r/livestock

I have multiple pastures of more than adequate size with horses on them. I have put grass seed out, and have seen no results. I was told at the feed store that my soil fertility or quality must be poor. Ive been googling this all week and there are so many different methods I am a bit overwhelmed.

Does anyone here have a tried and true method or system to increasing pasture for livestock? How do I increase my soil fertility? Should I remove the horses from the pasture?

Thank you in advance!

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, but we own a small hobby farm with just a few cows, but our neighbors sheep keep breaking through the fence into our paddock. It's beginning to get extremely annoying, we've asked the neighbors to fix the fence, but they only tried poorly and the sheep only break down those attempts. My grandfather has tried putting thick sticks in the ground right against the fence to create and barrier and the sheep break through that as well. It's a daily issue of having to hunt them out of our paddock and they're eating our grass and feed when there is plenty of green lush grass and feed in their own paddock. My grandfather has also tried electric fencing, but obviously that didn't work and they broke that as well. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

I have two kune kunes and I'm looking at fencing options. I found someone nearby with a few different types....what should I choose?

FIELD FENCE-3.5"x6" spacing at the bottom progressing to 6x8" at the top. 12ga top and btm wire 14ga in the middle. Note - vertical wires are spaced 6" apart. Some other brands on the market are 12" spacing.

NO CLIMB FENCE-all wire spacing is 2"x4". 12ga top and btm wire 14ga in the middle.

NO CLIMB HORSE FENCE-2x4" spacing all 12ga wire.

SHEEP AND GOAT FENCE-12ga top and btm wire, 14ga in the middle. Wires spaced 4"x4".

WELDED WIRE UTILTIY FENCE - 14ga wire with 2"x4" spacing.