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Slow Feeding Horses on Paddock Paradise Tracks
Welcome! This wiki is our website for sharing Paddock Paradise success stories and support.
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Let's talk about what's working, and what we're tweaking. It's all about barefoot horse lifestyle. Topics are arranged in outline form in the left-hand column.There's a separate set of pages showcasing various slow feeders. Why slow feeders? No more wasted hay, and the horses are happier using their natural foraging skills. They help our horses emulate the free-choice, yet limited grazing pattern of horses in the wild. There are many choices to buy or build.
Join this site to post questions or share your experience in the Discussion Forum with anything from eliminating mud to building a better feeder.
Be sure to look at the "Paddock Paradise" pages for photos and videos of turnouts designed to encourage horses to keep moving along by themselves without feeling fenced in.
Enjoy the Paddock Paradise blogs linked from the top of the Blogs and Websites page. If you have a site that isn't linked yet, please add it!
Blogs and Websites also lists several sources for slow feeders and other fascinating ideas.
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| WindyMare | Want to start my own Paddock Paradise and looking for advice | 15 | Tuesday, 8:55 PM EST by SpottedTApps | ||
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Thread started: Oct 25 2009, 1:27 AM EDT
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I work at a horse ranch in the mountains above Santa Barbara. We want to start our own P.P. in order to get our horses exercised and mentally engaged without needing us there to do that. We have up to six horses at a time who would be on the track, and we have 2 acres to work with. We have some questions to those people who have a P.P. already in action before we start out so that we have a better idea of what we are getting into.
1.) How many horses do you have on your track? How long is your track? 2.) How long does it take to feed? How often do you feed? 3.) How many feeders do you have per “parking spot”? 4.) If the horses run out of food, do they stop moving around the track? 5.) How do you deal with manure clean-up? Any feedback on this would be great. We really want to make this work. Thanks! |
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| MarkeyMark | Just to say Hello | 2 | Aug 27 2009, 3:56 PM EDT by SpottedTApps | ||
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Thread started: Aug 25 2009, 3:57 PM EDT
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What a great site! I thought I was the only one in the UK who had ever heard of paddock paradise, - OK I know I'm not, but sometimes it feels like it. I live in Cornwall in the UK about a mile from the beach and I have four horses who are all barefoot, two always have been, two who are rescue horses. My horses always live in a herd, never come in and eat only a high fibre -sorry USA fiber, diet. Having admitted this much is probably enough to get me hunted down by red coated people with dogs but there you go. Looking forward to some great ideas on PP. - Mark
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| KrisHughes | Slow Feeders | 3 | Apr 27 2009, 9:49 AM EDT by SpottedTApps | ||
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Thread started: Apr 26 2009, 1:13 PM EDT
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I haven't explored the site fully, or read many old posts, so apologies if I am covering old ground!
The problem I see with slow feeders is that they are static! So having one or two doesn't keep your horses moving, which is a big part of the track mentality. However, I am a realist, and also know that if you scatter hay on your track in windy weather, it will probably be wasted. The solutions that have worked for me are to created tying points on any posts or trees on my track, where I can hang (as low as possible) a small mesh net. The areas that lack hanging points I fill in with tires. No, I don't put the hay in the tires, I tie a piece of rope around the tire, and then tie a net to that. I don't use tractor tires, just large pick-up sized ones. The great thing is they are easy to move about, so I can keep the horses guessing and avoid certain areas don't get too footworn, muddy, etc. The horses do drag the tires around a little, but not far, and rarely push them under the track fence. Kris |
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