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Mine is lumpy and rutted to hell and with last nights rain is now sloppy again. No green stuff yet either :( shropshire

How is your field looking?
 
Rutted and bare in the gateways but the green stuff has started to make an appearance, albeit slowly. Eccleshall Staffordshire
 
Mine are flat, well drained and although I cant be sure myself the nags definatly seem to be finding some green stuff because they cant all be ignoring haynets full to graze on dust!?
 
Harrowed and fertilised my summer paddocks and the grass is coming through the moss! Winter paddocks are totally rutted with wee bits of green stuff appearing - like fields of giant green hairy warts!
 
Beautiful !!
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Ours were rested pretty much the whole of last year execpt for a month. we have too much grasss.. but the grazing that we were on for 11 months is bare.
 
Bare, flat and dusty. The forbidden green stuff is safely fenced off to be strip grazed in one inch increments. :p

Excuse beard, must think about tidying up now winter coat is on the way out.

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our fields have mini lochs thanks to the ridiculous amount of rain most of yesterday and through the night! after the horses being out all the time theyve been in the past 3 days and fox is going spare. summer needs to move :(
 
Gradually turning greener by the day. Fertilised the morning too so hopefully will get better...
 
Sorry to those above I'm with Tessybear, mine look great.
Hay field is long enough you can see wind blowing it,

winter field rolled and rested for 2 weeks so looking pretty green,

field they are on now they've been on 24/7(no hay) for a couple of weeks, when they came in today for a few hours - they just slept - didn't touch the hay at all in their stables - clearly not hungry.

Only issue is it's now quite dry and no rain forecast for a couple of weeks (sunny Lincs) so grass will stop growing (I'll do a very localised rain dance!)
 
Our yard rolled and harrowed (or it is harrowed and rolled :D) three ish weeks ago when we wormed and we are getting more green than brown!!!!:D *happy dance*
 
Slowly coming along nicely, its starting to look very green.
Ive had to cut their haylege down by about half this week as they were just wasting it so they finding plenty to eat out there.
 
Mine and Mileaminute's are looking amazing!

We have recently had a number of liveries arrive, and leave a few months later because they are too blinded to see beyond the here and now grazing wise. They refused to accept that they had to restrict turnout (in one day out the next) in the winter, and they also refused to walk quarter of a mile up the road to another field available to us each day. So they left.

Great news for me and Mileaminute - we have the entire yard to ourselves, and the fields are looking amazing, simply because these people wanted no restrictions on turnout in the winter!! :):cool:

Our YO is fantastic with looking after the grazing. Yes, it means we have the odd restriction (no more than one day in one day out in winter, they can be out 24/7 in the summer, provided it's not a completely horrendous summer too, in which case he would just tell us to stable at night). He never lets the grazing get too churned up, or overgrazed.
 
Most fields I can see around here are very green now, mine still looking quite brown but green is now about 1 inch high, and droppings have turned green so think they are getting something from it, tried cutting out hay tonight, but ponies came to gate of field and stared at me in the house till I went out and gave them a small amount, then happily went off accross field!!
 
haven't been rested at all (2 horses on 3 acres in the day all winter, now the same 2 on the same 3 day and night) and still very muddy at the gate and around the edges

but..... bigger horse comes in with muddy whiskers and both horses are producing slightly sloppier (and greener!) poos, so I think there's some grass coming!

Have been told that the grass will just erupt and I don't need to do anything to the paddock, but I have no idea, so I'm hoping that's right. wasn't planning on feeding more than token meals over the summer................
 
Another Shropshire bog over the winter! Thankfully dried up enough to Harrow and fertilise last week but still no grass, need little sprinkling of rain to jolly it along then should be ok. Hayledge rapidly running out and no 8acre summer field this year :) neighbours have moved house so hoping to fund some more grazing/hay fields v quickly or I've got one hell of a winter to come :(
 
Mine's been lovely all winter (sorry! :o) and it still looks fab, so we're just in the process of sectioning it off with electric fencing, as the grass is shooting through now. The field drains well and is around 8 acres, so with just 2 of them it has managed really well.
 
Boyos field had gone from being an almost barren sea of ruts to a lovely thing of greenness!

Its amazing what a bit of chain harrowing, followed by a few days of sunshine and showers can do!

Boyo is now not allowed in 'his' field until it has been grazed off by the alpacas, so he is being strip grazed on a well, strip of the alpaca field at the mo. He seems quite happy, and Dr Green seems to be coming through thick and fast in these here hills - I love Spring :D
 
We have sandy soil so the grass is beautiful but very short no mud and green. Sadly we havent had any rain either so we will end up with sand dunes with all this wind
 
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