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Post by EmmaJane on Jul 3, 2007 12:00:32 GMT
what is happening to the UK Its gone so mad and is ruining everything Its July Now and just check met check and it seems to go on until middle of july The ponies cant take much more 3 at the yard showing signs of rain scald and mud fever. I have brought mine in as tentativly supposed to be showing on sunday He has no oils left in coat and was shivvering so for the forseable future he is staying in. The hot spells of sun followed by sharp rain and wind is wreaking the coats and causing sore skin. DOnt get me wrong i do not nor do others wrap them up in cotton wool, but its just getting excessive now, whens it going to stop !!!! Totally Upset and dismayed, i have a show on 11th August all planned and organised all booked back on the show ground and looking at it now there is no way. HOW LONG DO FEILDS TAKE TO DRY ? Upset, confused and dismayed and sick of soggy clothes, soggier ponies and mucking out twice a day in July !!!!
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Post by EmmaJane on Jul 3, 2007 12:02:07 GMT
Forogt to say it piddling down and thundering here whist writing this !!! and while i know we can do nothing about the weather and not actually moaning just finding it MAD
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Post by Mrs Noah on Jul 3, 2007 13:10:29 GMT
It's terrible - ours are in NZs - and they are natives!! We have them all in at night and at least I can sleep soundly - but rain is beginning to get into one set of stables - so they may have to wear wellies in bed! and am fed up shoing in the rain - esp. the grey ones!! but I expect when the heat wave strikes we'll be praying for rain Mrs. Noah
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Post by Mrs Noahs Assistant on Jul 3, 2007 14:23:20 GMT
Also fed up, got absolutley soaked on Sunday, all tack very wet and filthy, daughter soaked through to underwear, pony caked in mud and cold......never mind, getting it already again for Northleach if it runs......will probably need to hire an Ark as I am convinced that will be the only way to get there!
As it has been very heavy showers al day today in Wiltshire....now its thundering!!
A month or two ago I remember reading we were in for a summer of 35 degree heat......or is that just wishful thinking.
Am concerned about hay or lack of it though
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Post by clobo121082 on Jul 3, 2007 14:29:29 GMT
It's such a shame as well as it has got to the shows were i love wathcing my friends in other classes or sitting out with a picnic at a show instead we are huddled into the lorry rushed out for the class rushed back onto the lorry and home again! I'm not getting to watch any classes or cheer anyone on and can't image how horrid it is for all the little ponies! bring back the summer or at lest just some dry time! I work up in london and today i left the house with 3 layers on got soaked walking into work, went out at lunch had to take my coat of as so hot yet 1/2 hour later is began to rain again. Who knows what it will be doing later, i wish it would just make its mind up instead of giving us 4 seasons in one day!
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Post by syllopstud on Jul 3, 2007 15:40:04 GMT
I know just what you mean Emma. At this rate our show season is just about over, due to all the shows getting canceled!!! Were bringing in ponies all the time some have even got light winter turnout rugs on when there out . Does anybody else feel as if this whole country's going down the toilet? Think a good old drink is called for
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Post by armada on Jul 3, 2007 17:08:10 GMT
Am sat here treating myself to the 'good old drink' even at this time, today was just horrendous. Put the youngsters out, decide to leave mares and foals in, went to do seven very fit and very tetchy competition horses on a yard 19 miles away, drove through flooded roads all the way there, most of them had to stay in, got soaked to the skin, got home, sun shining, brought youngsters in, put mares and foals out. And it started, it was coming down like stair-rods, went rushing out to retrieve them and had to stand in a stable as hailstones the size of peas started to rain down, thunder and lightening overhead, poor little babies standing there shivering, I did'nt dare go out and try and get anyone in the hail and lightening. eased off, made a break for it, little mare would'nt be caught, eventually got her, brought foal in loose. Big mare would be caught, foal would'nt, kept lashing out at me, oh yes, take the mack off, must be scaring him, it started again, me in a t-shirt, mac sodden on the grass, had to cross a completely ( and I do mean completely) flooded arena with foal behaving like an arse. I've had it up to the eyeballs, I moaned about the cracks in the clay leaving some of my paddocks unusable last year and the lack of rain, but dear god, this is beyond the pale, we did'nt have this much rain ALL WINTER!!! I hope it dries up, my biggest fear when showing is being towed on or off, it really scares me witless, I am really looking forward to Kent County, we have a cracking mare and foal and really want to do well this year, if the weather is crap I want to take the lorry, but am scared of the towing business, but have'nt got the all terrains on the car to tow the trailer so will probably have to be towed anyway, and to top it all, everyones coats are turning and my broodmares are'nt rugged as having had a mishap in the past, am too scared to rug them at all now in case one of the foals gets caught up, I even had one stuff its head through the front of the rug and nearly strangle itself on the buckle once. Sorry I've had a right rant, but I'm just so cheesed off - and no end in sight for the rain.
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Post by poff on Jul 3, 2007 21:50:49 GMT
HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE When will my show season actually start?? So dismayed at the weather and raaain...not ridden for 3 days which I can't afford to do with 4 wanting riding... Ah tomorrow may just take some whisky out to warm us up
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Post by teddybear on Jul 3, 2007 22:05:15 GMT
The knock on is worrying me. How much will good hay be. Mine is still soggy waiting to be cut.
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Post by 4fun on Jul 4, 2007 8:11:53 GMT
And we have a grey pony doing M&M FR hoys and judges keep going for the dartmoors, or bays! our pony can't help getting covered in mud on the go round. At this rate Waxwing paintbox is going to be the only grey at the final
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Post by Guestless on Jul 4, 2007 8:26:49 GMT
We've actually got pretty normal weather up here - we are having the odd shower but nothing like down south. Only thing is my grass is coming through much more than usual so all the ponies are looking fat.
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Post by julie on Jul 4, 2007 8:40:39 GMT
Cant believe that this weather will continue apparently well into August.... We are going for the first time ever to PUK for three days and I am dreading it already, daughter is thrilled to be going, I can only wonder how I'll sleep, I HATE camping in any form and keep wondering why on earth I agreed to go in the first place. Yesterday I drove through torrential, monsoon-like rain to have lesson with two ponies and arrived wet through as one pony had to be picked up from the owners and the heavens opened as we loaded her...then I sat on a chair holding one pony watching daughter go round in circles in blazing hot sunshine (all 40 mins of it and have sun burned arms to prove it!) No wonder colds and viruses are rampant....... So drinking consumption is up again but the best bit is OH is complaining of a very sore toe and we think its gout - and he hardly drinks so is now really fed up with me knocking back the gin!!!!
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Post by Interlude on Jul 4, 2007 17:22:03 GMT
The knock on is worrying me. How much will good hay be. Mine is still soggy waiting to be cut. Totally agree mine is sodden and all blown flat. It needed cutting a month ago and has now gone to seed. We need two cuts and still had to buy in 200 bales to see us through last year. I can't see us geting 2 cuts this year The price of hay and straw will go through the roof. Farmer next door to us lost his sileage crop which he cut and it literally washed away and his maize is so waterlogged its not growing properly.
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Post by poff on Jul 4, 2007 18:14:36 GMT
We got a cut at the beginning of June, glad we did!
Hay fields now resemble a marsh with very flat grass on it.
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Post by markfuller59 on Jul 4, 2007 18:36:08 GMT
Its bad enough at home the rain, but its even worse at a show, everything gets covered!!! i hate it!!!
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Post by cath on Jul 5, 2007 18:53:13 GMT
+ Its bad enough at home the rain, but its even worse at a show, everything gets covered!!! i hate it!!! if this weather keeps up, then the showing season is going to end up like the 'foot & mouth' year, i am thinking of roughing mine off, and giving it up as a bad job......only joking.....
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Post by me too on Jul 6, 2007 9:46:39 GMT
+ Its bad enough at home the rain, but its even worse at a show, everything gets covered!!! i hate it!!! if this weather keeps up, then the showing season is going to end up like the 'foot & mouth' year, i am thinking of roughing mine off, and giving it up as a bad job......only joking..... I am thinking the same, and I'm not joking!! Winter showing is much more reliable, in nice warm (ish!) indoors, hard standing to park the wagons and usually nice sized classes Plus the weather is usually better for the Winter champs, no way am I venturing to the Summer champs, we missed the last couple of years, went the year before that and the weather was dire. Apparently this weather is here to stay until end of August Something to do with the jet stream
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