I have a lovely pure bred Shetland pony and one horse. The Shetland has not done anything for more than a year (outgrown) but was a really lovely lead rein pony.
I have got ten acres of land - much too much, three fields with tall mature unkempt hedges in between so no direct line of vision from one to the other.
Obviously my shetland can't have access to the whole field, she has a post and rail fenced pen in the first field. She gets super stressed when my horse is not in view. We are planning to move next year and I really can't justify the cost of three post and rail pony pens as the first one cost four figures. The first field was used all winter and really needs six months off (pony pen aside).
Electric (six strands on wooden posts with insulators and a bullock energiser) doesn't keep her in. I am so fed up with it all that I am thinking of sending the Shetland to a retirement livery and my horse to a livery yard.
She really is a lovely little pony, now 20, backed as a 12 year old and never put a foot wrong. Did very well when ridden by a competent young boy in the bringing her on stakes. She has only ever been ridden by my daughter (from 4-8 (daughter) and this boy).
It seems such a waste I didn't approve of the people who came to see her when I advertised her so I think she might be stuck with us.
I think that she might be happier at retirement livery in a slim field full of fatties than fretting on her own at my place. If I did that I would put my one remaining horse in livery and use the freedom to travel a bit more until the time we move house.
So, after that essay I would really love to hear about retirement liveries or a wonderful experienced, kind and gentle family who have actually heard the word 'laminitis' as none of my viewers had.
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lavendersun · 17/05/2015 14:44
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