Has anyone got mud yet?

My main gateway from stables to field has been a boggy mess for weeks now. It's only been there three years after all our building work was finished and is a natural hollow, so collects all the field water runoff. I put down about 10 grass mats which helped initially but have since disappeared into the morass.

I have now heaved all the mats back up and am depositing 3 wheelbarrow loads of left over drainage stones there per day (which is as much as my back will cope with). It's all levelling up nicely, and I'm planning to re lay the grass mats on top and hope they will stay there. Not too sure about just stones in gateways as worry about them getting into feet.

Not too much mud on the rest of the fields but have stopped strip grazing, as the neds churn up the area by the fence line. Grass still looks too lush to turn them out on the rest, will wait until its been killed off by a few good frosts and then they can have the lot.

We're on loam.
 
Yes, fields are so flooded I regularly have heron in them! But I am on old marshland so we have a large concrete yard with shelter for winter turnout where they are fed ad lib hay. It opens out into a surfaced area for running about/rolling. Fields dry up around march and horses go back out 24/7 until October.
 
Lots of it here, especially after the rain. Nearly lost a welly the other day and fell over twice in the mud! I know it's only November but bring on the Spring please!
 
Due to tonnes of grass (early cut and brilliant grass growing season) I only have a small patch of mud near the gateway but it is still passable with trainers on. Horses are still gorging on good grass but we do have puddles in other field under grass. We are on a floodplain and clay so bit surprised its not worse as they are still out 24/7 on 2 acres with the other field resting.
 
Only in the gate ways and even then its passable in trainers. we have still got loads of grass.
I have got over 30acres between 13 horses however.
We also kept them well rolled and harrowed through the year.
 
Oh yes. There's a spring which comes up in my field and so a good third is saturated. God knows why the shelter was put where it is, as the water collects in it. I have a puddle at the front covering about a foot and the rest feels squidgy. Luckily I put mats down. I'm front of the shelter I'm ankle deep, but I've got field mats on order, so will prepare the ground and have those down, soon. I do have a second paddock, but I'm trying to save it and instead minimising pony traffic by walking the fence back daily, which keeps them at the top. Is it Spring, yet?!?
 
Yep...
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