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RE: HELP! Muddy Fields!!
Posted by: Equine Tooth Gal Date posted: 01/26/2008 05:43:01 PM |
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| I'm in Haycock Township. I not only have swampy land, but the famous Haycock clay layer that you can shape and bake! At the back of my barn, which is a high traffic area as my crew come and go as they please, I have three springs. After 10 years of trying everything from scraping to fill, I put in a french drain. I have rock walls on my property and use them. I have to get below the clay to remove the impervious surface, which is how I discovered the springs, and then filled it rocks. I made it higher than the surrounding area and now it is the main drain for my paddock due to the slope. Scraping the layers of soil is created errosion and only compounds the problem as you are stripping the soil away and creating a lower surface or pool. You can create your drain but you have to decided where the water will be diverted to. I have a spring fed creek and that's where the water goes. You can then cover the drain with with wood chips,screenings, etc. My drain is exposed as my horses are all barefoot and it creates a terrain conducive to keeping the soles thick, which in an inherent problem with pastured barefoot horses. Ironically, the crew does not do-do on the stones, but I do break up the manure in the paddock and fields with an old chain link fence that works great. That natural fertilizer does wonders but it has to be broken down to work. I use the Thomasonian Farming Method at my place and it works wonders! |
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