What's your turnout like?

Turnout at ours is still pretty good , we are just opening up the fence line every few weeks to let them onto fresh and have about another 2 acres to open up , our 2 live out 24/7 and will eventually have about 5 acres total to roam . plus shelter with haybars - lovely for getting the hay up off the floor this winter!
 
Have to say great, we have four 10 acre fields and only 6 horses. So in fact we have far too much grass, and it very good quality grass :( Loads of trees for shelter and to be honest as my girl is a very good doer it is a constant battle to keep the weight down. So all our horses do very well, we also have as you would expect all year turn out, so very lucky :)
 
We have 15 horses on 26 acres & ours are out 24/7 all year round. Split into Summer & Winter paddocks with 3 or 4 horses in each. Winter paddocks are on sand but still get trashed, although they soon recover when they're harrowed, rolled & rested.
We feed hay when needed over Winter. Horses all thrive & love living out.
 
Wet in places, but generally very good. The three horses are now out in the winter field which is about 10 acres, so plenty of space! Woodland and trees surround most of the field and the worst wet patch is fenced off. They are out 24/7. I do believe though, that the old TB should be leaving us soon :(:(, as he is very stiff behind and lame in trot. That would leave my two with realistically way too much grazing!
 
well winter hasnt started yet has it????? temps still above 10 on average, and rainfall well below average!!! no mud with me, still plenty of grass, 12 acres still to be grazed, everything ft and shiny!!!! and only another 7 weeks til it starts to get lighter!!!!!!!
 
we have a 1 and 1/2 acre field with 2 in
one out 24/7 and one out in the day,
we still have 1/2 full of nice nice grass :D
onliy gateway and field shelter a bit muddy
 
Sandy, we only get mud during the thaw in general.

It doesn't matter what it's like in the winter because, at some stage or other, it is going to freeze, and stay frozen (-5C forecast tonight) and then it will get snowed on and stay like this until March.

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Most of the horses live out, they have ad-lib hay, heated water tanks, and do just fine. In the middle of winter the mares favourite spot to shelter is actually standing on a pond with about 6" of ice underneath them. Their choice, it's only a melt pond anyway and only 2' or 3' at the deepest. All the horses are very canny, they know what is under their feet and aren't stupid in the snow, the foals learn pretty quickly (generally after their first Bambi impression on ice) how to tippy-toe about.
 
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Well, we have 12 acres in total with 5 horses but one field is now shut off for the winter although we would normally open it up to the full 12 acres now, with my sister's horse on restricted paddock turnout due to a suspensory injury we can't do that at the mo so they have to make do with 6 acres! It is hilly at the top though so stays fairly dry, just gets a bit poached around the gateways and the bottom of the field. They get hay morning and night along with feeds though and 2 of them are in at night. They probably get too much feed to be honest but we have a mix of ages and the oldies need feeding so the others get it too!
 
13 acres and 2 good doers so I think I will be muzzling and strip grzing right through till spring as the grass has not stopped growing. I dont feed hay in the winter unless it snows no need but I do in the summer as they are restricted to a bare patch over night.
 
with clay soil we suffer badly with wet fields slippy and muddy, I am constantly scraping off the mud from the hardcore as it comes up underneath. Need a whole overhaul of concrete me thinks lol
 
I have 2 on 3.5 acres, at the moment its not too bad, bit poached where they stand along the fence line, not much grass so feeding hay. The land is clay based so gets very boggy and thick after alot of rain, i have to move them late December till about April to rest it :)
 
I have 4 acres with 2 horses and a pony on, nice short grass & plenty of it, horses out for approx. 10 hours a day & in at night, no mud as yet!
We've got rain forcast all weekend though :(
 
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