Okay, now my boys are home at last after six years of being boarded somewhere else.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ME!!!!
They came home Christmas day. They had been kept on a grassy area that had been stripped and trampled by them and has since had no grass but those tiny baby shoots. So, I have a nice area to turn them out in, but there is grass on it, not alot and not that lush either. I turned them out on it for about four hours each day over the weekend to slowly get them introduced to it. They have been drinking, eating, and pooping good and their feet feel fine, no heat. All the other time, they are kept in 12x12 stalls so they have plenty of room to move around. I have no dry lot or any other areas to keep them right now.
Here they are in their new stalls: Twix & Amos
My question is, would it be better to leave them in all day (while I am at work from 7am - 6pm) and maybe one hour of grass when I get home until it's too dark (we don't have lights out there)? OR To leave them out on the grass all day while we are gone and come in at night? We need to wean them on the grass so they won't get sick, but it seems like it will be all or nothing and I don't want to hurt them.
PLEASE HELP!!!!!!
They came home Christmas day. They had been kept on a grassy area that had been stripped and trampled by them and has since had no grass but those tiny baby shoots. So, I have a nice area to turn them out in, but there is grass on it, not alot and not that lush either. I turned them out on it for about four hours each day over the weekend to slowly get them introduced to it. They have been drinking, eating, and pooping good and their feet feel fine, no heat. All the other time, they are kept in 12x12 stalls so they have plenty of room to move around. I have no dry lot or any other areas to keep them right now.
Here they are in their new stalls: Twix & Amos
My question is, would it be better to leave them in all day (while I am at work from 7am - 6pm) and maybe one hour of grass when I get home until it's too dark (we don't have lights out there)? OR To leave them out on the grass all day while we are gone and come in at night? We need to wean them on the grass so they won't get sick, but it seems like it will be all or nothing and I don't want to hurt them.
PLEASE HELP!!!!!!
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