The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: plumseverywhere on July 07, 2012, 09:19:35 am
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Had a mega early night last night with bad headache only for neighbouring land owner to phone my mobile (very loud blast of The Libertines ringtone, woke with a start!) apparently the Gypsy Cob horses he is grazing in the field next to my sheep paddock are trying to break the fence down and he thought I should know that by morning they were likely to be peering down to my kitchen in the field we own ;D
He is getting new improved and electric taped fences put up - soon. Am assuming that horses and sheep are ok to mix if they get in overnight?!
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I think sheep and horses should be ok. Did they get through?
:horse: Better to be warned maybe than to look up from making your morning cuppa to find yourself being watched by a curious vanner :D
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;D just been out to check - no horses. In fact, no horses anywhere! I think the owners might have moved them for a bit till fencing sorted! bit of a shame in a way, they are lovely boys!!
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and there was me thinking a totally different scenario ;D :farmer:
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;D
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Hopefully they will be back once the fencing is sorted
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We don't let my Fell mare in a field with young lambs - she's prone to testing things with her teeth ::) and has been known to kick flying things that fiddle around her back legs. Once the lambs have learned a bit of circumspection they're ok with her.
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With horses it isn't so much will they boher the sheep, but will they damage the ground. the answer is yes. Same with cattle on this wet ground. So avoid interlopers if you can.
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My neighbour's ponies are welcome into my fields to eat the grass off, saves me paying someone to top the grass for me, likewise my neighbour loves to see my sheep in her fields, though at the moment we've neither enough ponies 'nor sheep to keep the grass down.
I wouldn't let the ponies in in wet weather if they were shod, 'nor do I let them in if I have small lambs but otherwise they get on very well.
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we woke to our flock of sheep in the garden! Boiler suit over the PJs yet again.......