How do your paddocks look at the moment?

Winter (trashed) paddock
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Foal paddocks...still waiting for arrivals to put in them!!
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Summer paddock
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Starting to look better and showing some green but still squishy to walk on...
 
They have become very wet with all this rain, the paddock they are in needs resting soon but we are too scared to put them in the other field as there is too much grass!
Hopefully our new livery will come soon and her horse who is not lammi prone can munch some of it down for me and my mate who both have lammi prone's. So we have good fields but no current eligible horse to eat it! arghh!
 
Our ponies have already moved into their summer paddocks and for the first 20ft is just mud, mud, mud! :mad: The winter paddocks are looking good and the grass is certainly growing back but those fields are needed for hay + cows so ponies will be living in mud for the whole summer. :(
 
Bit topsy turvy if you are expecting 21 In Canada Enfys and we are virtually zero wet and cold even in the south!

The grass was coming through, but the sudden cold snap (snowing the other night) has knocked it back. Mine are staying in winter quarters and having haylage for the time being but the summer paddocks are growing well. Waiting for the heavy rain to pass before I fertilize as I don't want to watch it wash off down the hill in the wet weather!

I am on pure chalk and mine is wet and slippery, I just need a day or so rain free to dry them out one of the youngsters slipped whilst prating about and slid under the electric fence on her side, she was most embarrassed until she found the grass!

The winter paddocks will recover really well with a rest and last year saved me feeding haylage until the end of November.
 
Mine are either churned up mud and/or under water. I've had to put one of the 3 year olds up for sale to cut down numbers. (someone came to see him today so fingers crossed . . . _ I despair of ever having grass again. It was starting to grow but is now under water again. I had to buy some more hay last week and it's haylage that the farmer has had to buy from up country as there isn't a blade to be had round here now. It's a bit scary as when they run out of what I've got, they will HAVE to survive on what is or isn't in the field/swamp . . . . .
 
Ours don't look too bad but that's because nothing's been turned out for about five Months!!! Only TO into sand pens during the winter. As yet been too wet to get the tractor into the fields to do the necessary work before they can be turned out, norMally get back out on the fields Mid April but not looking likely this year :(

Prince33Sp4rkle please can I coMe and live with you, My Mare would thrive on fields like those!
 
Mine is totally trashed and am fencing off the worst knee deep bits of mud for fear of the pony that lives out damaging himself or getting mud fever. I am not hopeful that we will dry out anytime soon and my clay soil took over a week to dry out last time we had a dry spell it got harrowed and then rained before the guy could come and roller it which has made things ten times worse. I dispair and need another hardstanding area built but there is no way any machinery would get in the paddock let alone out again :(
 
I am on the side of a valley so I guess things could be worse BUT we are on the Devon clay here so its a bit like a swamp at the mo. Horse went out on Monday and again Wednesday, and that's it.

Everyone around here is having to keep their horses in and ride-out to exercise them and its totally b***y awful. Mine's a sweety pie, traditional cob and doesn't normally fizz up but today we went out just as it was coming down with horizontal rain and a gale to boot and we just didn't like that at all, poor chappie.

I've got about six jackets hanging up by the Rayburn and the poor dogs are looking like an RSPCA advert (their decision to go digging in the muck-heap, not mine, serve them blimmin right).

But hey, give it a week or two and we'll all be grousing about having more grass than we know how to deal with and being worried about laminitis and the dreaded sweet-itch which mine gets. Mine you, even though its cold I have seen some midges on the odd occasion when the sun's out and there's no wind, so am not gonna be complacent - will slap on the fly-rug to make sure.
 
Ours are pretty good tbh.
There is only mine and another two on it though but in the next week or so another 2 horses will be joining.
It muddy around the gate area and a part from a few little water logged areas near the back the rest of the field is nice with a fair amount of grass.

My youngsters field who lives out 24/7 is horrible! So muddy!
 
The field they were in a few weeks ago got sooo boggy and was really trashed, i moved them to one of their summer paddocks 3 weeks ago and although it is dry as it has good drainage there isn't a lot of grass in it but it is a very lush so they don't need much. I will move them to a new field next to the yard in a couple of weeks as it's really growing nicely in there and then when summer hits i will move them back to the winter field as it would of been harrrowed etc and grown by then,will only keep that one for summer now as it is a soak away field and is just too wet for winter use. I am praying we get some nice long sunny days soon so our hacking tracks dry up,then we will have perfect turf to gallop on!!!!
 
an hour down the main road from Burgie - just 1000 feet up atop a hill.
Friends from Alaska have postponed their visit as they are so freaked out by our weather.

Best summer in 30 years coming up. (OR ELSE!)
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I moved mine into their summer field at the beginning of Feb as the winter field had been trashed and I want to get *some* hay off of it! The summer field had been fine up until about 2 weeks ago, now it looks like a quagmire. It is completely wet - think liquid clay at the gateway!

However the winter field has greened up really really well, and tbh I am glad I moved them when I did despite the mud as they have not been turned out into a field full of fresh spring grass which has worked very well with keeping weight off of the fat one (although she still has her muzzle on!!).

Longing for the weather to dry up!!
 
Opinions please. Should I harrow before or after I roll my fields? I've seen it done both ways, or rolled but not harrowed. Wasn't going to fertilize this year as two of mine end up wearing muzzles during the summer, though may muck spread in the autumn, depending on the weather and state of the grazing.
 
I have always harrowed first then rolled. Don't realy have a reason why.
This is what my paddock looks like at the mo.
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There are lots of dry places but Lucy just loves the weed in the Stream. (If you can still call it a stream)
 
this was my field today after continues wet weather horses are noiw in 24/7 until further notice. the summer field has not even been harrowed yet let alone fertilized due to this dredful weather
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hmmm... well I was going to say that my paddocks are ok, but could be better (clay soil and all) and that I might try harrowing and rolling in the next week if the ground allows.... but compared to the pictures above they are blooming marvellous!!! You poor souls... perhaps its the latest form of hydrotherapy????
 
Blimey - those pics look pretty bad. After a few dry days my field has now turned into a sticky clay pit for the first 20m around the gate. A friend of mine reckons it will be another month before we really some decent grass and dry fields......whats going on, I need to buy ANOTHER batch of hay!!
 
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