FFAQ
Well-Known Member
My wretched hooligan cob is free to any home. In fact, I'll pay you take him!
I spent all weekend carefully putting up electric fencing and sorting out the water supply to a massive field I'm renting. I have inherited 2 pretty feral ponies from a relative recently and I have done very careful introductions with my lot. So this afternoon having lovingly put the last bit of fence in place and scrubbed the trough, etc, I started taking the nags out to the field. Hooligan and Saint horse went first and Hooligan was actually quite civilised leading out to the field (it's a bit of a trek). Then fatty went out and was delighted to have more grass after 5 minutes of starvation. Hooligan and Saint were grazing peacefully so I went back for the feral ponies who were actually pretty civilised once they worked out that all 3 of us had to walk side by side, and when we got to the field Hooligan was waiting. I always put in a no-man's land by the gate so the horses aren't barging me when I take one in or out, so I unclipped the lead ropes thinking I'd let them in the main field and then get the headcollars off after I'd done the gate up properly. Big mistake. Hooligan decided it would be great fun to chase them and all 3 went straight through my electric fence in 3 places. Luckily they just snapped the tape so nobody was hurt, but by then it was pretty dark and I had to traipse around 10 acres looking for dark bay ponies so I could get the headcollars off!
Apologies for the completely pointless frustrated post (no pun intended), just needed to share my frustration ?
And another thing- I must've walked 4 or 5 miles this evening putting horses out and retrieving headcollars, so why aren't I skinny? Harrumph!
I spent all weekend carefully putting up electric fencing and sorting out the water supply to a massive field I'm renting. I have inherited 2 pretty feral ponies from a relative recently and I have done very careful introductions with my lot. So this afternoon having lovingly put the last bit of fence in place and scrubbed the trough, etc, I started taking the nags out to the field. Hooligan and Saint horse went first and Hooligan was actually quite civilised leading out to the field (it's a bit of a trek). Then fatty went out and was delighted to have more grass after 5 minutes of starvation. Hooligan and Saint were grazing peacefully so I went back for the feral ponies who were actually pretty civilised once they worked out that all 3 of us had to walk side by side, and when we got to the field Hooligan was waiting. I always put in a no-man's land by the gate so the horses aren't barging me when I take one in or out, so I unclipped the lead ropes thinking I'd let them in the main field and then get the headcollars off after I'd done the gate up properly. Big mistake. Hooligan decided it would be great fun to chase them and all 3 went straight through my electric fence in 3 places. Luckily they just snapped the tape so nobody was hurt, but by then it was pretty dark and I had to traipse around 10 acres looking for dark bay ponies so I could get the headcollars off!
Apologies for the completely pointless frustrated post (no pun intended), just needed to share my frustration ?
And another thing- I must've walked 4 or 5 miles this evening putting horses out and retrieving headcollars, so why aren't I skinny? Harrumph!
