Category Archives: Pasture

Posts about the pasture, including fencing, seeding, grasses, mowing/bush-hoggin, etc.

Is your pasture wet and muddy too?

Posted on January 26, 2010 by Bill

When it rains, it pours here in East Tennessee. To make winters even less pleasant, the frequent rain (January is our second rainiest month) is causing us work and making the lives of our horses a little less fun. Even … Continue reading →

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Have you seen this horse fence commercial?

Posted on January 6, 2010 by Bill

Unlike regular TV, I usually don’t fast-forward the commercials when I watch horse shows on RFD-TV . If something relates to or interests me, I’m happy to watch. Horse products interest me. One of those commercials showed a truck driving … Continue reading →

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The grass is greener on the other side

Posted on April 19, 2009 by Bill

In the past couple of weeks we’ve been traveling quite a bit. At one point there was no one home for about 7 days. During that time our horse friend Shari kept an eye on the place and fed our … Continue reading →

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The round bale hay experiment – Part 4

Posted on April 1, 2009 by Bill

Been a little while since we talked about this but I have an update. Since we last wrote about our round bale experiment in February 2007 (yikes – over two years ago!), we bought a round bale feeder with cutouts … Continue reading →

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Rain! And here we go again.

Posted on August 25, 2008 by Bill

We had been having a pretty good year so far rain-wise. Last year was desert-like in east Tennessee but this year through July was almost normal, yielding a few cuttings of hay for most fields. Someone must have bragged about … Continue reading →

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Time for an electric fence

Posted on August 16, 2008 by Bill

When we first arrived here at the farm, there was wiring for an electric fence but it wasn’t hooked up to anything. Eventually we removed the wiring because it simply didn’t look good and we didn’t really need it. Now … Continue reading →

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