How trashed are your fields?

Sidney I've just said the same thing to my mate. I'm considering selling the baby. Giving the Shetties back and moving the old girl to somewhere with stables at least or she can come live in my house hehe. I never know I could lay in bed and not sleep due to worrying about fields :s
 
Yep,i only have one semi decent field which im holding on to for dear life lol.My side field is trashed,cant even get my barrow through.Back field is awful around the gateway and my bottom field is ok and not too muddy so im holding on to it,me and my partner are just finishing the last few touches to a new stable then they can all come in as got three mud monsters and two stables.At the moment been rotating my lot with one in at a time which they all seem fine with,but cant wait for the stable to be finished tomorrow at least they can all get a break from the mud and be in together.Its so wet this year even my farmer who delivers my hay moaned the other day and said its getting ridiculous and he never moans lol. :(
 
kerrieberry2 said:
I spent a good 10 mins yesterday fighting with the gate way of mud to get my wheel barrow out! my wellies were getting stuck like they were in sinking mud, I pulled the bendy bit in the back of my elbow, almost fell face first in to muck and mud countless times! Just makes me want to cry!
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Well, 15 feet radius around the gate is not even mud. It's twelve inches deep in mud soup. Then it gets seriously into deep bog. Fortunately my horse is a pipe and slippers chap so doesn't suffer too much from staying in but when out he stands at the gate looking miserable and, really, when it comes to the crunch I'd rather he was miserable and warm than miserable and cold. He's ridden 3 or 4 times a week and goes on the walker daily so he doesn't stiffen up and he lives in an American barn-type set-up where he can see other horses and people so gets some socialisation.
 
Our field is fine. A bit of mud round the gate, but not much really, especially when I compare it to the yard I moved off in November, where they were knee deep in mud until 1/3 of the way down the field. It is well draining, though not sure what type of soil we have, and I think the fact that there are only two of them, both unshod, living on it really helps. They've been living out most of the time.
 
My horse is in two acres in his own: his gateway has about 20 feet of mud; beyond this he has a lake about 40ft by 20ft; and the rest of it is squelchy and slippy. First time in 10 years I have had to hay him when turned out in the day over winter!

I am in nowhere near the worst field in our yard though. The other liveries have 1 acre each (one field fenced into sections) and they are all sodden. The walkways are knee deep mud in places. No flooding but they are all so wet.

We all moan about how bad it is but we are nowhere near the worst end of the spectrum. Feel so very sorry for those who have had flooding so bad that they've lost turnout and stables. This year has been ridiculous - especially considering we started 'summer' with a hosepipe ban!
 
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Spottyappy said:
Never seen mine so bad,in 26 years of owning them. The winter grazing has been so water logged that I have had to use the summer grazing.
Hopefully,it will dry out,and much harrowing and rolling will redeem it to some semblance of normality,sooner rather than later.
What does concern me,however,is how badly the fields are poached,and how dangerous it will be,if this crazy wet weather suddenly freezes over. Horses won't be able to get out for fear of them breaking legs.
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Agreed! Don't want to moan about the rain as if it freezes the ground will be a nightmare!
 
oh god I didn't even think about how dangerous it would be if it froze! its not worth thinking about! esp for the poor people that have proper floods in their fields! at least ours is just mud!

I've had my mare out 24/7 for 9ish years maybe more! and this is the first year that I've considered having to get her a stable to come into a night, knowning she doesnt like it one bit!
 
Ours is very trashed, slippy and welly-stealing mud everywhere :( sheep and chickens keep getting onto it too, and to make matters worse my trusty muckers have a leak and every time I go to get the horses in I come back with a soaking right foot....
 
My gateways are very muddy but the worst bits are where my new yard is to be built next spring so I'm not too worried. I've got the horses out where the yard and school will go as this will get trashed anyway but I ended up opening an extra field just to give them somewhere drier to stand.
I'm using a plastic sledge to pull hay out to the fields which is so much easier than trying to use a wheelbarrow. It was my mum's idea, she turned up with the sledge last week and I made some sarky comment about no snow forecast but she was a genius, the sledge is great in the mud.
 
We gave up our little yard a month ago - seems like just at the right time as it would have been a mud put by now. Our girls are living out but coping well. The boys are now at a livery yard and do far fields are ok as they only go out for 5-6 hours a day. They are more than happy to come in too.
 
Got 3 horses on about 10 acres it looks like got about 12 on it. Doesn't help cause mine enjoys sliding! Gate way terrible tho. Using the quad to get haylage out as can't get barrow in. The top of hill and far 4 acres are ok although now hay going over there so will be trashed if rain continues. :(
 
We have 6 horses out 24/7 and the fields are a mess, luckily they can get out of mud and the fields drain quite well, its just leading them through the gateways and tracks which is nearly impossible. I cry everytime it rains, i just want it to stop!
 
We have 5 acres and 4 on it. We have a small yard and the ponies come in over night. The path between the fields and the stables is the worst we have ever seen. It goes between the large fir trees that usually keep it dry but I had to give up trying to muck out today, cant get through it. I feel for the people in really wet areas, we are managing ok but thank god we are in a fairly dry area.
 
Mine are trashed - we couldn't even use our summer grazing this year as it was so wet - the whole valley was out of use and most farmers didn't even get their hay or silage in from it as you couldn't even get a tractor on it! So our main field didn't get a rest, it's rather chewed up in the well used areas and where the hay feeders are, the last time it froze it was a pain for the gg's and getting a wheel barrow across it was fun!!! My youngsters have been in a barn and concrete area for nearly 3 months now as nowhere else dry enough to feed them, so they have no muscle at all so are just furry leggy beasties, my poor stally has been in a barn for over a week as his winter paddock is a swamp and he was miserable out!!:( I bought rugs for gg's that have never needed them purely because I don't want any rain scald and the gales don't seem to go away!!! I think I need to look into a dingy and arm bands for mine as well!!
 
My 4 acres are hiddeous :( only one who doesn't seem to mind going out is the spanish mare ???? All the others have to be pushed into the mud in the gateway, one now has mudfever so will have to stay in till it clears, biggest worry is what's it going to be like come the spring? Never seen it so wet in the 8 years I've owned it :(
 
Extremely muddy!! Has to be kept in stable. He looks so sad, as he loves going out in the field. His stable keeps getting flooded, trying to get him moved to a different stable!:(
 
Mine are not too bad yet, mud on the fence line where my mare waits for me to deliver her feed. I am lucky enough to be able to rest fields all summer ready for the winter, so because they had plenty of grass on them the rain has just made them soggy rather than muddy. Still not feeding hay in one field due to them having plenty of grass, but youngsters field has been eaten down and they have hay everyday their field is just starting to feel the strain and has started to get muddy in the high traffic areas where they wait for hay and around water troughs.
 
My fields are turned into a lake at the bottom but the top is relatively dry, saying that two of mine have jumped the bank and knocked the post and rail fencing down to get into the farm fields next door. Since the farmer died two years ago they have been empty and only used by another farm to take hay off. Safe to say I cannot get near them as they think they are in grass heaven! I have notified the farmer's wife and she just laughed and said leave them there they won't do any harm so until OH repairs fencing tomorrow they will stay there eating to their hearts content!!
 
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