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SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Ponies following land used for pigs?
« on: August 23, 2016, 10:17:29 am »
I am about to reclaim the pig paddock for the ponies.

Is it okay to put the ponies straight in?  The land won't be too rich in some mineral or anything?  It's had pigs on it, at extremely low density, for about 6 years.
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

devonlady

  • Joined Aug 2014
Re: Ponies following land used for pigs?
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2016, 01:26:45 pm »
I don't know, Sally, how the copper content of the pigs' food would impact on the soil and whether it would be taken up in the grass. Or what effect that may have on the ponies?
Not much help, sorry!

Buttermilk

  • Joined Jul 2014
Re: Ponies following land used for pigs?
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2016, 01:39:53 pm »
I used to work for someone who ran pigs and welsh ponies in the same paddocks with no ill effects to either species.

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Ponies following land used for pigs?
« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2016, 10:44:18 pm »
Great, thanks all. 
Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

 

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