The Mk1 eyeball produces all the evidence required, went for a 5 mile walk yesterday evening, without a doubt the worst piece of land was the field let out in sections for DIY horse livery, all grass eaten down to bare earth, broken fences, plastic and other crap everywhere, one horse was even wearing a coat. Its not exactly cool in Cambridgeshire at present.
Rewilding horse pastures?
- Thread starter Chris F
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- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
I have a feeling the best thing any of us can do to mitigate climate change is to have fewer or no children
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- South Wales UK
All the bombs and possibly nuclear use will really change it too.
- Location
- Hereford
Bit late for me now to decide that !
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
heard on the radio today the nuclear clock is 100 seconds to midnight I think, closest it has ever been.
- Location
- South Wales UK
And now USA/China look out too
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
what was very frightening, was the analysis of what the worldwide effects of a limited nuclear war between India and Pakistan would have on the population of the rest of the world.
- Location
- South Wales UK
Climate change be last on their minds then.
ollie989898
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Cripes, they must be brave!!
paul&mandy
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- Location
- surrey/west sussex
Yes stuck in the rotors of my spreader
- Location
- East meath/dublin
Very accurate description of horse pasture ...
Small farm up the road has been let to adjoining riding school by either stupid or greedy agent .
Its now in transition from clean traditional meadowland to weed infested mess .
Old guy who owns it is in a home with dementia so cant see the state of it .
Agent should be liable for the damage .
A lunatic wouldnt have the horsey set as tenants .
I bought 17 acres last year that had been used for horses
Two doses of forefront later and there is still nettle roots down to Argentina ..
Soil tests show zero fertility so plan is to blacken it with slurry and send in the plough .
Oh yeah still two horses walking around with my heifers the lady owners have yet to remove them as agreed ... a year ago !!!
warksfarmer
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Very accurate description of horse pasture ...
Small farm up the road has been let to adjoining riding school by either stupid or greedy agent .
Its now in transition from clean traditional meadowland to weed infested mess .
Old guy who owns it is in a home with dementia so cant see the state of it .
Agent should be liable for the damage .
A lunatic wouldnt have the horsey set as tenants .
I bought 17 acres last year that had been used for horses
Two doses of forefront later and there is still nettle roots down to Argentina ..
Soil tests show zero fertility so plan is to blacken it with slurry and send in the plough .
Oh yeah still two horses walking around with my heifers the lady owners have yet to remove them as agreed ... a year ago !!!
Doubt they’ll pick them up. Sell them.
I think horse owners are pretty well aware of this, it has been discussed on various horsey forums.
I have to admit that my horse paddock at home is terrible. Overgrazed, I think of it more as an outdoor stable than a field as that is the only way I can bear to look at it.
A mature pony or horse turned out on pasture and not doing much hard work will soon put on too much weight and are then subject to various ills. Unlike sheep and cattle that are either growing, producing milk, producing young and so need plenty of nutrition.
So a horse doing lots of work, going to shows at the weekend, being ridden most days and expending a lot of energy can go out on a nice green field. Racehorses are turned out on good grazing in the summer when at rest, but they are soon going to work it off again.
I'm afraid that the majority of livery yard owners simply don't give their animals enough work to keep them slim and fit and able to eat a lot of grass (of course there are exceptions.) which is why the fields are overgrazed to prevent the animals getting too fat.
When I was young and had ponies we never heard of laminitis, it was something a small pony in a lush field would get. We would hack for miles, go to shows nearly every weekend and go hunting in the winter, sometimes hacking there and back too so they were always doing lots of work. Now the places I went have so much traffic some people are simply too frightened to ride on the roads and a few circuits of an arena isn't the same as going out for 2-3 hours.
A mature pony or horse turned out on pasture and not doing much hard work will soon put on too much weight and are then subject to various ills. Unlike sheep and cattle that are either growing, producing milk, producing young and so need plenty of nutrition.
So a horse doing lots of work, going to shows at the weekend, being ridden most days and expending a lot of energy can go out on a nice green field. Racehorses are turned out on good grazing in the summer when at rest, but they are soon going to work it off again.
I'm afraid that the majority of livery yard owners simply don't give their animals enough work to keep them slim and fit and able to eat a lot of grass (of course there are exceptions.) which is why the fields are overgrazed to prevent the animals getting too fat.
When I was young and had ponies we never heard of laminitis, it was something a small pony in a lush field would get. We would hack for miles, go to shows nearly every weekend and go hunting in the winter, sometimes hacking there and back too so they were always doing lots of work. Now the places I went have so much traffic some people are simply too frightened to ride on the roads and a few circuits of an arena isn't the same as going out for 2-3 hours.
- Location
- People's Republic of South Yorkshire
Is there actually any figures about of horses carbon footprint...?
Be good info to have.
Be good info to have.
- Location
- People's Republic of South Yorkshire
There are an estimated 847,000 horses that reside in the United Kingdom
at 1/2 acre each, lot of ground...
at 1/2 acre each, lot of ground...
- Location
- East meath/dublin
Oh the still come every day to ride them and bend my ear about " making arrangements " Nice middle class ladies who would ride you like a donkey if the could .
The shacks that housed the horses in winter i bulldozed a few months ago and if the horses are still there at the end of Sept then i will load them up and give them a free spin home .
Both owners have good sized lawns that should suffice to feed a horse for a day or two while the locate another sucker ....
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
I think they said, the fires caused by the limited nuclear war would produce so much smoke, we would get a global cooling and mini ice age, and billions would die from starvation.
- Location
- South Wales UK
On the bright side ,things are not too bad now then?
- Location
- Yorks
Would be interesting to compare a ruminant's methane production with that of a human being who's preferred diet is pulses.