How are your fields doing?

Absolutely awful... and I am battling with cellulitis now too.... I've had enough this year. I have the worst fields in the yard and no option to change.
 
Not great - mud, mud and mud in the flat areas, with sloping areas better. Probably better than last year but it feels a long time until Spring!
 
Terrible here.
My winter paddocks essentially have the better grass - loam soil and a good Sward. They’re all bare.
My summer fields are bigger but have poorer grass. They’re growth up there is also later so generally horses stuck in mud until May. I’m haying but they pick at it and make a mess 🤦‍♀️
 
SEL said:
Its not often the south east is wetter than the rest of the country but my fields are much, much worse than last year and I nearly cried after last night's rain.

I think getting 2 months worth of rain in 48 hours back in September just filled up the ground water capacity and every rain storm since has just sat on the surface - which is now mainly 2.5 acres of mud
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Also in south east and my fields are the worst ever. We have had so much rain. Horrendous.
 
Not awful! Gates are mucky but I have a water leak from the trough which is beside two gates and can’t seem to stop it so there’s that. Little grass but it is growing here and there (evidenced by the lack of ponies gobbling all the hay down and using it for a bed instead)
 
rara007 said:
This week gone from coping ok to really bad.
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Blimey do you all own your own land? Somewhat envious. At livery we have no say and therefore they are in a lot and I am knackered going up several times a day to get him out of stable. Not much choice where we are so next year might be retirement livery
 
We have just had 24 hours of rain 😞 . I've managed to turn out most days but they will be in for a few days whilst it dries up. Another here thinking retirement livery is the way forward!
 
South East here too, the below photo was from this weekend - we have mud around the gateways but they have a hardcore base so it only ever gets a few inches deep, maybe mid-hoof. If the horses wouldn't bloody stand there once they decide they want in about 2 hours before its bring in time, then it would look a lot better - plus Dex's fieldmate is a bit of a fence walker which doesn't help. The rest of the field is thankfully well draining on sandy soil and a slight hill so no mud to be seen, it can be slightly slippery but all good. There doesn't seem to be loads of grass, but they're not being hayed and seem to be holding weight a-ok.

We have 10 on 10 acres split into 2's and they're out from 8-4pm in winter then overnight in summer - YM does well to manage our fields, fair play to her!

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cheekywelshie said:
Blimey do you all own your own land? Somewhat envious. At livery we have no say and therefore they are in a lot and I am knackered going up several times a day to get him out of stable. Not much choice where we are so next year might be retirement livery
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I wish. On grass livery, so out 24/7, but they do have a shelter. As I have two, I get my own field and manage the grazing as I see fit.
 
tale of two sides, home fields, well drained, and hardly any mud! - other fields, trashed lol, muddy, wet fields anyway...will defo need a harrow and roll come spring!
 
I’m Suffolk. Near Colchester. The constant damp. Drizzle. And bursts of heavy rain have meant the ground is saturated. And thick mud by gates. I’m turning out at 7am. Back in by 2pm at latest.
 
Some parts are just depressing. But the further back you go they are ok. They just drive me mad by standing in the really muddy bits, and churning it up even more. The foals decided to play with the water trough and have broken the ballcock, so thats leaked and made that part of the field even worse.
 
Gateways and hardstanding are a bit muddy, but this is probably the absolute worst month now. Hopefully we will get some drier (or just frostier) weather and it'll all settle.

This time every year I look at it and think how the hell is this going to recover? But it does - the sheep and the tractor level it all out as it dries and by May I can't remember what I was worried about.

Although I'm not sure I can remember this many months (years?) of continuous wet. Let's hope it's not permanent...
 
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