Mud - and my stupid ruddy 'oss .... !!!!!

[DJ]

Please tell me i am not alone, please show me you have seriously muddy fields too


The fields surrounding mine, with other horses in i may add, are still pristine and grassy ... mine however, due to the big black rotavating donkey, is a thick muddy quagmire ...... He`s hard work, any change he hates it, anything different or other horses coming in/out, send him in to orbit ..... **sigh** .... Please, pleeeeeaaaaaase, show me your muddy, churned, fence walked fields so i don`t so alone lol ..... and don`t even get me started on trying to poo pick this field in the rain, with a heavy barrow ........... I love him really, no i do, honest ... i do

 

[stencilface]

If its that muddy and churned up they're cant be much grass there so sod the poo picking and just get it harrowed and rolled next year.

We have 12 acres for 4, so some bits are trashed, but most is ok. Of course my grey horse always rolls in the quagmire.

 

[Slightly Foxed]

I've got winter trash paddocks and they're rapidly heading to big stage! When they do that, poo picking is abandoned and we harrow and roll in the spring.
I hate the mud season. Four dogs and a mop permanently on hand to move the mud around on my kitchen floor!

I'm so jealous that the other side of my fence my neighbour has perfectly good loamy soil.

 

[DJ]

12 acres ... i`m green with envy lol .... I don`t usually rug mine, as they don`t need it, but have given in and put a lightweight on the rotavating donkey so i can ride him with out trying to scrape the mud off him first, he is terrible for finding the boggiest hole too lol

There isn`t hardly any grass, i`m feeding hay and have been for a couple of weeks now, but it`s a smallish paddock so i do still need to poo pick to stop it from looking messy (the YO like it tidy, and that`s fair enough). I have another paddock but i`m trying to eek it out as long as i can, other wise by the end of Dec they will both be trashed. Plus, both of mine ponies are fatty cobs who need their food intake seriously restricting .... 1 of them is ridiculously huge bless him, so i don`t really want to put them over onto the grass until end Jan at the earliest. If this one didn`t fly around like a loonie it wouldn`t be an issue

 

[DJ]

Night mare Slightly Foxed !!!! Know how you feel with the dogs, we have the same here, and chickens who trample the mud in too lol

 

[Slightly Foxed]

Ah yes, and the chickens and ducks, but they tend not to come into the kitchen!
I wouldn't mind winter too much if it wasn't too wet. Whatever happened to cold, dry and crispy?

 

[DJ]

Ah yes, and the chickens and ducks, but they tend not to come into the kitchen!
I wouldn't mind winter too much if it wasn't too wet. Whatever happened to cold, dry and crispy?

My chickens are like my shadow when i let them out, they terrorise the dogs and i regularly find them in the kitchen or the conservatory lol.

Like you, i`m hoping this "cold snap" happens, and the sooner the better. Cold, dry and crispy sounds perfect to me

 

[Holidays_are_coming]

I'm quickly learning why my horses breeder didnt let him out all winter in the mud, this is probably his first ever winter out in 9 yrs, and omg he is a mud monster!!!

 

[flirtygerty]

4 acres of my field are now closed for the winter, being clay soil the ground is very wet, my winter turn out now looks like a ploughed field, with knee deep mud on the path to the barn, luckily i have 2 acres for turn out which hasn't been used all summer, my four just take themselves off to this field when I open the barn door and so far, haven't ran around like idiots cutting it up, doesn't stop them finding the muddiest bit to roll in though

 

[DJ]

I'm quickly learning why my horses breeder didnt let him out all winter in the mud, this is probably his first ever winter out in 9 yrs, and omg he is a mud monster!!!

LOL ... Poor guy, though i bet he`s like a happy hippo now wallowing away ... you have my sympathies lol

4 acres of my field are now closed for the winter, being clay soil the ground is very wet, my winter turn out now looks like a ploughed field, with knee deep mud on the path to the barn, luckily i have 2 acres for turn out which hasn't been used all summer, my four just take themselves off to this field when I open the barn door and so far, haven't ran around like idiots cutting it up, doesn't stop them finding the muddiest bit to roll in though

You total have my commiserations and thank you for letting me know i am not alone ..... It is only this bad due to my big lad being up and down, round and round and churning it all up like he does .... I just can`t believe the damage he does !!!!

 

[HaffiesRock]

Mine isnt too bad, but it is split into 3 paddocks with just a walkway through into each paddock. The first one is where I feed hay and where the main gate is so can get quite muddy, as do the walkways into the other fields but I am also on a hill so all the water ends up in the gateway.

Its a nightmare pushing the barrow through!

 

[HaffiesRock]

LOL ... Poor guy, though i bet he`s like a happy hippo now wallowing away ... you have my sympathies lol



You total have my commiserations and thank you for letting me know i am not alone ..... It is only this bad due to my big lad being up and down, round and round and churning it all up like he does .... I just can`t believe the damage he does !!!!

This does look like my last yard. When it was really wet it sucked your boots off! Then it would freeze and would be so sharp and dangerous my pony never came in!

 

[Zero00000]

My mare is exactly the same as this, at one stage she was in a sick paddock after recovering from an illness, she actually dug a trench she was pacing so much, she destroyed the field she was in, my field at the moment isn't too bad, just around the round bale is boggy, but its on a slope and being an old farmers field has small dips that run the water away from the field.

 

[JLD]

I am so fed up with pushing barrow through boggy mud especially as much heap at bottom of sloping field and and gone over so many times pushing it down have now ordered roll of grass matting to make 1 m pathway to it and will walk poo to barrow in trug. mine isnt as bad as yours but I only have one 2 acre field to last all year on heavy clay so desparately moving femces etc to minimise trashing

 

[fattylumpkin]

Mine is exactly the same. Lovely dry grass in 90% of the field, she's lurking by the (empty) feeder in the soggy mud churning everything up.

 

[sandi_84]

The top corner of our field by the gate is quickly turning into a miniature bog too, it's just the time of year and the high foottraffic really. The areas where there is most traffic - i.e along the fence line through the gate of the fenced off parts and down to the water feeder - is bare now with them wandering up and down it but the rest of the field seems to be holding up well again.

 

[benson21]

Our fields are holding up quite well! (I thought it was getting a bit muddy, but now I have seen pics of others on here, its obviously not as bad as it seemed!!)

 

[BBP]

the big black rotavating donkey,

I hope you don't mind but I am totally stealing this name for my little black one. It's like he sharpens his hooves so he can slice and dice the field during his 'wall of death meets grand national training' runs.

 

[DJ]

Thanks everyone, it is good to know i`m not alone ...... it was colder here today, though still wet and boggy, fingers crossed this cold snap really helps firm things up a bit.

I hope you don't mind but I am totally stealing this name for my little black one. It's like he sharpens his hooves so he can slice and dice the field during his 'wall of death meets grand national training' runs.

Np probs Kat, as i`ve mentioned to you before, your lad is the spitting image of mine, and sounding by their 'quirks' i`m sure they are distant relatives lol

 

[Megibo]

Edges of our field are boggy and trashed!! Recently fenced it all off with electric so now its not too bad and the ponies are coming in cleaner..!
It was my loan ex-racer fence walking constantly after a few hours as she wanted to come in so she's now living in and so much happier!