Welcome to our first blog post. We have been lucky and had just enough rain in recent weeks to keep the grass growing and a good amount of sunshine. In fact we have more grass this year than can ever been remembered. Something to do with slightly less horses only 9 instead of the 15 odd for the last couple of years. We sowed a new 5 acre field of grass after winter wheat last year on about 10^th October and finally got it fenced and horses in it.

At Toux we have 8 grazing fields, rough speaking they are 2 at 5 acres, 2 are 4 acres, and the rest are smaller with the smallest being about half acre which is saved for mares and young foals or for anyone who is poorly.

Something I had noticed is the amount of clover that has appeared in some of the larger fields. We don’t have clover in our seed so we believe it came with the haylage we have brought and it past through in the droppings.

Need a game plan next year to spray some of it out.

 

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