Portable Pasture

Today we set up a portable pasture area. Basically it's plastic stakes with spikes on the end, which you put into the ground. Then you take electrical wire and string it on the stakes and hook it up to your electricity. In our case, it's a solar powered electrical panel. Once set up and turned on it works like a charm to give extended pasture areas to the horse. In our case it's a way to graze down areas around our pasture without having to hold the horses on a line as they do it.



As you can tell in the picture, they are happily munching the tall grass and weeds. When this area is grazed down, we'll unhook the electrical fence, move the stakes and put them in a new area, rewire it all and start again. It took maybe 2 hours to set up a 1/2 acre area and now that we know what we are doing it will be faster the next time.

NOTE: Cibola has learned quickly that the wire is not to be touched. She tried running under it and shocked herself. She now looks on it with respect. :)

-Myrtle