For those with mud control mats a question.

[pistolpete]

I have a pallets worth and the ponies have their hay on them every day. It’s great seeing them emerge from the mud and stand on a dryish stable surface. Especially as my boy has a stifle issue. Good to know he can rest. My question is I scrape the mud off every day with a snow shovel which is hard slog! Does everyone else do this? Seems if I leave it three days it’s arduous getting them scraped!

 

[FestiveG]

Ours are at a slight angle and so tend to be mainly self cleaning, we have however bought a petrol driven, hand pushed yard sweeper, which makes a huge difference. We are going to mud control mat the yard this year and the sweeper will come into its own, as we keep hay on the yard.

 

[tda]

Tbh, not really, they also have hay feeder on there, so a certain amount of mud gets scooped up with the poo on a third of the area, the part away from the feeder is about 4inch deep with mud but still ok to walk on

 

[w1bbler]

I don't seem to get lots of mud trodden on, just an occasional scrape around the edges for me. However I've only got 2 on 3 acre winter field so don't have much mud

 

[blitznbobs]

Rarely I just let them get a bit of mud on - they never get very muddy tbh

 

[tda]

Should also add it sometimes has up to 8 dales ponies in and out of the field so gets a lot of hammer!

 

[Bellaboo18]

I scrape the mud off once a week but really need to do it more often as it's quite a big job! For me it's there only downfall.
Eta I scrape with a rake.

 

[Bellaboo18]

I was wondering if it was just me!

 

[TGM]

Mine do get some mud on them but they do also get a build up of droppings and wasted haylage on them if used as a feeding station. So I do need to clear them probably every two to three days at this time of year.

 

[rabatsa]

I use a hand yard scraper. https://www.milldairyservice.co.uk/....straight.galvanised.yard.scraper.127834.aspx

 

[Palindrome]

There is quite a bit of liquid mud going through mines. I am thinking of relaying them in the Spring with a membrane underneath and sand or gravel inside.
I have some where I have put bricks in the mud before laying them and they don't get as muddy.

 

[seriously festive equine]

Mud scraper for me....I tie it on the back of the quad!

 

[expanding_horizon]

I have a pallets worth and the ponies have their hay on them every day. It’s great seeing them emerge from the mud and stand on a dryish stable surface. Especially as my boy has a stifle issue. Good to know he can rest. My question is I scrape the mud off every day with a snow shovel which is hard slog! Does everyone else do this? Seems if I leave it three days it’s arduous getting them scraped!

I’ve got a pallet of mud control for feeding hay on. They don’t get mud on them. But I do have to scrape poo and hay off.