Lawn Pasture

Last week I had just enough time to set up corral panels to put the ponies and mares on the lawn. It didn't take them the entire week to eat down that part of the lawn. I was feeding hay by Monday night. I needed to move more corral panels around so I took advantage of the help and got a new lawn pasture set up for the ponies.

I debated on whether to keep the mares in with the ponies but opted against it. I don't think there's enough for the ponies to last even a full week, let alone add two more mouths. So instead I let the mares back into the road pasture and filled their water tank. I think they were pretty happy to get away from the ponies and find more grass. I don't think the ponies were as pleased about the new arrangement. I really think they adore hanging out with Rabbit.

Mike sprayed the yard (or what we could get to now that I have half of it taken up with corral panels). Hopefully that'll get rid of the  mosquitoes for the next week or so and make being outside more bearable. He used the last of the spray so hopefully we won't have to deal with too many more mosquitoes (hahaha, I know it's wishful thinking).

I figure in another week, I'll have to move the ponies again. I'm debating on were to put them. I'm leaning towards in front of the barn but we'll see what happens when the time comes. Where we had the ponies a few weeks ago, the weeds had taken over (in between the barn and the burned down chicken coop). Mike got after the weeds with the lawn mower and sprayed to get rid of the  mosquitoes. So hopefully we can go back and spray for the weeds as well. Now that we can actually get back to the fence (and pasture), I need to walk the mares' fall/winter pasture.

I was hoping that the road pasture would hold out a little bit longer but I don't think it'll happen. I am figuring that by the first of August that I'll have to move them. Unfortunately, I don't think this other pasture will hold them until winter. So we may be looking at feeding hay sooner than expected. Anyone want to donate some hay to help offset the pasture issue? For now, I figure the road pasture has about two weeks worth left before it's completely burned up. I'm also hoping for a little bit of rain to help. I doubt that rain will help make that pasture go farther but I'm a little worried that without any rain, it won't come back next year. Pasture management is not my strong suite.

I didn't get anything else accomplished yesterday and I'm finally finding the motivation to get projects started. Unfortunately, I seem to run out of day.

On a bright note, I think I've finalized our next fundraiser. I'll post a blog about it in just a few minutes!

We have many projects to work on and if anyone wants to stop on out and help, we'd greatly appreciate it. I'll even make sure you don't get the super crappy jobs either!