Sunday, December 18, 2011
Controlling the unavoidable... Mud!?
It's not even spring yet and already pastures are mud-swamped! I'm sure horse owners dread the coming of spring because of that nasty stuff... :] Anyways, I have a mud problem. Our gate opening to our pasture is swamped. My three horses have to walk through fairly deep mud (not a huge deal for my boys but for my mare it is... I'll explain in a minute) to get into the paddock, and therefore their water. The reason it is a big deal for my mare is that she has a problem about pulling her shoes. We have bell boots on her and those have helped but she still manages to pull them off. Her hoof walls do not hold shoes very well and the mud likes to suck them off. So I was thinking about how to help resolve (or at least help a bit) the mud problem. I was thinking about pulling a few bales of straw down but then I got to thinking... Bricks can be made out of wheat and/or straw, animal dung and mud, so wouldn't the ground turn to one huge brick? Does anyone have any experience with using straw for mud control? And if not, what do you use, if anything? Thanks!
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