As a result last year Brian built me a new shelter in the small field behind the house, which can give access to either or both of the bigger bottom fields. So far its mostly been used by the horses, but it can also be used by the cows as needed. We clad the two sides that get the weather with metal sheeting.
I have the barn I can use for the horses in bad weather, with the yard area around it, but that doesn't connect to any of the fields so its not so good for longer periods of changeable weather (and changeable describes a lot of our weather!) or for providing a bit of shade in the summer. As a result last year Brian built me a new shelter in the small field behind the house, which can give access to either or both of the bigger bottom fields. So far its mostly been used by the horses, but it can also be used by the cows as needed. We clad the two sides that get the weather with metal sheeting. The small field we built it in is already very stony and well drained, it used to be a haggard apparently, but there was a layer of mud that had built up and a pile of waste material from when the septic tank was put in. Brian created a "scraper" tractor tool from an RSJ to scrape this off and get back down to the stony layer. Finally he topped it off with most of a lorry load of gravel and stone dust from the local quarry, all ready for next winter.
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