Hows everyone coping with this rain n wind ?

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As above really, thought I bought some land but turns out I bought a very large swimming pool. Am thinking of diversifying from liveries to trout fishing
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A large lake can be very profitable so i'm told.


No seriously me and the neds have had enough now.
 
Yeah, mine are pretty miserable in this weather too! It's just awful, isn't it!
I don't ask much, just a little bit of winter sun to make us all feel a bit brighter pleasey???
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Mine are only going out for a few hours in the morning & are standing sulking by lunch time.

The field is a bog but at least we are too high up to flood.

If we flood Glasgow's submerged!
 
4 are in, the brood mares have a tiny strip of the field as it is a giant giant bog. So saturated.

I've not rode in ages either, for some reason i'm just not in the mood this year. Never used to class myself as a fair weather rider, but i am sick to death of being wet and cold and wind swept.

Please just a couple of nice dry days, doesn't even have to be sunny, just a day off from this piddling rain
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Mine are staying in as a horse at our yard had a bad fall in the mud yesterday and for a while it looked very serious. Fortunately its looking like a better outcome now, but I would rather exercise mine twice a day than risk them slipping over, even though I hate them being stabled 24/7.

If I do turn out whilst I muck out they both stand by the gate looking sad anyway...
 
We're potentially getting tornados tomorrow, how exciting! Perhaps the TB will be picked up and plonked safely in the field of someone who'd like a new one?
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Seriously though, they are both as fresh as anything - a combination of little work, more time inside and the wind winding them up. Not to mention me having skiing lessons when leading them across what used to be a field. Hate it hate it hate it.
 
We're doing well....
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. All are still going out, alright it's a bit slippery in places, but they'd rather be out than in, so we slide across that bit and then they're fine
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. Also been really lucky with the weather
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. We've managed to ride/Pessoa/lunge/long-rein without being totally dumped on by the skies
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Plus, horses are stabled in a big barn so we are dry as we potter about
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Sorry, I'll go and hang give myself a good berating for being so damn smug
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. Maybe you could stock with carp? Water skiing? Scuba diving?

Have a nice large hot choccy and a hug
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I ve ferduckin well had enough too. The wind is doing my head in and the horses are constantly whizzing in one direction or another. Everytime I take my grey boy out of his paddock , he has an eppi as the electric fencing gets blown everywhere and he thinks he's going to get zapped!!

Here in east anglia, we have faired better, weather wise than up north and my sympathies go out to all affected but please good lord above, send us some good old frosts and winter sunshine
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I don't mind the weather so much with regards to just being at the yard when it's wet and windy. it's just the lack of things i can do with my horse. It's driving me mad. Perhaps i'll appreciate being able to ride/ lunge in the field more when spring comes back round
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As for Taffy, he'd be more than happy to stay out whatever the weather as long as he has grass.
 
I'm very fed up but horse is having a fab time!!!

Big puddle in field is causing much amusement for not only him but any onlookers too. Favourite game is to canter up to big puddle, rear, land in it with a big splash, spin, gallop across field broncing, canter back (preferably via one of his long suffering fieldmates) and repeat exercise.

Most days he comes in plastered with wet sloppy mud and a great big grin on his face.
 
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Big puddle in field is causing much amusement for not only him but any onlookers too. Favourite game is to canter up to big puddle, rear, land in it with a big splash, spin, gallop across field broncing, canter back (preferably via one of his long suffering fieldmates) and repeat exercise.

Most days he comes in plastered with wet sloppy mud and a great big grin on his face.

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I can just visualise this!!! bless him.

I am sick of the rain, our fields are so wet, they are now more mud than grass in places, the wind is just awful too
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and the bloody weather woman just said 'more rain and gales tonight' with a bloody great big grin on her face
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Shoot the b*tch
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Getting fed up of being blown sideways all the time
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Horses don't seem to mind it funnily enough but then no one ever said they had any sense
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I'm totally fed up of it as well.

Our fields have no shelter and tend to flood so ours are in ATM which means I have no choice but to ride every day. The rain stopped and the sun came out yesterday so I threw some tack on and headed out, only for it to p*ss down 20 mins later. We trotted and cantered the entire way home but still ended up soaked to the skin and my (synthetic) saddle still isn't dry 36hrs later.

On the plus side, my mare has conquered her long standing fear or puddles and is enjoying splashing through the big one in one corner of the school at every opportunity
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We have got off lightly down here in Essex and my heart really goes out to people up north, esp those in Cumbria. Having said that it has still been pretty wild here and I have been forcing myself to ride to keep George exercised, will be investing in a waterproof exercise sheet for him and chaps for me at the weekend.
 
Sick of it...horsey is on restricted grazing and stripped each day so everything is turning to mud very rapidly...I seem to step foot out of my front door and queue the rain! Less than four weeks to go to the shortest day though....yippeeeeeeeee!
 
Hey everyone cheer up, OH told me tonight , he's heard it's going to really hot and with drought come next summer because of El Nino. So you that have fields that look like lakes thank your lucky stars at least you may have some grass next summer, those like me who have sandy soil, know when it gets hot no grass and no hay. Hay is short this year as the rain came at the wrong time, so if it's right about the weather for next yearstart saving up your Fivers, your going to need the big bank balance.
 
My two are out 24/7 and have just moved fields so happy and fat (!!) I managed to lunge in pessoa yesterday and he was good as gold. Today I whipped his rug off and managed to lunge but it was mega windy... the arena gates, which are double gates, blew open twice which caused Mr D to jump about a little but he soon got back to work and carried on being very good. It felt like galeforce wind and rain too. Managed to get his rug back on him, feed and get him out again
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We have got off lightly down here in Essex and my heart really goes out to people up north, esp those in Cumbria. Having said that it has still been pretty wild here and I have been forcing myself to ride to keep George exercised, will be investing in a waterproof exercise sheet for him and chaps for me at the weekend.

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Where about in Essex are you? We are all or nothing here on Essex/Suffolk border.......no rain for weeks and weeks during the summer, the fields were brown, no grass and the ground was like concrete......now its been raining for weeks, it fields are def green but also very brown. I almost wentr A over T 3 times tonight trying to poo pick!!!

Granted we are no where near as bad as the poor folk up north but its still horrid
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I don't mind riding in the bad weather as in getting wet and cold or whatever, what I do mind is my Mare being even more spooky and tense in this weather as we have haylage bags blowing everywhere and it's not even funny! Yes, I wish we had a big indoor but it's not to be, a water logged outdoor with blowing all sorts surrounding it is all I have...
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It's cr@p!!!

Had enough of wind and rain and just wish for some colder, sunnier weather cos at least then you can ride.

I only rode last night for the first time in a week and a half. Poor horses fields are a quagmire and can't take any more rain.

Trying to get rugs dry is a nightmare.

At least horses come in during night and get dry and warm but feel sh!t for having to put them out again at 6 in the morning just for them to get soaked straight away again!!

Really heavy rain tonight again and gale force winds tomorrow to look forward to!!
 
Decided not too go hunting today as fed up of getting wet through, and forecast was so pants - then it did'nt bl**dy rain at all! We are meant to be 'sunny' tomorrow morning (mid wales) so imagine that will be when the rain comes......
 
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