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Post by diggydoggy on Dec 20, 2012 17:11:00 GMT 1
The fields are like paddy fields. ( in my garden, the watercress I sowed to try to stop it raining is doing really well!) My chestnut Shetland is so wet he looks black. My old wellies sprang a leak and I'm having to wear my new best ones with galloping horses printed on. They were for looking at, not wearing. Our local Countrywide ag. store is cut off by floodwater, which has petrol/.oil floating on top, so don't want to wade through with the dog... when will it stop raining??!!!
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Post by shan on Dec 20, 2012 22:33:45 GMT 1
I'm totally fed up with it now. Our very slopey field is just a waterlogged bog - it doesn't even look green any more though the neds are still managing to find something to eat in the day. They walk to the gateway then stop as if to say "I'm not walking through that deep mud", but there's no other way into the field so they have to get coaxed through - we have to whizz them in and out cos if we stop we stick, horses too. The dual carriageway from work to home and home to field has been closed due to flooding twice, luckily I can get round the back way over the hill, so at least I don't have to swim or punt 6 miles to the neds!
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Post by cheekychops on Dec 20, 2012 22:49:09 GMT 1
Urrgg it's grim. I wouldn't be surprised if our horses evolve gills.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2012 12:22:53 GMT 1
lol @ diggydog's wellies for looking at not wearing I decided to man up and hack out yesterday, got myself kitted out in waterproof coat and trousers, Talin in his zilco bridle and waterproof exercise sheet. All was fine, Talin doing his usual array of shoulder in, counter bend and hyperflexion to keep his nose out of the rain, then my "waterproof" trousers had an epic fail!! Eugh, I was literally soaked, so those will be getting replaced in the sales!!
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Post by bertie666 on Dec 21, 2012 14:02:21 GMT 1
De ja vu anyone Yesterday Whin decided the only place to get a break from the wind direction was to stand in a lake up to her knees - meaning she wasnt eating the hay in the dry bit of field so she got cold and shivery. So I broke out the new rug Horseware just replaced her old one with, it had the neck attached and in a maelstrom I couldnt be bothered getting it off so left it on - get there to her laid in the mud this morning She then rollled, both sides for good measure, then trotted after me putting her backeside then her chest in my face saying 'get it off get it off I'm roasting now!'
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Post by poppyandbea on Dec 21, 2012 15:19:12 GMT 1
my 2 are now stuck in 24/7 as fields so muddy and there knee deep in mud , thankfull poppy loves being in and the attention and beas coping well and really suprising me took her out the stable for a hack this am walked round the block in record time ears pricked but never put a foot wrong and felt totally safe, and is worked am and walked pm and taken for a grass munch, and at 12 today went up for hay delivery and head over the stable door bottom lip hanging and sound asleep well until she saw me., but i prefer them out 24/7 so will be glad when it dries up but with more rain forecast its going to take months for the field to dry, i tried turing them out sunday and bea slipped over in the mud and both stood at the gate wanting in so i brought them back in , but on the + being in beas mud fever has now cleared up as being out i dont think, as fields so muddy it would have . i won some feedmark fiber blocks though and there great for both of them in the stable and they love them and gives them something to do as takes ages to eat but both are coping well , but hoping for some dry weather soon as want then back out in their field
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Post by diggydoggy on Dec 21, 2012 18:29:08 GMT 1
I just feel really GUILTY knowing Boyo's out in all that endless torrential dispiriting rain and mud, while the B.T. and I are nice and dry and cosy indoors.
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Post by highlanderpony2002 on Dec 21, 2012 19:09:24 GMT 1
North Lincolnshire on the edge of the wolds so the rain missed us mostly. Sandy soil helps a lot It did rain all day yesterday but that is the first full days rain we have had for about 3 years. It has been dry in the day and raining at night. Biggest problem with sandy soil is that the grass doesnt grow quite so well in summer
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Post by shan on Dec 23, 2012 19:03:30 GMT 1
That's settled then, I'm moving to North Lincs!!
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Post by heather on Dec 27, 2012 12:17:47 GMT 1
Here in Devon, we have not had a decent summer for 6 years, rain, and more rain, and now, we dont even really think to look at the weather forecast. We just assume it is going to rain, and if there is a brief respite for an hour or two with a patch of blue sky and that rarely seen yellow round object, we exclaim in surprise!
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Post by arabiangem on Dec 27, 2012 16:15:15 GMT 1
Here in Devon, we have not had a decent summer for 6 years, rain, and more rain, and now, we dont even really think to look at the weather forecast. We just assume it is going to rain, and if there is a brief respite for an hour or two with a patch of blue sky and that rarely seen yellow round object, we exclaim in surprise! I moved to Devon in August and I'm pretty sure it has rained every day....!
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