Your companion ponies

[JANANI]

Tell me about your companion ponies. Here is mine.

Our pony is a 10.2hh 33 y.o. welsh section A which was my sisters old pony. We decided not to sell him when she outgrew him as he was in his late teens and rather odd. If you are a total beginner he will look after you but once you told him what you wanted to do he was a total brat. He wouldn't be the friendliest, hates men (apart from dad), hard to catch (have to take everything out of the field), blind in one eye, a houdini and is always on the porky side never mind how you restrict his grazing.

However we love him to bits, he gets on well with all the horses, he never frets when the other horses leave him, never a bully (he is always the first one to go in with the mare and foal), he is not shod and it doesn't take alot to feed.

To be honest when he gos I don't know what we will do.

 

[fidleyspromise]

Last year I had my highland in a paddock by herself. I wasn't willing to have someone elses pony in with mine as we'd had a stressful time of other owners constantly moving their horses from this field to the next.

I looked at an unhandled, very nervous, 3yr old Newfie and bought her! The idea with her was that she would be a project and as long as I could handle her so she could have vet treatment, farrier etc then I'd be happy if that was as far as we got.

The hopes with her now are to take everything at her pace but she will eventually be ridden. She is very people friendly, so curious and so willing and honest that if she is upset, it is because she is very genuine.


When she was delivered, the lorry was backed into the paddock, opened doors and she jumped out and trotted off. No other horses nearby as she had to be quarantined. Within a couple of hours I went out and simply sat with her. She came over and I slowly took hold of her headcollar and started to scratch her neck. She spent 10 minutes with me there. The yard owners absoulutely adore her.

 

[Montyforever]

Ive got 2 companion ponies technicly as both arn't ridden but one i got to be a companion to my mare when i had to take her out of the main field on my yard as she was being bullied

Shes a 12hh mental case welsh a, absolutly stunning mare, looks amazing when shes strutting around the field and she knows it. Im hoping to show her inhand eventually
Shes never going to be ridden but i knew that when i got her so im not bothered by it, im just glad she was advertised at the perfect time literally the day after i decided my mare wasnt coping being on her own and it was in the middle of the notice board at my local tack shop it was like all the pieces fitted into place at the right time (possibly a first for me .. ) She is a bit of a nut job, stresses alot and is more like a tb than a welsh a, always ill or injured and i swear she does it for attention but i love her to pieces and really wouldnt have her any other way

This photo pretty much sums her up ..

 

[Enfys]

I have a Charley

He's too small to go in with the others but is a brilliant Uncle to the weanlings.

I also have a Rose who is 20, she's new, I am hoping she'll be as good an Aunt as he is Uncle.