How's Eggsy the abandoned colt?

Eggsy was found, abandoned, earlier this year, dehydrated, starving and covered in lice. During the two months he has been in our care he has gone from this

sad, undernourished colt to

this healthy looking chap.

The painful sores have healed and the lice have been eradicated.

Eggsy gains confidence daily, his social skills have increased in leaps and bounds

 going from a foal frightened by other equines to one

confident enough to share haylage in close proximity with a horse much bigger than himself.

He has seen the farrier, taken wormer and 

learned to wear a rug, all for the first time.

Eggsy's still suffers from locking stifles but they too seem to have improved a little and we're hoping that given time and care he will be one of the 80% of foals who grow out of this condition.

We are really pleased with the improvement in Eggsy, none of which could have been achieved without the financial assistance from those who have kindly donated to |Eggsy's GoFundMe campaign to whom we are eternally grateful.

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

What sort of person abandons a foal?

When people hear that Eggsy was abandoned at only 7 months old they often automatically assume that he was abandoned by the breeder, not so. Eggsy was sold as a weanling at 6 months of age.

One then imagines that the foal might have been sold in a pub for a few quid on a Saturday night and that the morning after the night before the purchaser realized they had made a dreadful mistake. No, the person who purchased Eggsy chose him before he was weaned, paying for him in installments over a number of weeks before taking delivery of their new equine.

So now you might be thinking that the new owner had no experience with horses and didn't know what to do with him. No, the person who abandoned Eggsy was in their 50s and had owned ponies since their teens, in fact they had 4 other equines who went with them when they moved.

Why did they abandon him? I have no real answer, why anyone would purchase a foal only to dump it a few weeks later is really beyond my comprehension, though one does wonder if they heartlessly sentenced him to a possible long and lingering death by starvation due to his locking stifles.

Will you 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 greatly appreciate it x

So many people helping Eggsy the abandoned foal

So many lovely people helping Eggsy 

people from dogs shows

 and horse shows

people from all walks of life have taken Eggsy to their heart and helped raise 24% of his GoFundMe target !

Thank you to

Judy, organizer of The Pink Tractor Field Dog Show 

Maddy  founder of Easy Tiger Productions 

Sheila

Seasons Horsewear who hand make the most wonderful selection of saddle pads you've ever seen

Dianne who owns The Urban Cottage in Stamford

Nikki

Bea whose new bird food website Norfolk Bea will be up and running shortly

Bev

Mal

Naomi

Niamh who is organizing a special Twitter #fortheloveofhorses to raise awareness for equine charities on Friday 4th Septemebr at 8pm follow her on Twitter @NiamhLQB

and of course to those who prefer to remain anonymous.

I can't begin to tell you how much your support means to Eggsy and I.

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