Feldale Stud in Branxton, New South Wales | Local business
Feldale Stud
Locality: Branxton, New South Wales
Phone: +61 409 278 022
Address: 403 McMullins Rd 2335 Branxton, NSW, Australia
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21.01.2022 I’m just loving my Short Man (Feldale Short Black), he jumped around 1m yesterday at Krissy Harris’s Mangrove Mountain show jumping. It was such a great relaxin...g day out at a beautiful venue which we had the pleasure of being a part of (thx to Prue Barrett hiring the arena for the day!) It was fantastic to have some great friends and lovely horses doing what we love together for some much needed support and training I can’t wait till we can do it again!! See more
13.01.2022 Remember this grass? We were waiting for it to get nice and long and mature before letting the horses graze, the theory being that this would result in grass w...ith lower sugar levels. WELL - I had it analysed and the theory has held! ESC + starch easily under 10% at 7.2% - yippee! A few more details before anyone gets too excited (or is that just me ). The first photo is the grass before we let them graze it, the second is the day I took the sample, after they had had half a day of grazing. Obviously they had already munched some of the choicest parts, but there were still lots of untouched but delicious parts for me to sample. There's a pretty wide variety of species in there, mostly C4 type grasses including of course kikuyu but many others as well, with a little ryegrass, some clover and trefoil (a legume). As you can see in sample day photo, it was glary but overcast day, and it was midday. Clouds overhead can result in lower sugar levels (less sun = less photosynthesis = less sugar production). I chose midday as my horses go onto a dry lot at 1pm with hay at the moment, so this is the latest time in the day that they are exposed to grass (afternoon = more daylight hours to photosynthesise = more sugar). So what do I take away from this result? While keeping in mind that this is a single moment in time, it suggests that in my pastures, letting the grasses grow that much does result in low-moderate sugar levels, at least on a cloudy day, and I can assume that earlier in the morning sugar levels were lower again. Now, in some species of grass sugar levels can more than double from early morning to late afternoon given sunny conditions - so I can make another (very) rough guess that this grass was unlikely to have been higher than 14% or so at the end of the afternoon. While this is technically higher than the safe 10%, it is not crazy high, which is nice to know (and in any case, my fatties aren't eating it then!). It's hard to say what might have been the result if it had been a bright sunny day - I'll have to do another test someday and find out!
07.01.2022 These two beautiful rising 2yos are Reflection on the left and Splendour on the right both by Regardless. Reflection is a full brother to Belrieve Sailor currently competing in Queensland with Phil Edwards and Splendour is Short Blacks youngest full sister.
