Wagtail
Horse servant
How is it affecting turnout?
This weather!
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ihatework
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Luckily our fields aren't under standing water, although they are very wet!
Horse is still going out thankfully, can't be doing with leaving them in personally.
Horse is still going out thankfully, can't be doing with leaving them in personally.
claireandnadia
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My field has very good drainage so normal turnout for us.
BBP
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Ours are out from 7 til 5 if we are at work, but 2 if around. Standing water everywhere, ridges to stand on but furrows are under a foot of water. No idea how field will cope until end of winter. It looks like mine has chosen the best week to go on box rest!
be positive
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I still have 4, soon to be 5, living out, the ones that are in are getting restricted time out according to their work, if worked they may then stay in for the rest of the day, they all seem fine as long as they get some turnout, happy to come back in and munch haylage.
The gateways are as muddy as I have ever know them, the hard areas are fine but the mud just extends further into the fields so you can't really win
The gateways are as muddy as I have ever know them, the hard areas are fine but the mud just extends further into the fields so you can't really win
FfionWinnie
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Mine are out 24/7 and the paddock is trashed already. Not sure whether to move onto spring paddock and trash it or if it would be no better after a few week and then I'd have two trashed paddocks.
glamourpuss
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The best draining field which is standing up to weather really well has the 2 grass liveries living out 24/7. I've given her access to my stables in the day so she can bring them in to dry off if she wants.
Mine have been coming in at night since Thursday. Fields are really, really wet. No standing water but looking very poached.
I'm bringing mine in at lunchtime today. Which isn't like me but they're fed up with it TBH
Mine have been coming in at night since Thursday. Fields are really, really wet. No standing water but looking very poached.
I'm bringing mine in at lunchtime today. Which isn't like me but they're fed up with it TBH
Brightbay
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Ours live out all winter. If for some reason the field became really bad, we could ask to move to another field (we did this last Christmas, in fact, for about 4 weeks).
However the field we're in, we chose as it is the best drained in the area. It does flood near the bottom in really bad weather (i.e. the last two weeks
), but even then, you can walk across the top of the hill and barely get your feet wet.
Hoping for a good hard freeze this week to dry it out
However the field we're in, we chose as it is the best drained in the area. It does flood near the bottom in really bad weather (i.e. the last two weeks
), but even then, you can walk across the top of the hill and barely get your feet wet.Hoping for a good hard freeze this week to dry it out
Wagtail
Horse servant
I still have 4, soon to be 5, living out, the ones that are in are getting restricted time out according to their work, if worked they may then stay in for the rest of the day, they all seem fine as long as they get some turnout, happy to come back in and munch haylage.
The gateways are as muddy as I have ever know them, the hard areas are fine but the mud just extends further into the fields so you can't really win
It's annoying, isn't it? Even when you take the time and expense to hardcore the entrence areas, they drag the mud onto it and the bog gradually extends down the field. I have never known the fields to be so muddy as this summer. I took them all off at the end of Oct and they are now in the all weather. But even that is waterlogged this year.
Fransurrey
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Mine live out, but I am keeping them in what I call the 'bonfire period' field for as long as possible, to save the gateways in their long term fields. That's why I now own one rug each for the little critters. I'm more concerned about the freezing winds and driving rain than I am about the mud, as I always have too much, rather than not enough grass! Even so, they've only worn the rugs for a grand total of about 4 days since they moved at the beginning of November.
The field is squelchy, but not flooded. There are advantages of being on top of a hill!
The field is squelchy, but not flooded. There are advantages of being on top of a hill!
Shantara
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Ned's actually got better turnout!
He was in a pen (not stable, not field) for a while, as the 'big field' was being trashed with so many horses in it.
The 'big field' has just become bigger (YO obtained the cow field next door, as there aren't cows there any more) so more horses can be put out in the bigger field
by the gate is absolutely horrible, but the rest of the field is fine
He loves it! http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j308/gothic180/Stuff/NedGallop013.jpg
He was in a pen (not stable, not field) for a while, as the 'big field' was being trashed with so many horses in it.
The 'big field' has just become bigger (YO obtained the cow field next door, as there aren't cows there any more) so more horses can be put out in the bigger field
by the gate is absolutely horrible, but the rest of the field is fine He loves it! http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j308/gothic180/Stuff/NedGallop013.jpg
Grinchmass
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Normal turnout.
I'm lucky, field is huge (in excess of 10 acres) so it hasn't been churned up, also have free àccess to a large barn for shelter
Hapy pony, happy me.
He hates being in too long and breaks out anyway. He can get kick bolts off, and undoo latches.
He also got a gate open the other day. Don't ask me how, but I was not happy. Has been well and truly tied shut now!!!
I'm lucky, field is huge (in excess of 10 acres) so it hasn't been churned up, also have free àccess to a large barn for shelter
Hapy pony, happy me.
He hates being in too long and breaks out anyway. He can get kick bolts off, and undoo latches.
He also got a gate open the other day. Don't ask me how, but I was not happy. Has been well and truly tied shut now!!!
Archangel
Normal, 10 cats ago
I am on sand so no mud apart from a bit round the shelter. A couple of miles down the road on the clay they are up to their ears in the mud. I still have one rested field with some reasonable grass but saving that for December.
Wagtail
Horse servant
Wish we were on sand. Sounds great. Clay is a nightmare.
Honey08
Waffled a lot!
I could do with a sand field too!
We're not doing too bad. Our horses are out all day on a hardcore turnout area round the yard. They were all last winter, and it works quite well. They go out in the real field once or twice a week and are out now. We live in a bog all year round, but although its always wet (90% of the year anyway, the other 10% its hard clay!) it doesn't ever flood (famous last words!).
We're not doing too bad. Our horses are out all day on a hardcore turnout area round the yard. They were all last winter, and it works quite well. They go out in the real field once or twice a week and are out now. We live in a bog all year round, but although its always wet (90% of the year anyway, the other 10% its hard clay!) it doesn't ever flood (famous last words!).
wiglet
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We're on sandy soil No restrictions on turnout although everyone (through choice) brings in at night. We've had lots of rain and various fields around us are flooded where the river burst its banks but, our fields are all dry and no mud not even at the gateways.
No restrictions on turnout although everyone (through choice) brings in at night. We've had lots of rain and various fields around us are flooded where the river burst its banks but, our fields are all dry and no mud not even at the gateways.Irishbabygirl
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My two were on clay last year - never again!
I moved them in August. I now have approx 8 acres to myself so although the field is squelchy in places, there is no mud so they are still going out all day whatever the weather. I'm bringing in at night through choice, farmer doesn't mind what I do with them
I moved them in August. I now have approx 8 acres to myself so although the field is squelchy in places, there is no mud so they are still going out all day whatever the weather. I'm bringing in at night through choice, farmer doesn't mind what I do with them
Alphamare
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Got completely saturated fields now! Getting sick of it. Brought mine in over night during the worst of the rain. They are now rugged up and out again. Any small break in the weather and the fields go from standing water to squelchy. I being them in so their feet get a break.