Strange things that you see in fields

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Go past a local RS every day and in their front field are two mini shetties and a new exmoor pony (with really bad sweet itch from what I saw this morning, no rug, no nothing, looked throughly miserable).

Couple of weeks ago - there were also 2 goats in the field
Today - there was a piglet in the field

Ok, I've dealt with using a sheep as company for a horse once (just don't ask please
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- although when you get told to go feed Gus thinking he's a new livery and find out that he's a sheep, you do wonder what is going on
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But a pig? Thought horses couldn't stand pigs?
 
I think it depends on whether they are used to them or not!

One of my old horses once smelt a pigpen as we were hacking past and went COMPLETELY nuts but my other pony would go right up to them and not care at all.
April (the bay in sig) snorts a bit when we ride past them but she doesn't seem to mind them that much either
 
My friend has a pig to keep her horse company, they are the best of friends
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Talking of seeing odd things in fields, I saw a camel in a field in oxfordshire, all by itself, no one believed me though, just told me I had proberly been drinking
 
Strangest thing I ever found in the field was a muddy pair of blue nylon y fronts found while poo picking

I don't want to know...
 
and what riding school is that
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maybe they use pigs and goats for lessons when they run out of ponies - wouldn't put that past them LOL!!
 
i have just rented a yard that is on a cow farm. the other sunday a cow was running around the field with a red heluim ballon wrapped around its stomach. the land owner thought i was mad when i called her from her garden to tell her. i assume someone must have had a party and the balloon had flown over the fields and attached itself to the cow.
 
Perhaps the camel you saw in Oxfordshire was in one of the outlying fields at Burford Wild Life Park!!!!! So, no, you hadn't been drinking, madhector.

Talking about helium balloons, I often found the discarded plastic tubey things with shrivelled up balloons attached, out in the fields. I think they can be quite dangerous for livestock, especially inquistive foals.
 
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We found a bath once. Not entirely sure how that got there.

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Baron had a bath in his field
 
My mare used to share her field with a pack of free roaming piglets, all was fine until they hoped under her fence and snuffled around, she seemed to find it fun chasing thie little pack of squealing piglets, until they split up and then she'd get confused as which to follow first, was quite a sight, poor pigs though, they were rather cute
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I found a christmas tree this year, don't know how it got there, no way it could have come in over the hedge and the gate is so far away,
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somebody sure wanted rid of it, they'd have to have trudged though all that mud to dump it.

We find those race balloons quite often, don't send them back though, would that be encouraging it? I found one in one of my horses droppings once, luckily it had managed to go through without causing problems, but I'm sure that can't always be the case
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there was a 'flock'? of somebodies guinea fowl in amongst the horses yesterday, dont know whos they are or where theyre from
 
lol - I didn't see it but apparently the funniest thing the girls at my old yard saw was Ty chasing a man across the footpath who had a tescos carrier bag in his hand - I used to keep his carrotts in a tescos bag!

The poor guy started running and Ty was happily trotting behind him wanting some carrots - nothing malicious but apparently the girls were in fits!
 
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