Anyone else really struggling?

[Kirstd33]

It is certainly rare for us to have rain with an easterly wind. This makes the rain feel so cold. Also, we try to organise the shelter against the prevailing southwest wind and rain.

OH has a day off today. He's doing the animals this morning I just can't face it.

I had a couple of days like that earlier in the week, when after long days at school, I bribed my teen daughter to go up and do the horses!

 

[Honey08]

Just to add insult to injury I just remembered that I left the hosepipe to the field trough switched on at 8am, so I’ve watered the field for 4.5 hours on top of the rain!

 

[pistolpete]

@Boulty he’s got really big! At least he’s happy! Proper bog pony!

 

[Goldenstar]

Here it’s the worse wet we have had .
We have had three weeks of weather coming straight off the eat coast and that is very unusual
It’s miserable, I am looking forward to livery when I leave here .

 

[Belmont]

I'm really struggling. My mare came down with laminitis early December and I'm lucky she has access from her stable to a large corral, which up until recently has never really been muddy, but after the constant rain, it's mostly sludge and I feel really sorry for her, she is depressed. Juggling horses, dogs and full time job is a battle at the moment, just glad I don't have children too!

 

[Catbird]

Just heard that in the south west we've had rain every day this year, which definitely feels right!

Took a day off work and thought I'd get a ride in, but gave up trying to get into the field as the mud is at that wellie stealing consistency so I didn't want to walk through it to catch the cob, and the cob didn't want to walk through it to get to me. We both just stared at each other across the slop

Feel like I need a big kick up the a*se to get going again

 

[tda]

Just to add insult to injury I just remembered that I left the hosepipe to the field trough switched on at 8am, so I’ve watered the field for 4.5 hours on top of the rain!

Oh I've done that too

 

[Crackerz]

i just feel sorry for their feet, out in the wet. i mean, i'm on clay, it's wet wet, not damp.

Is there anything we could be doing to help their poor feet from getting too soft?

 

[GrassChop]

i just feel sorry for their feet, out in the wet. i mean, i'm on clay, it's wet wet, not damp.

Is there anything we could be doing to help their poor feet from getting too soft?

I'd be interested in this too. I do have shelters with rubber matting but no guarantee how long they stand in there once they're bored eating the hay. Tried putting straw down to help dry them off more, not doing that again, it was absolutely disgusting!