how is your field looking?

Mine is starting to look good! OH subsoiled and rolled (new toy, does both jobs in one go!) it last week so the latest rain has just gone straight in to the drains, yey! Although if I'm honest, with a laminitic who has to wear a grazing muzzle the less grass we have the better... The sheep are enjoying it though and have put down lots of their own special fertiliser!
 
Bog in the furrows, lovely grass showing through on the ridges. Much happier ponies than a week ago!
 
I've got 3 paddocks totalling 2.5 acres, and 2 ponies, the two paddocks they are in are still brown all around the gateways but at least dry mud and further back green is starting to show, the front field that is being rested was bare but now has a lovely green carpet look to it but I want it to grow a bit more before I move the ponies on to it and reseed and harrow the other two and leave them to rest. I cant believe how much I've spent on hard feed and hay this winter for a 13hh welsh b pony !!!! at least the 10.2 shetland needed nothing else and is a lovely slimline weight this spring :-)
 
Winter fields are bare but dry, they are moving on to the summer fields on Sunday which are looking fairly nice.
 
I rolled the winter paddock 2 weeks ago, that is now just beginning to show green.
The other paddocks, which have not had anything on since Christmas, or longer... are green, but hardly any length to the grass. Because of all the rain, the water table has risen, causing parts of the fields to be sodden with run off water.
I was out this morning, willing it all to grow!! (Herefordshire)
 
The one that has been rested all winter was fertilised last week and is now looking nice and green. I will put them on it in the next week or two. The one they have been on all winter is now dry and turning green :D. Have happy horses again now. At least they have all come out of winter slim, even my gypsy cob, and it should take a while before they need to be restricted with the grazing.
 
Totally dry and greening up nicely - I am very lucky to have such good land.

My 2 are still coming in at day for some haylage, and to let the grass grow, then out at night. I am hoping that by the beginning of May they will be out 24/7, with enough grass to sustain them so can cut all other feed.
 
I think the wind helps to dry it up a bit! theres plenty of grass up by the gate where the cobs don't go so have sectioned it off and put the D there. Other cob is a good weight and seems to be ding great of 2 slices of hay per day and shes always grazing when i go past so she must be getting something?!
Hoping to harrow and roll next week if it stays dry :)
 
Not brilliant but better than they were a couple of months ago! I'd lost the will to life then. I've got 3 acres and tend to use the acre field during the summer for my cobs and strip graze the two acres over the winter as well as using my stables and feeding hay. This winter has been so wet they weren't able to eat the grass in time, it just got trampled in. What a mess! So I've had the longest, hardest and most expensive winter I've ever experienced and it wont be happening again! Next winter I will have a hard standing area, use my stables more and look after the land better.

Instead of saving the two acres for winter, I'm making 3x1 acre paddocks and rotating all year round. We've lightly rolled and this year we've aerated the land....so we've just got to roll again when they move fields. The grass is so slow coming through, its gonna be well into May before I move mine I think. Its starting to come through and they are eating much less hay but its still been a nightmare. One of my cobs has lost all her lovely feathers and she is just looking a bit rough....which is not what she is used to! lol
 
Winter field is rutted round the gate but nice and dry (unfortunately dried up too quickly - virtually overnight - so missed the chance to roll) and grass is short but greening up by the day.
Summer fields look nice from a distance but grass is still a lot shorter than it would normally be at this time of year.

This time last year, mine was on box rest and had an hour's turnout in a pen that we made for him. He started going out at the end of March and the grass was knee high. This year the same patch, that hasn't been grazed at all since he was on it last spring for an hour a day until the beginning of June, is not even an inch long.
 
Not that good but it is finally starting to dry up , only ankle deep mud now rather than over the top of the welly mud.

Thinking new land drains, power harrow and reseed. Then new fencing on three sides later in the summer and cast some concrete manhole covers to replace the tyres that are currently covering them.
 
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Don't think we can really complain here - but in a few months we'll be back to dry dust and brown weeds.
 
Ours are looking great, the winter pasture has been chain harrowed and is recovering well, the begining of the hay crop already well established. The summer pasture is growing so well we've had to divide the field in two as we had raised pulses.
 
It's had some sort of grass all winter but I think a lot of it is dead/soured so they won't eat it (only had it since last summer) Still, not complaining til I have to restrict it, which will probably be soon!

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They've gone onto their spring paddock which has plenty on. Everything else is being fertilised & harrowed as I type. The winter fields were a real state but already seem to be greening up....but they do seem to have a lot of moss so I hope the harrowing etc gets rid of it :(
 
Rutted in places, but lots of grass :) ! and very very lush and green grass, had to muzzle them for a lot of the winter, and they have come through at a perfect weight after being out 24/7- so now just waiting for the cows to arrive and help get the grass down!
 
Well we've gone from brown stubble to green stubble this week! I rolled one paddock before it rained last week and have overseeded it, rolled again and spent a couple of hours water sprinkling the seeded bit earlier (we're not on a water meter and it's bone dry after all the winds!)
 
Some areas are very rutted and bare and generally the ground is quite dry really, I have just sectioned off the top third of my paddock as with the rain and sun that grass is going to be coming through
 
Very dry but it has been rolled, harrowed and fertilised and is starting to look a bit greener! A quarter of it has been re-seeded and rested all winter too. We are still putting haylage out at the moment but they don't seem too bothered about it so they must be getting something to eat off it!
 
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