3500 Followers for Abandoned Foal Eggsy on Twitter

We're thrilled to announce that Eggsy now has 3,500 Twitter followers @eggsypony 

That's 3,500 people who have potentially heard his story and now know of the plight of many abandoned equines here in the UK. We hope that by raising public awareness more of these horses can be saved.

Thank you everyone for following Eggsy your support is very much appreciated.

While we're here on the blog we'd also like to thank those who have recently donated towards Eggsy's care, it's your continued support that allows us to keep going. 

Thank you Elizabeth Love, Philomena Moreland, Karen Gimson, Yvonne Gibbons, Sarah Mirawolski, Louise Taggart, Christine King and to our anonymous friend.

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. 

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.

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

5 things about Eggsy as a foal

1. Eggsy is a Gypsy pony, his mother gave birth to him whilst tethered a practice that goes against equine welfare tethering recommendations which state that:

" Very young, old, sick, pregnant or nursing equines should not be tethered (eg. not under 1 year, not in last 3rd of pregnancy, not with foals at foot."

2. We don't know who Eggsy's mother was but we have actually met his sire, a beautiful black and white stallion named Bobby.

3. Eggsy suffers from upward fixation of the patella, locking stifles. It was quite severe when he was first rescued, he actually dragged his hind legs behind him, fortunately it's getting better as he gets older and stronger.

4. The person who purchased Eggsy and subsequently abandoned him, chose him before he was weaned, she paid for him in installments and we're told that she visited him frequently, played with him making a "right old fuss of him". The breeder thought he'd got a good home for this foal.

5. Eggsy spent a few days living in a kitchen.

His owners had arranged for their ponies to go into temporary livery while they moved house, a horse lorry turned up at their home and everyone believed that the ponies had gone into livery. Not all of them had, for some reason they had decided that Eggsy wasn't moving with them. No one really knows for sure what happened to Eggsy between the time of their ponies going into livery and him being found abandoned but horse dung in the kitchen provides a pretty good clue!

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.

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

A day in the life of rescue pony Eggsy

Okay I'll be honest and admit that I'm not that great at 

getting up in the mornings

but

my BFF Boo and I always make an effort to be waiting 

at the gate when our humans arrive.

Because that way 

we can make sure we get the first pile of haylage.

While we're all busy munching the humans fill up our water buckets, water being essential not only for drinking 

but for washing messy muzzles !

Eventually they bring us what we've all been waiting patiently for, well Boo isn't always patient 

sometimes he shouts at them to hurry up,

proper breakfast ~ nomnom.

After breakfast we mostly go back to munching haylage,

We might shoot the breeze a little with friends,

do a little bird watching, 

or

play awhile.

Then it's time for 

lunch ~ nomnom.

The afternoons are pretty much the same as the mornings, 

though sometimes

I get to go for a walk. 

They say I'm supposed to be learning my manners but I know really I'm just supposed to be eating the grass.

After my grazing er walking expedition I might have 

a little roll before

dinner ~ nomnom.

Then we spend most of the evening munching on haylage before it's time to get some

ZZZZZZZZ

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.

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