Addressing the impact of unsuitable pasture is a very important issue faced by the modern horse owner.

Due to diversification, many UK farmers are turning their farms into livery yards or renting land out to horse owners.

This is fabulous for the local economy but not so great for the domestic equine as often they are being kept on very lush production grasses designed for fattening livestock, rather than old rough pasture that is more suited to our leisure horses.  This combined with stocking rates, horses turned out into small paddocks which become over grazed, compacted and riddled with  plants such as clover and buttercup mean that horses are not getting the long, stemy fiberous grasses to which they are adapted.

At CHH we feel that this mixed with our unusual weather has contributed to the rise in metabolic and behavioural problems.