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Pastures

• 1 big 50-acre field (used for hay)
  
• 3 undulating 20-acre fields (mares and geldings rotated on)
  
• 5 small 2-acre paddocks (for mares close to foaling)
  
• 10 flat pens, (used for stallions)
• The other 10 acres is used for buildings and facilities
  

All of our field contain a mixture of good grasses and low growing herbs such as chicory. Most of them are well established and provide a healthy diet for our horses as they have a mixture of weeds, herbs, seeds, grasses and hedges. We check very carefully for poisonous plants.

Almost all of our fields have a thick country hedge at one or more sides and have sturdy, well-maintained post and rail fencing when there isn't a hedge. All of the small paddocks have post and rail fencing with an electric tape passing through the top. When we divide the fields, we use electric fence.

In all of our 20-acre fields, we have a field shelter to protect against flies and harsh weather conditions. Our field troughs are filled from a supply of clean piped water and are made of galvanised iron. They are regularly cleaned out, and in winter the ice is broken from them twice a day. In one field, there is also a gravel bottomed stream which the horses can drink from. We sub-divide most of our fields and rotate them as we have a careful pasture management plan. We remove droppings daily when horses are present in the paddocks and we harrow the big fields at least once a week. We try and rest our fields at least once every 2 months, except for the paddocks where this isn't practical, but other than that we have a very careful rotation scheme. The horses are wormed before they change fields to help prevent worm infestation and new horses are always wormed before we turn them out.

The basic field rotation at Woodcroft

Month	Field 1	Field 2	Field 3
December, January, February	Mares/Geldings (seperated by electric fence)	Resting	Resting
March	Resting	Mares/Geldings (seperated by electric fence)	Resting (Harrow and Fertilize, roll if neccessary)
April	Resting (Harrow and fertilize, roll if neccessary)	Resting (Harrow and fertilize)	Mares/Geldings (seperated by electric fence)
May	Mares/Geldings (seperated by electric fence)	Resting (spot-spray large weeds)	Resting (spot spray as field 2)
June	Resting (spot-spray large weeds)	Resting for Hay (look out for ragwort !!!)	Mares/Geldings (seperated by electric fence)
July	Mares/Geldings (seperated by electric fence)	Make Hay	Resting
August	Resting (Mow to top weeds)	Mares/Geldings (seperated by electric fence)	Resting (Mow to top weeds)
September	Resting (Fertilize if neccesary)	Resting (Fertilize if neccesary)	Mares/Geldings (seperated by electric fence)
October	Resting	Mares/Geldings (seperated by electric fence)	Resting (Fertilize if neccesary)
November	Resting	Resting	Mares/Geldings (seperated by electric fence)