Rain, rain, go away!

Ye I concur with all the above, it is truly making life miserable now! My 2 live up at a friends house with her 3 and have had to be off their “big” field and back up on the yard/barn/ring turnout patch which just creates so much work and they are eating us out of house and home, averaging 1 round bale a week! We’re trying to get them fit for some early season endurance events and whilst I did get out twice this week they were both miserable affairs, layered up with waterproofs and driving rain in my face!
 
mariew said:
Don't look at the long range forecast. Our horses that hate being in are now in overnight as field is just soup and we don't want to trash the summer field.
Mine doesn't even want to go out lol
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I know well I did put mine out for about an hour this morning but she was more than ready to come back in, the wind is howling and rain made it feel but -7C according to my app!
 
This week has been a write off. I managed to turn out Monday & Friday, and they had an hour out on Weds & Thurs while I mucked out.
I’ve not ridden all week. I nearly convinced myself to ride Friday evening but them it got gusty, and given the lack of turnout or work I decided I valued my life too much.
Same problem this morning so I just chucked out for a few hours.

I was strip grazing them but the field is so wet that it’s getting trashed by them just walking and eating.
I’ve just given them the whole paddock now to try to avoid the mud mess.
 
I’ve been feeling rubbish, I haven’t been able to do any hacking with my cob for a few weeks now, and I’m worried that she’ll get separation anxiety with Saus, even though I know logically that a few in-hand walks settles her brain. Plus, being in regular work in summer will help her.

Am I the only one who just never finds the time to ride/work them in the winter?

I’ve been listening to “it won’t rain forever”, and taking it in a very literal sense! 🤣
 
I’ve managed to exercise all of mine today and they were ALL fresh. 🫣 They live out so it’s not through last of turnout but I’ve recently put them into more grass so it might be that, or the fact that it’s wet in the fields so they don’t feel they can left off steam in quite the same way. My mare can be a little cold through the back when she’s had a few days off and today after feeling like I was going to get sent into orbit at any point several times I got off and loose schooled - got back on and she was still fresh. I managed to ride through it this time and we go some amazing canter in pure self carriage today, possibly some of the best canter work she has ever done but I could just about contain it! I won’t be riding much again this week now with work so expect I may have the same problem next weekend - come on spring!! I need more daylight!!
 
Rode today for the first time in a week. T was a little fresh anyway, then we unexpectedly met a constant stream of traffic exiting the local stately home. Seems they’d had an event on and everyone was leaving at once.
My boy is usually fine with traffic, but he was getting increasingly frustrated and fidgety at needing to wait in gateways every 50m.
It’s just lucky we had company for a change, I think he’d have lost it if we had been hacking alone.
 
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