Our elderly mare covered by next door stables stallion

Yes, having just heard about all this, I'm about to do so (I'm the stud owner). I know the mare owner (Jo), and her horse, and believe she is simply out to make a fast buck, but for someone who has access to a gun to make these type of threats in a public forum is beyond a joke.
 
I've saved the whole lot (screen shots in Word) so have the evidence available for the police to look at. My other half served 13 years with the police, and takes this sort of thing very seriously.
 
kalsi4654 said:
I've saved the whole lot (screen shots in Word) so have the evidence available for the police to look at. My other half served 13 years with the police, and takes this sort of thing very seriously.
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Good, I hope you show the Police as soon as possible, before the OP has the chance to back-track etc (blaming evening drinking etc?). Hope they scare the pants off her!

kalsi4654, wishing you all the best, what a horrid neighbour to have!
 
kalsi4654 said:
I've saved the whole lot (screen shots in Word) so have the evidence available for the police to look at. My other half served 13 years with the police, and takes this sort of thing very seriously.
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I glad you have come on and explained. I really was hoping that she was only a troll. I contacted you when she threatened to shoot your horse, and I can hardly believe she was crazy enough to make those threats on a public forum. Keep my email too, in case she claims you have fabricated the screen shots if this thread now disappears. It may also be worth contacting admin (bottom of the page) to ask them to let it remain. I think lots of us button pushed last night and there is a possibility that it will be deleted. God help the disabled child with parents like that!

Love your little horses!
 
I'd suggest that even were this thread removed, Admin would comply with the wishes of any State investigators, and as you say kalsi4654, our Police Forces take threats of violence, seriously, especially if it's a route to removing a firearm from circulation.

Alec.
 
ycbm said:
I glad you have come on and explained. I really was hoping that she was only a troll. I contacted you when she threatened to shoot your horse, and I can hardly believe she was crazy enough to make those threats on a public forum. Keep my email too, in case she claims you have fabricated the screen shots if this thread now disappears. It may also be worth contacting admin (bottom of the page) to ask them to let it remain. I think lots of us button pushed last night and there is a possibility that it will be deleted. God help the disabled child with parents like that!

Love your little horses!
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Would you mind re-sending your email please? I got a couple, but I don't think yours arrived as I found the link on google. :) The horses are awesome - I've had Icelandics for 30 years now, and they are the best ever. :)
 
kalsi4654 said:
Well, what a lovely troll! I am the owner of the "horny Icelandic stallion", a 2 year old 13hh colt. He did break out last year, once, through our 3 strand electric fence with 9kv on it, over our 4 foot stone bank with another 3ft of blackthorn hedge on top, then over next door's stock fence into their field. He was in there for approx 20 minutes, with one mare and 3 geldings. At the time the owner of the mare was not around, but the owner(s) of the geldings assured me the mare was not in foal, not covered, and she certainly showed no signs of it (ie stickiness around her tail etc). I did of course offer to pay for the "morning after" injection but no-one came back to me on that. If she is now in foal, it's the first I've heard of it. I don't make a fortune all over the place breeding horses (LOL!!! we usually have no more than 2 foals a year) - our horses are not "thrown out loose on the surrounding moorland" - we have a conservation grazing agreement with Pembrokeshire Coast National Park and the National Trust for our young and retired horses to keep brush on the surrounding commons in check - and "my husband" (what husband?) isn't too ill to maintain fences. I do actually know the owner of the mare, and she should be advised that threatening me or my horses on a public forum is not a sensible idea. I have copies of all her threats and will be taking legal advice. My thanks to all of you who have tried to make her see some sense. Mic Rushen - Solva Icelandics.
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I would seriously suggest you inform the police, I would imagine these types of threats are at the very least a breach of his shotgun licence and that will be removed.
 
I'd be a little surprised if a maiden mare of 23 years actually managed to get pregnant from a single sneaky serving. Isn't fertility supposed to wane quite dramatically from about 18 on, particularly in maidens?

Many moons ago we visited a Pembrokshire farmhouse. Weirdest marital set-up I've ever come across! But I suppose you have to have some form of entertainment out there during the dark winter months.
 
fatpiggy said:
I'd be a little surprised if a maiden mare of 23 years actually managed to get pregnant from a single sneaky serving. Isn't fertility supposed to wane quite dramatically from about 18 on, particularly in maidens?

Many moons ago we visited a Pembrokshire farmhouse. Weirdest marital set-up I've ever come across! But I suppose you have to have some form of entertainment out there during the dark winter months.
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Well you know, the sheep are all very beautiful..... ;)
 
fatpiggy said:
I'd be a little surprised if a maiden mare of 23 years actually managed to get pregnant from a single sneaky serving. Isn't fertility supposed to wane quite dramatically from about 18 on, particularly in maidens?

Many moons ago we visited a Pembrokshire farmhouse. Weirdest marital set-up I've ever come across! But I suppose you have to have some form of entertainment out there during the dark winter months.
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It can yes. But horses will be horses and get pregnant at a sniff of sperm on the floor, yet fail to when covered every single day for years.
 
pembrokewhisper said:
..... on her side high volt electric fence and thorn /gorse bush on top of bank. on our side more electric fence and full length sheep fence wire and post all around. Her horny stallion smashed the lot. What else do you expect us to do to protect our pet, She is not a riding horse, just a pet?.
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So no problems with the fencing then, just the unfortunate proximity of a stallion close to a mare in season.

It's sad that you let the pregnancy continue. But it is what it is, it's up to you to make the best of it.
 
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It is the owner's responsibility to fence against their stock, but really, once you thought you mare was in foal you should have taken it up with the stallion's owner. I think the very best that you might get is some contribution to vet's fees, but if your mare foals OK and mother and baby do well, you will have had a foal without paying a stud fee. If however the mare has problems then you are going to be very upset.

It would normally be a case of the stallion escaping and covering a mare, then the owners might threaten to sue the stallion owner for damages - which is why people have insurance and let the insurance company sort it out.
 
If this mare does produce a lovely foal............ then you will have a lovely memory of your old girl to bring on for the future.

What's done is done now, and TBH I suspect that any court of law would be unable to help OP much, other than to say that the costs of any vets bills for the mare could well be set-off against the sale of any possible foal resulting from the union.

I'd keep fingers X-d and hope for the best for the old gal.
 
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Orangehorse said:
It is the owner's responsibility to fence against their stock, but really, once you thought you mare was in foal you should have taken it up with the stallion's owner. …….. .
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Once the stallion was found to be in with the mare, a simple prostaglandin injection would have aborted the mare, and any stallion owner I'd have thought, would have willingly paid for this. To now claim that the stallion owners is responsible at this stage, some 7 or 8 months later, when there's a level of neglect which the OP has to accept, is nonsense and I'd doubt that any sane solicitor would take the case on.

Having read the OP's further posts, my sympathies are leaning towards the stallion owner! :)

Alec.
 
Oh I missed this fun - and the OP seems to have departed. Considerable sympathy to the stallion owner - my 7 year old ID stallion managed to get out of his stable this morning and was a total PIG to catch. Finally got him when he was outside a mare's box and determined to get in there! (He did that as a 2 yo so it was almost funny when he failed his grading due to lack of 'scope' and 'elasticity'!)

The OP was a **** and I hope she gets a call from the firearms police to confiscate her OH's gun (and perhaps charge her with threatening behaviour!)
 
ycbm said:
By the way, pembrokewhisper, if your name is your location, it's going to be pretty easy to find out who you are posting about (I already have, I think) and your neighbour may take a dim view of being dragged through the mud on this forum. I think you would be better advised to discuss this quietly with her than in public.
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just google it and you can find out who it potentially is.
 
ycbm said:
I am going to get shot down for this, but now you have introduced a disabled child, which is irrelevant, and are a brand new poster clearly looking for a fight, I firmly believe that you are a troll. Well tried. I'm out, except for getting the popcorn out to watch how this goes now.
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im currently eating popcorn and reading this :)
 
The National Stalkers Helpline, recommend people do not use their names on Social Media. I do not include any personal information on my FB registration. A Trustee of a charity, identified me on this forum. I sent a nice pm asking him not to use my name, following this he and another Trustee never missed an opportunity to identify me by name on social media. Both my partner and I were then subjected to bullying and offensive phone calls in our own home. Needless to say I no longer support that charity.

There is a big difference between Trolling and wanting privacy on a social media site which is open to thousands of people. I will be sending the BBC a copy of my written complaints to the charity and finally the Police, as recommended by the National Stalkers Helpline.
 
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