Paddock Paradise: A Guide to Natural Horse Boarding

Some very good ideas in this book! I’m trying to figure out if this system will be usable for me as one of the horses I have a blind.

This has some good ideas, but is geared for LARGE properties. Light on details, ideas, and how to's for property under 20 acres.

Everyone needs to have this information. Horses need Help!! We treat dogs and cats so well, but are still treating horses like dirt bikes. They live in suffering right in front of us, and most people have no clue -it's a Serious problem!! I've made it my mission to help push these changes forward into the public eye. Jamie is a savior, it's insane no one else has gathered this type of information in all this time. Next up- natural horse nutrition research, please!! Somebody!? Anyway, Happy reading y'all, it's a quick and easy one, and SO INTERESTING!! I've witnessed half of this stuff when my own Mustang was still out in the herd.. I'm trying hard to give him his life back for his spirit and soul, but we're in New England now... I love him dearly, I just want him to be HAPPY, and Truly SOUND. <3 I'm SO grateful for this book!!

Very helpful for anyone who wonders even slightly about paddock paradise.People who want to know why paddock paradise is good for our horses and also for people who already decided on paddock paradise and just want to know how to start. But also for people who have never heard of it and bump in to the book, or as a present for someone with a horse or more.Doesn't matter how much acre you have, 1 or 100, as long as you love your horses and want the healthiest lifestyle for them. Competition horses,trail horses or just meadow buddies.This book explains how Jamie Jackson got the idea for a revolutionary way of horse keeping, one that is not only easier to maintain, but most important healthier for your horse! Better hoofs (barefoot), much less risk for founder,and fitter horses just because they want to keep moving like wild horses. No more cribbing and weaving because the horses are simply never bored. All in easy to follow guidelines in this book.

I love this book! Built my horses home, they love it. Add your own imagination. Change the things on the trail often keep them stimulated. Pinwheels-flags-logs-pile of branches Find the carrot... Makes a Horse keeping interactive for both of you. Pushing posts/elec wirer can change the land daily. The smaller your horses habitat the more you need this book.

Bought this book for my sister. She retired and moved her horse with her on her property. She created a paradise paddock for her horse Bonnaroo and he walks like 4 miles a day in it. Great 👍🏽 Book ! Get it for your horses 🐎 health !

This book explains a really great idea for keeping horses, especially easy keepers and laminitis prone horses. The paddock paradise track system encourages horse to move around more than the alternatives of standing in a dry-lot or being out on pasture getting fat. Jaime Jackson bases all of the ideas he has for setting up your paddock paradise from his observations of the wild mustangs out west. Some of his suggestions seem a little out there, but even in it's most minimal form Paddock Paradise seems like a great options and is an interesting book for anyone looking for a healthier lifestyle for their horse.

Completely worth buying, reading, and sharing this book and it's amazing and beautiful knowledge within. Easy and quick read, while being interesting and packed full of invaluable information, ideas, and sound judgement and perceptions from his 4 years of studying and following the mustangs, along with the practical advice on how to achieve and enhance your horse's physical well-being along with mental well-being by implementing some of these suggestions. Absolutely amazing info and book! Highly, highly recommend to anyone and everyone who wishes to or already owns a horse or horses!!!! Very grateful to have found this info, thankful for Jaime's effort to share his knowledge and findings with us, and know my horses will be too. Our horses deserve this!

I bought this book while on a fact finding mission about track systems. Now, I have 5 horses on a pretty perfect set up where they live out 24/7 but two are little fatties and need their grazing restricted. I have owned horses my whole life and I’m by no means ignorant to the plight of horses who are kept stabled 24/7.However this book really ****** me off. As do the die hard track folk you find on the Fbook pages. They are the extremists. They are the ‘all natural mothers’ of the horsey world. Phrases alone the lines of ‘horses kept in cages/prisons’ and making anyone who dares to consider alternatives out to be evil and selfish horse owners.So in short, you can find most of the information contained in this book on the web by searching “horse track systems” and you will find it more impartial too.There is a huge benefit to going on a track if you’re on limited grazing, have a horse with laminitis/EMS etc. But beware if your wanting an impartial view from this book... you won’t get one!

Lots and lots of photos, could have done with smaller pics and a lot more writing and updating, feels like a missed opportunity. I say this because Jaime has been gathering info from up and running track systems all over the world and says a lot of this info is on his website, but this was a an updated copy and surely could have included many samples and more ideas, especially as the back cover says that the book includes hundreds of ideas and lots of sample paddocks. Also would like to say that so many reviews here say that it's not possible in the UK but that's simply not true as there are now many many track systems in the UK, many only on a couple of acres. and the ones that accept liveries almost always have waiting lists. It's doable everywhere and such a great step forward for equine care.

Sound idea, I'm completely on board and think it's what we owe to animals in our care. However I have a problem with the book: on the back cover it claims "sample paddocks created by practitioners" and "hundreds of ideas" and yet throughout it, in the sidebars of a number of pages are the words "# PP Template"... is this a mistake? Aren't there meant to be examples of various users paddocks with the system in place where these words are? Where are these sample paddocks? I feel cheated.

I read this book within 24 hours of getting it. It will also serve as a fantastic reference resource for years to come. Many of the ideas in it will strike the reader as 'lightbulb moments' where you suddenly have a label for a thought that has been at the back of your mind for years. The best part of the concept is that the author is not prescriptive or precious about the concept, but instead, asks for feedback on the reader's own experiences once their Paradise is up and running in order to further research the system. It's not a cheap book, but will serve as an invaluable resource for any open-minded horsekeeper who has the best interest of their equine friends at heart.

Fantastic, having owned Jaime Jackson's 'Barefoot Trimming' ( the horse not the hoof trimmer!) I knew this would be good value for money.Full of info. on organising paddocks to cater for unshod horses, sadly I think on the whole, Britain has become too wet to implement this method, unless you own a bank, it's prohibitively costly and large acreage is needed to be effective. I know of people in US, New Zealand and drier parts of the world who are happy with it. Property developers in Britain have increased land prices so much here........