How's everybody's grass doing?

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As title really.

Lots of people I know down this way are feeding hay at the moment.

My paddocks are looking like the Sahara in a heatwave, totally baked with no grass to speak of.

Yet the Neds are still as fat as little piggies and aren't clearing their feed-bowls up 100% as you'd expect. Dunno what they're finding to eat out there.

I'm in East Devon.

How's everyone else's pasture doing? Just wondering.
 
Mine is very dry across most of it but with little green shoots here and there. The poo patches are reducing in size as they nibble the edges. Horses are round with plenty of energy but I'm giving them one slice of hay maybe twice a week and that's going in record time. I don't want to wait until they're hatracks to supplement them.
 
We have loads and loads in all the fields, but at this stage its too late to let farmer make silage off it as it won't have grown again for winter in time....

I was v cautious earlier in the year as we were having work done in the summer grazing field but it didn't do as much damage as I feared so they have been grazing it as normal, and I could have let farmer use the rest :(

Fiona
 
It looks dry and dead but they seem to be finding plenty, they are all as round as I would want them to be. Some rain wouldn't harm though.
 
we've got alot of grass this year! the fatty paddocks even look quick well, the two bigger fields the the big groups of mares and geldings go out in look sparse so they've just been split across the remaining grassy paddocks and and entire 4 acre field has been left all summer, whereas we would usually have had to use some of it!
 
4 acres, 3 horses. Strip grazing winter field while other paddock grows back then will be swapped to that one until really wet! Grass is growing well
 
Very well thanks. A few farmers round here have been taking 2nd cuts in the last few days. Our yard only made haylage off some of the smaller fields this year as they still have lots left from a bumper crop last year. They got cut about 3 weeks ago and already there's a lovely thick green carpet of grass in those fields. The boys have been on the normal hayfields(which obviously weren't used for hay this year) since April and they still have a decent amount of grass down there. They do have 18 acres between 10 horses though and that's just for the summer! The winter fields have had sheep on them for the last couple of months but they'll move off in the next week or so so they can have a rest before the horses come up of the bottom fields when the clocks go back.
 
far too much!

3 fatties on limited intake and one who is allowed to eat it but doesnt really do som, spends his days dreaming and watching the others!

i am not sure that 1 will even need his winter field and not sure how i am going to get the other 1 on to it without him exploding, i think i will let it go over for even long, possibly the end of nov.
 
Ok with us - we're still strip grazing a good half of the back section of our field so there's tons there for them to munch on at the moment. I did notice that the other sections aren't growing quite as quickly as I'd expect them to though.
 
Our fields are stone dry, south of essex. Desperately could do with a good down pour to get the grass growing again, I started hay my youngsters field this morning.
 
Dry and barren here too. However the horses all have their heads down and are grazing, so there's clearly something out there, they're just having to work for it. Recent splash of rain should help the Autumn flush come through before too long.
 
South east. Similar here in that grass seems dry and not much in it, but my boy is till looking well on he regime despite dieting efforts! Upping the workload in response as don't want to do anything more to his feed regime.
 
I was getting worried the other week when we'd had a long dry spell and it just wasn't growing. But since then we've had a few wet days and it's growing like the clappers again.
 
We have boatloads of grass. Four horses, four acres. Two are in individual paddocks being stripped grazed, and two are in together with the paddock divided into three, and we're moving them to a different section from time to time.

Plenty for the rest of the summer and the winter too, although they'll be in at night during the winter.

In SW, by the way.
 
loads here too just started the strip into the winter field and still getting loads of poo so could do with less but the strip is tiny square just now and I dont want them getting fed up. they are in a bit smaller than a townhouse lawn we are in north lincs
 
Near Oxford and certainly got more grass than last year. It might look a bit sparse until you actually walk out into the field and see what is growing.
 
In Dorset, and have too much. Companion pony is as round as she is high, and my mare is as fat as I've ever seen. I've got two paddocks, one about an acre, which is where they are now, and there is plenty. The other, is about 5-6 acres, and had cattle grazing. Looks good, but way too much for fatty. They won't move into it until November at this rate!
 
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