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Hello Everyone, I have always been a lurker but have built up the courage to actually post a thread :eek:

So can anyone recommend a transport company to collect a horse from Annaghdown, Co. Galway, Ireland to Devon?

Also if anyone would know a rough cost? I've budgeted roughly £300 for a share load from what I've already read on this forum.. Let me know if I'm miles out!!
 
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I can't give you any information, but there are still plenty of people who regularly buy horses from Ireland. I should ask around in the riding club/hunting world to see if anyone knows.
 
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I would not recommend Jacksons. McMahon's are okay. If you look on the Cavan Sales website there are several transporters advertised. Your budget is about right btw.
 
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Have used several Andrew Dunlop is the one I would recommend. Horses are very well looked after & arrive very happy & relaxed.
028 8075 8341 based in NI but always down south doing trips.
Goresbridge sales are in a weesk time so all transporters will be busy ferrying horses over Ireland & to UK. Probably get a good deal. Dunlops lorry will take 17 horses. But do expect any of the transporters to turn up at anytime night or day with short notice, that seems to be the norm whoever you use.
 
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partypremier said:
Have used several Andrew Dunlop is the one I would recommend. Horses are very well looked after & arrive very happy & relaxed.
028 8075 8341 based in NI but always down south doing trips.
Goresbridge sales are in a weesk time so all transporters will be busy ferrying horses over Ireland & to UK. Probably get a good deal. Dunlops lorry will take 17 horses. But do expect any of the transporters to turn up at anytime night or day with short notice, that seems to be the norm whoever you use.
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Thanks, I shall give him a call :)

Would love to be brave enough to go to a sales, but I know I'll end up buying the most pityful one I can find!! Last time I went to a sales (Exeter) I brought 3 miniatures, luckily a friend wanted them so that saved me livery for an extra 3!
 
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I shipped a horse out to Ireland a few years ago and it took 5 days because the ferry didn't run in high winds and then there was snow so he was in a transporters yard on both side of the channel for a couple of nights each. I was beside myself with worry even though they did keep me updated. To be fair once he arrived he was in amazing condition and as the journey had been split into 3 he hadn't spent too long on the lorry at any one time.
I also shipped a couple of horses from Ireland when I moved back a few years later and they did the trip in one go arriving the next day and were very tired from doing the journey plus a trip the wrong way round the M25!
Hopefully your horse is fine and will turn up very soon. I can't begin to imagine how you feel after that long, 5 days was bad enough and I was ready to go find him then if he hadn't turned up when he did.
 
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LynH said:
I shipped a horse out to Ireland a few years ago and it took 5 days because the ferry didn't run in high winds and then there was snow so he was in a transporters yard on both side of the channel for a couple of nights each. I was beside myself with worry even though they did keep me updated. To be fair once he arrived he was in amazing condition and as the journey had been split into 3 he hadn't spent too long on the lorry at any one time.
I also shipped a couple of horses from Ireland when I moved back a few years later and they did the trip in one go arriving the next day and were very tired from doing the journey plus a trip the wrong way round the M25!
Hopefully your horse is fine and will turn up very soon. I can't begin to imagine how you feel after that long, 5 days was bad enough and I was ready to go find him then if he hadn't turned up when he did.
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Yes of course the journey over can be delayed if the ferry can't leave port due to the weather. I have also had to contend with the odd couple of days one way or the other, from time to time. But that is hardly the case being described by this poster is it? And I can assure you that the ferries have been sailing on a regular basis over the last few weeks!:confused:
 
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Parkers were good as are emerald horse transport and Ballinrobe transport. These have been thoroughly professional in every dealing I have had with them - and I have used them a lot! Personal choice now is Mullins or Ballinrobe - not sure if the latter do only racehorses though as that is all I have transported with them. I have transported horses myself and once had a racehorse stuck in Wales for 5 days - I can tell you he came home in far better condition after his "holiday" on a welsh hill! When my horse was transported by McM's I was told when she arrived that there had been a ferry crash - however I had been watching the ferry sailings and no mention of it there nor ferry cancellations.
 
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George mullins transported our pony from derry to wicklow, can't recommend him more highly. Pony 11.3 and he couldn't see pony in cctv as too small so made regular stops to check on her. Also friend of mine whom we got her from was more than happy with the conditions, and he was exceptionally nice and brought the pony into the yard as I had a buggy in tow.
 
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I can recommend George Mullins also. Arrived in good condition with all my stuff too and right on time.
Do hope you get some good news regarding your horse LCH611!
 
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He has now arrived! He didn't call me at 5.00 am but I called him and he said he would be with me in 1/2 hr but he just had to drop a horse in Cheltenham (which is 2 hrs away from me......). He then got lost and I had to go and find him, so it was 10am before Bear was unloaded.

He is looking much leaner and his coat is awful and the lack of tail guard means that his tail has rubbed badly. He also seems to have travelled from midday yesterday till 10 am today without so much as a haynet He may have been offered water though as he wasn't interested when I offered him some.

He had a quick 10 mins in the sunshine and a chance to trot around and eat some grass then I brought him in & re-introduced him to his brother, they had a quick nibble and I left him tucked up in a stable with lots of fresh straw, a huge haynet of haylage, lots of water and a salt lick. I will pop up and check on him shortly but I thought he was better in filling up on hay than ballooning on my grass. Hopefully he will have a snooze and he will go out this evening with the others who will pester him to play. Unfortunately I don't have any isolation facilities so I will just have to watch them all and be careful about not letting them mix with any other horses for a week or so.

I am glad I kept hassling the transporter though because he came with only 3 on the lorry so I am sure would have preferred to wait longer
 
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Very relieved that he is safe home with you at last :)

Not wanting to teach you to suck eggs, but it is very likely he will not have had water since the night before he travelled, so maybe stick a bit of apple juice or something in his water to encourage him to drink. Sometimes when they are very dehydrated they will still refuse water.

Can't tell you how pleased I am to see your post!
 
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he had had some water when I went back up to check on him, and I will take him to the trough when he goes out - my other 2 connies are absolute water monsters and never refuse a drink (always sink their muzzles in & slurp greedily & try & push their head into a bucket at the same time when at a show) so hopefully he will take a lead from them. I will be checking his poos as well (and will get a worm count done ASAP), so should see if he is looking deydrated. The skin pinch test was fine
 
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I a backhanded way it may even have done you a favour as no hay means less dust to annoy the lungs and only 3 on means more air to go round so the travel snots are less likely to be bad for him. I now its far from ideal and that you would not want him travelled the way they did but hopefully it will work out ok and he will pick up weight again quickly. Bet you are reallt relieved that he is with you and its all over now.
 
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