I've been wondering this for a while. Would somebody make like a comparrison? That might seem like a dumb question but whatever. I've been wanting to live in country area, sort of in a forest or in like a wilderness area. So I'm wondering about how large an acre is and how much a single acre costs. Can anyone tell me? I also am planning on purchasing a horse to ride through my land when I am able to aquire all of this. So one last question lol. How much land does a horse need. Please help!
2007-08-23 08:05:35 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment ➔ Other - Environment
A square plot of ground, 208.7 feet x 208.7 feet , will cover an acre.
An American football field, 360 feet by 160 feet, is about 1.3 acres.
12 high school basketball courts are a little more than 1 acre.
An acre is:
= 43,560 square feet
= 4,840 square yards
= 1/640 square mile
The price of an acre can vary widely depending on where you choose to buy.
If you are planning to keep the horse in a stable, a pen that's a quarter acre is more than enough. If you want to gallop with a horse across an acre of land, it will be a short run.
BTW -
The acre was originally the amount of land that could be plowed in a single day with oxen , or actually, what could be done by midday, since refueling took all afternoon (the oxen had to be put out to pasture).
2007-08-23 08:15:30 · answer #1 · answered by makawao_kane 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
An acre is 4, 840 Sq yards. To have a horse run free on your land, I would say you need at least 5 acres and 10 would be better. As far as cost for an acre, that would depend on where it is at. Around here (Wisconsin) it would be around 1500 an acre. Out in the middle of Colorado, maybe 300 an acre.
2007-08-26 18:56:49 · answer #2 · answered by deejay7021 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A single acre is not usually enough to keep a horse unless you are offering supplemental feed. The correct acreage per horse changes with the season as well as with other factors such as grass quality and tree coverage. Usually 1.5 to 2 acres per animal is needed if it is good quality grassland. This assumes this is the only use for this land and that the animals are horses not ponies.
Horses are not well adapted to forest habitats. They can't browse and are not good at traversing areas with unmanaged woods. Kings had their forests specially cleaned of low branches and downed wood. Polling or pollarding, when a tree's branches are regularly cut off at a height of 2-3 metres, was typical in deer parks.
2007-08-23 20:41:33 · answer #3 · answered by gardengallivant 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Almost the size of a football field. One horse would do well in an acre.
2007-08-23 08:13:26 · answer #4 · answered by cowboy in scrubs 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is exactly 50,000 sq. feet. The cost is different depending on where you move.
2007-08-23 08:13:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋