(08-02-2012, 04:43 PM)Victor Leigh Wrote: From what you have said, then it's not really very expensive to keep a horse. Where I live, we don't have the problem of winter at all. So the horse can graze the whole year round. Now how much land planted with grass is needed to feed a horse?
its supposed to be one acre per horse, but the more, the better, horses eat grass pretty fast, and if they dont have enough space, they will destroy the pasture by eating all the grass and letting the weeds take over. the farm i was visiting leaves about 25-30 acres to 14 horses.
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