Solo turnout for the kicker? WWYD?

[SugarCubes]

What a tragic story, I’m so sorry @Caligirl83

My farm worker is coming tomorrow to put up cross fencing in my pastures. I’m still wracking my brain trying to decide how to divide the space, if my trainer wasn’t so far away I’d be tempted to just board her there again.

My lower pasture has a 100x100 dry lot and around 4 acres of grass. I am thinking of creating 3 separate turnouts so I can rotate. Or just splitting it in half and not rotating, instead just using the dry lot when wet (which I’ll also have to divide). It rests all winter, so I’m not sure if rotating is necessary.

My upper (winter) turnout consists of a 50x100 dry lot, and around 2 acres of woods/grass which I can either split in two or three…haven’t decided on that yet. There’s still another acre or two that needs to be cleared, so when that’s done I’ll have an additional turnout there.

Any input on that?

[Caligirl83]

@SugarCubes Hmm do you have a map of your place? I’m trying to visualize it… what area / kind of grass any shade considerations?

(Oh the one thing I forgot to mention in my sad warning story… said aggressive mare had no back shoes on. She just got lucky in how she hit him bc he was tall and she was a shorter heavy mare with a lot of power behind her hind legs. The vet clinic said the only other time they’d seen an injury in a horse with a ruptured bladder was in foals that got kicked by a broodmare)