What are your mud solutions?

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Achinghips

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I have two feathered traditionals with two foot manes

Mine are:

1. Stable overnight on wood pellets to dry off feathers and save field

2. Pig oil legs and plait up manes

3. Use turnout rugs or rain sheets and keep clipped as boys are hot as hell

4. Rubber matting down on tie up areas as I haven't got enough plainings down

5. When one is being worked bring the other in to stop the sep anx and consequent ripping up of field

24 keep in is not an option ..... They'd go demented, but if fields get too bad will turn out in arena with haynets

What else? :)
 
I was given some awesome stuff on a roll which more than doubles my mud free tie up area to a 'huge' seven feet wide strip - no idea what the stuff is called but its a godsend!
 
Tip toe across to gate while telling myself off for being to lazy to change out of my work shoes.... open gate and retreat back to concrete, by the time I've made it back ponies have overtaken me and wait to be let into their stable. Other than that I don't do much, their legs dry over night and most of the mud falls off.... then put them back out in the morning to reapply the mud.... spray work shoes with hose and buff desperately with baby wipes in car, and remember pull trousers out of sock before walking through the door at work :)
 
I'm a fan of crying and gazing longingly at the calendar while desperately trying to return my horse to his natural white color instead of the dirty bay he's become after rolling in the massive mud puddle by the gate.
 
Tell myself that I will have bigger issues to deal with in summer when I am knee high in grass with a previous laminitic!!! My lad comes in at night all year round and in winter it allows his feet and legs to dry off. I never hose him to clean him...don't see the point...leave au naturel!
 
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