. Cows turn the feed lots in a muddy mess too, but they don,t get rid of their cows.
I have had pretty good luck with Geo cloth covered with gravel at gates to counteract the muddy mess where horses loiter. But that is probably not a realistic solution for a larger field. You might try what is called a dry a lot. A small paddock that you can move them into when it rains that has a cloth/gravel base , Which may work if you only have a couple horses. A big downside of gravel is that it can penetrate the frog of a horses foot and pause them temporary lameness requiring some vet care, which you can learn to do on your own after one visit. Big gravel or rocks ,2’s or larger is a sure way to cause real lamest problems and maybe catastrophic problems in a horse. Turn an ankle or chip of bone, and it is not pretty. Shavings or straw just turns into more mud. I don’t know anything about Mill slag. In this area we used crushed limestone, Usually chips.
The mud is nasty, difficult, and ugly , but it has very little downside for the horses. The Cold mud is actually good therapy for their ankles and feet . Sort of like an ice pack on your sore knee .
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