Poor little mite - selling for £95!

What I find annoying is that the horses will be bought by people with no knowledge because they are cheap - and end up in the same vicious circle of neglect. I know people do get cheap horses sometimes and turn them round, but you would have to be very knowledgeable and patient to do that, and I don't think the people who buy these horses will be.....I wish I had my own land!
 
LittleBlackMule said:
If you think that's bad enough, on the usual culprit Dragon Driving there's an Exmoor for £50, and a 14 month old filly being advertised as "ready to break" FOURTEEN MONTHS WTF :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
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this was my Exmoor that you are talk about as she had go due loss of grazing and i have tried to sell her for few months so nothing i can do but let her go for little money to the right home so she gone to a lovely home now. THANK YOU very much!!
 
2/3 of the way down on the under £2000 page of dragon driving is this:

10 Dartmoor Hill Pony Yearling Colts - New
10 Dartmoor Hill Ponies, passported, microchipped, 18 months old, all colts to make 9hh to 11hh, all coloures
Priced for all ten. Been running out, fat and tight. Priced to sell.
No time wasters. Only phone when you are in your horse box ready to collect.
Price: £200 for all ten

Why, why, why do they get bred to go for these prices - so sad.
 
I gave away an exmoor gelding a few months ago. Is it not better to find a good home than to take him to an auction which is where I found him a couple of years ago?

A couple of weeks ago I 'acquired' a mule gelding who had been advertised over several months for decreasing amounts, eventually free. I hope to give him a chance, I would like to say a forever home but you cannot guarantee anything.
 
Good god, I had no idea that you could get horses this cheap.
I want the coloured and my hubby just said only if you have a spare £1k for the first vets bill!
:(
 
Oh dear they look like they could use some TLC! I wish I had the grazing and the money to buy them all - I know it just encourages the dealers but they look so sad!! :( Particularly that foal :'(
 
I have had the unforunate displeasure of visiting said yard :( Not a very pleasant experience.....horses crammed into old cattle barns, tied up to brick walls for days on end and horses wandering around the yard. Sold horses were shoved into a sand pen out the back untill they were delivered. I was shown a little grey with a hideously huge sarcoid on its stifle joint.

Not something I would like to see again
 
boogles said:
I have had the unforunate displeasure of visiting said yard :( Not a very pleasant experience.....horses crammed into old cattle barns, tied up to brick walls for days on end and horses wandering around the yard. Sold horses were shoved into a sand pen out the back untill they were delivered. I was shown a little grey with a hideously huge sarcoid on its stifle joint.

Not something I would like to see again
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Horrible isn't it?
 
iloveappy, if you sold that pony on for £50 then I'm not sure what the point was in "saving" her from a "horrible place". I know that sounds harsh, but honestly, putting her on Dragon Driving for £50, but taking on another equine in her place is pretty rough.
 
If you look at the advert only the little grey being seriously squashed and the coloured baby are £95, the other two are £995/£695.

If it is Irish Tom then isn't that reason enough to report the ad as it definitely states private advertiser?
 
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Makes you wonder doesn't it?
The "childs pony" looks about 2 years old :confused:
I agree though, buying these ponies would just free up space for the dealer.
On the other hand I'd be inclined to buy them as Winter/Spring projects to sell on in the Summer.
Project horses, for me, are such a good time consumer. Rewarding too :)

Bleh. I hate the way our horse stuff works. If it were up to me (and, when I rule the world it will be) everyone should have a license to own horses and then another license to breed.
 
Poor horses, i'd buy them all just to look after them, if i had the land and money. It makes me sick to see horses being sold for that. Did anybody see the 10 year old child that bought a pony in smithfield fair, dublin, last year, for €8. poor pony was confiscated by dspca and was pts the day after!!
 
Thats why my sister and I got into dealing from auctions. We bought the £7 ponies and those that turned out ok would be kept till 4 years then backed and shown a year before selling on. The ones who weren't saleable are in my field still....living the life of riley but happily loved as well.
 
How much do you think it would cost to bring one or two to Northumberland from their yard? I can't bare to think of them there!!!
 
We bought a cracking 14hh mare for a friends children from Dragon Driving. Not all the animals there are in bad nick, too young for the job etc. I think you will find animals in poor condition in all the advertising sites.
They are going for such low prices all over the country. People aren't buying, the ones for sale are going for peanuts. The only positive side of this is that the number of empty broodmares for sale this year has gone up hugely.
 
I'm not saying don't buy from Tom Bonner's yard, but just be realistic about what you're doing. If you were to go to the expense and trouble of shipping a few to Northumberland there would be more taking their place for sale within days.
 
Yes, I suppose. Where do you draw the line! Unless I planned on buying every single one dont suppose it would make much difference sadly
 
Tinypony said:
iloveappy, if you sold that pony on for £50 then I'm not sure what the point was in "saving" her from a "horrible place". I know that sounds harsh, but honestly, putting her on Dragon Driving for £50, but taking on another equine in her place is pretty rough.
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Look i aint interested in money for Exmoor so i have already found a perfect home for her where she wil have fun with her new owner, when i saved her and she was an awful condtition(sp) ringworm, really bad sweet itch etc.... you name it she have it all, so i brought her back into well healthy then moved on to the RIGHT home is all matters to me. if wasnt me she would be dead by now. i saved some horses, foals etc before, found them really good homes so now i cant do it anymore because i lost grazing.
 
not to be controversial, but how many yards have come under fire only for people to say 'if only id seen/known, id have reported to whw etc' and something would have been done

amersham to name but one

if the yard is bad, the horses being kept in a cruel and bad way, rather than post about it why not report your experience to another organisation other than the rspca so it can be looked into?

rather than get these pics and go ' oh poor thing' or go hunting for ones to post just to do nothing but 'talk' about them for a bit
 
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