Anyone else hoping it's going to get cold soon?

I'm totally fed up with all the weather we've had this year ! I've had enough of the mud already. . .I'm just looking forward to next summer now LOL ! Cold weather means lugging hay around & waking up in a cold sweat panicking because it's our first winter going rugless & worrying (un-necessarily) that my girls might be cold. . . . .:D
 
Yep bring on the frost.....lovely crisp days and dry under foot! That will be novel for a start....I've got so much mud and this is only the beginning!
 
Yep, a really dry, cold, with deep frozen ground BEFORE it ruts would be lovely please. Our fields are holding up really well but not a lot of grass and we are feeding hay already anyway so no mud would be brilliant!
 
Yes, dry and cold please. But if it freezes now I can't see getting the horses out. I turn out in everything but deep frozen ruts. So I need cold and snow on top of the yuck. Then I'm flying!

Terri
 
It's just so grey and damp and muddy, urgh. BUT when it gets cold, think of de-icing the car, slippery roads, frozen taps, slippery yards, on and on.

Think I prefer how it is now ;)
 
Well yesterday the Express was issuing dire warnings about a deathly cold snap that is supposedly on its way....the problem is, the Express does this ALL the time and usually what happens is that the temperature drops to zero for two nights and then before we know it the rain is back. I work in a newsagents, btw, I don't actually buy the Express (sorry if anyone does, but it really is a load of rubbish :p)
 
PLEASE send some very cold weather. I'd love it to get to -5 and stay there until spring. Water can be solved and then there's NO MUD. Horses are so much happier in the cold and dry.
 
CobsGalore said:
So...

A) The grass stops growing

and

B) My good-doer will have to move around to keep warm!

Anyone else looking forward to winter????
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Yes yes yes for all those reasons and so I can stop worrying and fiddling with electric tape... my guys are still in grazing muzzles
 
Desperate for some cold to kill off my grass and let my obese mare lose some weight, she is horrific and i know it, have tried every trick in the book to keep a muzzle on her over the last 8yrs and nothing works for more than a couple of weeks. Boys are dropping it nicely as they kept their muzzles on, she however looks like a bullock in foal.............
 
Boysy said:
Desperate for some cold to kill off my grass and let my obese mare lose some weight, she is horrific and i know it, have tried every trick in the book to keep a muzzle on her over the last 8yrs and nothing works for more than a couple of weeks. Boys are dropping it nicely as they kept their muzzles on, she however looks like a bullock in foal.............
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If it helps, my guys have been in muzzles all year and still fat.. I noticed that they have the same amount of poo's with or without the muzzle, this must be because they eat with the muzzles on for longer, I cant think of any other reason
 
While I'd love to see our mud dry up a bit I am actually dreading the cold weather this year. This will be the first winter since my mare was diagnosed with Cushings and I can't take the chance of turning her out in the morning onto frozen grass in case it triggers laminitis. So my poor girlie is going to be kept in a lot more than I'd like.
Also I really don't want another winter like 2010 - getting to the yard/work was so difficult with all the snow we got in december that year.
 
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