Grass coming through?

[Flowerofthefen]

Who's grass is growing? I'm assuming mine is as my horses arnt waiting to come in now at lunchtime. It doesn't look like it's growing but I think they are telling me it is!! Looking forward to better weather so they can go out all day!

 

[Art Nouveau]

Yep definitely coming through here (east Manchester)

 

[Birker2020]

Yep certainly coming through on our yard, the horses have been quite runny poos and a couple have had mild gassy colic. Some of them are gassy and fa*ting for England and Lari was quite loose today too. I'm going to increase the size of my strip grazing.

Its been 10-13c quite a few days recently with sun. West Mids/Warks border.

I'm concious of dropping Lari's weight coming into the Spring and going to retirement livery when he'll be in large grazing fields and no doubt stuffing his face all day long!

 

[spotty_pony]

Yep, it’s definitely coming through here! I’m still feeding a bit of hay but they aren’t so hungry for it now.

 

[Barton Bounty]

Yip mine coming through too

 

[Pearlsacarolsinger]

Yes, I was looking across the field ours are in atm and thinking that the the shade of green had changed, just this morning.

 

[Poppy+MrDarcy]

Not that much yet, but I hope it delays for a little longer! I just dread the spring grass spicys

 

[fidleyspromise]

I've seen growths of grass since last month under my trailer.
It's crazy. I'm splitting ponies up and getting the weighty one on a smaller paddock (can't do a track as the other one pulls it down).

 

[SEL]

No real growth but everything has gone green instead of the dead brown colour

 

[TheOldTrout]

Mare is eating less hay when she's in at night, so the grass must be coming through.

 

[J&S]

Yes, my brown earth patches are going greener.

 

[Horseysheepy]

The youngsters are definitely spending less time at their hay feeder, and more time grazing. But it's going to be a disaster if we have another dry spring like last year, it's looking to get cold again with very little in the way of proper rain!.

 

[MidChristmasCrisis]

Yep I had to walk down field to bring girls in…usually they are standing at gate or mooch up when they see me coming.

 

[southerncomfort]

My winter grazing is weird this year.

The top looks completely dry and parched, it looks more like it would after a very dry summer.

Underneath their is greener stuff coming through, although it's turned colder again so I suspect it'll stop growing for a bit.

 

[Fransurrey]

Definitely coming through in SE. It's being eaten off as it grows at the moment, but lots of new shoots under poo piles. Explains why daft mare was scared of her own pile of haylage the other day.

 

[hock]

Derbyshire and yes everyone today was grazing rather than stuck to their nets. What a relief, obviously it’s going to snow now!

 

[Squeak]

Our fields have changed colour but don't seem to have actually grown as such. It's concerning me that we've had so little rain, much as I'm enjoying the lack of mud, it feels very odd for the ground to be like what it would normally be in a month or two. After the summer we had last year, it's a bit worrying.

 

[Hackback]

Oh please

 

[w1bbler]

Mines been growing all winter, only seems to have stopped the last few weeks as we have been having a few frost's.
Just finished strip grazing across the winter field & there is plenty of grass grown behind them.
Summer field looks long & lush, definitely grown alot since they came off it in October

 

[Annagain]

We definitely have grass. We have a small paddock (too small to be called a paddock really but a little grassy area between two gates) we have to go through on the way to the field. Wiggy has been the most mannerly horse ever since he arrived but now every time we get to this little paddock he's head straight down and refusing to go into the field as he's too busy stuffing his face. Archie has also been cavorting like a horse a tenth of his age and he only does that when spring is in the air and sugar is in the grass.

 

[ILuvCowparsely]

Who's grass is growing? I'm assuming mine is as my horses arnt waiting to come in now at lunchtime. It doesn't look like it's growing but I think they are telling me it is!! Looking forward to better weather so they can go out all day!

under one of the jumps there is new grass, but not the rest of the field, prob due to it being sheltered from frost

 

[Ceriann]

Mine haven’t wanted to come in for the last few nights after being at the gate waiting for me religiously. Sheep will be going back into their paddock asap.