Recent content by hackedoff

I am possibly pipe dreaming but I really want to put my Fell pony mare in foal. She is a proven broodmare and her now grown up colt foal won SEIB search for a stars M&M championship. She has competed successfully in dressage, trec and showing despite the notable handicap of having me as a rider...

I found a white mouse when hacking out once in Birmingham, it was strolling down the side of a lane. I got off and put it in my riding hat and walked with it in the hat and horse in tow to the local guinepig lady who took it in. It would have been picked off by a kestrel or local foxes on its...

Agreed perhaps we Fell lovers are too close to it emotionally, also there was a fear of subjuducy which I can’t spell if too much was said.

But this misses the point that the ponies had been there since the 1950s in the same numbers and no problem till a policy change by NE around 3 years ago, it’s unbalanced reporting and a court judgement that was flawed.

Natural England. That’s the issue. The same body responsible for rewilding of saddleworth moor recently which went so well that it all set alight this year - no fire breaks. Apparantly NE are doing the same in Dartmoor. The sad thing is the Greenholme herd herd is only 24 ponies. I believe...

Sorry pressed post to quickly! Here is a clip that shows why this herd is important and the breeder, the clip is about 10 years old. it makes me so sad and the breeder seems to be receiving little support from the breed society who seem to scared to act - presumably worried about the potential...

Best place is facebook Fell Pony Group for info. See also my other post as I pressed the send button mid post on my reply to you! Sorry about that.

Hi AMP it is the single trailer, its only 15 inches narrower than a double but much easier to reverse and get through tight spaces when leaving yard down a land past lots of parallel parked cars. It does have the windows all the way down the side. My pony became increasingly nervous when...

One of the last few hill breeders for free roaming Fells has just lost a case against naturalnengkand who have sought to force his herd of the Fell. They have grazed their since the 1950s , well before natural England was invented! This all started following their rounding the herd and...

since posting this thread I have bought 2 x lead ropes with the quick release catches instead of clips and plan to fasten these to the front tie rings which are quite far from the breast bar. As an aside I had contacted a number of ifor Williams dealers about my concerns re the back net and had...

Hi JillA thank you, as I have decided to keep the trailer I will look at this idea for peace of mind. Pony did climb over my ifor’s breast bar and ended up facing backwards, hence my concern! She doesn’t like traveling backwards and has been fine since I started traveling her with no partitions...

Thank you all. I think I have been worrying too much. I filmed pony at the weekend and she looks happy enough traveling in it and literally loaded herself. It does have a back blind but as you can see from the clip it’s actually quite see through with light behind it. I have blocked out the long...

I thought I would update this thread. It turned out that the issue was a combination of the long side windows (now covered over) and the spare wheel being (badly) retrofitted by the dealership I bought trailer off. They had forgot to supply it with trailer and fitted it on a few months later...

I have a lovely new cheval trailer but it doesn’t have back shutters above the ramp. Has anyone found this to be a problem? I am worried pony might try to jump out even though she has made no attempt to! I’m great at stressing needlessly!

I don’t see how they could have really allowed horses to finish irrespective of the horrendous conditions. By stopping at 40 km I think under fei rules they needed to give a 5 day break before allowing horses to race again. If the ride had been completed it would have been quite difficult to...