Mud!! grr

[Beckie65]

I'm on limited turnout at my land with 1 acre to grazing and its all mud already im feeding loads of hay at the mo to compensate for my grazing. Is anyone in the same boat and how are you coping? x

 

[asterid]

No mud, just a huge swimming pool that my horse loves playing in!

 

[Beckie65]

how are you coping? x its driving me crazy already and were only early nov x

 

[Cuppatea]

move!!!

 

[Lollii]

I feel your pain! we go through this every winter, we are on clay

Our horses have had to come off the grass until it dries out, they are confined to the concrete yard and the sand school,they are going out twice a day for an hour until the sun shines again

I have been putting hay out in the fields for a couple of months now

 

[ofcourseyoucan]

rain + horses+grazing/turnout = mud! you want no mud then dont turn out til next may. you want a happy horse then turnout and deal with the mud. sorry thats life! or move to a sunnier climate! or somewhere that has more acreage.

 

[pottamus]

My field is not too bad...very very wet as it is clay based but with only one horse on it, it could be worse even though the grass is down to the scut. I gave up worrying about mud some time back...it always grows back in the spring and summer and you forget what a mess it was. If it is deep bad mud, put some grass seed on the bare patches in the spring and watch it green up again in no time.
My lad's field is very wet and he is slopping around in wet all day at the moment, but I bring him in at night to dry his feet and give him a rest from it. I would rather he was out in the day pootleing around in the wet than be in all the time...and he does not give a hoot about the wet!

 

[flirtygerty]

Our horses have dreadlocks with rolling in the mud, it got so bad I've moved yards, most of the summer we have had mud round the gate, thats despite having to water the field it was so dry

 

[polopony]

I feel your pain! we go through this every winter, we are on clay

Yes we're on clay too, but thankfully its just our gateways that are muddy atm and we have a couple of fields that we can rotate between. But Burtie is prone to mud fever so its an even bigger struggle

 

[Supertrooper]

We're on clay too it's not too bad in the pony's field as she's only got little feet and isn't shod now. Big boys field isn't looking great but what can you do! They are coming in at night from today but my opinion is if you want turnout you're going to get mud and i don't believe on horses being stabled 24hrs a day. In my experience the fields recover come spring and we're leaving half the field to rest over the winter.

While they've been out day/night they've been getting hay (readigrass for oldie as she can't manage hay now) xx

 

[spotty_pony]

Would it be possible to bring your horses in/move them to a different paddock for a while to allow your paddock to recover?