How wet are your fields

[Kezzabell2]

As some of you might know, I've moved one of my horses to a new yard - to help his recovery. He's finished box rest now and has worked his way up to a big field with other horses, which is luckily at the top of the hill

I can't get over how wet the other fields are.

at my own yard, I had a small pond last winter, but its not been half as wet, so I dread to think how wet these fields were last year!

I'd love to see how wet it is around the rest of the uk.

 

[Princess Rosie]

I'm near to york and we are pretty much totally dry and just a tiny bit muddy at the gateways (but not enough to have to hose feet/legs). We are very lucky that the land drains swiftly as I know fields nearby aren't fairing as well. It's our first winter on this land so I am very pleased to be finally mud free after years of lost wellies and rescuing the tiny tots out of the mud!

 

[flirtygerty]

As some of you might know, I've moved one of my horses to a new yard - to help his recovery. He's finished box rest now and has worked his way up to a big field with other horses, which is luckily at the top of the hill

I can't get over how wet the other fields are.

at my own yard, I had a small pond last winter, but its not been half as wet, so I dread to think how wet these fields were last year!

I'd love to see how wet it is around the rest of the uk.

I thought my field was wet

 

[Kitei]

Current one is not great.

https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net...=cb73ea3bf5f499b4716405abe1bda432&oe=5534E226

Not really the best angle for seeing it, and that is a very dry day for us, but it's like that for a good 10 metres into the field, all along the side. Even once you go past that, the bits that look a bit greener are just as wet - just not as muddy! The bits near the gateway can be over a foot deep when it rains, and the edge of the field backs a brook so gets flooded when that overflows. The gateway is really the highest point of the field.
Ones at the farm aren't so bad aside from the gateways, which are flooded at the moment following very heavy rain.

Was convinced I had a better picture, as the one above isn't the one I thought it was... Will have to go back through phone as can't have put it on fb.

 

[amandaco2]

Mine are pretty dry. No mud but with 4 on 10 acres that I just use for dec to april, it helps keep it good n grassy.

 

[Holly Hocks]

Absolutely bogging at the gateways, and the rest of the field is getting wetter. Mine are having a couple of hours turnout each day, but then they just want to come back in. As it is, it fits my routine well too. Get to yard, turn them out, muck out, go to gym and shower, go back and get them in and go to work!

 

[Sukistokes2]

I am on clay.......they are slurry pits now! It is the same every year, we survive. They have round bales to keep them busy and are in at night, so their feet can dry a bit.

 

[Prince33Sp4rkle]

not wet at all, but we are very sandy soil and the fields rest from April to Oct so have a really long thick grass cover.

I can poo pick in ugg boots and not get wet feet

 

[alsxx]

Not as wet as yours OP! But resembles the area around the gate though - we are on clay and despite being rested over the summer it poaches everywhere once it gets wet enough, and then the water just sits. It had been actually ok up until this week though!!

 

[HaffiesRock]

I am really lucky with my new yard. I am on a hill and sandy soil, so other than a little bit of mud around the shelter where I feed, the fields are great. They live out so have no muddy gateways. The bit around my shelter is OK enough for my to be able to walk through it in normal shoes when it hasn't rained. Ill try and find a picture.

My sharer sent me this picture this morning.

And here is the mud. Excuse all the hair, I had just clipped.

 

[poiuytrewq]

Pretty wet! I'm also on clay and have about 4 acres divided into 3 paddocks. Two horses and a Shetland.
Most years I've just trashed one paddock and tbf it always looks good again by spring so although it's awful in winter I know we will survive and my next worry will be way too much grass!

 

[Pinkvboots]

not wet at all, but we are very sandy soil and the fields rest from April to Oct so have a really long thick grass cover.

I can poo pick in ugg boots and not get wet feet

You lucky thing if you wore ugg boots in my field you would need to chuck them in the bin

After all the rain we had at the weekend and Monday night I had some lovely lakes appear all over the field, when I put one of my Arabs out in the morning he just stood at the gate snorting at them.

 

[Merrymoles]

Also near York and pretty much dry - we have had the high winds but not much rain and that has dried everything out nicely.

The river is very high though so there has obviously been a lot more rain upstream.

 

[ILuvCowparsely]

As some of you might know, I've moved one of my horses to a new yard - to help his recovery. He's finished box rest now and has worked his way up to a big field with other horses, which is luckily at the top of the hill

I can't get over how wet the other fields are.

at my own yard, I had a small pond last winter, but its not been half as wet, so I dread to think how wet these fields were last year!

I'd love to see how wet it is around the rest of the uk.

mine are sticky and a few small patches splashy but otherwise they are fine.

 

[xgemmax]

Ours are awful! It's our first winter at this yard and I've never seen fields so boggy! The horses are coming in with mud up to their elbows and and mud splattered tummies, it's impossible to groom! The last yard had chalky soil and hardly had any mud (or grass for that matter!) and my boy had white legs and tail all winter, miss that so much!

 

[Prince33Sp4rkle]

You lucky thing if you wore ugg boots in my field you would need to chuck them in the bin

After all the rain we had at the weekend and Monday night I had some lovely lakes appear all over the field, when I put one of my Arabs out in the morning he just stood at the gate snorting at them.

i am very lucky indeed, i poo pick in the dark mostly (headtorch) and after a day of strong winds its so dry the grass makes that lovely whispering sound like it does in summer its very peaceful actually,mooching along in the dark and yet feeling that summer is on the way.

 

[ElleSkywalker]

Fields??? Oh you mean the bog pit? Absolutely sodden. Thick melted choc type mud and standing water in divots everywhere! An trying my best not to look at it at the min.....

Was the wrong time of year to move coupled with fencing needing to be done at top of field means we have not arranged the use of fields as best we could have.

Hopefully by next year we will have another 2 stables, a hard core path to fields and be able to start them off on the top bit of field moving them down as the winter progresses rather than up as we have had to do this year. Also hoping being grazed will thicken the grass up meaning it gets less wet.......

Failing that, all weather turn out :biggrin3:

 

[Doormouse]

Fields??? Oh you mean the bog pit? Absolutely sodden. Thick melted choc type mud and standing water in divots everywhere! An trying my best not to look at it at the min.....

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That made me giggle and mirrored exactly how I would currently describe ours!

 

[Equi]

Quite! I had a time staying upright earlier. It snowed this morning but the sun came out so its all soggy and miserable looking.

 

[Doormouse]

Quite! I had a time staying upright earlier. It snowed this morning but the sun came out so its all soggy and miserable looking.

My horses have become quite obliging about being used to keep me upright when my welly gets stuck! Good job neither of them are the get in the field and shoot off types or I would have been face down in the soup several times recently!

 

[Equi]

My horses have become quite obliging about being used to keep me upright when my welly gets stuck! Good job neither of them are the get in the field and shoot off types or I would have been face down in the soup several times recently!

Mine would be useless to use. If i landed on them they would squash! lol

 

[ElleSkywalker]

That made me giggle and mirrored exactly how I would currently describe ours!

Please reassure me it will recover in the summer with some TLC and re seeding.......

 

[Doormouse]

Mine would be useless to use. If i landed on them they would squash! lol

Just looked at your profile pic as I read that and nearly spat my coffee all over the work computer!!!!

 

[Doormouse]

Please reassure me it will recover in the summer with some TLC and re seeding.......

We had 3 youngsters out 24/7 in a 5 acre field last winter, only came in briefly for a couple of weeks when it was seriously wet. Some bits by February the mud was 3/4 of the way up your wellies and the rest of the field was full of pot holes and water. They came off it in March and by June you honestly wouldn't have known they had been there. We rolled and harrowed as soon as we could and then put calcified seaweed on it. We had so much grass last summer we had to keep having it topped.

 

[Boulty]

Ours range from mildly boglike to resembling the Somme! Mine isn't too bad apart from the tracks made by the tractor from the gate to the hay ring but a friends field has liquid mud that comes up to a few inches above the ankle around her gateway and one of her horse unsurprisingly is on box rest with mud fever. Think our winter paddocks would be better off being turned into all weather turnout but obv quite expensive to do and I don't think either the money or the will is there sadly

 

[Jane_Lou]

Another on the top of a hill with sandy soil and no mud, even at the gateways.

I moved 8 year ago from a yard at the bottom of the hill, about 1 mile as the crow flies, where welly boots would be lost every year never to be seen again in the thick clay mud soup that extended meters from the gates, horses stuck in for weeks due to flooded fields, just awful. Amazing thing geology isn't it!

 

[amandaco2]

Dry. The "mud" is brown grass where the horses go between fields. Bloomin ace!

 

[Crugeran Celt]

Parts of mine are very wet but most of it is completely dry not bad at all for January.

 

[Gazen]

Given up completely on turning out at the moment.
300m track to the field, mud half way up my calves, well over the horses fetlocks. Then we get to the gate, which is a foot under water. The turnout has standing water nearly everywhere. Even with the deepest rugs I could buy that pretty much meet under the belly they still come in with mud most of the way up their sides. The hosepipe being the only means of getting it off it you want to ride and I don't like using the hose in cold weather. Time is also an issue as it takes the best part of 20 minutes now to turn out and an hour and a half to bring them in and get them clean enough to ride. It takes me less time to muck out both horses!
I can't wait until summer!

 

[windand rain]

I too am on a hill with sandy soil so no mud at all a little standing water at the bottom bt is green and glossy