Paddock Paradise… part 3

Well, my paddock paradise is pretty much finished and the horses will be introduced into it tomorrow morning. They are still at the neighbour’s paddcok and I am looking forward to see how they react to the new layout of their paddock. Here is  a slideshow of the track and the layout of the paddock. [...]

Creating a Paddock Paradise… part 2

I got my book a few days ago and started reading immediately and wow. I am loaded with ideas and have been working on my paddock paradise for past two days and I am now waiting for some tread-in posts to finish off my track. I am quite stunned at how much track I can [...]

Creating a Paddock Paradise… part 1

One of my biggest problems is that I really don’t have enough room to house 3 horses with about 1.75 acres of space for them on our 2.5 acre block. When I enquired at council in regards to the regulations about having horses on your semi rural (aka peri-urban) block I was told that having [...]

My Property

When we moved onto our 2.5acre peri-urban block I promised my husband that I would have more not less grass within a years time. He just chuckled and said, “we’ll see.” I had bought Jane’s book “Managing horses on small properties”, read it from cover and cover and went about to put her suggestions and [...]

And so it begins…

All the text books tell you, that to establish a property plan you should try to obtain an aerial photo of your property and use plenty of overlays to map the terrain (contour lines, water sheds, vegetation etc), but with only 2.5 acres (1 hectare) of land… is it worth it do go into that [...]