Dd's pony is kept at working livery at a local yard. She lives out all year round. The grazing is pretty bad - and has been particularly so this year - the fields were so poached during the snow that the grass has hardly come back at all in many places. She has been living in a field with a LITTLE grass, with lots of regularly toppe up hay.
When we went up to the yard yesterday, she had been turned out onto the summer pasture, which is basically knee high. Poor grass with a lot of weed - I suspect more weed than grass (well cleared of ragwort, before anyone panics)
Anyway, she's been turned straight out all day in this field with the others. I queried this, thinking she should have been introduced gradually to the pasture. The yard owner (who I like and trust - she has never given me any reason to worry before) said that she was fine - the grass isn't rich because it's summer grass not spring, and the ratio of weed to grass means that she won't get too much. She had obviously had a green runny poo - needed to wash her legs - but she seemed completely fine.
Is this OK? Any thoughts, Oh experienced ones?