Equi-Club Horse Paddock Mixture
Price: £52.00*
Equi-Club Price £49.50*
(* - non Vatable)
Horse Paddock is designed to produce a specialist horse sward that is nutritious, palatable, persistent and with the correct seasonal growth patterns to meet the needs of the grazing horse.
Traditional grass seed mixtures are meant for sheep and cattle and are less suitable for grazing horses. The bite of a horse differs very much from cows. Cows use their tongues for eating grass, but horses use their lips. Due to this, horses can graze a pasture much shorter than cattle, and can graze down below the growing point of the grass plant, damaging it. This causes slow and problematic re-growth of the sward and creates open and bare patches in the sward that fill up with problem weeds like ragwort and chickweed, and weed grasses like annual meadow grass, which is a low yielding un-palatable grass.
The lifespan of such a pasture will be shortened, Horse Paddock resolves these problems and allows for healthy, sustainable paddocks.
| 4.2 kg |
BARRAGE |
Dwarf perennial ryegrass |
| 3.3 kg |
SPELGA |
Intermediate perennial ryegrass (dip) |
| 3.0 kg |
DROMORE |
Late perennial ryegrass (dip) |
| 2.1 kg |
SALSA |
Strong creeping red fescue |
| 0.7 kg |
ERECTA |
Timothy |
| 0.7 kg |
CONNI |
Smooth stalk meadow grass |
| 14 kg per acre |
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Sward Management:
This ley can be grazed throughout the growing season, the creeping growth habit of the fescue and meadow grass, allows the sward to 'repair' any poaching damage caused by the horse. It is also possible to spring graze the paddock, then shut it up and take a good hay crop in mid summer.
Pasture Repair:
If your existing pasture requires over seeding to increase the production of the pasture and the amount of sown grass in the sward is between 40% and 60% use Growers Renovator at 10 kg per acre. This, all perenial ryegrass mixture, is aggressive enough to establish and compete with the existing grasses and weeds.
Herb Mixture:
In naturally occuring grassland many more species are found other than grasses, whilst these plants yields are low, they have the ability to supply different trace elements and minerals to grazing horses and ponies. This blend of herbs contains many plants which are found in older pastures and can add valuable nutition to the horses' diet.
Chickory
Salad Burnet
Sheeps Parsley
Ribgrass
Yarrow
Sowing rate 1-2 kg/acre mixed with a grass re-seed or plant a Herb strip