Rain Ranting Thread

[santas_spotty_pony]

It has just absolutely bucketed it down here and it’s very windy again. Ground looks back to how it was again I have seriously had enough of this weather now. No way I could get the horses out this week 24/7, they are out all day now until it’s dark but I am sick of winter!!!!

 

[santas_spotty_pony]

We are in the middle of a massive thunderstorm. The lightening is insane and frightening

whereabouts are you?

 

[Timelyattraction]

whereabouts are you?

Cambs

 

[santas_spotty_pony]

Cambs

I am in Lincs so not a million miles away - hope it’s not headed this way!

 

[OlderNotWiser]

I was supposed to be jump judging at South of England on Sunday but unsurprisingly it’s cancelled.

 

[94lunagem]

The wind today has been insane, and made it biting cold.

The rain was so bad it woke me up at 4am this morning.

But thankful we’re not forecast the thunder and lightening.

 

[Gloi]

Just to wind me up some photos came up on Facebook memories of our ponies out at grass in the sun in a dry field 2 years ago today

 

[Slightlyconfused]

And just had a huge thunder storm with hale the size of golf balls and flash flooding....so fields are now flooded again. This is in the MK / Bletchley area

 

[McGrools]

My poor OH bought me some xc jumps for my birthday last November. Still no sign of being able to place them in the field to actually jump. Still feels months off!

 

[lovely_ponies]

Brought my 4 y/o in today (he lives out 24/7) - he waded himself carefully through the mud to the gate and then once out, poor lad was hobbling across the hardstanding and gravel to get to the yard he's barefoot and had a trim last week, and I think the combination of that and this current storm has just tipped him over the edge and his feet haven't been able to cope. The whole field is mud or marsh now, and also full of stones that have all risen up through the mud. Could have cried seeing him struggle and then having to put him back out in it later YO has said he can come and stand in on the yard during the day for the next few days to give his feet a few dry hours, hopefully it helps I don't know what else to do

 

[HelenBack]

oh and for vitamin D, buy decent gel capsules of around 5000ius and take 100uis of K2, and some magneisum with it. When my vitamin D is low I get bouts of the rage for no reason, so hopefully getting your levels up helps you feel better!

Thanks for this advice, I've certainly had quite a few rage attacks in the last few days, some of which I've managed to supress better than others!

Are there any particular brands of vitamin D you recommend? I'm usually a bit of a cheapskate and get Tesco's own brand vitamins but it sounds like I'll be looking for something a bit more industrial strength here!

 

[I'm Dun]

Thanks for this advice, I've certainly had quite a few rage attacks in the last few days, some of which I've managed to supress better than others!

Are there any particular brands of vitamin D you recommend? I'm usually a bit of a cheapskate and get Tesco's own brand vitamins but it sounds like I'll be looking for something a bit more industrial strength here!

I dont think the brand matters, its the strength that does and them being gel as it helps it be absorbed better. K2 and magnesium are fine with the cheapest though!

 

[scats]

I keep seeing FB memories of this time last year and the girls out naked on dry paddocks… good times!

 

[Crugeran Celt]

I am so fed up of the weather, we have a lake in the field and the only joy that brings is we have ducks and geese flying in which are lovely to see. Got to think of a positive! Poor ponies need a break from it as they live out 24/7. Could bring them in but they hate being restricted and chose to stay out under the trees. Just want some warmth and no more rain!!!!

 

[southerncomfort]

Was supposed to be dry this morning.

All I can say is good job I put my rainlegs on before setting out on a hack.

 

[HappyHollyDays]

Fear not, having got fed up being soaked through twice a day I’ve just bought myself a new waterproof jacket so the rain WILL now stop

Seriously though it’s pretty soul destroying. My boys are out at night and have been rugged the last two as it’s been horrendous. I think we have two dry days and then two more weeks of incessant rain. The local hunter trials have been cancelled tomorrow as although the going is good everything will get stuck trying to leave. Like many I’m completely over winter.

 

[santas_spotty_pony]

Brought my 4 y/o in today (he lives out 24/7) - he waded himself carefully through the mud to the gate and then once out, poor lad was hobbling across the hardstanding and gravel to get to the yard he's barefoot and had a trim last week, and I think the combination of that and this current storm has just tipped him over the edge and his feet haven't been able to cope. The whole field is mud or marsh now, and also full of stones that have all risen up through the mud. Could have cried seeing him struggle and then having to put him back out in it later YO has said he can come and stand in on the yard during the day for the next few days to give his feet a few dry hours, hopefully it helps I don't know what else to do

are you sure he hasn’t got an abscess?

 

[santas_spotty_pony]

Was supposed to be dry this morning.

All I can say is good job I put my rainlegs on before setting out on a hack.

I went out in my le mieux long winter riding coat - the best coat I’ve ever bought I think as it never lets me down! We had fog, wind, sideways rain and sun in the hour I was out this morning

 

[lovely_ponies]

are you sure he hasn’t got an abscess?

I thought this, but he is sore walking on all 4 feet (with one front and one back slightly worse than the other) and negative to hoof testers all round.

The bulbs of his heels all feel really boggy and soft when I checked today, which I guess would explain it (and explains why he's sore even on flat concrete). I've got a pine tar spray to see if that helps and he's in today again before going back out later, and just praying for some improvement (and a break from the rain!!!) tomorrow

 

[Gloi]

Eek mad hail and thunder now.
It was actually nice this morning.

 

[tda]

Pah, I just got soaked, went from spitting to stair-rods in minutes, then hailstones, and that bluddi rainbow can do one 🌤🌧🌨

 

[4Hoofed]

I’ve given up trying to guess if I can give the boys a naked day. It was 14oC when I left the yard but already had two heavy showers. Felt bad leaving the dressed in the brief sunshine

I was really hoping that I’d be able to keep the new baby out 24/7 from the get go. But after spending the first two weeks out in the day as we got introduction’s between him and the jolly ginger giant has trashed my paddocks. So he’s condemned to the hard standing now they have established they are brothers as I can’t stable numbnuts we don’t have any big enough and I can bring myself to lock a weanling inside.

And from a riding point of view I feel like I’ve managed to combine hydrotherapy with road work half a local road has given up and started to disappear into the drainage ditch….

 

[myheartinahoofbeat]

So fed up with this weather now.
It stopped raining and looked really rather sunny outside this morning, so I had a go at long reining the young man. I haven’t ridden him in a couple of months as it’s been impossible to get any consistency because of the sh*** weather. We’ve just moved house so I wanted to gently ease him in to work in the new home. Then it started sideways raining with a bit of hail thrown in.To be fair, he coped really well but the 4 in the field decided to charge about in the high winds.

Yippee!!! Forecast is now saying no rain until Monday.
It’s not really something to celebrate though, is it?

 

[lovely_ponies]

So fed up with this weather now.
It stopped raining and looked really rather sunny outside this morning, so I had a go at long reining the young man. I haven’t ridden him in a couple of months as it’s been impossible to get any consistency because of the sh*** weather. We’ve just moved house so I wanted to gently ease him in to work in the new home. Then it started sideways raining with a bit of hail thrown in.To be fair, he coped really well but the 4 in the field decided to charge about in the high winds.

Yippee!!! Forecast is now saying no rain until Monday.
It’s not really something to celebrate though, is it?

Long reining, or long raining

 

[Squeak]

Thanks for the recommendation for Vit D, K2 and Mg. I've also been finding myself worn down, irritable and grumpy. I actually nearly had a full on meltdown when I'd just got bathed and changed and then managed to touch my leg against a gate walking out the garden and once again was covered in mud.

 

[Timelyattraction]

its not looking good

 

[meesha]

Met office long range forecast...a glimmer of hope at last

Saturday 13 Apr - Saturday 27 Apr​

Through mid to late April, there is no strong signal for any one particular weather pattern to dominate over another. As such, further rain and showers are likely at times, but there is also a reasonable chance of some drier and sunnier spells of weather. Temperatures most likely near or a little above normal.

 

[southerncomfort]

Beautiful day day here.

Shame I'm working! I'm laughing so I don't cry.

 

[4Hoofed]

Beautiful day in parts here. But still popped their Mac’s on lol dark clouds looming!!

 

[paddy555]

from the noise of the rain outside and the forecast for us Mon - Wed this is going to be an awfully long thread at this rate

tomorrow afternoons for us is shown on the met forecast as more "organised rain"