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vjc
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 Posted - 05 Sep 2008 : 10:45:43 AM
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Well! Words fail me! i have loads of acreage per horse so you think the rain would`nt bother me, huh not so! we have duck ponds in the bottom of one field! i have tryed to sort out the brambles that insist on growing all year round as i was going to ask the farmer to do them when he had finished his harvesting, no chance now unless i want a field full of deep tractor furrows!!! so it is absolutely peeing down at the moment with no sign of a let up and i have heaps and heaps of cut brambles and hawthorn to move!!! just sorting out more rugs for my gang as i honestly thing they need warmer ones on now. If the drive gets anymore under water i will need to arrive in a boat!!! maybe i should`nt have sold my narrowboat after all!!!!
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NatH
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England
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Posted - 05 Sep 2008 : 10:51:23 AM
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Blimey Verena you are in a mess
It's wet at Chapel Lane too, my horses have been in the last couple of days
It's such a shame, we expect this November/December but not August/September. I'm fed up with it |
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nikki
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Wales
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Posted - 05 Sep 2008 : 10:56:54 AM
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Me too! It's an absolute mess here. One part of field is flooded, 3 stables flooded, streams in my field. I haven't been able to get the farmer in to harrow my fields and top it(hehe i expect the poo will just get washed away)
I too have been very fed up, not been able to ride either-land too wet! |
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vjc
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 05 Sep 2008 : 10:57:11 AM
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| Hi Nat, our ground is only muddy at the gate way but the pasture is so soaked it is spongy to walk on, i am just glad we have enough fields to rotate the horses. Mia is well and has really grown how is her brother these days??? |
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Qui Gon Jinn
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Scotland
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Posted - 05 Sep 2008 : 11:28:46 AM
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| My ground is pretty wet too and we are 1200ft above sea level!!! We had 3 dry days in the whole of August and as a result the ground hasn't had much of a chance to recover. Even the grounds around my stables and arena are soggy and it's a depressing thought that it looks as it does BEFORE Winter sets in. |
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Mrs Vlacq
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Wales
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Posted - 05 Sep 2008 : 11:49:29 AM
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| We too are 1000ft above sea level but our fields look like paddy fields today. Outdoor horses in shock as even in rugs thier coats are too fine for this soggy weather. Rushed round yesterday putting NZs on out outlying older neds and a good job too. Proving as much work as midwinter it's so depressing, every stable full. I always considered our summer fields ideal, open aspect so not too many fies, breezy so no problem when it's realy sunny. Well this summer you would describe them as bleak and lacking shelter, I bet the neds can't wait to move to their winter fields. |
    
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loosefur
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Posted - 05 Sep 2008 : 12:02:56 PM
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| We had thunder storms and torrential rain on Wednesday night and yesterday too so our fields look like lakes. We're not that far above sea level but the land is normally well drained as we have big drainage ditches round most of the fields, so even with todays normal rain the fields should dry out a bit. I've kept my two in today just to give the field a rest though. It's ridiculous. The yard where I used to livery has already gone onto half day turnout and I imagine will soon stop turning out altogether. I'm so glad I moved from there! |
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Gemma
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 05 Sep 2008 : 12:05:03 PM
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| Not tooooooo bad. We've escaped the worst of it in East Kent, and we've had a relatively dry spell so not too bad at the moment. A bit of mud round the gates and the field shelters but OK apart from that. |
 
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NUTTER
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England
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Posted - 05 Sep 2008 : 12:06:21 PM
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I moan about mine as they are on a slight incline !! ..
Thankfully this wet weather that they are ...
the ground stays relativly firm so no boggy paddocks ever although to get up the drive and the road below yard can often flood upto 2ft so a 4x4 or tractor is needed to get there!!Unless you want to sit in a car and wait for it to subside!! |
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vjc
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 05 Sep 2008 : 12:18:48 PM
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Oh dear looks like we are all in the same boat! boat being the ultimate word! |
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angelarab
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Wales
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Posted - 05 Sep 2008 : 12:32:14 PM
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mine has got over his silly dislke of puddles! he had a choice walk through it to get to the gate and come in or stay out. he came in |
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mogwai
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England
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Posted - 05 Sep 2008 : 1:06:04 PM
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The girls and i went up this morning, to be greeted by 1- hungry wet neddies, and 2-a bog! Mud up to their hocks, in fact everywhere. I was absolutely gobsmacked! I have opened the field right up (they still have another acre that i'll keep for the winter) as i was strip grazing because of my lami ponies, so at least they have grass. The field shelter has sprung a leak in the roof, so that'll need to be sorted before winter, and you can barely stand the ground is so wet 
This summer has been so, so, SO depressing. There have been about 2 days where i've thought "oh, the grounds hardening up again" before it's come down again in torrents. 
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Cage Alma Arabians
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England
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Posted - 05 Sep 2008 : 1:13:17 PM
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| Land is flooded. We live on the Derbyshire moorland hills and the land is as bad now as it is in January. They are in more than they are out and even my daughter's 2 ponies look cheesed off out now. Trying to paint the stables so having to shuffle for a few days then think ponies will be in too. They are also cold and have rugs on even inside as the wind has picked up here with a real chill in it- feels more like November. Fed up already. Looks like it is going to be a long long winter. Don't mind them being in if they are happy but don't like the dingy days and early dark! The local farmers are naffed off too. |
     
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moatside
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mogwai
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England
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Posted - 05 Sep 2008 : 1:18:10 PM
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Alot of the farmers have lost crops in the last week here, there's piles of rotting, cut hay lying in the fields. This is going to be the problem now. We're all using up winter supplies of hay/haylage/straw now, and there isn't going to be enough to last us until the spring because of all the failed crops. Not that i'm panicking!
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Vicki M
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England
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Posted - 05 Sep 2008 : 1:21:35 PM
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A BOG!!!!!
That's all I can say |
  
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pintoarabian
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Scotland
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Posted - 05 Sep 2008 : 1:24:15 PM
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| One field is like a swamp, together with a pond (it has attracted ducks) that hasn't dried up all 'summer'. The other fields are slightly better but the grass is already slowing up. Normally, it would have another spurt by now. Can't get the tractor in to any of the fields to harrow or fertilize as we would be left with great ruts for even more water to lie in. Half of the horses are already in and those that are still out want to be in. Last year was equally bad so we are being repaid, big time, for daring to enjoy the glorious summer of 2006. |
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Lynn Tait
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 05 Sep 2008 : 1:31:34 PM
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| sorry to depress you all but we have had a whole week of sunshine and breeze but it is cooler in evenings.my fields are bone dry and even the strip grazed ones are clean.No horses rugged yet apart from sarahs welsh cob she is showing.It is usually wet up here in the north east of scotland but we seem to have got off lightly,watch this it will chuck it for the next month |
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purdeysue
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England
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Posted - 05 Sep 2008 : 4:05:51 PM
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We're not too bad mud-wise, but keep having to bring a shivering foal in to dry off!!
I introduced her to a turnout rug this am. We weren't impressed & threw a tantrum round the box. I will try again this evening cos if it carries on like this, she'll need it on.
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Joto
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Posted - 05 Sep 2008 : 5:49:20 PM
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| %&!"%%%%$$$$$&****!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! is all i'm saying. |
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Pauline
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Zenitha
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England
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Posted - 05 Sep 2008 : 7:04:16 PM
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| Bare Muddy Like mid Winter really. Boo hoo |
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Bexandspooky
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England
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Posted - 05 Sep 2008 : 7:05:34 PM
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Mogwai - Mine fiels is lying with cut ruined hay - meanwhile the horses are penned into a small paddock until we work out how to get rid of the crap!
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Chris James
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 05 Sep 2008 : 7:08:51 PM
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Under water too, unbelievable - should have been reporting at Moreton in Marsh show tomorrow but it's been cancelled as they've had even more rain!
Hope Somerford (Cheshire)is escaping for the NCPA Pony of the Year on Sunday. |
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