Darn rain!! My starvation paddock is all lovely & green!!

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Apart from all the other obvious miseries that this darn weather is bringing (not least how my grotty grey girl is taking advantage of getting as filthy as possible, as often as possible in it
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I've now got both my girls in a really small paddock together in a bid to curb their waistlines
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I've never known a full size horse get as fat on thin air and weeds as Be can.
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The starvation paddock I took her out of 2 weeks ago as it was going too green now looks positively lovely. I haven't even used the bottom half of my field in months. Has anyone else got more grass than they know what to do with?!
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My farrier calls Be my connemara pony
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(she's a branded, rather well bred Belgium WB
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Despite the rain I don't have puddles...... but the grotty grey one is very swift at having a good dive in the mud before it dries up!
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Every single day she is caked head to tail!! Grrrr!
 
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LOL, least they are cheap to feed!
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Good job too! She costs me a fortune in shoes trying to keep her trim!

We can wear out an extra thick set in 16 days...
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Don't know where you are in Light Blue Land, but here near Bury St. Eds, we have still had no rain! However, the bottom field where we cut our hay late June, looks extremely lush and the old girl is only allowed down there for a maximum of 2 hrs per day.

By the way, how are you now?
 
Our good doers are looking too well at the moment and they are on practically nothing. It has to be the fresh shoots which is chunking them up, all that sugar.
 
Pups, normally I'd be cursing but having just taken my Emoor x back from a loan home that has turned her into an RSPCA case, for once I'm chuffed our fields our growing like wild fire!
 
I'm right in the middle of Cambridge (and it's tipping down again now
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) The horses are just outside town - so having much the same no doubt.... (guess I shall have another grooming marathon ahead of me tomorrow
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I am okish thanks. I'm not going to pretend I'm great as was literally bedbound yesterday with one of the worst headaches I've ever had
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and I am increasingly frustrated at how little riding/exercise/activity I can manage...
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Ho hum...

Thanks for asking though
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Yup, I've got a 16.2, and a 16hh on less than 3/4 an acre, (which is not short on weeds and bare patches
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) It's the bit that drains the best, and I like to use the most in winter, so I would really like to move them off it and rest/weed it, but I daren't put them elsewhere right now...
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I just keep telling myself that all the grass will last longer into the winter....

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Ooh, I really hope so! If this were autumn I wouldn't be complaining quite as much!
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(I also really would be tempted with another horse if my field could be like this in winter
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Oooooh, get another horse......
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Good idea!!
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Care to come up with a good financial plan for me, to fund buying one?
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Oooooh, get another horse......
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Care to come up with a good financial plan for me, to fund buying one?
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Rob a bank?
Take Sol for free?
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huh, i'm only a couple of miles down the road from you and my horse's field goes from dustbath to mudpit... no lush grass, no fat belly... he's still getting breakfast and hay. and he's got an acre to himself...

perhaps i'll bring him down to lodge with yours for a while...
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Yeah, I have 2 biggies and a pony on a 3 1/2 acre field and they can't keep it down, am having the field regularly topped and the grass is thriving.
 
Erm... in one word... yes - got so much grass and two overweight ponios - they are on a couple of acres with muzzles and it's coming through thick and fast - the remainder is sectioned off for haymaking but the rain is putting a hold on that - it's a nightmare - if I can't get it cut I don't know what I'll do with it!
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Not only is the starvation paddock green, but we haven't managed to get the hayfield cut either... Anyone got any cattle I can borrow?

Still, on the plus side, my old gal's enjoying the softer going. Even if she is too fat to canter.
 
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