Confinement Areas • Horses For Clean Water

Choosing the Right Gates for Your Horse Property (PDF)

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Anything that makes chores more difficult makes it less likely things will get done properly. There is nothing more irritating than not being able to get equipment or deliveries into an area because a gate is too small, or you have to walk “the long way” around a pasture every time you need to move horses or clean a paddock. Learn the art of selecting and adjusting gates to eliminate unnecessary hassles in your daily routine.

Creating a Confinement Area for Your Horse: The Best Pasture Management Technique

You can greatly improve the health and productivity of your pasture plants by creating and using a paddock or confinement to house your horses when pasture plants need to grow.

Creating and Using Equine Confinement Areas (PDF)

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The best way to improve your pasture next summer is to keep horses off soggy, dormant grasses this winter. By providing a designated space for your horses during pasture resting periods, you can effectively prevent overgrazing, ensuring a rejuvenated and flourishing pasture for the upcoming seasons. Follow these tips to create and use a horse-friendly, chore-efficient confinement area on your property.

Equine Confinement Areas Tip Sheet Bundle

Original price was: $35.91.Current price is: $32.32.

Elevate your horsekeeping with our Equine Confinement Area bundle, a comprehensive collection of tip sheets designed to help you create ideal confinement areas, choose the right fencing and gates, and enhance your horse's environment. Save 10% over purchasing each tip sheet individually!

Equine Enrichment for Confinement Areas (PDF)

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There are many reasons why a horse might need to be kept in a confinement area, but confinement can lead to physical or behavioral issues unless we're mindful of our horse's individual needs. Use this guide to learn simple but effective strategies for creating enrichment opportunities in your horse’s confinement areas.

Equine Enrichment for Winter Paddocks

Keeping horses off winter rain-soaked soils or frozen pasture plants is critical for maintaining the integrity of your pasture next summer. However, many horses in confinement develop physical or behavioral issues such as pacing, chewing, aggressiveness, and ulcers. Here are a few ideas for ways to incorporate enrichment opportunities into a confinement area.

Gates Make for Better Chore Efficiency

When you live on a horse property, you almost can’t have too many gates, as they end up making so many things in horse property management that much simpler. Here are some of my basic considerations for gate access on any horse property.

Managing Mud, Dust, and Drainage on Horse Properties (PDF)

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Many horse owners see mud as a universal but unavoidable inconvenience of horse keeping. However, mud can lead to disease, increased insect pests, dangerous conditions for both horses and their humans, and dust in the summer time. Mud also has a serious environmental impact when it pollutes streams, ponds, wetlands, and ground water. However, with the right strategy, horse owners can “keep clean rainwater clean”—the golden rule for mud management on horse properties. By doing so, you’ll be able to protect the natural environment and reduce mud on your horse property—a win-win!

Mud, Drainage, and Confinement Area Management (Recording)

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Mud is often seen as a universal part of the horse keeping experience, but it doesn't have to be. In this 90 minute recorded webinar, you'll learn how to create a mud-free, chore efficient confinement area for your horses—and why that's important for both water conservation and horse health.

Pee Spots and Mud Management in Paddocks

Recently, we have tried different options to deal with areas in one particular paddock that have gotten really soupy. We’ve used all the usual techniques for dealing with mud: daily manure management, gravel footing, diverting rainwater, etc. Yet the soupy messes remained...