Sags_Deer
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It is raining yet again
fields resemble rice fields. Is its ever going to stop. Sorry im having a moan
Who else is fed up with the weather!
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Worried1
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Me - totally had enough! We are on clay and so despite being on top of the north Downs we are also one big paddy field.
I laughed when I read the post about livery yards without enough grazing! We have plenty of grazing it just happens to be two inches under water!
We also have a lovely river pouring off the road and straight across two fields at the moment which is also another attractive addition for this winter's scenary!
Bizzarely the horses seem to enjoy standing in it so can only presume they are self medicating and doing their own DIY physio!
I moaned about the cold last year but I would rather it was freezing again - I can't take anymore water!
I laughed when I read the post about livery yards without enough grazing! We have plenty of grazing it just happens to be two inches under water!
We also have a lovely river pouring off the road and straight across two fields at the moment which is also another attractive addition for this winter's scenary!
Bizzarely the horses seem to enjoy standing in it so can only presume they are self medicating and doing their own DIY physio!
I moaned about the cold last year but I would rather it was freezing again - I can't take anymore water!
TGM
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It is totally cr*p - I can't believe it is 10am because it looks like 7am outside the light levels are so low. Our field has also got a river through it where the water is flooding off the adjoining road.
I'm just fed up of wet clothes, wet hair and mud everywhere.
Rachelashleigh
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Its awful, we have a natural spring in the field its like a water fountain, the river that runs across the bottom of our field has bust its banks and has started to come into our field and to top it off the water from the road which runs down oneside drains into our field!
I have had to put the horses into the middle of the field, we have no running water (apart from whats running down the field) so im havin to take 5 drums of water up daily, there so heavy, my OH has had an op so cannot lift and last night in the pitch black i had an idea of driving the 4x4 into the field! not a good idea as we found out the 4 wheel drive does not work! we were stuck for a hour and a half! i was wet, muddy and cold. My friend came to the rescue in the end! Today im going to stuggle with the wheel barrow!
I have had to put the horses into the middle of the field, we have no running water (apart from whats running down the field) so im havin to take 5 drums of water up daily, there so heavy, my OH has had an op so cannot lift and last night in the pitch black i had an idea of driving the 4x4 into the field! not a good idea as we found out the 4 wheel drive does not work! we were stuck for a hour and a half! i was wet, muddy and cold. My friend came to the rescue in the end! Today im going to stuggle with the wheel barrow!
NeedNewHorse
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Me. I am fed up of it to be honest, it is flooding our school (which is another matter) and it's really wet and boggy, my mare has not looked remotely clean for several months now and I just want to ride without getting soaked and have the crappy wind making everywhere seem like the spookiest and scariest place in the world....
alsxx
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Me!! My winter field on the hill is under water in places (how!?). Yesterday I spent the afternoon digging channels into the ditch from the lane to try and divert the water into the ditch instead of down the drive onto the field where there was a lake forming!! I have been driving into and out of the field on a daily basis in my 4x4 however yesterday we did slip slide a bit so am going to have to not do that for a bit until it all dries up!
K27
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I am! every time I school or ride the heavens just open- I chanced it as it looked dry on Sat and didn't put a waterproof exercise sheet on one horse that was clipped last week, and poor boy, he got soaked and so did I!, and am sick of keep having to dry all my clothes and wet coats out and the horses boots etc, not to mention all the tack cleaning when your saddles keep getting soaked through! luckily all the stables are dry as is the school, but v annoying that the field is quite wet! when is it going to end?!....
The Bouncing Bog Trotter
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I'm starting to despair. We are on clay soil and the fields were already bare from the long, hot, dry summer! It's not so much of an issue with the horses that are in work. They are all in virtually 24/7 but they do get to go out for a leg stretch in the fields when we muck out their stable. We turn them out in gangs of 2 into what we've designated as a winter trash paddock.
My main concern are the babies. We have 3 turned out into a very sheltered paddock but they have been soaked continously what what seems like weeks. I want to get a rug onto one of them as she is WB/TB (the others are NF) but I need her to be dry first! If it carries on at this rate I'll be calling local farmers and asking if they have space for the trio in a bullock barn.
My main concern are the babies. We have 3 turned out into a very sheltered paddock but they have been soaked continously what what seems like weeks. I want to get a rug onto one of them as she is WB/TB (the others are NF) but I need her to be dry first! If it carries on at this rate I'll be calling local farmers and asking if they have space for the trio in a bullock barn.
Ellies_mum2
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Me!! Fed up of mud
Inches deep in all the gateways
Farmer informed me on Saturday when he brought the hay that its not as bad as it was at this time last year when he had a job getting in and out of the field in his tractor
MagicMelon
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Rain? Is that all you got. It was snowing here yesterday and this morning! Damn cold - was 1/2 a degree yesterday! SOOOOOOO cold. I am hoping it snows more though and actually settles - its always exciting somehow! Although maybe not fun when I have to drive 80 miles a day to and from work...
SVMel
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Glad I'm not the only one with a river!!!!!
Arrived this morning to find it had burst its banks, had a lake in the lower fields for a few weeks now as the ditch bottle necks under my gate and unfortunately carries all the water they let off the fishing lakes further up the hill, but its more of a lagoon now, or an estuary, perhaps..... !!!!!!!!!!!
Winter fields trashed, as had to move them onto there a few weeks ago, but hey ho, what can I do?? Keep smiling, and know that its not down to bad management lol!!!!
Like Worried1, I have masses of grass, its just all under water!!!!! I can't even get in my gate and have to get access climbing through someone elses fence and yomping across their field!!
And I can't even get my jackets etc home to dry cos I can't fit them AND my wellies into my rucksack (ride a motorbike every day to the yard in this weather too!!!!!).
Wanted... one set of waders to reach my armpits...... and water wings for 3 horses, one shetland......
Arrived this morning to find it had burst its banks, had a lake in the lower fields for a few weeks now as the ditch bottle necks under my gate and unfortunately carries all the water they let off the fishing lakes further up the hill, but its more of a lagoon now, or an estuary, perhaps..... !!!!!!!!!!!
Winter fields trashed, as had to move them onto there a few weeks ago, but hey ho, what can I do?? Keep smiling, and know that its not down to bad management lol!!!!
Like Worried1, I have masses of grass, its just all under water!!!!! I can't even get in my gate and have to get access climbing through someone elses fence and yomping across their field!!
And I can't even get my jackets etc home to dry cos I can't fit them AND my wellies into my rucksack (ride a motorbike every day to the yard in this weather too!!!!!).
Wanted... one set of waders to reach my armpits...... and water wings for 3 horses, one shetland......
Hippona
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Meh!
Tis my week to be in the bottom paddock...there is a small lake near the gate....however this isnt all bad as the horses legs are washed clear of mud on the way out
Arena is flooded...woods are muddy and wet with leaves...by the time I've scraped the crust of dried mud of my horse....I can't be bothered to ride.
Pah! and another Meh!
Tis my week to be in the bottom paddock...there is a small lake near the gate....however this isnt all bad as the horses legs are washed clear of mud on the way out
Arena is flooded...woods are muddy and wet with leaves...by the time I've scraped the crust of dried mud of my horse....I can't be bothered to ride.
Pah! and another Meh!
Chavhorse
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Well the school has a pond in the middle of it and the horses for some reason best known to themselves spend hours standing in it noses down like wading birds. When they are let out in the morning the first yahoo looks like a scene of horses from the Carmargue! on the plus side we no longer believe any of them when they do the ooh ooh I am scared of water guff!
Riding in the school is like going for a paddle....it has actually not rained at all today but his morning we had a frost.....joy!
Riding in the school is like going for a paddle....it has actually not rained at all today but his morning we had a frost.....joy!