winter whinge time

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After reading poor TishTashTosh's post, lets have your winter woes!
I'll start - a sniffle that has been going on since before Christmas and refuses to go; latest phase is giving me deaf ears.
A permanently red nose.
Chilblains on my thighs - normally have these by about December but have been riding in jeans so the cold has only just penetrated...
Hands are bearable as I have discovered MacWet gloves - they dry in about two seconds flat and are quite warm even tho thin enough to ride in!
 
just started snowing AGAIN here..........

Oh and I live in sealskinz socks and gloves, this is the first winter I dont have sore hands!
 
hands arent to bad this year, i have got chillblains on my toes though from the last snow bout. Horse however has lost his shoes in the sticky mud twice and its so bad Ill litterally getting stuck when dragging the wheelbarrow to the heap. Roll on dry weather
 
snowing.. again!
My hands are sooo soree
The fields are turning into bogs!
I can't ride off road because of the mud (well i could but cba to clean the horse and tack after the mud bath
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Bring on spring
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My horse galloped past me in the field this morning whilst I was fixing some fencing, covered from from head to toe in wet sloppy mud and I had to rinse my hair off under the hosepipe. That put me in a great mood for the rest of the day
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Completely white outside again
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I HATE HATE HATE my mare's leg straps when i change her rug of a night, not only are they caked in crap but also thick mud, there the same everyday no matter if i have dried them out that night
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***makes mental note to NOT EVER by a rug with silly leg straps again***
 
Snowing again!
Other grass livery keeps feeding her horses right at her field gate, its turned into a night mare to push our big barrow through the mud when its full of muck. Have to go through that one to get to ours. Her horses dont get much, if any haylage in the field so they mug us when we take ours through.
 
My gateway is by a ditch which has now overflowed and the water is not far off going over my wellies......

My winter field resembles a lake.

I dont have chilblains this year thanks to my mountain horse polar breeches, however, my short boots have started leaking!!

Roll on Spring............
 
Mud mud and more mud. Field entrance is a boggy mess about a foot deep. One horse with foot abcess, one horse with white line desease (both now in 24/7)
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Can't get haylage into ring feeder anymore as tractor gets stuck in the field gateway. Having to barrow + hand take it into piles in the field - it takes 2 to get the barrow through on a daily basis.

On the plus side - fingers crossed we have managed to avoid mud fever this year!! Hose legs every night - no scrubbing and just cold water and allow to dry naturally seems to be working
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i have to maon its snowing again! on saturday night i got home at 2am and by 7am of getting up there was 5inch of snow!

chapped hands are the biggest moan!

but one good thing(sorta), i invested in some full chaps from your horse live and i swear i've worn them every single day since i bought them and not sure if i should admit this butttt.....

they had there first wash yesterday!!!
 
Snowing again.
Rambo over trousers are nearly standing up on their own with the mud.
Getting through the fields gateways are like going mud wrestling, with the wheelbarrow.
Hands are all chapped and rough, like a navvies
Getting dressed in the morning takes forever with all the layers.
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iv had it with the mud now! its our first winter on our own land & its awful in the front (winter) fields. Its knee deep at the gateway now & even the horses have started refusing to go out! trying to drag foals into the mud & then having them launch in to the air to jump over it (baring in mind its spreads easily 5m into the field) & then landin in it & covering you in mud! I even managed to get the 4wheel drive quad stuck in it over the weekend! One the plus we still have grass so dont have to hay the fields!
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Oh & they all seem to have the delightful mud fever (no where to wash off) & one always seems to be injured.
I want summer!! (stamps foot very hard!)
 
Good God - having seen your photos, I certainly have nothing to complain about! Mind you, my first field resembles yours without the pond!
 
Good god, what's with the mud pit? ponies seem to be having fun. Cleaning them won't be though, i pity you!

My moan is that we have just has more snow, again! We only had the last lot on sunday and it's only just cleared. Arena is always frozen, i've hardly rode at all since start of december, can probably count on my hands.

Don't care about mud, would welcome it! Just go away snow!!
And i've had my first ever chillblains on my feet, they're sooo horrible!!
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The mud pit ... Is a water drain from the sand school, normally about half full that we can ride through to practise jumping in & out of water... it has never been this full before
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I have given up cleaning horses, they can stay that dirty brown colour - I will start cleaning again when the mud goes away ...
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The fields have mud puddles so deep that it comes up over my wellies
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We had a dry spell last week and they started to dry up nicely but now it's back to liquid mud boooooooo
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I have 8" of snow, the ground is frozen solid and it is snowing again.

Do I care?

NO
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I don't have to pick up muck because
a) I can't see it and,
b) because it is welded to the ground.

I don't have any mud, anywhere, at all, and it rarely rains.

I LOVE WINTER!
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On the other hand I flaming HATE high summer
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Sick of the cold temps and snow...wish it would rain instead to fill up my water butts as I have run out of water and have to keep lugging it round from home.
Feet with arthritis are killing me constantly...always cold...back is bad due to cold and lugging water around.
Horse is constantly grumpy because I cannot feed ad lib hay anymore due to trying to keep his weight down and laminitis problems...so he runs out and cannot even pick at the few blades of grass as it is covered in snow.
But I do have loads of hay at the ready from a farmer...spring will appear anytime soon and we have loads of logs left to keep the log burners going at home! Roll on spring!
 
Fed up of caked muddy rugs and leg straps,pushing my wheelbarrow through the field thats a pit and getting it stuck or it falls over on the way to the muck heap,picking out and hosing off legs that are hock and knee high with slimey mud,my xmas pressie dublin rivers have nearly already given up due to me trekking through the snow and mud thats knee deep every morning all winter,havn't bothered cleaning them once so they are cracking. I'm coping ok but am just fed up of the endless mud and going through 2 large bales of hay a day,just be nice for the sun to come out occasionally too. Got my sealskinz gloves which are fab and my warm hat,dubarry welly warmers and thermals so am ok for now!!
 
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Field gate is three quarters way up my welly in mud. I have to go into the field to get her due to the electric fence she won't go near, leadrope in one hand with spooky horse on the end, electric fence catch in the other, while loosing wellies on the way out and it's pissing down.
Hose pipe won't reach as everyone's parked their cars in the way and I can't hold her and hose her anyway, as she'll swing her bum out and dent all the 4 x 4's.
Caking self in mud taking rug off and having to lug buckets of water everywhere, wading through mud with hay with broken wheelbarrow on the way up - and my fields the furthest away than anyone else's on the yard.
She's in season and is misbehaving during rug changing and kicking out. New underrug is slipping below her withers and I paid 60 quid for it.
Throw in some seedy toe and the need to disinfect that with no warm water available - and the bulbs gone in my stable.

Beat that!
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