kbrine
Junior Member
Megan Brine - Uppacott Puligny
Posts: 130
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Post by kbrine on Nov 10, 2008 10:22:09 GMT
OMG the heavens have well and truley opened!!! Have just got back from the yard and im now looking rather like a drowned rat!! But feeling better to think that ponies are now in there stables snuggled up in there stable rugs munching away on there fat hay nets.
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kbrine
Junior Member
Megan Brine - Uppacott Puligny
Posts: 130
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Post by kbrine on Nov 10, 2008 10:23:57 GMT
oops just realised have posted this in the wrong area sorry!
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Post by rozjones on Nov 10, 2008 14:53:26 GMT
Just checked mine as they are out during the day whatever the weather. Happy eating away all wrapped up in their rugs, only their ears are wet. The field however is looking more like a river than grass.
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Post by anotherdeal1 on Nov 10, 2008 14:56:10 GMT
mine all tucked up too with as much hay as they can eat, i think this is officially winter!!!!!
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Post by Mya And Spangles on Nov 10, 2008 21:43:05 GMT
All my three are in we usually leave the mares out all winter but we thought they would come in tonight as the weather is a bit horrible Jess x
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Post by cobbledegook on Nov 11, 2008 18:26:59 GMT
our fields are still saturated. Not much rain today thank god!
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Post by medwinatswpa on Nov 12, 2008 16:09:59 GMT
Think of those of us who are below sea level! This water will be here for the winter now.
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Post by minimad on Nov 18, 2008 16:50:45 GMT
Med, the thought of your ponies being below sea level and having to wear snorkles made me chuckle.
Normal saying ...'upto your ankles in mud'... We've gone past our ankles, knees and upto our armpits in mud!!!! Not much fun. I'm sick of it
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Post by medwinatswpa on Nov 18, 2008 18:28:29 GMT
My cousin has just sent me some pictures of the huge storm they have just had in Brisbane. Horrific and Reece is on her way out there in 8 days! I will try and add some later
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Post by allyscallywag1 on Nov 19, 2008 19:47:29 GMT
So we thoroughly cleaned out the bull pen, put a lovely thick bed down and got the foals in....that was on Sunday. On Monday all hell broke loose and it rained fit for Noah...result, flooded Bullpen. Foals standing in only dry corner wondering why we had bothered! Sandbags now in place and hoping for the best! This, may I add is on top of a hill, so if we flood all the others are drowned!
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Post by medwinatswpa on Nov 19, 2008 19:52:40 GMT
Ah, bless ............... are they OK?
We have got wind tonight and the ground is drying .....quite quickly! [but then I am on sand at home - the clay fields behind are still flooded
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Post by maxinep on Nov 19, 2008 20:50:47 GMT
I have found out this week how much more work wet muddy fields are when you have a feathery footed friend! My new boy has to have a good scrub each night, good job he has a perfect nature
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Post by rozjones on Nov 20, 2008 9:52:24 GMT
Never again will i buy a grey or at this moment a grey who thinks he's a bay!!!! Have clipped every part of him just as well he's a cob, much easier to get the mud off but please how do they manage to get mud up inside the rugs?!!!! My other horse, Apple, thinks she's too posh to roll and get muddy.
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Post by allyscallywag1 on Nov 21, 2008 20:49:27 GMT
Having put the sandbags in place, things are drying out a bit, so the babies are ok, thankfully. The playpen is a muddy mess but the troops still go out there for a leg stretch a couple at a time. Means a hose off when they come in with filthy legs, but good straw beds seem to deal with that ok. The hairy cob thinks that mud is to be avoided, thankfully, so he wanders round the yard and does "wheelies" up and down the track and then goes and watches re-runs of "Champion The Wonder Horse" so he knows what to do when I whistle! (The shaking of a feed bowl has a lot to do with this!) As to the grey ponies - well, I think greys are all born thinking "I wanna be black, I wanna be black, I'm gonna be black!!"
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