Relentless rain - who else has had enough?

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As title really - we're on Chester/Wrexham border where it's normally wet but this is just ridiculous now. Can't see my field ever recovering at this rate!

Fed up of mud and rain - even snow would be preferable to this!
 
I too am fed up with this awful weather. My winter paddock is nothing but standing water and mud with the horses just standing around looking sorry for themselves. My lovely YO has just given me the use of approximately 2.5 acres of grazing that is squelchy but not muddy and it has some grass. Only downside is that there is absolutely no shelter whatsoever, but the horses dont seem to mind! At least it will give my paddock a bit of a rest, though how long it will take to recover is anyone's guess.
 
Oh it is depressing, we now have 3 inches of snow on top of 10mm of rain yesterday. Its muddy and wet, slippy and bloody horrid. If it was frozen more it would help but it just on the other side of frozen :(

Please no more rain
 
Sick to the teeth of it! 3 inches of snow overnight in Kent on top of the mud baths.

Really makes me feel like giving up - have them at home too so constant worry while I'm at work of them standing around in the cold and wet without much to eat.

Really glad first proper event isn't until end April as no chance of getting fit in this weather!! Don't think road cantering is advisable for getting a horse fit but only 'dryish' area :rolleyes::p
 
Yep, put me down for this one. Feel so bad for my poor horsey too, he is very miserable and bored. I have always said I hate this country and its stupid weather, but I don't think I would ever have the bottle to move abroad.

I have decided to keep telling myself that everyone is in the same boat, there is nothing that can be done about it, and no one is enjoying it. So best to just admit defeat, don't beat myself up, head down, and press on as best as I can until the weather breaks, (although that might be wishful thinking!)
 
me so fed up with rain, mud, dirty horses, slippery paddocks, wet rugs.... just winter in general, please please can we have a nice spring andsummer this year :)
 
Me too. Our field is in the worst condition ever. Deep mud in over half of it and standing water on the rest. Yesterday I slid/slopped my way across to see my pony and scared the seagulls off. Today plodded over and there were two ducks swimming in the flooded bit.
 
last week the ground almost started to show first signs of drying, now back to square one, standing water every where, and just looked at long range forecast with no sign of spring. I normally enjoy winter, crisp mornings with firm going and nice winter sunshine. This year is just c**p and our fields are the worst ever. just hope march is dry enough to get them chain harrowed.
 
Hairy Old Cob said:
Rain and Snow heretotal CR** But I have my first primrose out in the Garden even before the Snowdrops so come on PEEPS we are nearly Their I HOPE.;);)
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Thankgoodness ^^^^^^^ I am SO SICK OF IT. The rain. horses came in yesterday like they had been dipped in slurry. Mud dripping off everywhere. Just about keptm my feet in the hen pen and the horses were sliding everywhere this morning after turnout. I could weep, I really could. Never known anything like it in over 40 years of owning horses. Its terrible.
 
Me - and the horses have had enough too.

I can't believe that I'm actually counting the days until my mare goes to stud and my 4 yr old goes back to a pro for the season - it was 2 weeks on Saturday. I'll be left without any at home and the relief will be immense.... :(
 
I'm so pleased to read this thread! Gives me heart that it's not just me! Cold, wet, dark, icy winds and land and now snow again:( :( Haven't been able to do the long hacks as get so cold and wet, and horse hates wind, rain. School permanently frozen or flooded since November 2012. Gloom unlimited.
However - traipsing round the fields with the dog, there are violets, snowdrops and daffodil shoots all coming up and the violets are flowering in swathes! :)
 
Me too, I'm normally quite pragmatic about winter, but not this year. I think it's been far worse this year not because its been a particularly wet winter, which I don't think it has, it because last summer was so bad it's like we've been stuck in winter for 12 months.

I'm sick of wet muddy horses and dogs, and sick to the back teeth of losing wellies in it, ock walking in mud is not fun, ESP when you have to hose your foot off :mad:
 
It's so flippin' cold as well. Wouldn't mind if it was cold and sunny, or even cold and dry - but cold and wet is just pants. At least the nights are getting a tiny bit longer now, we are creeping a few minutes later every day.
 
Not even snowdrops have cheered me up this year... i am so depressed. It's going to take a hell of a lot more than pretty flowers I'm afraid.

Sadly... the depression that is keeping the weather system like it is now over the UK is set to stay thanks to the melting ice-caps and logging of rainforests.

It will never end.
 
Ned was shivering today, even with a heavyweight on :(
Poor boy, all the horses are sick to death of it all! Thankfully I have a good supply of rugs. Makes me want to bring him home and snuggle him up in my bed!!
 
Nah said:
Ned was shivering today, even with a heavyweight on :(
Poor boy, all the horses are sick to death of it all! Thankfully I have a good supply of rugs. Makes me want to bring him home and snuggle him up in my bed!!
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OOh phew I am not the only one.... sometimes when I watch the cat get ready to stretch out in front of the fire I imagine my filly, that sort of size, laying down to sleep too.

I'm bonkers.
 
Totally fed up, as are the horses. I managed to depress myself even further by looking through pictures from last May of the horses standing in muddy fields, rugs on and eating haylage.
 
I'm trying to tell myself spring is round the corner just to keep myself focused and not lost in this relentless mire of mud.I swear my paddocks resemble the Somme.Horses are fed up and yesterday i had to get the two WB's in as they refused to settle in the howling rain/sleet/snow which descended on us.Once in they happily munched hay in their warm and cosey stables.Today i kept them in as i am so fed up trecking up muddy walkways to muddy field tugging two very reluctant horses with me.:(
 
Me as well :(
I wonder what the water companies have done to store all this rain? If we have 3 dry weeks, gward I'm laughing as I type that, there will no doubt be whispers of hose pipe bans ;)
 
tallyho! said:
OOh phew I am not the only one.... sometimes when I watch the cat get ready to stretch out in front of the fire I imagine my filly, that sort of size, laying down to sleep too.

I'm bonkers.
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Hehe! I would love to have Neddy curled up in front of the fire. I could lay on his back and watch Big Bang Theory!
 
I love seeing my mare covered in mud :) only because we have just moved yards coming from one that didn`t allow turnout to being out 8 hours a day. The field iS very wet nearly lost my wellie this morning in the mud roll on spring :).
 
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