This is the muddy bit that I was talking about yesterday. It may not look much but believe me when I say it is about 3 foot deep and very bouncy. I know this because I stuck my stick in it, right down until I hit bedrock.
So, after feeding everyone their breakfast, I shut the Shetland ponies in their paddock and took my trusty fencing kit out to the boggy bit.
I pulled the electric fence back from it’s original track first to create a lay-by for the ponies to use instead.
And then I fenced off the boggy bit so no one will be able to walk over it.
Then I switched the electric fence energiser on full blast and went back up the hill to let the ponies out of their paddock.
I told Waffle what I had done and how I expected him to make sure everyone behaved themselves in the new bit.
This was last year’s slippery slope – when I refenced a boggy bit and they all escaped…… and it then went so horribly wrong.
(but this time, OH strimmed under the new fenced off bit so there will be no part of the fence not zapping away on full blast).
It took the chaps a while to work out what I had done. They didn’t get to the new bit until the afternoon.
And it was interesting to watch who ate where. Tiddles ate some grass and then wandered away.
The others were the same eventually.
Although this grass is deep, there isn’t actually much lush stuff.
It is mostly the finer hill type with tons of flowers etc too.
So, please God no laminitis and no escaping. Please.
