All change ~ what Eggsy's up to now

We all know that Eggsy can be a bit of an escape artist don't we? 

Well this time he has broken into the field where Murphy used to live and is quite simply refusing to leave. He's been returned to his own paddock but we've been unable to keep him in. He has no respect for the electric fence or the fence posts!

Of course his desire to be in the "big field" has everything to do with the presence of a mare who fortunately has no interest in impudent young colts.

There has been much telling off, mare style.

Much posturing to try and send Pip away, not to mention a bit of fighting, how times have changed, when he first came here he was really quite scared of Pippin. 

Eggsy's not had an easy time of it but Madeline and Pip have now accepted him as long as he behaves himself, they're not having any of his coltish behaviour in their field! 

So for now peace reigns again ~ hopefully.

About Eggsy:

Eggsy is a rescue pony he was abandoned and left to starve by his owners as a foal. His care is funded by donations.

You can read the story of his abandonment here: About Eggsy Pony

Would you like to help Eggsy? 

Eggsy has a GoFundMe campaign to help raise funds for his care, we'd be really grateful if you'd go take a look, share it far and wide via your social media and of course if you can spare some money please donate.

Help Raise Abandoned Foal Eggsy ~ GoFundMe

Thank you, Eggsy and I really appreciate it x

Catch up

If truth be known I've been putting off writing this blog post, June was taken up with the sudden and catastrophic onset of illness in our very first rescue pony Murphy.

 At just 9 years old, his 9th birthday was on 31st May, Murphy, for no apparent reason, suffered a rectal prolapse which eventually proved to be inoperable and he was PTS on 27th June.

I'm not going to go into details, most of you will know them from Twitter anyway, but we received poor advice from the original vet who came out to see Murph which at the time gave us hope of saving him. We raised the money with the help of many caring people which was spent on unnecessary treatment that we eventually discovered, via a consultation with another vet from a different practice, was never and could never have helped. 

We're devastated. 

Since Murphy's death Eggsy has been acting up again, his broken a few fence posts escaping his paddock and even causing (minor) injury to one of the other horses. Eggsy needs gelding but with the current heatwave and lacking stabling that's not really a safe option for him at the moment. Too many flies around to have the open wounds that castration leave which in a worse case scenario could lead to infection and fly strike. 

Our forage crisis continues, we're still being supplied the half usual weight bales at the big bale price, thus doubling our forage costs, I'm told it will be another 6 weeks before this year's cut is ready to sell. In addition to that the heatwave & drought has finished off the grass so no grazing to help reduce costs now. 

So not a very cheery catch up I'm afraid. Hopefully next time we'll have happier news.

Eggsy is due a visit from the farrier this Friday 13th, (hope that's not a bad omen!),  if anyone would like to sponsor his trim we'd be most grateful. 

About Eggsy:

Eggsy is a rescue pony he was abandoned and left to starve by his owners as a foal. His care is funded by donations.

You can read the story of his abandonment here: About Eggsy Pony

Would you like to help Eggsy? 

Eggsy has a GoFundMe campaign to help raise funds for his care, we'd be really grateful if you'd go take a look, share it far and wide via your social media and of course if you can spare some money please donate.

Help Raise Abandoned Foal Eggsy ~ GoFundMe

Thank you, Eggsy and I really appreciate it x