Walkers, I think I’m about to cave! Please tell me my options!?
 

After saying I would never have one on my yard, I?m getting to the stage where I feel I?m going to be left with no choice:-( this is the fourth winter on the trot (pardon the pun) that we have had consistently wet weather and I?m literally at the end of my tether. It?s just so depressing! Thinking ahead to next winter, I really am going to have to put something, anything in place, as an alternative to turnout. It guts me it really does, but conditions are so bad, worst I?ve known in 23 years of running a livery yard, that if I don?t make changes for next winter, I?m going to seriously consider closing my yard. I?m a YO that refuses to keep horses in, so I provide several ?sacrifice? paddocks every year, which I accept are going to get destroyed, but it means the horses can get out and move around. This year though we have had several cases of mud fever, which we have never had before and it?s really upset me tbh. So lovely HHO?s what are my options? I need to keep it under £5k as it will be money coming out of my own pocket, and I?m not sure how much use a walker would actually get anyway as I would never stop turnout altogether, no matter what. What other alternatives have you guys got? My husband is very handy and would be able to do all groundwork?s himself as we have our own JCB luckily, but I just can?t decide what to do. Help me please! TIA.:-)

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