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Post by Dragonmaster on Dec 20, 2012 13:39:21 GMT 1
I'm officially fed up with all this rain now. Never in 10 years have my fields, which are on 2 sides of a valley, been this wet. Yes it gets very muddy in the bottom usually, but now there is standing water on the high ground. The so-called shelter is only really big enough for 3 horses & I have 4, so one is always left outside and it is usually the TB who could most do with being in there. They are all too wet to rug, not that I'm sure rugs would help, they would just get soaked though. I have to keep them off the one field or there will be no spring grass. The one they are on will need re seeding I think. And to cap it all I have to go out and do my work, which is going to customers houses collecting payments, this afternoon in all this wet too. The car gets steamed up and because I only drive a couple of 100 yards to 1/4 mile between calls the windows don't clear.
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Post by jill on Dec 20, 2012 13:52:19 GMT 1
And breathe..............................not a thing you cna do about it unless you have a hotline to the weather fairy. I'm just really glad I don't have lots of horses around this year, I have water lying where I have never seen it before, horses have rugs which are only wet on the outside but that makes them heavy, and I have had them stabled last night because although they have shelter they squabble over it and are reluctant to use it. I was really hoping not to stable until after Christmas so I could get away in good time on Christmas Day. All you can do is find your own best way of dealing with it really. Anyone got fields that are actually flooded and can't be used? Or even worse, flooded house?
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Post by megansmum on Dec 20, 2012 13:57:22 GMT 1
snap' am fed up now' water water every where' thankfully it is not too cold' the horses are bored and wet all the time' no stables' i dont rug them and they are not cold just fed up with being wet I should think' am still in the summer fields as I let the cows graze the winter field down too much and the summer fields got too long' still shortest day tomorrow so onwards and upwards eh' happy xmas every one' x x
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Post by kafee on Dec 20, 2012 14:35:15 GMT 1
There was 2" of water in the empty feed bowls this morning! and the foals looked like drowned rats even though they have a shelter each with a deep straw bed
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Post by lisap on Dec 20, 2012 14:53:39 GMT 1
Our fields look like they do at the end of March, and it isn't even the end of 2012 yet. If it doesn't let up soon we are going to have to open up some of our spring fields and let them get trashed as well...
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Post by mollichop on Dec 20, 2012 15:03:03 GMT 1
my fields are really really wet and muddy like everyone elses but are okay'ish. we got problems with the rain coming into the cellar now :0( its working its was y througha tiny tiny hole in the wall (which is 300 years old)!!! it does drain away but for a while it covers the floor so far up to about 3 inches...... and outside the front door we are growing a moat!! i'm sure one day the water is going to breach the path..... We only moved in, in August after spending 9 months doing it up, the cellar is supposed to be our 'store' room as we vaulted the ceilings and have no loft space......... ah the challenges.......... Merry Christmas Everyone
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Post by mandal on Dec 20, 2012 15:08:24 GMT 1
I'm used to it, it has hardly stopped raining since I moved here. It does get me down sometimes but hey, what can I do but get on with it. I can't move to sunny climes sadly.
Hope everyone is ok in the floods. The land here copes with weeks/months of torrential rain pretty well and flooding of homes and roads isn't such a problem except in more built up areas. I guess this is the future so we'd better get used to it.
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Post by holi on Dec 20, 2012 16:19:24 GMT 1
Away from mud and horses I feel for older people in this sort of weather. My mum is 85 and is going stir crazy sitting in the house - she's registered blind so can't even read. No wonder we all 'go south' when we retire - bring on the sun!! (Oh and my chickens definitely are free range swimming!)
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Post by highlanderpony2002 on Dec 20, 2012 16:27:19 GMT 1
I dont mind it to be honest but I am lucky really we dont get much rain usually so this is a bit novel. I would be rather wet and windy than snow and ice so the longer it stays mild the better as far as I am concerned. I do feel for the ponies though as they are out unrugged with only patchy shelter and are pretty wet at the minute but when it stops tomorrow they will be dry even underfoot so will be fine. We dont get too much mud either as the soil is sandy. lying water yes but the mud is only about an inch deep at its worst
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Post by KimT on Dec 20, 2012 16:36:54 GMT 1
Am fed up too. Horses are in during the day again. Lady doesnt care as long as she has food. Ellie is not happy and letting everyone know about it. She is happy stabled overnight but doesnt cope well being stabled during the day.
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Post by clara81 on Dec 20, 2012 16:40:57 GMT 1
Mine have got to stay in today which I'm not happy about! It's bad enough bringing them in at night without them being in all day too, especially the old lady. Need a lottery win hmph.
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Post by BJMM on Dec 20, 2012 16:41:20 GMT 1
Our fields are like swamps, which is not great as the horses are out 24/7. They can get out of the really bad mud, up onto the hill, which also has natural shelter, but they seem to choose to stand in the slop.Mine have been having hay since the end of September. Last year they had no extra food until it snowed. The girls are warm and dry in their MW rugs and seem quite cheerful.Marygold and Jas had a mad five minutes this afternoon. Blaze was too busy following me around and politely asking for a bottom scratch to join in ;D I was worrying about their feet, especially Marygold's as she has just had her fronts off, but my farrier did them last Saturday (bless him! It was wet and their legs and feet were as clean as I could get them, but still pretty mucky and he is SO cheerful and uncomplaining ) and he said that their feet are in good nick. The constant peeing rain does grind you down though.
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Post by kirsten on Dec 20, 2012 16:43:29 GMT 1
Highlanderpony - where are you???!!
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Post by bertie666 on Dec 20, 2012 16:51:01 GMT 1
Argh my field has flooded again (remember the pics from last time?!) and the only shelter from the wind is to stand in the lake which Whinney decided to do, and not move so she's got cold cos she hasnt been blinkin eating. Had to put a rug on her with her going round in circles cos of the wind and straps flying everywhere grr. Armana is in the field shelter looking as snug as a bug and very smug munching on hay
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Post by donnalex on Dec 20, 2012 17:03:12 GMT 1
Its just windy here but the fields are wet, it must have rained in the night.
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