mud, glorious mud!

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katymay

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Someone please reassure me and remind me that my paddock will be green again once more! We've had torrential rain all night and morning, when I went to feed my boys their paddock was just running torrents of water and mud! I couldn't find anywhere decent to put hay down! I have to keep telling myself that the boys are happy, neither are starving, and much prefer to be out rolling in the mud than in their stables! I just worry that what little grass was left will be a soggy mess now and I'm trying so hard not to move them to the summer paddock as don't want two wrecked fields! Show me your muddy field piccies to cheer me up pretty please x
 
I feel your pain, but you really don't want to see mine ... it's not a pretty site! It will get better ... Meanwhile consider a stout post to tie nets to rather than putting hay on sodden ground.
 
OMG I feel your pain ! You really don't think there will be light at the end of the tunnel but trust me by Spring it will be green and lush again (well that's what I keep telling myself anyway lol )

I graze mine for an hour or so on our rested field keeps him off the mud! He's happy and I'm happy😀
 
My boys have trashed the whole of their fence line into the field by about 12 ft and the gate way is disgusting. They do the same every year. Every year I worry, and every year the grass comes back. My boys come in at night though. My daughters field is even worse as hers are out all the time. They do have a field shelter but the girls would rather stand in the mud. Our yard owner is lovely, he just says don't worry, we'll sort it in the spring. We are lucky that we have other paddocks, so the fields do get rested. Try not to give in, don't use your summer field or that will just get trashed as well. Won't be long now, light at the end of the tunnel. (that's what I tell myself anyway :) )
 
They hay will help by adding in grass seeds for your field to recover in spring :)

The vast majority of our large field is great, but near the gateways is not nice at all. I avoid bringing in the youngsters who are only 11h as pulling a tendon isn't a worry, pulling a leg off for them is! :D
 
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