So sick of muddy fields!!

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All the horses have mudfever, the field is like a swamp and I seem to be spending hours a day just dealing with scabs, avoiding cow kicks and now one of my boys has thrush too!

Here they are today in their 'field' , the state of them! cant wait for a few weeks time when they go in the back field!

Also looking after a friends mare who has mudfever so its been one enjoyable day today LOL!

Rant over, Roll on Spring! :
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tell me about it - my field is worse than yours. Dont think there is one patch of green on it after all this rain, and the horses have only been out 2 days in the last 3 weeks!! you work that out??

Roll on spring for definate
 
ouch!

Well over half the horses at our yard are out 24/7 which isnt helping the field much, the corner in the pic is at least drying out, the gateways are just bogs!
 
Our fields are under water too but I think that I am one of the luckier ones. My girl did have mud fever earlier in the year but [touch wood] its cleared up now and we do still have grass, well its more like water spinach its under so much water but its still green. There are small drier patches in around her shelter its just a foot deep mud bath.

Bring on summer I am sick and tired of getting wet and blown to bits down the yard
 
ive had to section the first part of my field off as it is so wet it might as well be a little river (okay slight over exaggeration there) The rest of the field is slightly harder but still very wet. The joys of owning wellies!!
 
Ah yes so thankful for wellies! However I think my lovely purple Hunters may have sprung a leak as I seem to be coming home with damp socks!

Back to my Suffolks I think, they are great except the mud almost sucks them off!
 
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I actually HAVE a river running through mine - it isn't supposed to be there tho!

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Oh gosh, please no more rain, all the horses will be floating away.
 
Our fields are all on hills, and we are on heavy clay
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It's no fun when the horse you want to catch just stands at the top of the hill looking at you as you slither up the hill on all-fours, and then decides to bolt off somewhere else when you reach the top! Then freestyle mud skiing with a bolshy neddy on the way back down the hill is no joke
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100% agreee, have had to make the decision of keeping my boy in for a bit now (much to his disgust). He's never been prone to mud fever before, but what with the amount of rain and muggy temperatures, its perfect conditions for the growing bacteria. Eeeuuurrrggghhhhh.
 
oh no theres nothing worse than a leak. Got to admit my OH - now ex! got me a pair of Toggi wanderer esprit wellies.

pretty much live in them all winter and theyre still going strong after about 4 years
 
Ours are all in 24/7 as well so the fields *look* great but are actually just green bogs.

We have a T/O paddock but it is just a sea of mud with a massive pond where the gate is and it is so vile that last time I turned my poor pony out she just stood by the gate (knee deap in water) and neighed until I bought her in again.

Please Please Please let Spring be around the corner now.
 
The other day went out in ours to look for a overeach boot that my cob had lost and got stuck which was degrading while a group of golfers(field borders a golf course) yelled"OK love hang on in there!!!"....Yeah right,now tempted to let my cob loose on the golf course...soon wipe their smug grins off their faces!
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We are still wothout turnout, and its driving me nuts my boy is going loopy and is at the point where we cannot ride for own safety lunging is dangerous as well needs to go out, im just praying for good weather
 
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You're lucky!!!! That field looks dry compared to our winter fields!! Think knee deep mud and water... everywhere!! Oh and i'm not exaggerating - its as deep as about an inch down from the top of my muck boots
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Only one of ours has mud fever but the rest we never really touch their legs only to brush off mud when it is dry on the ones that come in.
 
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