And today, little red and white coblet learnt....

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Sparkles

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How to ride and lead :)

http://www.facebook.com/v/10150850115411753

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How to give kisses

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And to act as a big brother helping a little yearling colt travel for his first time [which consisted of Sparks falling asleep and said little colt using him as a partition to lean on!]

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:D

Love him. [Even if he is more yellow coloured atm. Damn weather!]


How's your weekend going?
 
Thankyou :D

He's such a chilled lad bless him.

The little yearling colt broke loose unloading him, ended up going over the top of me holding Sparks and I had to let go. Which then meant they were loose in a 20acre or so field and haven't been turned out at the moment due to weather so everyone was dreading trying to catch them up again...apart from me lol. As predicted Sparks stopped no more than 10m away soon as his nose hit the first bit of grass, came up to be caught fine and said little yearling colt then looked very sheepish at the thought of being left on his own in a strange place, so promptly came over to be caught also. ;) Anyway....Sparks was just left tied up happily on his own in a new yard whilst we sorted the other colt into his new stable and then had a cuppa. Not even a peep out of him! [Said other colt also quietened down and settled straight away :) Think the road behind spooked him unloading. ]

As far as he's concerned, all lorries mean are food! Everytime he goes out somewhere, he either finds a field donated to him for the day....haylage nets left with him....or as today ended up for him, a donated feed from new owner for being such a good boy and grass! Happy days lol. I love little Sparks pony. He's so easy. :D
 
I love coblets too :) Mine has a cough at the moment and the vet has given me antibiotics and ventipulmin granules. Its a lot of medication considering she only has a couple of handfuls of feed, but bless her today she dived straight in, and scoffed the lot, no fussing. That's what I like too, they make things easy :D
 
He is going to be awesome when he is grown up :D cant wait to see what you get up to with him. He is getting the best upbringing for a youngster he sees so much.
 
Thankyou, that honestly means so much. When I got given him last year, I was overwhelmed as I never expected him at all and he's just so so special to me. But at the same time, I was also so worried about not doing him right! Even though my day-to-day life is dealing with the colts/youngstock/cob stallions/etc, one actually being my 'own' just felt so.... different? All my horses have been far from easy to start with [but never young], and yes, at work I do halter break/break in on a daily basis etc, but they're never 'long term' ones, they generally are sold on to new homes or then turned away as a herd etc.
To have one completely unhandled and do from scratch myself and with the plan to keep entire, I was just so worried I just wasn't good enough and if he ended up sharp/naughty/etc, then it would be my fault and no-one elses.
If that makes sense?! I'm rambling!

I'm just completely over the moon with him is what I'm trying [badly!] to say haha. He honestly makes my world go round, I couldn't be without him now. I cannot wait to continue posts about him over the years to come. :)
 
well done love the pics hes lovely i tried this with my colt and it was dreadful he kept biting the gelding and trying to play with him any suggestions wld be good. hes usualy pretty good to handle bit of a bugger for bitting when being led but this is slowly getting better
 
Awesome, he's a mega dude!!

I had the plan to lead my coblet out from my old mare, but she sadly had to be retired before I had chance, so it's just in hand walks for us.
 
I was a bit worried Kylee regarding that too. Even though he is not colt-ish at all, I did worry that the slightest playful strike with front feet would rather hurt my knee caps! I just did it very trialling first - just literally walked them both round outside the yard first...He was more interested in grooming Hairy though! Wasn't at all nippy nor interested in him. He had a sniff of him to start with, but Hairy is very detached about 'babies' and not very warming towards them if they act colt-ish around him at all, so he generally keeps them in check and they never try anything with him [made clear when he had a friendly sniff of him!]. He's perfectly well behaved and won't ever be ill mannered etc, but, if one does get colt-ish, his body language to them is crystal clear and they've been turned out with him before so know the consequences of their 'actions' bless them!

It's not personally something I'd do with a real colt-ish lad...not just from a personal safety point of view etc, but being in the middle of a road just isn't somewhere where I'd want to have to 'sort' something or run into difficulties....but, I normally detest riding and leading so that probably stems from that more than anything!
 
ZondaR said:
Lovely pics. I'm not sure I'd be so keen on a horse that wants to french kiss though, no matter how cute he is.:p;)
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Haha he's always done it from a baby bless him XD If you don't give him a kiss back, he'll just be a pain in the butt and keep waving his lip in your face till he gets one hahahaha!
 
ChristmasSparkles said:
I was a bit worried Kylee regarding that too. Even though he is not colt-ish at all, I did worry that the slightest playful strike with front feet would rather hurt my knee caps! I just did it very trialling first - just literally walked them both round outside the yard first...He was more interested in grooming Hairy though! Wasn't at all nippy nor interested in him. He had a sniff of him to start with, but Hairy is very detached about 'babies' and not very warming towards them if they act colt-ish around him at all, so he generally keeps them in check and they never try anything with him [made clear when he had a friendly sniff of him!]. He's perfectly well behaved and won't ever be ill mannered etc, but, if one does get colt-ish, his body language to them is crystal clear and they've been turned out with him before so know the consequences of their 'actions' bless them!

It's not personally something I'd do with a real colt-ish lad...not just from a personal safety point of view etc, but being in the middle of a road just isn't somewhere where I'd want to have to 'sort' something or run into difficulties....but, I normally detest riding and leading so that probably stems from that more than anything!
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dnt think ill be trying it for a while as the colt is very playful and so is the gelding they both love to play and end up biting each others legs and pracing round each other
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they spend 24\7 out and seem to play all day in the mornings i walk dwn to them and there both flat out on the floore fast asleep
 
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