Is your pasture wet and muddy too?
Posted by Bill on Jan 26 2010 at 09:50 am | Tagged as: The Barn, Pasture, Video
When it rains, it pours here in East Tennessee. To make winters even less pleasant, the frequent rain (January is our second rainiest month) is causing us work and making the lives of our horses a little less fun. Even though it was warm Sunday when I shot this little video, I decided to let the horses in to dry off and they seemed to appreciate it. I can’t wait until we have a few dry days to move some dirt. We knew we had some new drainage issues but the big rain storm Sunday made it seem a lot worse. I made this quick 2 minute, 26 second video to show you how muddy our place is right now. Now with voice overs! LOL. Once you get past the first few dizzy seconds, the rest of the video is pretty smooth.
So does your barn and pasture look like this right now, too?
Hi, Bill
I just found this site by accident and I kinda feel at home with some of the subjects. If this isn’t a public site, just let me know.
I live in Louisiana and our rains have left the pasture soaked since October. I would love one whole month without rain…then again, come next summer I might want to change that request.
No drainage problems here in sunny hot Australia! Feel free to send any excess water our way - our soils are like concrete at the moment and every gust of wind sends up clouds of dust so our ponies are only muddy where the sweat and dust mix.
I do sympathise though, mud and wet is no fun either - remember to keep an eye on your horses feet and lower legs for fungal or other infections and treat them early if you do find something so they don’t get out of control. We’re standing our horses in the river when we can just to keep some moisture in their hooves!
quari