Are there other horses suffering with the hard ground???? Also in CR

[Vickijay]

Hi,

As title really. My horse is really lame at the mo and its making me feel very very

He strained his DDFT in '07 and after ages of rest he was back up and running properly for 18 months and now since we havent had any rain for the last 2 or 3 months it has compleatly flared back up and has now been quite lame again for the last 3 weeks.

Is anyone else suffering and praying for rain????

I think it chucking it down and him feeling a bit sounder would be the only thing that would make me a bit more cheerfull.

Vicki

 

[AmyMay]

I'm very careful with my horse and hard ground - and haven't done any fast work with him - except uphill - for ages.

So it's just walk, walk and more walk for us. With the odd bit of trot.

 

[wildpoppywild]

u can hav some of ours, my fields like a swimming pool at the gate thank god its on a hill so the horses still get good grazing

 

[Ziggy_]

I have to be careful with my mare on hard ground as well, I haven't cantered her on grass since May as I realised she was suffering.

Luckily for me my yard is a two minute ride from the beach so we've got all that sand when we want to go for blast... we'd be restricted to walking hacks otherwise. Roll on winter I say!

 

[Vickijay]

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u can hav some of ours, my fields like a swimming pool at the gate

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Please bottle it up and send it, even him just being out in the field on the hard is enough for him to be really quite lame

 

[wildpoppywild]

what a shame for him

i wish i could send it to u

 

[Moggy in Manolos]

I do not do more than a walk as i am lucky to be riding my girl, perhaps when the ground is soft we may get a trot or canter, she loves soft ground, really much better for her, but as we only walk it is not really bothering her much, though I am sure she would like it softer under foot

 

[debsflo]

we are not competing on grass and no more than a short steady trot out hacking due to the hard ground. i have one mare with a history of suspensory damage and its just not worth it

 

[soulfull]

A couple on my yard have gone lame too and thats just running in the field, vet said more than ever just lately

 

[Darkly_Dreaming_Dex]

Jacob is crippled with his coffin joint problems on this hard ground

 

[bushbaby28]

yup! have one horse with Side bone so suffers if the field is too hard and then tb with old injuries that also doesnt do too well when the ground is solid

 

[Slinkyunicorn]

The ground here is like concrete - had no rain in over a month and the rain before that was just showers which made little or no difference. Sticking to walking and trotting when out and only cantering in the school for now.

Supposed to rain here on tuesday - but the wheather map on Countryfile didn't look like it reached here.

 

[Doris68]

East Anglia is like a desert - the soil has been blowing off the fields and disrupting the traffic. It is so very bad - I have never seen anything like it. Our fields are brown and like concrete.

We are due rain on Tues/Wed but, it isn't going to be enough to do any good. Desperate situation, not just for us horse owners but, for the farmers who have planted!

 

[somethingorother]

Hopefully you will get some of our rain soon. Been miserable on and off all week and pretty soggy. Been too slippy here to do more than walk and the odd bit of trot when out. Can't win!