Posts Tagged ‘conservation’
Horses and Conservation Part Two
Written by Hiddenhorse on 12/05/2010 – 9:31 pm -The field you keep your horse in is also the environment you keep your horse in. It is the horses home. Ideally it should be where your horse lives all the time, preferably with a group of other horses (i.e. a herd). It stands to reason that everything that happens in that environment will have an effect on the horses and the way the horses interact with the environment will affect the environment too. Read more »
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Horse Environments and Conservation
Written by Hiddenhorse on 12/05/2010 – 2:39 pm -Introduction
I’ve recently been reading a book on, ‘pasture management for horses’, you might think that’s probably because I have too much time on my hands and not many friends. Neither of which is true, I hasten to add. Anyway, the book has raised some interesting questions. The approach taken by the (otherwise excellent) author is rather conventional. I would describe it, not so much as sound advice to the horse owner more as one way of looking at pasture management. I tend to think of this approach as ‘Penelope’s perfect pasture plan’. – (probably for Penelope to keep her perfect pony in), but enough of this alliteration. Read more »
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