MiJodsR2BlinkinTite
Well-Known Member
My place is like an underwater goldfish tank 
Turned my two luvvies out last Wednesday afternoon, simply because they were up on the "holding pen" (the ONLY dry bit I have, its concrete about 10m X 10m and coming in VERY handy this year!) - went out for the evening, and as soon as I hit our valley it was like driving into a carwash and water was teeming down into the field area from the road, which it does do, but fortunately runs off again without flooding anything vital. I knew before I arrived home that I was going to have to do a "rescue" as soon as I got home.......
So (dressed in posh gear) I quickly donned waterproof trousers, coat & hat, and stood at the gate with a bucket and rattled. This is a ten acre field, and I was facing into the gale. I waited expectantly........... and shone my torch down into the blackness; and god bless 'em - saw two shapes appearing out of the storm. Thank goodness for cobs! One a particularly greedy cob who'd hear me rattling his supper-bowl if I ever emigrate to live on the moon!
10 mins later two horses gobbing down feed & standing in nice clean bedding, warm and cosy.
I've kept them on the hard-standing ever since. They were ridden out at the weekend; slightly fizzy but otherwise OK, but that is where they'll have to stay for a wee while yet methinks.
Bring on a nice breeze and some sunshine to dry the fields off!!
Turned my two luvvies out last Wednesday afternoon, simply because they were up on the "holding pen" (the ONLY dry bit I have, its concrete about 10m X 10m and coming in VERY handy this year!) - went out for the evening, and as soon as I hit our valley it was like driving into a carwash and water was teeming down into the field area from the road, which it does do, but fortunately runs off again without flooding anything vital. I knew before I arrived home that I was going to have to do a "rescue" as soon as I got home.......So (dressed in posh gear) I quickly donned waterproof trousers, coat & hat, and stood at the gate with a bucket and rattled. This is a ten acre field, and I was facing into the gale. I waited expectantly........... and shone my torch down into the blackness; and god bless 'em - saw two shapes appearing out of the storm. Thank goodness for cobs! One a particularly greedy cob who'd hear me rattling his supper-bowl if I ever emigrate to live on the moon!
10 mins later two horses gobbing down feed & standing in nice clean bedding, warm and cosy.
I've kept them on the hard-standing ever since. They were ridden out at the weekend; slightly fizzy but otherwise OK, but that is where they'll have to stay for a wee while yet methinks.
Bring on a nice breeze and some sunshine to dry the fields off!!
