lets have a rant about mud...........

[millyspaniel]

I should change my user name to mud - moaner!
yep am moaning about mud again

My field is exceptionally wet and boggy and am worried about them being on it all day

tomorrow am sectioning it off (half of it) and letting it alone till feb when they can go on it then when thats gone they can have the other bit till the spring.
My TB is struggling to walk in it, its proper boggy and the yearlings once lovely coloured coat is now a nice shade of muddy brown

i have NO concrete to tie them up when i bring them to the gate to brush

its crap i hate the mud, the cold dont bother me so much its just the mud

Rant over.
Now can someoone tell me that there horses (TBs in all) are standing fetlock deep in mud so i dont feel like such a bad horse owner

 

[kylie88]

yep my boys are!! alothough they do have hard standing in the stables with are left open for them but stand and eat the hay from outside in the mud!!!

 

[sidesaddlegirl]

My TB is currenly standing fetlock deep in mud (she lives out year round) as as the two ponies!! My field was ok last December, it didn't start to get boggy and lose the grass until January when we had all that snow but it's gotten rice paddy-ish early this year and I'm having to start feeding the hay I was saving for the field next month- now!

It's clay mud too so it stains everything (I dropped my new white side saddle numnah in it) and it's doing my back in slipping and sliding everywhere.

 

[millyspaniel]

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My TB is currenly standing fetlock deep in mud (she lives out year round) as as the two ponies!! My field was ok last December, it didn't start to get boggy and lose the grass until January when we had all that snow but it's gotten rice paddy-ish early this year and I'm having to start feeding the hay I was saving for the field next month- now!

It's clay mud too so it stains everything (I dropped my new white side saddle numnah in it) and it's doing my back in slipping and sliding everywhere.

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Everytime i go and do my horses and see them standing in the mud whilst am sliding about with water containers (no water supply so have 4 big containers to carry

) i will be thinking that you are going through the same thing also!!

 

[jendie]

Standing in mud? I wish!!! Mine seem to spend their time rolling in it. Every time I look I see little hooves waving in the air.The two palomino mini shets are now indistinquishable from the bay. And the 8-m-o ID is having a whale of a time galloping along the sides of the paddock and doing wheelies at the corners.....

 

[sidesaddlegirl]

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Everytime i go and do my horses and see them standing in the mud whilst am sliding about with water containers (no water supply so have 4 big containers to carry

) i will be thinking that you are going through the same thing also!!

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LOL!

Grrr, flippin mud! My wheebbarrow has a flat tire too so I'm having to pull that through the mud backwards too.

 

[Enfys]

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Grrr, flippin mud! My wheebbarrow has a flat tire too so I'm having to pull that through the mud backwards too.

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Get a sled, just one of those cheapo plasticky ones, I can assure you, they work just as well on mud as they do on snow!

ps, why don't you get the tyre blown up?

 

[Magicmillbrook]

Me too. My field looks like it usualy does at the end of Feb, I had no grass growth, Aug/sept/oct due to lack of rain so nothing to hold it together, now we have had Aug/Sept.October rain all in Nov/Dec. I stated Hay on October and used it all up last weeks and had to get fresh supplies - totaly unheard of Grr, Bah, meh, bother, feck and all the other moaning type of word I can think of.

 

[wannabee]

I'm going to make everyone hate me now - we have no mud! I know we are exceptionally lucky, and long may it last (we have an abundance of grass too!)

 

[gingerthing]

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Everytime i go and do my horses and see them standing in the mud whilst am sliding about with water containers (no water supply so have 4 big containers to carry

) i will be thinking that you are going through the same thing also!!

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LOL!

Grrr, flippin mud! My wheebbarrow has a flat tire too so I'm having to pull that through the mud backwards too.

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Ditto to both those comments!! grrr

 

[Lollii]

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I'm going to make everyone hate me now - we have no mud! I know we are exceptionally lucky, and long may it last (we have an abundance of grass too!)

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I really, really hate you! (not really, but I am jealous!)
Here is my mud and my hippo x ish

 

[Serenity087]

I own a now 12hh chestnut bog pony instead of the beautiful 15.1hh grey cob that I turned out in october...

Mud, glorious mud!

I have a field shelter, but it's like crossing a mire to get into it! (and it's only going to get worse!)

 

[Donkeymad]

OMG - that is horrendous. We have mud, but not too bad.

 

[Lollii]

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OMG - that is horrendous. We have mud, but not too bad.

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It's worse now, that photo was taken before the really bad rain

now it is all frozen solid mud ruts with ice in between, the horses can't walk on it

 

[JamesEarwaker]

it seems mud is all you lot talk about these days lol

 

[sidesaddlegirl]

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Grrr, flippin mud! My wheebbarrow has a flat tire too so I'm having to pull that through the mud backwards too.

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Get a sled, just one of those cheapo plasticky ones, I can assure you, they work just as well on mud as they do on snow!

ps, why don't you get the tyre blown up?

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Tried to today but my stupid bike tire pump wouldn't screw onto the wheelbarrow tire thingey

*Make a mental note- get plastic sled!!!

 

[MochaDun]

Mud, what mud? Do you lot have mud? Oh it's like the Bahamas here..dry, dusty, warm, can't remember the last time we had rain, I wear my fanciest of of strappy summer sandals to get the horse to/from field and they're fine, T-shirt weather in fact..

*hum hum hum..mad mud woman hums to herself pretending there is no such thing as mud*

 

[millyspaniel]

okay heres my muddy mess - this bits the worst by the gate thats why ive sectioned it off...............

 

[Lollii]

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it seems mud is all you lot talk about these days lol

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It will be flies, fly rugs, & hard ground soon - don't worry

 

[millyspaniel]

i really hope so

 

[JamesEarwaker]

yes i no what you mean, it will be my grass isnt growing because we havnt got any rain because its too dry!!

 

[ElliePippa]

IT WONT COME OUT OF HER CLIPPED COAT! Ive tried everything! Its like glued to her skin

 

[Lollii]

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yes i no what you mean, it will be my grass isnt growing because we havnt got any rain because its too dry!!

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That's it - aaahhhh the good old days ...""""""wonders off dreaming about sunshine & no rain & no blimin MUD"""" ....

 

[spotty_pony]

The mud is AWFUL! I don't remember it being this bad at this time last year!

I was fetching horses in today at work and I ended up getting stuck in the mud at a very boggy gateway. My boot came off and I fell over and ended up very muddy! My horses rugs are disgusting and when I changed them I ended up transferring even more mud onto myself!

My horses are going to have to stay in for a few days as it is just too boggy... not worth the risk of them injuring themselves or pulling a shoe off.

 

[helly86]

Pathways to fields are awful as are gateways but Dragon's field isn't too bad, he goes out runs around for about a min then wonders about nibbling as grass, has a roll, another nibble, more rolling then it's in to bed but not before being de-mudded so he can try and beat the muddiest horse record the next day. flippin hippo.

 

[JamesEarwaker]

its because we havnt had any proper frosts, not up this way anyway, we have had 1 good 1 and thats been it, if i remember this time last year it was pritty good, not as wet although w have had enough rain to last into january.

 

[V1NN]

bloody mud!

 

[Ellies_mum2]

Spoke to farmer a couple of weeks ago when he brought our hay and he said its dryer this year than the same time last year

Apparently he had a hard time getting his tractor through the gateways last year due to the mud

This picture was taken about a month ago and the mud is much worse now. It is the gateway between the 2 fields that the horses have for winter

Lovely stuff isn't it

 

[kirstyhen]

We have barely any mud here

It's maybe an inch deep at most and that's only in the gateways (and all down to my horse

) and in some parts of the walkways. All the fields are green

 

[Brandysnap]

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We have barely any mud here

It's maybe an inch deep at most and that's only in the gateways (and all down to my horse

) and in some parts of the walkways. All the fields are green

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Don't really think that friends in Lakes want to hear that, when floods have devastated their homes + livelihoods + animals. Maybe you'd like to contribute to the flood fund? Just Google, will you? (As something similar was said in Adelphi, Liverpool). Try Cumbria for starters, please.