MUD!

TPC Ranch · Yearling Joined: 11 Nov 2006 Posts: 13

ARGGG! It won't stop snowing. My mare's pen looks like a mud pit. Any suggestions?

JR · Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 7:03 pm Post subject:

don't curse the mud.. I did that a few weeks ago and now we've been in this cold snap that's just miserable. Mud is gone, frozen solid.. but it's too dang cold.
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tazzy207 · Member Joined: 10 Sep 2006 Posts: 106 Location: canada

haha i hate mud...its not too much of a botehr here in canada in the winter cuz its ALWAYS frozen lol. I don't seem to have those problems in our horse paddocks...no idea y. They don't become muddy. when the snow melts they go dry Confused

maybe i just get lucky that way...but wholy cow!in the spring!!! o jeex than its a mud madness. lol.

Some good stuff for puttnig in paddocks is sand...it prevents it from being slippery..but it does get packed down...sawdust works too if u have a large load of it. the only thing about sand is the worry of sand colic..but as long as u don't over do it it should be fine, just make sure ur horses arent eatingo ff direct ground either....like in large box feeders or something.

anyways good luck with ur mud!

sulphurfire · Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 6:08 am Post subject:

Well I don't have the snow or frozen ground, but what i do have is plenty of mud. It is so muddy here in southwest Lousiana that the horses have no dry ground anywhere, except in their stalls. Today is the first day in I don't know how long that the sun is actually shining. I worry about hooves and coats in all of this, my babies have their winter wooly coats and I just can't seem to get ALL the dirt off, and personally I'm worried about rainrot and thier hooves.