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- The perfect horse meadow for your four-legged friend - you have to pay attention
- What is important in a horse meadow
- The right seed mixture for a horse meadow
- Maintain a horse meadow
- Tips & Tricks
The perfect horse meadow for your four-legged friend - you have to pay attention
Meadow is not the same meadow - and for horses apply very special conditions, so that the moving joyful steppe animals feel comfortable there.
What is important in a horse meadow
Knowledgeable horse owners know that one should not simply put the sensitive animals on any pasture, especially if grasses and herbs are to make up a major part of the animal's diet. The perfect horse way has the following characteristics:
Furthermore, a horse meadow must necessarily be fenced, with a solid fence is the best (because safest) choice. However, as this can not always be set up, you can alternatively install an electric fence. You should better use a colored electrical steel instead of the almost invisible wire.
The right seed mixture for a horse meadow
For all these conditions to be met, you must already pay attention to the correct location of the horse meadow and the use of the correct seed mixture. A wet meadow is unsuitable for horses. Do not mix cattle pastures for sowing because they are too high in protein. More suitable are mixtures with ryegrass, Meadow rickety as well as Lieschgras, meadow fescue and Rotschwingel.
Maintain a horse meadow
Horse meadows should be regularly pollinated so that unpleasant parasites do not multiply. Furthermore, the horses should be able to change the pasture regularly so that an area can recover and regenerate in the meantime. From time to time inspect the meadow for unwanted growth (eg ribwort or the very poisonous ragwort) and remove it before it is able to emerge and spread. It is also advisable to apply fertilizers on a regular basis, although they should spread only slowly releasing nitrogen fertilizers - conventional artificial fertilizers are usually too nitrogen-containing and therefore too rich in protein.
Tips & Tricks
As steppe animals, horses need meager meadows. That your meadow is too rich in protein and therefore too fat, you can see pointer plants such as stinging nettles, yaw, dandelion, couch and reporting and shepherd's purse, chickweed and dead nettle.