Who's still got mud/poached land?

[Patches]

Can't believe how dry mine are.

Here's the gateway that did get a little muddy a few months back.

You can see how dry the ground is by how clean Patches white over reach boots have kept. The dirt on the back of them is from hacking through a puddle, not from the field.

I love this time of year! Mind you, April showers are just around the corner!

 

[Bex7]

not me, ground is the same as your by the looks of it..... Bert is merrily hunting for a damp place to roll!

 

[CastleMouse]

The fields used to be a muddy mess here, but now they're lovely and dry, thank god!

 

[Blackhawk]

I do, though I don't have anything grazing on it. About 1 acre is still waterlogged

We've been having really dry weather here too.

 

[Weezy]

Cannot believe how fast our ground has dried up - we are going to have to harrow our canter fields

 

[Irishcobs]

Nope mine is like yours. Isn't lovely having clean ponios for a change.

 

[Patches]

Funnily enough Weezy, I only said to D the other day that if we don't have a spot of rain soon it will actually be TOO HARD in the field for schooling! Can you believe that?

Of course, I've done it now. Pretty sure I'll have a monsoon after publicly commenting on how nice and dry the fields are.

 

[Weezy]

I am cursing the people who have been riding on the headlands of the fields we keep for summer riding - they are all rutted now and full of holes and I am MAD MAD MAD

Why does one person spoil it for everyone else? Yes I know it means we haven't got tons of tracks when it is wet, but hell, it is better to preserve them for the spring/summer/autumn months when we do most of our riding anyway!

Sorry, rant over!

 

[Patches]

This is why I don't ride in my own 230 acres of land Louise!

Cows grazing leave deep ruts over the back end of the year. We do roll the land, but it's not the same as un-grazed land at all. Furthermore, grass is allowed to grow taller which means any little hole/divet is hidden from view in the grass.

Much as I'd love to ride in my own fields, I just daren't risk her legs. People think I'm mad as I could get lost for hours hacking around the headlands of our fields.

 

[Chex]

The field are looking a bit muddy:
(ignore the rolling horse, I don't have any photo's without him!)

They've been like this all winter and haven't dried up yet. But only a tiny bit of the field is muddy, rest is fine. Unfortunatley Chex loves that muddy bit

 

[I_A_P]

my field is drying but s sio rutted and still quite wet.
where i can sometimes school is now perfect ground and will porbably be the 1 out of 3 times i can ride on it all year...and i cant ride!
hopeing to get the fields rolled and one part fertilised!

 

[fizz-tally]

just moved into the 1st of our summer fields & it is bliss

 

[ColleenIsh]

god they are dry ... Ours is still quite muddy

 

[Gucci_b]

my land is all on clay and very very flat not a hill in sight, great in the summer as all year round grass, but winter time YERK.... still have a few puddles but slowly drying out...weather.....