Enough rain!!

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Have I done something to upset the gods of weather? Is there a sacrifice needed? Perhaps a ceremonial burning of leaky boots.

After million days of drought it just hasn't stopped raining this week. My yard has flash flooded, the gateway is grim and the hooligan is trashing the field with post rain zoomies.

Drizzle. I ordered drizzle.
 
I am just crossing everything that Cobbus won't tweak something now the ground is softer and perfect for zoomies....

Just been driving through Sussex and the surface water is incredible.
 
:D The universe heard me and its chucking it down here now, I would hope it lasts but I doubt it can at this level. A solid night's steady rain every night for a week or two might just about do it.
 
this is what we get for pleading for rain, what a bunch of ungrateful wotsits we are!!

must say as much as i’m still very cross to have had no saddle for 3 weeks, and still no response about getting it back, i wouldn’t be riding in this🙈🤣
 
We got good, steady rain yesterday morning however, the afternoon was thunderstorms and torrential downpours... which caused my horse to churned the ground up a bit and she came in with muddy legs, dirty belly and a filthy rug.

Not gonna whinge (not really) the fields definitely need the rain (more of the same forecast today) BUT, I ordered OVERNIGHT rain (when she's in her stable) NOT daytime rain.
 
Gloi said:
We've had plenty of rain now. YO is talking about moving off the summer fields 🙁
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She won't be the only one. Livery yards in this part of the world saw fields eaten to dust and 21mm yesterday will just turn them to mud.

My gateways are grim but fortunately the field is holding up. Can't believe its gone from concrete to standing water in a week!
 
It was absolutely throwing it down here this morning and there was a small lake in one of the gateways BUT the fields are starting to green up :)

I finally got the horses moved back into the summer fields (having had to take them off them in early May) last week and the winter field does look like it has a chance of recovering well enough for the winter.

Fortunately we are on brash here which drains very well so no mud yet which is a lovely change from the clay I was on before we moved to here.
 
I've been lucky that down South, we've had rain and it's been the kind that is constant all day but in the middle of heavy rain and showers - so sometimes it's been absolutely pelting it down and other times, it's been a nice steady pace of rain.

I'm also lucky that my boys have an incline to their field, so it is currently draining really well and apart from the grass being quite slippy, the ground is recovering really nicely. I use electric fencing and regularly rotate the patch their grazing to try and preserve the grass as best I can, but it's nice to see the ground recovering and grass becoming greener :)
 
It's started - my pony, after several months of surprisingly good behaviour, went through the fence last night. Shortly followed by my other horse (after a period of fence pacing by the look of it).
To be fair the fence hasn't been electrified (couldn't get the earth stake in the ground) and because they had been so good, was only a single strand to act as a suggestion as to where they should be.
Energiser is being plugged in tonight!
 
tda said:
Send it up here , we've had a few sharp showers but that's it, 2cm at best.

Tho local weather guy says all week rain next week
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At home, we got soaked yesterday, the rain was coming down in stair rods, sister and nipped out in a sunny spell to move some electric fencing and got wet through to our skin. I wasn't sure that RDA would be riding but then I found out that there had only been one short shower all day. I can see the farm from home, although it is about 10 miles away as the crow flies.
 
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little_critter said:
It's started - my pony, after several months of surprisingly good behaviour, went through the fence last night. Shortly followed by my other horse (after a period of fence pacing by the look of it).
To be fair the fence hasn't been electrified (couldn't get the earth stake in the ground) and because they had been so good, was only a single strand to act as a suggestion as to where they should be.
Energiser is being plugged in tonight!
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Ours were wildly unsettled yesterday morning and today. I have had to move the more precious ones and my son’s mare declined all attempts to soothe her this morning. She wanted to put in a complaint to the management that we had ‘rugs’ and she did not. ‘Go get my rug now, I’m cold and wet!’ Was pretty much the gist of it.
 
Yesterday was fine, a couple of exciting thunder and lightning downpours on Cobs day off.

Today it started chucking it down just before the farrier left (luckily we were doing Saus in her stable because she always stands inside just before it starts to rain, so at least the farrier didn’t get wet!). Me and my mother stood in the stable and waited because my coat hasn’t been re-waterproofed and she didn’t have a coat.

Me, Cob, Saus and my mother all ended up stood in one stable for an hour and a half before I decided it probably wasn’t going to stop 🤣. In typical fashion, I was shoved out in the veritable monsoon to fetch the nets. Too much rain, too much, I ordered overnight drizzle, not this..

The summer field was running rivers!
It was funny watching my mother without her coat and waterproof boots trying to cross one of these mini-rivers 😂

They’re in for today and out overnight with Cob muzzled, I’m moving elec fencing and starting on the winter grazing tomorrow 😱

Laugh or cry tbh
 
Our fields are now nearly all bright green from being brown and sad. And the track to the fields has the winter puddles back.

I can see evidence of zoomies in the field, and have also put my horse on a preventative 5 day course of psyllium husk as his muzzle is coming in very muddy.
 
kerrieberry2 said:
I think we've had 9 months worth of rain in 4 days here 🤣

overnight the grass has gone from yellow to green, its insane!
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Same here. I actually threw down grass seed last Sat and already have sproutlings!

I am scared that the oldies field will be full of zoomies as they are the troublemakers on the yard but at the same time am glad....horses were getting hangry and miserable. Now I am afraid of the sugar in the grass now....🤞
 
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