Photos- how does your field look? :(

[Roasted Chestnuts]

I’m in Scotland the land of rain so I won’t show you mine as it’s very green and growing like the clappers! My winter field is getting cut this week as it’s too much for the topper the autumn flush will be enough to get him through winter as it will fro August sept and probs most of October before he goes into it.

 

[GrassChop]

Mine is the same as yours P. It's crunchy when you walk on it. Still hay feeding.
I'm just hoping we get a good Autumn/warm-ish winter where we have a late growth spurt.

 

[poiuytrewq]

Its raining or at least ithas been on and off all morning! Not heavilly but actually I think that may be best as we did have one heavy shower some weeks back and it just ran off down the hill and was bone dry again 20 minutes later.
Hopefully this will sink in a bit. In fact its quite foggy and yuck looking, but I'm definitely not complaining. The harvest here is about finished and the straw (what there was of it) baled so i hope it stays like this all day.

 

[Tarragon]

We went on a canal boat holiday early July, starting at Worcester, and I was horrified at the state of the fields that we chugged passed on our slow way, having come down from the green Peak District for comparison. As your photos show, many fields were a uniform brown colour.
We did have a hot few weeks up here, but our summer has returned to the normal overcast/wet weather we are used to and we are back to worrying about the wrong sort of grass. Hopefully, some of this wetter weather will reach you lot soon.

 

[dorsetladette]

I’m in Scotland the land of rain so I won’t show you mine as it’s very green and growing like the clappers! My winter field is getting cut this week as it’s too much for the topper the autumn flush will be enough to get him through winter as it will fro August sept and probs most of October before he goes into it.

Can we all come to your place?

It drizzled here for a few hours this morning but not enough to dampen the dust in our field.

 

[Roasted Chestnuts]

Can we all come to your place?

It drizzled here for a few hours this morning but not enough to dampen the dust in our field.

We have had some absolutely torrential rain my field was sploonging the other week!

So the bit I’m standing in is his track (the long lush looking stuff he won’t eat as that’s his poop area. I poo pick and the sheep after a few days eat away at those bits and I top it) and the cut bit is my winter part it goes right the way down the hill. There will be tonnes of grass by October



He got allowed a bit of the longer stuff in the middle of the track with his muzzle firmly on and that’s been topped twice and has sheep on it as well

 

[meleeka]

I bought a sack of grass seed, right before it was forecast to rain at Easter. The promised rain never came (there was a lovely spell about 5 miles away!) and my grass seed was a total waste of money

This is my rested field currently. There's ZERO grass in it, just weeds. I could cry, but with natives I definitely don't need grass. I'm just sad at how ruined it is and how much it'll cost to put right

 

[Birker2020]

This is my individual turnout paddock, the one with the yellow dots. These are old photos though. Haven't a recent one but suffice to say it's very green and we've bought the strip fencing all the way forward for him so I can strip graze him again. This is the fourth time we've done this, this year, it's excellent ex cattle grazing.

It's very green at the moment with loads of young shoots. We weed it every week and poo pick every night, and it's the best managed paddock of the lot on that particular strip in terms of bring weedless.

 

[AShetlandBitMeOnce]

This is my field as of yesterday, the grass has greened up since we had a bit of a dump of rain last week, but it's still pretty dusty and bare - I am quietly pleased to be honest as there is enough to keep bellies not empty, but not too much nutrition in it so he's not gotten too fat whilst being off work. They come in 8am till 4pm and have hay.

 

[Birker2020]

Here's my field tonight. About about two fifths fenced off right at the top.

Lari in the strip I put him in for 20 mins before I poo pick his paddock.

The hay is only damp hay which he drops out of his hay net that he eats during the day.

 

[FieldOrnaments]

Too much f+++ing grass

 

[spotty_pony2]

Last night. This field is too wet to use in the winter though at the top (weirdly the bottom stays drier!) as it has underground springs. Since we have had a bit of rain it’s growing again - horses aren’t needing any hay out. My mare (who is in a fair bit of work) is a good doer and usually is on restricted grazing with soaked hay other last few summers since we bought her (she was very overweight and high Laminitis risk) but she is fit and the correct weight now and I am watching her like a hawk but she is coping well with the grass in her paddock. Just goes to show what work can do for them!