anyone else short of grass

[cellie]

We have had no rain for weeks .Grass is all burnt and poached cant believe I put hay out for her tonight.

 

[devilwoman]

yep me too - i've not had to feed hay in august for years - breaks my heart but i;ve got no grass at all.

 

[cellie]

I have two small paddocks and rotate plus I bring her in for 6 hours in day.I dont suppose there is much more we can do apart from pray for rain. Wherabouts are you Im norfolk supposedly driest county

now off to have look at forecast we missed rain last night

 

[devilwoman]

I'm in Essex - according to our forecast we are due rain next week ~fingers crossed ~

 

[Puppy]

I have faaaaaaar too much. This *was* my starvation paddock

 

[Slinkyunicorn]

Nope - mine are on restricted grazing - the resting sections of their paddocks are knee deep - and they have been topped! Still at least it will keep them going through the winter.

Send yours here for a holiday....

 

[cellie]

Normally get rain after you send it over please

 

[cellie]

Thats not fair you can go off people you know

 

[cellie]

October ok would like to go to spain will drop in on your parents place if you like make sure all is ok lol.Send me postcode and Ill send her recorded 1st class delivery

 

[popsicle]

No. fingers crossed xxxx We are ok for grass at the moment.

 

[Slinkyunicorn]

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October ok would like to go to spain will drop in on your parents place if you like make sure all is ok lol.Send me postcode and Ill send her recorded 1st class delivery

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Bah!!

Can go off people you know - everytime I think I can go and get a flight for £0's something happens to stop me going!! They have just come back - was v hot - even by their standards!!

Send her over - the holiday will chill her out.....

 

[Puppy]

Almost half my grazing is like this:

Which Star is currently enjoying too much to even let us catch her half the time

Poor Be has been on my current starvation paddock, which is still greener than I'd like

 

[cellie]

Ive just had cancellation so if you know anyone wants cheap holiday theres one or two weeks going spare really reasonable.Need to avoid school hols for cheap weeks and my daughter is in last year so we wont be getting any good deals.Skyscanner is good for sourcing cheap flights.I would love holiday as well

I was very brave and have started jumping lessons.My instructor said she takes her hat off to me as shes tricky little madam.Shes doing so well Im really proud of her.Only one blip this week took her hacking on her own spooked at something in hedgerow in canter and we jumped up bank into farmers field.

 

[Louby]

Where abouts are you, weve had torrential downpours and have the opposite problem of too much rich grass.

 

[cellie]

near gt yarmouth send some down for me lol

 

[devilwoman]

my problem is not only lack of rain but pesky wild rabbits who live in the banks around my field and use my paddocks to graze in - there are hundreds of the bloody things at the moment they are stripping every bit of grass I get before the neds get to it.

 

[Lollii]

No rain .. no grass, we have a drought I'm sure in East Sussex

I have been bringing the ned's in all day as it is too hot & no grass, so feeding them hay in Augist

 

[flowerlady]

I've had to ask the farmer to take all excess off as hay on the field we rent of him. Our own paddock had to be topped as well. I'm in Nottinghamshire

 

[Kenniford]

No rain??? oh my god where do you live? we're moving! lol! all it has done here if flaming rain and rain and rain! Winter rugs on in morning ready for the next front coming in at 10am!

 

[hoggedmane]

snap! my fatty patch is bare but two ponies still fat. My mare wandering round in knee deep grass looking at two paddocks that haven't been grazed since April. Also have two paddocks ata friend's I use which have grown long.

 

[Festive_Felicitations]

No grass - but it is winter here =)

NO RAIN!!! - which is a real worry as we never technically got out of drought conditions and this is our 'wet season'.
So if you have any to spare PLEASE send it this way! (south...)
The price of hay is allready going up and it is not even summer!!

 

[Chico Mio]

Always. My two don't 'do' grazing they are fed hay 365. A neighbour let us put them in his pretty sparse field and they blew up like balloons - cue us running two bloated, farting horses up and down the lane at 10pm Never again.

They are not used to grass, having lived all their lives in a dry, grassless area of Andalucia. Now we live in lush green countryside and I am terrified of them going down with colic or laminitis!!!

Ah well, at least the hay is dirt cheap (well, free for us as our friend took 150 round bales of his land and only has three horses).

 

[christi]

ive plenty of grass here 14 acres for 1 horse although i have her in a 1.5 acre paddock with her muzzle on ... but it has been raining non stop for 6 days now , its like winter

 

[tikino]

far to much graze here and far to much rain. the feilds are soaking here and horses are all in rugs

 

[asbo]

im spending £60 per month on hay for a 16.2hh and a 11.1hh

 

[AmyMay]

Nope - we have acres of the stuff. I've really struggled to keep Thumper's weight under control.

 

[amandaco2]

ive got none at all.
but we are over horsed. my 3 girls have about 1.7 acres.
so 2 are off on holiday and wintering out this year. so i will just have one at home until april/may next year!bliss.

 

[cellie]

Opposite side of the country to you ,between lowestoft and Gt yarmouth - east anglia.No rain for 3 weeks and its really too hot to ride although I still do 6 days a week to keep mare sane.
Now going on weather site as they forecast rain again this morning and again we have missed it I think it blows out to sea.

 

[kellyeaton]

we have to much grass 8 acres and 3 horses and one is on restricted grazing it is just growing all the time!

 

[ester]

Plenty here!