Fence down, stallion escaped!

[pennyturner]

Got a phone call yesterday - 'horses are through the fencing'. There's 11 of them, 5 of which are entire. Should be a disaster, right?

Half an hour or so later we turned up with headcollars, fence posts etc. to find:

50 yards of fence on the floor. They'd pushed it over to get to some willow trees.
Buster (13 yo Dartmoor stallion) quietly grazing the scrub woodland just the other side of the fence.
All the rest grazing normally on the meadow
LOTS of poo and footprints - several of them must have been out at some point, had a party, then gone back in!!

I do love my ponies.
Fence is secure again now...

 

[Dizzydancer]

Glad all ok-they heard you coming im guessing and wanted buster to get the blame!!
My concern would be what happened in that half hour I know most mares aren't in season but we have a few at yard who are in late this year. Presume your mares aren't or that you have no mares!!

 

[pennyturner]

Glad all ok-they heard you coming im guessing and wanted buster to get the blame!!
My concern would be what happened in that half hour I know most mares aren't in season but we have a few at yard who are in late this year. Presume your mares aren't or that you have no mares!!

No mares anywhere close. Hence the boys being quite so relaxed. None of them have ever covered, so (although I'm sure that wouldn't stop them if the opportunity presented) they have nothing to 'go looking' for, except food of course.

To give you an idea how clueless they are, Buster was being ridden by a child at a show last year. Child got off to stroke a puppy, leaving Buster unattended :O He was within 20 feet of 3 mares, and just put his head down and started eating. Bless.