This is what happens when you have 36 heavy horse feet stomping around on the rain sodden ground......MUD. Mud, Mud, Mud everywhere. The horses have stomped the life out of the grass that was TRYING to grow! With all the rain we have been having, this early in the year, the ground is saturated with moisture and very soft. So in a matter of days this is what the horses have reduced the field to.......
I hate mud. Any horse owner will tell you that mud is a horrible, messy, pain in the %&$# to deal with. It gets all over the horses feet; they lay in it and get filthy and if you do not clean out the horses hooves and apply a antifulgal agent for thrush weekly, especially in this kind of mud, then the horses can get a really bad case of foot rot. But, anyone with horses will also tell you that in the spring, with a number of large animals there is no avoiding the mud. I call my winter fields, sacrifice fields, because they look like this when winter is over and they can't be used again until later in the summer. I seed the really barren spots in the spring once the horses are out of the field, harrow it to break up all the messy stuff in it and by July this field will be green and beautiful and full of grass. Then you can put some animals in it for a few weeks again to graze. But until then its a pain in the neck.
Off the mud and onto the young stud ;) Jazz is growing into a very handsome and stocky young stallion. He is a sweet boy and is very well behaved. If he does get a little pushy all he needs is a gentle reminder and he settles right down. He will be breeding his first mares this summer so we are looking forward to his first foals next summer. He will be breeding Cricket and a new mare named Foxy who arrives in April.
Doesn't he look cute in his yellow halter?? He has grown so much that he grew right out of his green halter. This is one of Phoenix's old halters, I was not sure if it would fit, but surprisingly his head has grown big enough to fit a 'grown up' horse halter ;)
This is Jazz's thing: eat all the grain and then immediately tip the bucket over. Sometimes he actually picks it up in his teeth and throws it to the side! He is looking for more grain....sorry buddy, you ate it all!
What a dirty girl!! Pepsi is a lovely palomino....however this means her coat gets very very dirty! She was out trying to eat the little bit of grass that is growing. Another thing about spring and mud is the horses are always dirty! When they lay down...its in mud!! The summer and fall are nice because they stay much cleaner.....with a few grass stains mind you. But I will take a grass stain over mud any day!
This is what happens when you have 36 heavy horse feet stomping around on the rain sodden ground......MUD. Mud, Mud, Mud everywhere. The horses have stomped the life out of the grass that was TRYING to grow! With all the rain we have been having, this early in the year, the ground is saturated with moisture and very soft. So in a matter of days this is what the horses have reduced the field to.......
I hate mud. Any horse owner will tell you that mud is a horrible, messy, pain in the %&$# to deal with. It gets all over the horses feet; they lay in it and get filthy and if you do not clean out the horses hooves and apply a antifulgal agent for thrush weekly, especially in this kind of mud, then the horses can get a really bad case of foot rot. But, anyone with horses will also tell you that in the spring, with a number of large animals there is no avoiding the mud. I call my winter fields, sacrifice fields, because they look like this when winter is over and they can't be used again until later in the summer. I seed the really barren spots in the spring once the horses are out of the field, harrow it to break up all the messy stuff in it and by July this field will be green and beautiful and full of grass. Then you can put some animals in it for a few weeks again to graze. But until then its a pain in the neck.
Off the mud and onto the young stud ;) Jazz is growing into a very handsome and stocky young stallion. He is a sweet boy and is very well behaved. If he does get a little pushy all he needs is a gentle reminder and he settles right down. He will be breeding his first mares this summer so we are looking forward to his first foals next summer. He will be breeding Cricket and a new mare named Foxy who arrives in April.
Doesn't he look cute in his yellow halter?? He has grown so much that he grew right out of his green halter. This is one of Phoenix's old halters, I was not sure if it would fit, but surprisingly his head has grown big enough to fit a 'grown up' horse halter ;)
This is Jazz's thing: eat all the grain and then immediately tip the bucket over. Sometimes he actually picks it up in his teeth and throws it to the side! He is looking for more grain....sorry buddy, you ate it all!
What a dirty girl!! Pepsi is a lovely palomino....however this means her coat gets very very dirty! She was out trying to eat the little bit of grass that is growing. Another thing about spring and mud is the horses are always dirty! When they lay down...its in mud!! The summer and fall are nice because they stay much cleaner.....with a few grass stains mind you. But I will take a grass stain over mud any day! 
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That is a lot of feet to clean. I will be so happy to see green grass. We had more snow but the weather is to be much better next week.
Patsy
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