Anyone else really struggling?

New Forests Rock said:
The good bit is being 2 OAP's we can at least take our time and do it all in daylight. Worst bit is feeling old, cold, worn out joints - ours, not ponies 🙈 🤣 AND I AM SO FED UP OF HAVING WET FEET despite lining wellies with plastic bags. As for fields, they are just lakes and deep mud with soggy grass poking out - still ponies seem quite happy digging up last year's acorns.
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I use Fencham wellies and they don't leak at all, might be worth a try!
 
Marigold4 said:
That sounds absolutely awful. Could you get some hoofboots for the one with abscesses perhaps? Or is the mud too deep for boots? I have found Equine Fusion boots stay on in practically everything. Could the tractor use a scraper to get rid of some of the mud? Could you go down to two horses, perhaps? You say the horses are non-ridden due to physical issues - I know it's an awful thing to consider but could one be PTS? Is there someone you could pay to come and help you? I expect you've been through all of these options already.
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Too deep for hoof boots I think, it's up to mid shin in some places! We've tried scraping with the tractor, but when it rains again it just puts the slop back on top. I did wonder about one being PTS but felt awful, he does always seem to have something going on but it's never that bad, even the abscesses are never enough to make I'm hopping lame, and he seems quite happy in himself, still has a play with is field mates, loves a good nosey when I'm doing stuff with the sheep, thinks he's going to go hunting when he hears the quad bike etc... feel like it would be for my benefit and not his, which makes me feel terrible
 
AWinter said:
I suppose I'm just looking for support/solidarity that other people are at the end of their tether with this wet winter?

Not helped by the fact we lost our dream yard we were renting last summer and have had to move to very small acreage in a place that my horses find quite unsettling. I have now been looking for 8 months and come up with absolutely nothing, its hard to see any light at the end of the tunnel.

It is so wet and our acreage is so small that my horses have been living 22hrs a day on our 10 x 15m hardstanding, with turnout onto the grazing twice a day. Even with this restriction it is so waterlogged the field is a boggy mess. Even the parts where the horses haven't been on yet are soggy, it just takes one trot/canter and there are huge divots in it. The forecast looks like rain for the forseeable future.

I just feel so trapped and guilty that my horses have gone from their dream life to....this. And no matter how hard I try I cannot find anywhere else to go that would be better. Renting land in this area is seemingly impossible and I don't know what to do. On top of that everyone else seems to plenty of land that just isn't that muddy.

Please tell me some of you are also struggling?
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Oh God yes. I'm exhausted washing rugs, dealing with a skin condition thing, spending money, and seeing my horse undo it all every day as I let him out regardless. The place is in bits. You're really going through it. Hoping things turn around. Very tough.
 
Gloi said:
:( Just for a change we are due snow on Friday instead of rain.
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Yep snow forecast here too from Thursday night.

I’m not sure how anyone’s MH will cope with that! We’re all in the same boat which we could find comfort in I guess. The sole came off my boot yesterday when I was bringing the ponies in, I just had to laugh or I’d cry. This was after wading through a lake that’s formed in my field to get one of them as she decided to be a sea horse instead of coming to me.

Ours go in the summer fields in May, I keep thinking it’s not that far to go now but this rain is just not letting up.
 
AutumnDays said:
Too deep for hoof boots I think, it's up to mid shin in some places! We've tried scraping with the tractor, but when it rains again it just puts the slop back on top. I did wonder about one being PTS but felt awful, he does always seem to have something going on but it's never that bad, even the abscesses are never enough to make I'm hopping lame, and he seems quite happy in himself, still has a play with is field mates, loves a good nosey when I'm doing stuff with the sheep, thinks he's going to go hunting when he hears the quad bike etc... feel like it would be for my benefit and not his, which makes me feel terrible
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I know how you feel. I have one like yours. I expect some would put her down but I know that once spring comes, she'll be happy and stop being difficult. I toy with the idea of how much easier life would be if I put her to sleep, but, as you say, it would be for my benefit not hers. Just got to get through another few weeks to spring.
 
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