Customer Reviews

Paddock Paradise: A Guide to Natural Horse Boarding

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A whole new way for the average person with a bit of land and a drive to practice optimal husbandry to create a stimulating world for their horses, to their health and deep contentment.

The difference between Jackson's approach and the usual fenced acreage is like the difference between an animal safari park and an old-fashioned bars-and-walls zoo. Creating physical, social, and ideally even emotional environments in which animals can believe they're in their primordial setup yields fascinating results when applied to horses.

Clearly and enthusiastically written--you will admire the author's creativity and sense of applied fun. Contains imagination-provoking diagrams and encourages you to improvise to accomodate your circumstances, geography, and herd composition. Highly recommended.

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.

Don't get me wrong, I like the ideas presented in this book and intend to implement at least some of them when I set up my farm. But if you've read about Paddock Paradise on a website or in another book or have even been told about the general idea - save your money. It's interesting to learn about how Jackson came up with the idea and some of his suggestions I imagine will be helpful, but he admits in the book that there is very little data to support the ideas at the time he wrote it.

Personally I think he should have promotted his website more and waited to write the book until sufficient data was collected.

Oh, and I find his writing style pretentious and annoyingly academic at times. Just say what you mean, dude! Don't pick your words to make yourself sound smart and fancy!

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.

Jaime Jackson provides a lot of insight into Wild Horse "Ideal" conditions. Pictures are great, and there are a few items which most people could incorporate into their facilities. A lot of what he recommends is not practical for most people. (Multiple electric fences, ponds, sand pits, burying calcium etc) Some recommendations can be modified. Use common sense to make a true "Paddock Paradise". His other books and DVD's were wonderful, and gave a lot more practical ides,so I was a little disappointed in this book. If one has the time, resources or natural lay of the land to make this work, it is worth exploring.

Easy to read and it explains the why and how to build a paddack paradise really wel.

This information is invaluable. We are implementing the info received in this wonderful book at our horse rescue where we care for 20 horses.

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 am really glad I bought this book. I will use some ideas to help set up my own padock, probably not so extreme, but there are some really great ideas learned from the wild horses in it. It's also an easy read, I read it in 3 days.

This book is very helpful in learning about the natural horse in its enviornment, and then it is good at developing what has been learned and applying it to a real life paddock. People with horses should definatly get this book to better their horses lives.