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I know we needed some rain, but this is ridiculous! How have we gone from glorious sunshine yesterday to torrential downpours today?!
my fields are flooded mud pits. Everyone, including those who hate being stabled, where stood by the gate this morning & are now in. I’m soaked through to the skin, stood in the tack room waiting for a downpour to pass so I can leg it inside & I can see my husband in the living room window goading me with a cup of tea!
I love winter.... but in reality... it’s not even winter 😫
 
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Very depressing isn't it. My sister's two are still on strip grazing into thick foggage and that is cutting up badly. The mare has already gone up by 2" round her girth so she doesn't dare't let them out into the big field yet.:(
 
It's really heavy rain here and Amber weather warning for it. It rained the full weekend too and everything is sodden. Even the fat cob who hates being in has done a U turn back into his stable!

Where is the beast from the ice and the "ice age" that is predicted every year? Even that is preferable to this constant rain
 
Fortunately I'm on assisted livery because twice in the last month I've been unable to get to the stables due to flooded roads
 
Having moved house recently I had to decide which paddock to use for the winter. Previously I had a winter turnout area and now realise how much I took it for granted. The field they are currently in is a mud pit down the bottom which I have fenced off and it's not winter yet really. Here's to some cold, dry weather so that it will drain away and harden up but then of course I have divots to tread down!!! Winter turnout area will be given priority in the new year.
 
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We are lucky to have more than enough acreage for the two, so not much actual mud but I have never seen the fields so wet and waterlogged at this time of year. Depressing. Everything is slippy and sodden, and the roads are the only safe surface round here atm which is less than ideal. We really need a decent dry spell with a stiff breeze to dry it all out properly. I can see bog burn being an issue for next year's showing!
 
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It finally stopped sometime last night!

Today it's bright and sunny. Typical as it was outside work yesterday and today it's the inside (boring but necessary) money making work. I'm not sure how long I'll be able to stay in... Might have to get out then work late into the evening. I do like a good resolvement to an issue I do :D
 
We’ve got sunshine and warmth today too, however more rain forecast for tomorrow night! Im so over it. Mine predominantly live out, however they’ve spent more time in over the last couple of weeks then they did all last winter!
 
Awful yesterday. Robin had a couple of hours out in the morning and when i went back he was desperate to get in. Beautiful day today tho for a nice hack.
 
Absolutely dreadful here today.

Just tried to drive to the shop and I've had to turn back. The roads are completely flooded, never seen anything like it. Think they'll end up having to close some of the roads here.

Ponies are in. Can't even let them in the school as its currently a lake.

Hope everyone is ok!
 
Torrential rain over night yet sunshine again today- I can’t keep up! I’ve turned the big ones out, but they’ll be coming in at lunchtime. Haven’t bothered to turn the foals out... they’ll be up to their bellies in mud and water!
 
Been raining here since before we got up at 5.00 this morning and it's not stopped since and is forecast to carry on raining until tomorrow morning :eek:. We have a lovely lake in the corner of the winter grazing, which is still fenced off. We're lucky in that we have about 8 acres to graze between 3 horses, so strip graze all year round, fencing off the winter stuff as long as we can. There is still a good covering of grass in the summer field, but it's just so wet. Just about to go and get them in because I feel sorry for them, but you can bet they'll not be bothered when I get there and will be stood in the middle of the field eating.
 
It has been horrendous here all day, there was an amber weather warning for the whole of the the Peak District, into South and West Yorks, with 73 flood warnings for Yorks, the last I heard. We are so high up that we don't get flooded, although the stables were dicing with flooding this afternoon, but there is water pouring off the land and down the roads, all over the place,
Our horses didn't go out until 4.30 and were wanting to come back in by 5.30, the land is horribly wet and the wind was from the East, which we have very little shelter from.
 
It's horrendous, isn't it?

My winter field seems to drain fairly well and is on a decent slope, but I currently have them on the bottom, smallest section of it, below the point where a footpath runs across the field. I have to use this bit separately to the rest as I can't cut the footpath off with my electric fencing and the post and rail fencing is either falling down or none existent! It was fine on Sunday but YO texted me yesterday to say it's now looking pretty boggy. I need to get them moved up the hill asap but won't see them in daylight till Saturday so hopefully they'll manage till then. I might pop them in for a bit on Saturday now I've got some hay and straw in, as it's supposed to rain all day!
 
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