mixing cows with a stud horse

[Mark Reynolds]

If there is anything harder on a pasture than a horse I don't know what it is.

Mormon cricket invasion.

 

[Dave]

Mormon cricket invasion.

OK, Mormon crickets or a good heavy dose of Roundup. But horses are a real close third.

 

[Brute 23]

He said 8 month old heifers. At 8 months old they better be 50% the size of a horse or larger.

Because I was curious I looked back at my records. My horse/horses have been running with cows for 13 years. In that time there's been 1334 calves born/raised/weaned here all of them with horses. I haven't had a horse bother a single one. Guess I better start playing the lotto.

On a 10ac field right?

 

[chevytaHOE5674]

On a 10ac field right?

Absolutely. Ha

With or without the horse the 10a field isn't going to feed many heifers from 8 to 15 months. Remove the horse and you'll be able to feed 1 more heifer.

If I was the owner of the 10a and the horse and was told I needed to remove my horse, fence it separately, etc I'd tell the renter where his heifers could go. Ha.

 

[Brute 23]

Absolutely. Ha

With or without the horse the 10a field isn't going to feed many heifers from 8 to 15 months. Remove the horse and you'll be able to feed 1 more heifer.

If I was the owner of the 10a and the horse and was told I needed to remove my horse, fence it separately, etc I'd tell the renter where his heifers could go. Ha.

Spoken like some one who has never been on any side of a deal like that.

 

[chevytaHOE5674]

I've been on both sides of deals like that. As the land/horse owner the cash rent on 10ac would have to be lucrative to make me move my horse or buy feed for it, when it's already on 10ac it could graze.

 

[chevytaHOE5674]

As a landowner/ lessor there has to be a significant benefit for me to let someone else have access to my land. Having to move my horse or provide feed (when he already has available grass) drastically cuts into any benefit I might gain in leasing out 10ac.

Unless pasture rent is thru the roof and feed is cheap I suppose. Or the pasture rent and possible property tax savings make it worth it.

 

[Travlr]

Absolutely. Ha

With or without the horse the 10a field isn't going to feed many heifers from 8 to 15 months. Remove the horse and you'll be able to feed 1 more heifer.

If I was the owner of the 10a and the horse and was told I needed to remove my horse, fence it separately, etc I'd tell the renter where his heifers could go. Ha.

A horse will eat enough to feed at least one 800 pound heifer... and pound enough grass into the dirt to feed at least one more.

 

[Brute 23]

Lots of leasing goes on due to property taxes alone. It's no longer about what they can make. It's about what they can save, especially on small tracks.

 

[chevytaHOE5674]

A horse will eat enough to feed at least one 800 pound heifer... and pound enough grass into the dirt to feed at least one more.

Rotational graze the horse as you would cattle and it won't pound anymore into the dirt than a bovine.

 

[SBMF 2015]

They can tend to be boss at the feed bunks though.

 

[TexasJerseyMilker]

In my experience stallions sometimes like to 'drive' other animals running after them with their head snaking along the ground. I have had 14 horses in my life and 3 were stallions.

 

[TexasJerseyMilker]

I mix horses with cattle in pasture. What is good about it is cows won't graze the lush grass around cow pies but horses will. Horses won't grass lush grass around dung piles but cattle will. I just move them to d different pasture when the grass gets short. Horses will graze it down to the ground if not moved.