Am i the only one with grazing that isn't even WET, let alone flooded?!

Ours are very wet, but only the gateways are muddy. There are puddles in the furrows though.

We're South East, on clay - but not overgrazed. We are keeping in at night though to preserve it (can usually leave out 24/7 all year if we want).

I think we're doing well all things considered!
 
Not the on,y one I have 4 out 24/7 and have a small patch of half in deep muddy sand at the gate the rest is being ridden on daily for schooling without marking it at all it is very short now so will have to keep an eye on but it still doing fine. The land is very sandy though I worry more about sand ingestion than mud
 
We aren't doing too badly. Huge field for three horses, top of chalk downland, bit squelchy and mud by gate and some standing water but field goes up hill and plenty of grass and dry away from gate.

Plus route to field from indoor stables is laid stone/hard standing so no mud.....

Just a shame no indoor school.

I really do feel for all those who are struggling with floods though.
 
I am also one of those annoying smug people on a slope with loads of grass although I do have quite extreme mud in some areas around the general perimeter - my horse likes to hoon around the fence lines, I've only started feeding hay this week and that's just because she likes it :-)
 
my field is very good two acres and *touchwood* no mud but only moved there in october we have a brook running at the bottom of the field and it has flooded down near the houses (only onto the roads tho no houses flooded) so im very lucky only had to start feeding hay last week but still loads of grazing.

feel so sorry for those who have flooded x
 
I'm the same OP, and I have photographic evidence :D

I know a couple of posters with good land said they were in Cheshire - I'm just over the border in Derbyshire, in the Peak District National Park. Our field is fine, tiny bit of mud in gate way and obviously it's not dry with all this rain we've had, but it's in great shape. I think we have about 4 acres, shared between 2 horses, both unshod, smallest is 14.1hh and the biggest is 15.1hh.
 
I can't even see my grazing :D which is just fine by me.

Last time I saw it the wet bits had morphed into ice rinks and the rest was as hard as rock, we get very little mud even around the gateways, but I grouch about it anyway, I am presuming it is still the same, the horses prefer it with a bit of padding on. It is a lot deeper than in the photo now (taken a couple of days ago)

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The OP is lucky. My horse is coming in every day covered under his belly is mud. If i leave him in his hind legs (fetlocks) are enormous. I'm not riding at the moment due to a virus I have otherwise they'd be down. The whole thing is a nightmare. I wonder if the spring will ever come. Officially winter only started on the 22nd Dec. :(
 
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