Mature horses performing little or no work can be maintained on high quality forages alone. Growing, breeding, or working horses require a supplement of grain or concentrate to meet their additional nutrient requirements. Forage should supply one half or more of the total weight of the total daily feed ration. Maintaining top quality pasture is much easier if you have several fields available. Or if you have surplus grazing, grazing with sheep or cattle will help reduce the worm burden and the weeds.
Cattle are good pasture improvers when alternated with horses as they eat longer rank grass.
Cattle may be grazed with horses but avoid cows with calves at foot or horned cattle. Advantages of good pasture management more grass, less weeds reduced worm burden 1. Divide your field Even if your field is as little as half an acre, it is worth dividing it in two, either with a permanent fence or, if the field is rented, with an electric fence. This will allow one half to be rested or treated while the other is grazed. In small fields grazed only by horses, it is essential that manure is picked up regularly.