SoFloShetlands
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We have two tiny miniature shetlands that are in a wooded paddock about an acre in size. It was completely overgrown and impassable when we moved in so we had it brush hogged. There are tall pine trees and palmettos at the upper levels, but the ground covers growing back in are stuff like very aggressive grapevine and cocoplum that wants to be 20 feet tall (and there would be bracken and ragwort if I didn't pick it) so I need to gradually remove it and replace it with something. Grass seems the obvious choice, and there is some growing already, but even here in Florida where the grass supposedly has all the nutritional content of iceberg lettuce, I see minis with grazing muzzles so I'm thinking that might be too much for them.
We also have an air-fern 13hh pony in the paddock next door (which is identical) who had to wear a grazing muzzle 24/7 when we kept her on grass--another reason I'm nervous about it.
Have people planted anything other than grass as a paddock/pasture ground cover (it's not really a pasture as it's shady woods). I saw something about Perennial Peanut the other day and the picture had minis on it. And it has to work in this hot climate which can be tropical rainforest one minute and dry desert the next .
I'd welcome any suggestions!
We also have an air-fern 13hh pony in the paddock next door (which is identical) who had to wear a grazing muzzle 24/7 when we kept her on grass--another reason I'm nervous about it.
Have people planted anything other than grass as a paddock/pasture ground cover (it's not really a pasture as it's shady woods). I saw something about Perennial Peanut the other day and the picture had minis on it. And it has to work in this hot climate which can be tropical rainforest one minute and dry desert the next .
I'd welcome any suggestions!