Who has the wettest fields? (pics)

[harveydales]

We've had non stop rain again all day and our paddocks are almost as bad as during the July floods.

Pic of bottom paddock:


Quest and Winnie trying to keep out of the worst of the weather. My hardy Dales Pony Harvey was sheltering righe at the back and refused to even take a look out!


The gateway deviding the 2 paddocks. it may not look deep but this liquid mud almost reaches the tops of my wellies! It is a real struggle to open and close the gates.


The public footpath which runs between the paddocks has become a raging torrent and waterfall.


How are your fields?

[lucydales]

Oh to have your fields, Evie! Dry and not too nutritious!!

Pam, mine are on the way to yours without the raging torrents! All the ditches have burst their banks and there is standing water every where. the ponies come in with liquid mud up to their knees and mud splats on their faces (and everywhere else) as they have to come in at a gallop of course! LOL!

My kindly OH swept my whole yard yesterday as I've been poorly (and did 10 times better job than me!) whilst I was jet washing the rubber matting in the stables as it was sooo disgusting! The plus side is he said it was hard work so would look at ways of minimising it in our new outside design! Yay! He is such a star as he doesn't do cold, wet, sh*t or ponies! LOL!

I am looking at drainage projects for next year after Garry Holter's report, and have invested in a mole plough. Steve is also talking about buying a mini digger for ditching (he likes sitting in cabs doing stuff!) Double yay!!

[greydales]

It's really awful here Pam, we have the worst of the weather and the Severn had burst it's banks in several places. Thankfully we aren't too bad here on our smallholding yet but there are many roads closed in and around Shrewsbury. I went out today and saw where the Severn had flooded and it was worse than last summer. I have to take Dave to Shrewsbury station Wednesday and not sure how I am going to get him there - that is if the trains are still running!

[loopylou]

Blimey Harveydales, that is wet fields

[ribbons021185]

Goodness me! That is very wet! :s

[harleydales]

That IS wet!

Mine are bone dry. And solid with frost and ice. At least it is clean!

[Rowndan]

dans field is like a bog too but no big pools like you have pam, maybe you should get some ducks??!!

Jane.. frost whats that?? we just have wet wet wet wet and wet

[jec248]

Gosh!!

We seem to have had rain for weeks Magic is 'in'. She's got a fenced off area and her stable door left open but she chooses to stand out in the rain

[JoM]

Goodness - that looks like a rather large volume of water! We are lucky - our grazing is sound!

Getting to work is becoming a nightmare mind! All the roads to york are beginning to submerge!!!!

[tinkerdorisalison]

flippin 'eck Pam, that is wet!!!,

Part of ours has surface water just covering the short grass in the top field, flying skids and spray seem to be the preferred mode of getting around the field by the ponies at the moment!

the rest of it has drained quite well so far..........

[PonyGirl]

You need a boat for that! OMY

[zeldalithgow]

EEK

Have the ponies got webbed feet yet Pam ;D

[knight]

Oh my Pam, now that really is muddy! I will tell Knight not to complain, we're muddy but not quite as much standing water. Of course Knight cheerfully splashes through it to get to his hay feeder. Nothing deters a hungry Dales. I do try not to look when he & Topaz get to playing, it ends to look like pones sliding on skates.

[PonyGirl]

We don't have water. We will have mud when the snow finally melts.