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

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As the title :) Don't get me wrong, it's rained almost non-stop, but our field is fine. I've got two 15.2's & a 12.2 out 24/7 on 5 acres & it's perfect. It seems we are very fortunate & in the minority. Anybody else?
 
We are in the south west, but field is on a hill and apart from a bit of mud at the bottom of the slope by the gate, all is fine. Lots of grass and fairly dry. Lucky to have turnout all day and in stable at night, but we could do 24/7 turnout if we wanted. I would never stay on a yard that had no turnout.
 
Nope, not just you. New yard I'm on in Cheshire has amazing turn out and the fields are a bit squelchy but not even remotely muddy. And the rain is endless. It's just massive fields, horses that don't run about too much and excellent drainage.
 
OP - do you have room for two more for a couple of months? I can bring them tomorrow! No really, it's no problem - tomorrow would be fine! The sooner the better. So what's the postcode? LOL! :)

Am I jealous? Well, yes I am really........
 
Im in cheshire too. But on sandstone grazing with obviously-amazing drainage :D I have been gobsmacked at the lakes in some yards' grazing paddocks & then at the photos on here! :O
It's a tad wet outside our shelters, but that's all. And there's a puddle in one corner of the manege but i can live with that :D
 
We have wet fields but very little mud as there is a lot of land for the amount of horses. My cob is out with a little pony on just under two acres and only has mud outside her gateway as they don't wait at it :) one other paddock is a similar size with two on and then one bigger with two big horses.

Very different story to last year when she was one of five on about an acre :o
 
We have grass and no lakes but mud in the gateways and a little stream is trying to form down one of the slopes. Sick. Of. It.

Popped to the shop on way home yesterday morning to hear a guy behind me call, 'Did you fall off your horse? My girlfriend's always doing that.' Replied that no, this is just the everyday look right now. Sob.
 
Just to clarify: I do mean MUD. All I'd done was turn out and I may as well have laid down and rolled in it. It may have been on my face. Put coat and gloves thru wash yesterday and honestly wondering why I bothered.
 
We are just letting ours trash one field with a bale of hay a day put out..... it's liquid mud in the gateway, but the rest of it is ok, very well eaten down, so no food as such, but not a mudpit, but it's on a steep hill, as are all our hills, we managed to make hay this yr, due to our hilliness :D
 
Our fields are pretty good at the livery yard, the top field is a bit squelchy. The second field is muddy in the front almost perfect on the other half. The stallion paddock has a bit of mud but no puddles and looks surprisingly well, the main field has a lake/pond but it has this all year round, the rest of it mud free, but it is in excess of 10 acres, the horses don't churn it up, and apart from the small lake it drains really well.

I have a grey who comes in pretty much the colour he is supposed to be :)
 
We're on the eastern side of Dartmoor, farmland rather than moor, and our 5 acre field isn't bad at all. We had no idea when we bought the field that it was so free draining, it's had horses on it non-stop, 24/7 for seven years now, I have four 14.2hhs on four acres, and I've only put haylage out for the first time this week. There's a wet area at the bottom of the field, but I'm talking a five foot wide strip - gateways are slippy, but I could cope happily in walking boots instead of wellies. We also rent a two acre field directly opposite, but lower - the whole field moves like a bog now. I've used it four ten days in 2012, that's how wet it is!
 
My fields are flat as a pancake and there's no grass left, but it's been okay (except the gates) until today. Had puddles in the field shelter and the stable (which we use for storing hay) but today the whole 2.5 acres are a complete swamp. They're up to their fetlocks in slop but thankfully we're having a new gate put in the back field tomorrow so they'll be going in there monday morning. If it wasn't for today's rain I'd have happily left them where they were but there's another 2 acres with long grass in that's not been used because we had no access until now.
 
Mine is a bit wet in the middle as that's the lowest part but the rest is fine, dry and its all mud free, even by the gate and trough! There is loads of grass left and 8 acres for only 2 horses so that helps :-)
I know I'm really lucky.
 
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