How are everyone's fields holding up?

Field isn't to bad but they have to go through a ditch to get into their shelter and that is a mud bath already, defo going to have sort out some crossing, be it a bridge or filling the ditch in at that point! its yuckie!! I stacked it coming out of the shelter last weekend!
 
It's rained non stop here for over a week and we have a nice new swimming pool appearing at the gateway. We have a tiny paddock area between the main field gate and the gate that goes on to the roadside (so you're not going straight from field to road) and that bit isn't as bad because it's a bit higher, but in the field the gate area is getting quite bad.

I remember last year my leg got stuck in such deep mud that when I went to pull it out I heard a crack and thought my hip had been sucked out of it's socket!!

Luckily we have two gates so when this one gets atrocious we switch to the other one.
 
Reasonably ok but we only have just over an acre between two of them so won't be long before it gets too wet. :( They are staying in when continuous heavy rain is forecast but are out the rest of the time.
 
Ours is getting wetter, I can see poach marks around the edges. There is still a fair bit of good lush grass to keep them busy. I just want to keep them out at night until the end of the month and after our bonfire, then they will probably go onto the winter hardstanding with occasional field turnout rather than waiting until the mudrash kicks in.

Much better than last year though, they were in mid-September then!
 
There's a gap where my two have to go through between two hedges; and its getting steadily more paunched by the day plus they're coming in absolutely filthy.

They have got plenty of grass though; rather too much in fact, need the farmer to put his sheep back there PDQ to eat it all up!

OMG not another wet *****ty winter...... please.
 
We've had 3 relatively ok days. A bit of light rain but fields are looking good however some muddy patches in the orchid. We have horrible clay ground here, so it just sticks to the horses and claggs up any feathers and long tails! It doesn't take much mud to have a filthy horse at our place!

We also have two different entrances, so hopefully no boggy gateways this year!
 
My fields have really enjoyed the rain it is the first we have had since april bar the odd shower, so they are green , growing and look beautiful like new mown lawns on a bowling green but then again we struggle more from drought than mud as the fields are on a hillside and have almost yellow sand for soil so basically they are almost always dry
 
My horses are on clay soil - its very wet and boggy in the high traffic areas but just about holding in the main field. I've given them a tiny trash paddock this year - enough to stretch their legs (out 24/7) but they shouldn't ruin much of summer grazing.
 
Loads of grass. Still mowing the walkways every week. No mud yet apart from areas near the stables. And clay soil. No more rain for a while please..
 
the recovery of the grass this year from last winter was good but vulnerable to new damage so the ground seems firm apart from the top inch or so which is very muddy

I am moving the ponies on to the winter part of the field which has thick tall grass but the shelter (hedges) is on the wrong side for the prevailing wind so that throws up a new dilemma!
 
Grass is still good but ground is getting softer, muddy around the gateways but not too bad. Back up fields are still knee deep in lush grass and hopefully won't need to move them for a good couple months yet *fingers crossed*
 
The field they are on has got tons of grass & is just starting to get ever so slightly soft by the water & the gate.
I've got another 2 acres of trash grazing but I'm hoping they won't need that until January.
They can't come in at the moment because I'm having some work done on my stables so fingers crossed it doesn't get too muddy!
 
We bought another horse, so I knew the weather would be bad. You'd have thought we'd have remembered the weekend we bought the first two it started to rain and rained for a month followed by snow...
Anyhow we now have two trash paddocks rather than one. Feel sorry for the new one as she only has trees to shelter under for now (new field shelter coming).
 
Prince33Sp4rkle said:
No mud here :smug:

Grass up to their stomachs in the winter fields and even on the bare diet paddock it's draining straight through. Hoof prints spring straight back up.....joys of sandy soil!
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Grass grass grass!!!
 
Our fields are chalky and don't drain well, plus we have an underground stream going through the front of the field. Around the gate is muddy and boggy but the rest is not too bad yet, not for long though :(
 
My gateway is a mess. Not deep, still walkable in trainers, but muddy and no grass. He paces by his gate, despite living out and rolls by his gate. And when he's being impatient as im taking too long saying hello to some of the girls on the yard he starts digging by his gate as well. I had a round of hay put out in his field Saturday night to try and discourage it, but he still starts "gate walking" when he hears my car pull up...
 
Mud..... Floods.... But good news as my sandy soil paddock now has a fence and grass! 2 other acres is good loads of grass. Small paddock which is new needs a fence!
 
Fields holding up pretty well, just starting to get a bit muddy in places now after too much rain, but horses are moving onto the winter field later this week with loads of grass.
Just wondering when we are going to get some normal temps for this time of year - nearly October and grass still growing, horses still in lightweight rugs - weird!
 
Sludge is here and I'm looking forward to it freezing over. I may break my ankle, but at least I won't be wading through it! I even invested in grass matts this year, but with the playful baby in the field, I think I'd have to grass mat the lot !
 
It's not bad here, the field is on a slope so drainage isn't bad. Compared to my last yard, where the gateways and next twenty feet were similar to Sara Lee chocolate cake icing, I'm pretty happy! The YO is a good bloke who shoves down hardcore if it gets icky (and fixes things so I don't fall over!) Looking at how many boys were out today and if that continues, we should be ok *fingers crossed*
 
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