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Need Help Getting Field Into Shape

  • 02-06-2012 8:15pm
    #1
    KingOfBreifne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 68 ✭✭


    We'll be adopting two Connemara mares in July, and our fields need to be cleaned up a bit. A good bit of them is overgrown with fern (bracken) and thorns. Our land is quite rocky and uneven (we're on the coast in Connemara), so it's not possible to simply run a tractor through it with a mower attachment or anything like that.

    What's the best course of action just to clear most of the unwanted vegetation out in preparation for the ponies? It doesn't need to be perfect...just need to clean-up the worst parts. We'll need to hire someone with the right equipment to help us with this, obviously.

    Thanks in advance for any sound advice.

    ~ ryan


Comments

  • #2
    1chippy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,716 ✭✭✭1chippy


    Let the ponies clear it. there connemara ponies in connemara. When they are finished you can clear whats left.


  • #3
    moy83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,701 ✭✭✭moy83


    Sounds like slash hook and knapsack approach . Could you let the ponies in first and they might flatten some of the ferns for you ? Conemaras are bred for mountainy land so it shouldnt be too hard on them


  • #4
    KingOfBreifne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 68 ✭✭KingOfBreifne


    Yeah...just a bit concerned about the bracken. I know it can be hazardous to their health over time if they eat very much of it.


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