Horse Master Paddock Mix is especially designed to produce a nutritious, palatable and persistent paddock. A correct seasonal growth pattern enables it to be used for grazing with the option of shutting up to produce horse hay if required.
Timely sowing for example, after weed control, will help promote a healthy, sustainable sward.

Cultivar
4.5kg Intermediate diploid ryegrass
3kg Late diploid perennial ryegrass
2.5kg Late diploid perennial ryegrass
1kg Timothy
2kg Strong creeping red fescue

Usage

• Horse and pony paddocks

Performance

• High fibre, nutritious and palatable
• Low fructan (sugars) to help prevent laminitis
• Can be shut off in mid-summer to produce a hay crop

Sowing rate
13kg/acre or 32kg/hectare

Sowing depth
6 – 12mm

Agricultural grass seed mixtures designed for cattle grazing are rich in protein and sugars. Horses and ponies however, require grass which is high in fibre, with low sugar (fructan) levels. Using a blend of low sugar diploid ryegrasses with Timothy and strong creeping red fescue, and without clover to avoid
laminitis, will produce an easily digestible paddock sward. The way in which cattle graze differs considerably from horses and ponies; cows use their tongues whereas horses and ponies use their lips, enabling horses and ponies to graze a pasture down much shorter, leaving a stubble height of 1-2cm.
This short grazing slows and reduces re-growth, making it easy for unwanted annual meadow grass and weeds to ingress into the sward. The lifespan of such an intensively grazed pasture would be very short however, seeding a dedicated paddock mixture at the recommended rate means a dense, nutritious pasture can be maintained.