hectare). the remaining time i put them in the small meadow. in the winter ido and bopper (=shetlandpony) only get hay to eat. cleo get some pellets (1 kilo/day). ilona ilona.
