For those with multiple horses - why?

Most of ours are rescues, ie ones with illness, old ones, ones that would of gone to the slaughter house etc.
Only one, my mare, is healthy & young. The others are companions, veterans or semi-retired ones.
 
I bought a tiny skewbald Falabella x for my children when I was horseless for the first time in years 21 years ago - he is now 24 yrs old and still with me. He was the most unsuitable children's riding pony imaginable bring sharp and actually hating children. I now have 5 in total, the 10hh Falabella x, a 17hh WB he's 9, a 15hh Dales he's 4, a 14.2hh piebald cob mare who is 21 and a 5 yr old 15.1hh ISH who is in foal to a Selle Francais.
I have my own land and stables and the 2 geldings live out. The mares and pony come in overnight from around November. I love them all. The ISH was a rescue as was the WB unbeknown to me when I bought him as a bit of a project.
 
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Why?

...because I have an inability to say no.
I have my cob and my kids outgrown ponies as companions (Welsh A and Shetland). As well as those, over the years, I have taken on all manner of waif's and strays. I finally got back down to my original three and along came a pony in need of some tlc so I took pity ,then a few month later two 30 yr old Shetland ponies needed a home...sooooo, back up to six again!
 
Because life was boring when we had two, eight however is much more fun.

We have two projects, two companions - one 15.2 tbx and one 12h welshy, my PC pony that I never outgrew, two rescues that came to be rehomed and never left and an old pony that we could never part with.

One of the projects is for sale so we may be down to seven soon but by spring we'll be up to eight again. We're lucky in having our own land and all apart from the tbx are natives so everybody lives out all year round, rugged and well fed.
 
Because they get old, or outgrown, or broken so we get replacements, but the original horses and ponies have become family members so aren't going anywhere.
 
I currently have two. One horse of a life time. Second bought to break and sell on, still own her four years later as fell in love. She's finally up for sale now though as the reality of two horses, two dogs, husband and home to take care of plus full time very heavy uni course (student nurse) have now hit home and I've realised I'm not super woman !!
 
Because I'm a mug!!
Was giving up so old boy went off on loan, lovely job. Went to local horse sales just because I had a day off and came home with a foal and a welsh pony... Then got an ex racer... Then the old boy came back off loan! He's back out on loan now, and only the ex racer is in work and on livery. The youngster and the pony and on my parents farm being generally quite annoying (and expensive!)
 
I have one and a half. Mine and a share horse. Mine had foot problems 6 years ago and had to give up jumping. Luckily at the same time, my best friend was having babies and needed help with her horse, so I started sharing him to compete. It works brilliantly for both of us. I could never have given my boy up, but still really want to do local riding club stuff and there's no way I could have had two - more from a time persepctive than a financial one. As it is, I have a sharer for mine as keeping them both in work while working full time in a demanding job is hard going. It doesn't really matter if mine gets ridden or not as he just hacks and does a bit of schooling, but he's perfectly sound as long as he doesn't jump so it seems a waste. If I couldn't have my share horse I'd probably just be a happy hacker, but I'd resent it! After their days, I will just have the one - in fact my friend and I might buy one between us.
 
Up to 5, oops. One is my old pony who is retired, then he has a little buddy (who was a freebie from a lovely lady on here), riding horse for me, riding horse for my mum and then I have one horse abroad who was a gift from friends (yet to be weaned and shipped).

We hate to part with any and we have our own land. They all live out all year so it's not much hassle.
 
My horses work hard and I feel they deserve a decent retirement. Flicking them on when they reach middle age is just not something I can do. So I currently have two retired, one in work and one about to be broken in.
 
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