Quote Originally Posted by Entropy View Post
Be careful introducing her to good pasture. It's easy to grass founder a horse that's not used to rich grass. I'd start her out with half an hour to an hour a day for a few weeks before gradually building her up to 24/7 turnout on it. Founder is not pretty. Sounds like that QH stud has rain rot, listerine would be his friend.
Depending on your area gelding runs 100-350. However since h has been a stud that long he could have picked up some habits that you'd be hard pressed to break.

Good luck on your girl and the fences.
Now I feel stupid . I completely forgot about slow introduction. I had to do it with my gelding when we moved because of the high quality of the grass he was going to be grazing on.
We also kept another gelding a few years back. We had really rich prairie grass and alfalfa hay, we got him and three other horses from my uncle. He kept them in a really wooded-forest type area and just plopped them down on our land.
The poor guy coliced bad within the week. He survived after surgery, the others didn't have a problem (thank god).
I was in the third grade at the time, my dad and older brother were clueless about horses and my mom had all her life just put the horse in the pasture and let it graze, no fuss.

Now I know better