Whatever you do DO NOT LET A HORSE STRAY ONTO YOUR YARD!!!!!

What a nightmare.. Where abouts in Hampshire are you? Do you know anyone local who HAS a spare stable?
If you can, take a picture of him, and maybe pop a poster onto lamposts or something local to you.
Well done for all that you are doing.. the police sound like they haven't a clue in how to handle this situation.
 
Oh what a pain! Apart from being a stallion, he'd be my ideal horse!!

I would pluck up the courage to go into the local Gipsy site. I know it's intimidating, but making good contacts with them can pay dividends. Don't mention the police at all, just say this horse has wandered into your yard and you're trying to find who owns him.

Failing that, I'll be along in 14 days. I have a spare field... ;)
 
TBH it's a big assumptino its a gypsy horse.
It could be a stolen horse then dumped.
It cuold be a stallion from a few miles away, boys do tend to be more keen to go an 'explore' the local world.
I wouldn't be making efforts with handing him over to the gypsies as if he WASNT already theirs, then somebody could have a lot of trouble getting their horse back.
Can you put some notices up in local villages? Ask the local radio to put a shout out about it? In the meantime I would probably juggle tigns so I could put him securely in a stable in view of having both mares and stallions on the premises. It's not a fun thing to have a random horse around but he's there and it needs dealt with.
I wouldn't loose him again on the basis of if he caused a nasty car accident and killed someone my conscience would not be clear.
 
No-one should ever take money from gypsies for looking after their "strays". Once money changes hands they are effectively your tenants and you can kiss goodbye to ever getting them off your land again. Round my way the gypsies deliberately stick them in other people's fields then offer to pay to stay there. In a year or two they claim squatters rights and thats your land gone.
 
joeanne on here is "hampshire"..i know its a pretty big county..but she has access to a scanner..

if i was closer, i'd be able to give him a 14 day holiday til you could sort something out.

there is bound to be someone on here who could put him up temporarily?
 
s14tobin said:
Oh, don't bother calling the Police, they just sit on their bums doing nothing else all day apart from the crossword and writing speeding tickets for people who aren't speeding - oh - and eat donuts of course!:rolleyes:
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Oh but of course!! All those specially equine trained police who know exactly how to deal with a stallion....the same police who make up the by laws all by them selves with no help from councils and polititions (sp)......Who just decide to be awkward and do nothing then go about their very busy lives not doing anything......YAWN

Very sorry you're in this situation..don't know what to suggest that hasn't already hope it gets sorted for you soon!! :(
 
yep we defo need pictures! you might find the gypos are quite friendly if you start talking to them? however alot dont have horses so it might not be theres
 
GET ON THE TELEPHONE TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW LOCALLY, HORSEY OR NOT!

Was in the same situation some years ago (loose horse trotted by house on a summer evening, no headcollar, nothing). I caught it quite easily, because it was transfixed by the sight of my mare in the field. We had no stabling but a kind neighbour cleared out an old stable of his and we bundled it in. Police very relieved I had caught it, but otherwise uninterested. "Well dear, if nobody claims it in 14 days you can keep it" (It turned out to be a retired show-jumping Orlov Trotter...)

Anyway, I just sat on the phone and rang everybody around, and eventually it was a non-horsy person who made the connection next day. The horse had very pointy odd ears, like a Kalawari, and when I mentioned this to the 100th person I'd rung she said she knew someone who'd had a horse who looked like that. She was dead right, and it all ended happily. The old boy had been turned out with a new friend in a remote field and had done what he did best - jump (out).

The gypsies is a good idea too, but they may not be the owners!!!! Any chance that someone like the RSPCA would run the microchipper over it for you? And have you contacted Farmkey?
 
i often get called out by the police, to collect stray horses from roads etc. i collect them and take them home,with a reference number from the police. once the owner has reported horses missing they have to phone me to come and collect. (once had 2 nice cobs for nearly 4 days) i present them with a bill for the collection and the livery which has to be paid on collection of the horses. the bill is made out jointly to the owners and the police who found them.with the reference number on it. if paid in cash on collection fine, if paid by cheque if any problem with cheque then contact the owner and ask for cash, and send the bill to the police also. the police have a fund for things like this.(tho they wont tell you that). i would put him in a stable, and hay and water him and see if your local vet is passing to scan for a chip. if not claimed i think you have the right to sell him on (tho you would need to get a passport for him i think). if he is a quality colored vanner he will be worth some money so i would think someone will claim him soon. good luck.
 
The assumption by some that any old coloured automatically belongs to travellers is a bit scary. Most owners of traditional coloured cobs live in fear of their cobs being stolen. The owner maybe searching high and low for that horse. My lad once decided the grass in his field was rubbish and to him, it made perfect sense to use his chest as a battering ram to break a gate and tootle off to find himself something decent to eat. Fortunately, he didn't get far, the hedge outside was very nice.
Hope your predicament gets sorted soon.
 
Have you phoned all the vets in your area, and as many farriers that you can get hold of with in about a 50 mile radius if possible in case any reconise him, livery yards /studs /riding schools also local radio station/news paper.
 
That's crap V but I bet we both know where he came from... Shame you can't lead him back up there and hand him over. Mind you after seeing how 'they' treat their horses he's probably so happy to be somewhere nice he will start performing tricks for you so you keep him. It's quite sad really :-(
 
Well it looks like the visit to the gypsy camp paid off because I was driving to my yard this evening and good job I left work early as there were 2 men (of gypsy type) leading said stallion down the road. I stop and explain why I stopped they say nothing, they look at me like I am an alien. I make a hasty retreat thankful that at least he isn't my problem now.

What worries me now is that they have had a good look at my yard.

I'll explain why I thought 'gypsy' when I saw him, apart from being coloured and a stallion which he really shouldn't be, sweet temperament or not he simply isn't quality. He had driving shoes on too, the gypsy people round here drive their horses down the main road, all coloured hairy types just like him.

I'm glad he's gone but can't help worrying about him now. What if they weren't the owners but thought they's get a free horse although I doubt very much the police would have said where he was. I am so stupid worrying about him but I think I might take a walk at the weekend and see if I can locate him....

Mind you know he knows I've got girlies he might well be back!

There is a pic of him on the NFED Hampshire Horsewatch Forum.
 
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Any chance you could post a pic on here? I know it's probably a longshot - but friends of mine had a coloured stallion taken and not paid for by a dealer who brings them to England to sell.

They got the Garda involved but it is classed as a civil matter?!

If he does come from a travelling background then they generally are very easy to deal with - they have to be with their lifestyle!
 
DipseyDeb said:
Oh but of course!! All those specially equine trained police who know exactly how to deal with a stallion....the same police who make up the by laws all by them selves with no help from councils and polititions (sp)......Who just decide to be awkward and do nothing then go about their very busy lives not doing anything......YAWN

Very sorry you're in this situation..don't know what to suggest that hasn't already hope it gets sorted for you soon!! :(
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Sorry DipseyDeb, there was a healthy dose of sarcasm in my post, but I possibly didn't make that clear!... really scratch my head at what they should do! But it is a bad situation :-( v. sorry for OP
 
That's ridiculous! I bet it's a gypsy horse which has got loose. Is there no one you know locally who has stables which you could arrange to transport it to and keep it there for 14 days?
 
Be careful about the whole letting it loose and calling police thing, they will most likely temporarily just open your fields!

When a bull got loose the Police kindly let it into our yard! it caused absulute havok, took down fences scared the **** out of the horses in the lower fields! why they thought releasing it into a yard was a good plan I'll never know!
 
It was obviously stolen as it had one shoe missing (on the horsewatch link). I saw a thread on there that said that's how horses are marked so the right one is stolen! ;)
 
id just turn it out in the most isolated field i had. advertise as much as u have to acording to the police. and sell the horse after the two weeks and enjoy spending the money
 
siennamum said:
Utterly ridiculous and quite typical from the police. Maybe you should say you've seen the stallion speeding round the yard & think it may be uninsured!
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PMSL!

LegOn said:
I was in a similar situation with a dog & the only way to get the police to take notice was turn it loose & then they came & collected it!
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Please don't do that: what if it causes an accident or gets knocked over? I know it's frustrating and a real nightmare for you, but there must be a better way.

As a copper's wife, I really don't see it as a police issue. I'd rather the OH was dealing with the lunatic trying to glass his wife, TBH.
 
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