Non equine companions

[Flying_Filly]

Has anyone had experience of non equine companions?

I'm thinking about goats or sheep?

Or do Shetlands make good companions? I'm looking for something hardy and reasonably low cost.

 

[Funkyfilly024]

Id say sheep, they generally get quite attached, a horse and a sheep, but they are forever getting ill or lame, they need regular feet trimming, shearing and doing for fly strike, and honestly, its catching the bug**rs !
Goats need the best fencing you will ever find, they will forever escape.

Id say to be honest its less hastle and more economic to have a shetland pony ! They live off next to nothing too.

Only good thing about the goats and sheep are that they eat stuff the horses wont!