Pony Updates :

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04/04/06

It has been fun watching the ponies progress and their different characters come out over the last few months. Some are very inquisitive (like Merry) and put their noses in everything including your lunch bag, where as others such as Trixe are very shy, she will get close but you touch her and you'd think you'd prodded her with 1000 volts of electric!  Others just love their food, like Star who will follow us in the hope we are heading to the feed shed!

The recent entertainment has been watching them try pony cubes, chaff, carrots and apples!  They have only ever had hay before.  We have been giving them a little hard feed like this as well as hay to make sure they are getting enough vitamins and minerals, it is very important at their young age that their diet is correct so they grow properly.  At the moment their field has very little grass!  We never feed them from our hands as this could encourage them to bite and be aggressive.  We put hay around the stable and in the field and sprinkle cubes and chaff on it. The food orientated ponies love it! Star, Trixie and Merry wait and watch when we put the hay and feed in the stables - the others tend to already be munching on the hay outside but these 3 can't wait to start eating the new food! Then they get in and are like pigs snuffling around in the hay searching out the cubes!!

They are all well and doing fine, and it still amazes me to see how friendly they are and how we can stroke them when all we have done is spend time with them and let them come to us!

We finally have headcollars on all of them. They are so used to us it was pretty easy, we just sat with them whilst they munched hay and slowly stroked them with the headcollars so they could get used the field and the way it rattled slightly around the buckles,  we then put it around behind the ears and over the nose!

We wormed them last week. We thought it was going to be tricky  and a real ordeal for them and us but it wasn't at all! We herded 3 at a time into the pen and stable and took it very slowly with each. Natalie attached the lead rope and we had a bucket of food to help them swallow it down! And quick as a flash they were syringed with the wormer and they knew nothing of it! Not one of them reacted to having it in the mouths!   More importantly they still want to come and say hello to us after! We are very proud of them all!

Our next step will be to get the 6 colts be gelded. We are going to have a car boot sale stall at the end of April to raise funds and are getting people to donate things to sell, we are also looking in to having a stand at local horse shows.