**Update** Diamond in the rough Pt.2 - PICTURE HEAVY

Elsiecat said:
^thanks will have a go! :)
Out of interest, how do you know my location!?
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Didnt you post in the North west section? Got the feeling from your posts in their that you are close to Chester. So you have the Flint & Denbigh PC, Cheshire Hunt South, Cheshire Hunt North etc, all very good PC's.
 
Oh he is gorgeous! You certainly have a good eye! Sounds and looks like he knows he has landed on his hooves with you. Well done on taking him in, it looks like he is going to pay you back in spades :D
 
Wow! Felt so sorry for the poor boy in the first pics with the state of his coat and worried he'd be skin and bone under all the rock hard grime.... but wow! what a difference and he's not looking too bad weight wise either! :eek::D
Well done you! :D He looks like a properly good find especially as he's a freebie! And he's a lovely handsome boy too! :D
I second the motion for update pics!
 
Only just seen the recent posts!
Wait until I get on my laptop, you'll be begging me to stop with the pictures :o :D
 
Wowza's. What a difference!!!
He is actually beautiful. He's very lucky to have found somebody like you, no doubt he'll do fantastic inhand :D

Looks like he'll turn out to be a brilliant 'freebie' even if unexpected and not planned :D
 
Elsiecat said:
Only just seen the recent posts!
Wait until I get on my laptop, you'll be begging me to stop with the pictures :o :D
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Not me :)

Bailey reminds me of a young mare I had on loan a few years ago. It broke my heart to give her up. She was the next model up :p standing at 13.3 aged 5, with a back like a table! I can see Bailey being the spit of her when his summer coat comes through :D

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^i can definitely see the resemblance!!!
I measured bailey yesterday and he's hovering at 12hh. But section c's are supposed to be 12.2+?
Either I need to measure him again or he needs downplating :D
 
He might still have a little bit of growing to do :) He is very pretty - well done you for making a world of difference to him. If I was at my family home in Northumberland rather than down here in London I would have a field full of scabby ponies!

Have you thought about driving him - you wouldn't be too big for him then, you and your fellow rescuer could do it together, all our welshies have been fab drivers, but it is VERY addictive... :p
 
aww he is so cute , what a very lucky pony he's really landed on his feet with you :) i'm sure he's going to make someone a lovely pony :)
re the bandages :o i'm sure you will know and i don't mean to be unkind in anyway but you really can do an awful lot of damage with badly fitting tail and leg bandages if he won't stand still for them to be put on properly he'd be far better off without any on at all

good luck with him , i'm sure he's going to look fab when his summer coat comes through , you have a good eye for a horse spotting him under all that fluff :)
 
^i'm fully aware of how to bandage. They were very secure. Neither were they too tight. It was a 15 minute journey home and I'd rather he had some protection than none at all!
I realise you weren't trying to be nasty but I really thought this was good for HHO, all these posts and not one has been derogatory. I should have seen it coming!
 
Elsiecat said:
^i'm fully aware of how to bandage. They were very secure. Neither were they too tight. It was a 15 minute journey home and I'd rather he had some protection than none at all!
I realise you weren't trying to be nasty but I really thought this was good for HHO, all these posts and not one has been derogatory. I should have seen it coming!
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tbh i'm really surprised no one else mentioned them and no i wasn't trying to be nasty at all and i thought i had been as pleasant as possible , i'm am sorry if i have upset you it wasn't my intention
i wish you all the best with him your going to have yourself a cracking little pony in a few months
 
Mane - if you google Welsh C images you will see that a lot of them do not go for the completely au-natural look! A pulled mane is nothing to be too concerned about though 3" may be a bit short, if you take the rest up to a bit closer it won't look so bad. Not sure what you meant by hair clip - certainly not a look I would recommend for the show ring ;-)

Condition - he defo does not seem "too poor to geld" as someone said - get them off asap!

Patchy bits - defo looks like he has been having a bit of a chomp on himself so would expect a few "hitch hikers"!

He looks lovely! I have a Welsh A myself so a bit of a sucker for a nice little welshie!

Bandages - well yes, I know your heart was in the right place and having his hooves waiving round your ears was not pleasant, but you really would have been better off with none.
 
angelish said:
tbh i'm really surprised no one else mentioned them and no i wasn't trying to be nasty at all and i thought i had been as pleasant as possible , i'm am sorry if i have upset you it wasn't my intention
i wish you all the best with him your going to have yourself a cracking little pony in a few months
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I think the reason no one else mentioned them was because Elsiecat had stated in her OP that the bandages were a quicky job and why and she also apologised for how they looked *crawls of back to dark hole* :o
 
^i think you need to read my bit about his mane again! He has about a 3 inch bit of his neck where there is no mane at all! What I was wondering is could I trim the rest, pray to the mane gods, and then position a sneaky clip in summer so his mane looks all the same?

He was gelded on Tuesday. I felt so sad for him!

Patches are being treated for any lice.
 
Elsiecat said:
^i can definitely see the resemblance!!!
I measured bailey yesterday and he's hovering at 12hh. But section c's are supposed to be 12.2+?
Either I need to measure him again or he needs downplating :D
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Madge was registered as a C but was well on her way to becoming a D. She was 13hh at 3 then 13.3 by 5. I read that Cs and Ds could be slow growers only maturing at 7ish so if that was the case with her she could easily have reached 14.2 plus.

From what I understood about the differences in grading sections, body type can have as much as height. So if Bailey matures out at 12.2hh but is of a stocky type he will be a C :)
 
Elsiecat said:
^i think you need to read my bit about his mane again! He has about a 3 inch bit of his neck where there is no mane at all! What I was wondering is could I trim the rest, pray to the mane gods, and then position a sneaky clip in summer so his mane looks all the same?

He was gelded on Tuesday. I felt so sad for him!

Patches are being treated for any lice.
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Oh sorry, completely misread that one! Thought you said mane was 3" long! Clips are a no no. Whereabouts on the mane is the hole - can't really see from the pictures.
 
It's about 2/3rds of the way towards his withers. I'm trying to train his mane over to the right side as you can't see the path when it's on the other side. :)
 
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