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Pets & Working Animals => Horses, ponies, donkeys & mules => Topic started by: SallyintNorth on August 23, 2016, 10:17:29 am

Title: Ponies following land used for pigs?
Post by: SallyintNorth 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.

Title: Re: Ponies following land used for pigs?
Post by: devonlady 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!

Title: Re: Ponies following land used for pigs?
Post by: Buttermilk 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.

Title: Re: Ponies following land used for pigs?
Post by: SallyintNorth on August 23, 2016, 10:44:18 pm

Great, thanks all.