Shetland baby photo - cuteness alert!

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Our little mini Shetland herd doubled today with the addition of a mare with foal at foot. I am delighted with them, and can't wait to get out showing them next year :)

Introducing Willowbrook Evie:

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The big horses don't know what to make of her, and she has taken great delight in galloping round whinnying at them and winding them up from the other side of the fence! She loves having her bum scratched, her bottom lip goes all wibbly wobbly and she goes into a trance :D OH loves her to bits already, and Evie follows him everywhere.

Mum is a bit of a porker, but we have put them both on the paddock grazed down by Fat Lad and Skinny Minnie, and will keep an eye on her and make sure she doesn't put any more on.

Hoping for lots of lovely rosettes next season from my new girls :)

ETA: I am aware of a handful of ragwort plants, will be gone tomorrow :)
 
So lovely!! I hought it was a mare ad foal advertied on Preloved for a min, but not in the right area for you! Had to double take though I do love small peeps! xx
 
Evie is gorgeous, and very brave. Her mummy didn't want to get off the trailer, Evie just walked down by herself and had a whinny at the other horses. She leads the way, mum follows - I am going to have my hands full with her, I feel!
 
Its always the little ones that are a handfull. We have a shetland out on loan, very sweet, kind pony but he can be more of a handfull than our big horses, thats why i like ponies and cobs, they tend to be cheeky!
 
rascal said:
Its always the little ones that are a handfull. We have a shetland out on loan, very sweet, kind pony but he can be more of a handfull than our big horses, thats why i like ponies and cobs, they tend to be cheeky!
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We used to have two mini shetland stallions. One was lovely, very placid and laid back, the other displayed every Shetland stereotype going. He used to escape on a regular basis, often climbing the muck heap in the corner of the field and leaping the 3 or 4 feet down the other side. We put up sturdy post and rail and he dug under the bottom rail, which was only 8 inches from the ground, and shimmied under it! We had a phone call at 6.30am one Sunday morning telling us he was in the church yard, other phone calls at more reasonable times of day came from the school (he was lapping up the attention from the children in the school yard!) and several random people who's lawns he was nibbling away at!

I think I have another demon Shetland on my hands....... :D :D :D
 
Serious cuties! Can I possibly suggest you electric tape off a very small strip of that field for those two. She is rather large and I would hate for anything tragic to happen due to lami ...

Good luck with the showing.
 
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