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Horse pastures

Horses are very selective grazers and particularly avoid dung patches, which take a long time to disappear. So if horses are kept permanently in one paddock, it will develop a mix of very closely grazed areas and rank, ungrazed pasture.

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Deric Charlton, Pastures – Pastures for different livestock, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/16457/horse-pastures (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Deric Charlton, published 1 March 2009.