Does anyone have a lovely new water feature in their field?

The field's actually very very long and there's still about 50% unflooded and relatively well drained (as it's all drained down along one end....sigh.....). So the pones are fine, they've just got a big paddling pool. If it will just stop raining for a short while, that lake will go down really quickly. Not as bad as a friend of our's field - they had the rowing boat out.
 
I have a new ocean :D The bit where the water stops, is a VERY steep bank!

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Beach in the midlands anyone?
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My fields have become a fast flowing river, everything is under water, even the field shelter has several inches of water in it. I spent 24 hours phoning and driving around trying to find somewhere to put my horse and his companion pony. They are now ensconced in the most expensive livery stables around here for the next few weeks. And I am awake thanks to a downpour that sounded like the house was under a waterfall!

I am worried that all the rubbish carried onto the fields by the water is going to make them unsafe to use. The electric fencing has been flattened by the amount of weeds and debris that are getting caught in it and the edges of the flood sport a wide band of grey brown scum. :eek:

I nearly forgot, it is Christmas day. Have a very enjoyable day everybody, floods or no floods! :):):)
 
Wow, some of those pics are, well, wow, really hope they drain soon for you all!

We don't have a water feature thankfully, but the fields are so wet they squelch under foot, and the water is pouring off the surrounding area into them. Any stabled liveries have been kept in for the last week or so to try and preserve the grazing, the grass liveries have just gotten wet. YO is saying the stabled ones will have to be kept in until the 27th at the latest :(

Hate this rain, hate it, hate it, hate it, but thankful it didn't fall as snow, that would have been lots worse!
 
This was us a couple of years ago when the outlying fields flooded. Luckily only the bottom 3rd of our field floods when it's this bad. Been OK this year.

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Nnnnnnope ^_^

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And this is my horse protesting the dust:
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It's summer here :p. Temperature was about 37 degrees Celsius here today :p. Though it's currently raining a bit ^_^ - it's so hot during the day it all evaporates and leaves us with our lovely savannah grass
 
Wow, luckily we don't have a water feature as we are on chalk downland but am keeping 5 in to preserve the very wet ground. Did have 6 out on the top of the hill though had to bring my mare in with probable suspensory pull from skiing down the hill. Sadly quite good at diagnosing tendon pulls with my self harming crew so have made a temporary stable for her (after an epic paddy at being separated from my foal which isn't even hers!). Heard today about a Shetland a friend owned Gloucester way which refused to stand in the dry shelter and farrier had to cut most of an extremely damaged frog off one foot, they then barricaded it in only to return in the morning to find it under a foot of water. Can't imagine how difficult it is to cope with nowhere dry.
 
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