Mud - I'm so sorry but I need to moan :-(

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I'm fed up of it. I'm fed up of it on the horses, on the rugs, on me :-(

The paddocks are trashed and the grass isn't growing :-( the horses are fed up too.

I know there is nothing that can be done and it won't last for ever but sometimes you need to vent a bit xx
 
Me too! I am sick to the back teeth of the wet and the mud.
The winter is a long hard slog....this time of year things should be getting easier.
Instead of lovely lush spring grass, our summer field is a waterlogged mudbath and totally trashed.
I am putting a bale of hay out per day and still having to bring the horses in at night now and then to give them a respite from the rain/cold/mud.
My TB really needs to be stuffing his face with grass...but instead he is just getting a muddy nose and lives under the trees eating his hay from the hayrack.

It took me 2 hours to groom my boys this morning. The mud was THAT bad.

I will join you in your rant and pray for sunshine....
 
I sense gravel tracks may come into fashion....

I know, ours are the same. I am beginning to think a track system is a bloody good idea...
 
Can I join you in your rant please?

My paddock is totally trashed, no grass just mud and weeds. I'm fed up with it, the horses are fed up with it. I am also having to bring them in at night on occasions just to give them a bit of respite. And I'm getting through a large rectangular bale of hay a week.

Today has been sunny and dry although chilly, tomorrow is supposed to be the same and then back to more heavy rain :-(
 
Ours are coming in too on some nights. We're talking about either having trash paddocks (they've started creating them already - the horses that is) or hard standing :-(
 
Merry Crisis you can go off some people you know :eek: :mad: :eek:

I'm sick of mud too, the beastie that I keep at home is on half the field which is now totally trashed and I had a telling off from the parentals because of it, do they think I like muddy trashed fields?!? Will have to move the fencing tomorrow but if we have more rain that mean that the whole field will be trashed and not just half of it :mad: :(

On a more positive note this weather has made me really appreciate the fact that I'm going to Egypt in less then 3 weeks, bring on the sun I say!! :cool:
 
Yep I'm going to join in a moan too...the long muckers I bought new at the beginning of autumn have just not survived and now give me a wet foot to add insult to injury..haven't seen any of the white socks on the ponies for yonks and daren't wash off in case of mud fever...and when it gets warm, there's so much stagnant water in the mud it STINKS...and am SOOO bored of brushing off muddy ponies!!!!!!! Not to mention I have got a seriously cricked neck and cricked bits of back which I am firmly blaming on constantly slipping about on muddy ground. The grass is totally feeble so far and winter haying seems waaaayyy tooo loongg...moan, moan MOAN. :mad:
 
Merry Crisis said:
*sighs* in a smug way. Grass growing like mad here, can go outside in slippers, horse rolled and rolled and not a speck of mud on him. Chilly though but warm in the constant sunshine we have had today!! Not often you will read a post like that from Cumbria! :D
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Pah! Hush thy noise woman! Or you may just find me and both boys camping in your garden :D

Good job you are one of my most favourite people MC....or I would have to put you on user ignore ;):rolleyes:













p.s love you really xx
 
Mud.....what mud?? :rolleyes:


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There used to be a child in them :(
 
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One of mine came in today hopping lame with a probable abscess, undoubtedly caused by all this mud. Getting really depressed with it now.
 
I'm lucky my field is doing well - perhaps as there's only 5 of them and its pretty big but the gate area is ruined - cue 2yo doing an eyes-on-stalks impression as he gets stuck in the mud. Having to go and 'roll' the gateway myself with my boots!
 
We're another lot doing ok up in the Pennines (where it is also unusual to say that!). Not dry by any means, but not muddy! We did have frost last night though.

Put it in perspective, this time last year all the threads were about ground being dry and no hay being made etc.

Ps. It was never going to be a good summer with the whole world descending on the UK for the Olympics - that just about guarantees a typical wet British summer!!
 
Karran said:
Spiritedly - that did make me laugh! Hope child didn't also get sucked into the mud!
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Luckily he was close enough to the fence to climb to safety ;) He did need a piggy back to dry land though as when retrieved the boots were full of mud :eek:
 
Im so fed up of 3 of my liveries saying its too muddy I could scream I didnt make your field muddy YOUR horses did they run about like idiots all 3 of them and under 2 years old there field had the most grass on it and now its just muddy and now its my fault Im not responsible for the weather, so I got the what are you going to do about it or im leaving well girls anf guys leave Im not a magician sorry weather really getting me down but it seem like its my fault. Rant over thanks for listening
 
My winter field has no grass in it whatsoever, but that's being rested from today onwards so hopefully it'll resurrect itself. My summer paddock has no mud in it whatsoever, its brill!

I don't envy those of you that have mud, its bad enough having it throughout winter!
 
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