Seriously, where is the grass?

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Does anybody else have zero grass?

My poor Haffy is on ad lib hay, graze on and a conditioning feed to keep him looking the better side of thin! At this time of year I should be muzzling and working him into the ground!

Our entire yard are still feeding the same quantity of hay as we did over winter (me more so as my pony had a lot of weight to lose over winter)

I know some will say that there is grass coming through, they are just eating it before we see it but I don't agree. We are in the process of redoing our garden. We mowed the lawns on the 25th May in preparation, and they still look freshly cut!

Is the grass just late this year or is it gone forever...
 
We've got plenty! It's definitely coming through, as the fields we have nothing grazing in atm, well, you'd lose a pony in them the grass is that long, lol.
 
Where are you? We have had a cold dry spring after a warm wet winter, even this far south. i.e Loire.

Our grass has not thickened up as it usually does tufts of long grass with bare patches. Normally we cut hay at the end of May, this year we have just cut and baled, after two lots of warm weather and some rain, the yield is good so is quality.

We are forecast temps next weekend in upper 30's, so provided you have enough moisture in your soil the grass should recover if you are in the south of the UK.
 
Ours is coming through, our YO has cut his first bit of hay too. It's been slow in coming though, this time last year they already had hay baled ready to go.
 
Where are you?! My Livery yard has advertised for Grass liveries as there is more grass than we can cope with! I've got my horse grazing her winter field down while her Summer field has a rest then back down she goes. I think this time last year I was haying her at night :-S
 
Far too much! We've had the best summer for about 3 years here, and when it rains the temperatures have remained high. We're having to mow lawns every 5 days :mad: Luckily our grazing, although plentiful isn't very rich.
 
Bring your boy down to NW Surrey - I have grass coming out of my Fuzzies ears! :o
2 of my paddocks which have been only rested up for 5 weeks (which were down to next to nothing) both are sporting a lush 3 inches from fence to fence! These were in constant use since last October...
Tiny Fuzzy is firmly muzzled almost 24/7, FLF is spending half or every 24 hours in the dieting paddock.....

I've offered short term grass livery to anyone who wants to give their paddocks a rest for 2 or 3 weeks.....
 
Another one with so much grass that I'm reluctant to have my boy out all night and day in case of colic . . . not that that helps you in any way :(.

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I am very jealous! It rained a lot the last few days so hopefully the warmer weather coming in over the weekend will boost the growth. Even the walk ways have very minimal grass. We do however have a jungle of nettles!
 
HaffiesRock said:
I am in Nottingham. Please send your grass my way!
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Not far from you ( Leics/Notts border) and seriously struggling now. I share and horses owner is still feeding hay. I'm even looking for a scythe now so I can cut some grass and take it to them. Also too many horses on too small paddocks so its not even getting a chance to grow.
 
if you wish to see if there is grass growth, fence off a very small section so they can not graze and then see if it grows. we have growth but slower than expected but it has been a cold start the year also we have not been fertilized for 3 years.

ps we are nottinghamshire as well
 
HaffiesRock said:
Does anybody else have zero grass?

My poor Haffy is on ad lib hay, graze on and a conditioning feed to keep him looking the better side of thin! At this time of year I should be muzzling and working him into the ground!

Our entire yard are still feeding the same quantity of hay as we did over winter (me more so as my pony had a lot of weight to lose over winter)

I know some will say that there is grass coming through, they are just eating it before we see it but I don't agree. We are in the process of redoing our garden. We mowed the lawns on the 25th May in preparation, and they still look freshly cut!

Is the grass just late this year or is it gone forever...
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here here!!


Exactly the same in shropshire (well my field is)
Grass is taking an age to come through, even the rested bits are slow and hardly lush. Have a mass of buttercups. The red clover is just starting to come through but the taller grasses such as timothy are nowhere to be seen:(
The boy has moved to the top end where the horses havent been on for the past 3 months. Normally its muzzles and work for the cob but shes looking slim (good though as shes normally a fatty)
Hoping for an extra long summer since we had an extra long winter :rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
Mine is wading through knee high grass in Essex. My garden grass is growing so quick it's being cut twice a week.
 
Gosh we have masses - our garden also being cut twice a week to keep that under control, and the ungrazed areas at yard, eg tracks, are thigh deep. We are south bucks and the land was badly overgrazed and unfertilized til the start of this year!
 
We have 7 good doers all surviving beautifully on 3 acres with the 3 ponies muzzled part of the day! We can see it growing every day and it must be because we have a well fed shire in there who isn't starving. Our resting paddock has already been topped once as it got to knee length and is already ankle length again.
 
HaffiesRock said:
I am in Nottingham. Please send your grass my way!
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Crumbs! We're near Derby so not that far away and up to our !!!!! In the stuff. YO fertilised earlier in the year which may be helping. I'm having to severely restrict my highland and definitely not giving hay in the field.
 
I have zilch too!! Although mine is a definite case of being over grazed, just don't have enough land!! 2x feeds a day with sugar beet and ad lib hay.....

And they're shetlands!! :eek::eek:

In a couple of years I bet I'll be wishing they were thinner though! :rolleyes:
 
Waist high in Aberdeenshire!!!but then we always have nothing and then Wham up to your chest in minutes it seems! Farmer next door baled his silage yesterday.

Not helping lami prone Haffie here. In fact the new double deluxe field shelter I had put up for the two of them £5k plus of lux living is currently unused as I darent even let them strip graze that field, will have to put the sheep in there first!!

Sorry...:-O you can bring skinny Haffie up here if you like, to chomp!
 
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