Basic Grassland care
- Created by: Lilly
- Created on: 21-07-15 18:06
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- Daily Grassland Checks
- Fencing
- Secure, report any broken areas
- Post and rail, post and wire, electric fencing
- Use electrical tester to check fencing is still working
- Essential, needs to be checked daily- do not escape
- Water
- Fresh, constant and avaliable supply
- Check automatic trough works- h20 is essential for life
- During winter, must break ice and remove
- Gate
- Hangs proper, oepen and closes.
- Needed for safe entry and exit
- Shelter
- In sound condition, provides shelter form inclement weather
- Area should not be poached, large enough area to accomodate no of horses
- Grazing
- Not too sparse, not too much
- Note state of grasses- Good grasses rye grasses, meadow fescue
- Feed essential for life
- Not too sparse, not too much
- Ground
- Flat and not rutted
- Not poached, especially crowded shelter or hay rack
- Poisonous plants
- Ragwort
- Deadly nightshade
- Foxglove
- Fencing
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