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Location: Armuchee, GA, NW section of Ga | Here in the NW section of Georgia we have been blessed with rain, lots of showers. Now I will agree we do need the rain, especially since last year we had drought and poor hay production, BUT my paddocks have become so so muddy. I have to do something. DH thought he was helping by bringing in a few loads of top soil and packing, But it only added to the muddy mess. SO now we have to scrape off the top soil mud and get down to base before adding a few loads of crusher run or pea gravel, in addition to installing gutters to the roof of the barn to reroute the rain outside of the paddock area. Anyone else having mud problems and what are you doing about it. |
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| I'm up in Washington state...it's ALWAYS rainy up here haha. Every year, we get hog fuel dumped in our paddocks. Voila, problem solved! It mixes really nice with the wet mud, and keeps it mostly dry through the rainy season(s). |
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| Katielovestbs - 2017-05-31 6:23 PM I'm up in Washington state...it's ALWAYS rainy up here haha. Every year, we get hog fuel dumped in our paddocks. Voila, problem solved! It mixes really nice with the wet mud, and keeps it mostly dry through the rainy season(s).
Hog fuel?? I had to google that, lol. |
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Location: Armuchee, GA, NW section of Ga | Me too, hog fuel. Gotta look for sure. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | LOL, I had to google too.. This fella seems to really like the hog fuel, 
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Location: Texas | It seems the worst by the gates, and I've had good luck putting road base in those high traffic areas. Everything else sinks in the mud. |
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Location: Central Texas | Add me to the "I had to Google" list! |
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Location: Texas | So really it is mulch. Sometimes the tree trimming guys are looking for a place to dump mulch. We have let them dump it in our pasture . You might check around if there are any working in your area and luck out. |
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| And you have to be careful what your hot fuel is made of!! If it has certain kinds of pine, redwood, cedar, then those can cause reactions and toxcicity in horses. |
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Location: Pacific Northwest | I didn't know hog fuel was mainly a PNW thing LOL
I live in western WA. We've always just dumped pea gravel. We are lucky though and our horse fields don't get bad. |
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| Haha I laughed reading these! I thought hog fuel was more common =p works fabulous though!! |
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| FLITASTIC - 2017-06-01 10:30 AM And you have to be careful what your hot fuel is made of!! If it has certain kinds of pine, redwood, cedar, then those can cause reactions and toxcicity in horses.
We had some neighbors that did that with Black Walnut and it really messed up a couple horses. Be very careful on the type of wood. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Katielovestbs - 2017-06-01 1:25 PM Haha I laughed reading these! I thought hog fuel was more common =p works fabulous though!!
Never heard of it in my entire life, lol I was thinking maybe it was hog poop so had to google it.. |
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Location: Northwest | Adding pea gravel (4-6") will help immensely in muddy areas. |
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Location: Armuchee, GA, NW section of Ga | I want to thank you first of all for telling me about the "hog fuel". I am having 8 loads delivered next week....FREE. We had gotten quotes from local guys about cleaning out paddock and installing crusher run, topped with pea gravel. Would have cost $5500.00. YIKES! But we initally did say ok, go for it, then we found about 4 scoops of the hog fuel you were talking about and put it out. Not enough to do the job but enough to give us an idea how it would work. It gave us hope! So we installed gutters on the barn, both sides, to divert the rain off of the paddock areas, going instead thru down spouts into underground pipe, going away from the barn/paddock totally. Then we called around to find this hog fuel, AKA mulch and found we could buy it, but had to haul it ourselves. We figured we needed about 8 huge loads. Well worth it, until we were driving down the road 15 miles from home and noticed the road work being done. They had huge piles of this stuff. We stopped by the construction office trailer and they said they needed to get rid of it, and asked how much we wanted and when! So next week they are delivering all plus we asked for and enough for next year too, did I mention FREE. FRee delivery too. So thank you so much, I look forward to using this. |
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