1 guinea for a pony's life!!

There's a dealer near me who buys the cheap unhandled colts for next to nothing BUT passes them from Market to Market afterwards trying to make a few £ out off them the poor buggers.
It so needs to stop.
Iv just brought a cheap colt who is ever so sweet and who will stay with me. If I could I would buy a load but not possable on livery.
 
The problem lies with the twee english outlook of horses/ponies

because we as a nation, refuse to acknowledge that they are agri animals, they dont have the same safe guards as lambs/claves/cattle/sheep

if say, you, as in joe public, bought a calf at brecon today, then you, as the buyer, would by law, need to keep that calf on your land, with all relevent paperwork up to date, for 6 WEEKS!!!

BUT....a pony, bought today, at Brecon, could legally, be bought, and stand on a lorry and then be transported to Exeter sales on tuesday and be sold on...

where is the justice in that?

NONE!!

Horses and ponies get a very raw deal at markets/sales
 
OMG, where was that sale!!!!, joke, sorry.

A friends dad bought an exracr a few weeks ago that was sold as a good goer, as a foal was valued at £80,000, he won a couple last year, and then got injured, her dad 'bought' him for £1

He is a cracker.

I know prcies are too low, but why can I not find a lead reign first ridden,, withought spendding a kings ransom ( I know they are worth there weight in gold), but I guess ones man trash is another mans treasure
 
And if fools don't stop buying the cheap crap, then there will continue to be a market for them, and a market begs supply.
N :mad:
 
Nepenthe said:
And if fools don't stop buying the cheap crap, then there will continue to be a market for them, and a market begs supply.
N :mad:
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Except at 1.05 no fool would bother breeding for as there is certainly no profit for any breeder!
As at the moment saddly there is no market! But totally agree in principle .
 
I went down to Dartmoor at half term and went for a ride on the moor. The lady who took me out told me that nearly all the farmers had taken their stallions off the moor in an attempt to reduce the numbers of foals this year but one coloured stallion was left out and lo and behold nearly all the foals this year are coloured. Why on earth is there not a body of some sort to stop this type of behaviour. Why can't somone out there stop this indescriminate type of breeding.

Perhaps the stallion's owner is a shareholder of a zoo somewhere in the country - perhaps that stallion's owner should be made to go to the slaughterhouses to see where his stallion's offspring end up....
 
I wonder if it's time to bring in something like the Bureau of Land Management like they have in the states for Mustangs?

What kind of numbers do we have over here for feral ponies?
 
Have to say will never buy a horse over £500 pounds! (note this is for unbroken youngstock) Because fortunately I have always had TIME and this means you can look for physically nice horses and not worry what state they are in education wise.

I fully agree that indescriminate breeding should be curtailed but it does worry me that the type I like will fade away. I have never seen a horse I would buy in magazines. I like them stocky broad chested shortish backed, loatish and thuggish with spunk but sane. I could go on but all the expensive horses are lacking something that the random surprises and mistakes don't. I struggle to see the 'purists' point of view with only wanting horses who have a pedigree because I am yet to meet one I would spend money on. I would rather see a horse and judge it on what I see infront of me not the breeding.

The 6 week idea is brilliant why don't we do it with horses exactly? :rolleyes:
 
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