Eggsy's Redbubble Sales

Just popping by to thank those of you who made a purchase from Eggsy's Redbubble store

53 items with Eggsy holding mistletoe were sold 

and Eggsy made a grand total of £26.36

which enabled us to purchase an additional

5 small bales of hay.

Which just goes to show that every little does help! 

Thank you. 

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

(Images are of purchases made by Christine, Philomena, & Donna)

A letter to Santa ~ Eggsy's Christmas Wish List

Dear Santa,

I know I've been a bit naughty this year breaking the electric fencing and fighting but I believe I've learned the error of my ways and I am trying very hard to be a good boy. 

So hooves crossed that I've been good enough to get some pressies, here's what I would really like:

You know I bent the electric fence poles and broke a few electric gate handles so if I could have some of those it would be really, really good because it would benefit me and my friends. We could use them, along with some electric fence rope, to make extra grazing paddocks in the summer. They would be a gift that kept on giving because it would mean we could all have more grass and I won't break them again, really I won't.

You probably know that I like my food a LOT, food is one of my favourite things so I've added bags of food and a bottle of yummy linseed oil  to my Amazon Wish list. It's cheaper from the feed merchants but I thought if you didn't want to give me money to buy it and wanted to send it to me yourself I'd better show you what I like.

And of course food calls for a feed bucket and maybe a water bucket for an after dinner drink, especially as I'm a bit clumsy and break those too, by accident.

I broke my lead rope too, sorry I didn't mean too I just pulled too hard when I was tied up, I didn't want to be tied up but I didn't want to break my lead rope either so could I have a new one of those please? An extra strong one would be a good idea. 

Thank you.

I've put together an Amazon Wish List which you can find here just in case you and the elves don't have time to make all my presents. Thank you ever so much, I promise to be good.

Love from 
Eggsy Pony xx

PS Apparently I would find it easier to be good if I had an operation to make me a gelding but it costs a lot of money, about £300, so we need to save up in my Paypal account (eggsypony@gmail.com) before I can have it done.

PPS If you didn't want to deliver the food, I know it's quite heavy and the sleigh will be heavy for Rudolph and friends to pull we can buy it I have a GoFundMe for food 

PPPS Sorry I nearly forgot I'm going to need the expensive get rid of encysted red worms / tape worm de-wormer too it's called Equest Pramox  and costs about £20 I could buy it with GoFundMe money or Paypal. 

I hope I'm not asking for too much it's my "official" birthday on 1st January 2019 so my pressies could be joint Christmas and Birthday.

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

Christmas Last Posting Dates UK

If you're sending an Eggsy Christmas card, or gift, this year you'll be wanting to make sure it arrives in time so here are Royal Mail's last UK dates for posting for Christmas 2018:

2nd class Tuesday 18th December

1st class Thursday 20th December

Royal Mail Tracked 24 Friday 21st December

Royal Mail Special Delivery Guaranteed Saturday 22nd December 

Sending abroad? You can download a full list by country from here 

Haven't got you Eggsy Christmas cards yet? You can purchase them from Eggsy's Redbubble shop here Redbubble process your order, print and ship your items and when everything has cleared send Eggsy approximately 20% of the sale price which will go toward his winter forage.

There are other items for sale :

Eggsy cushion 

Eggsy tote bag

Eggsy notebook

 Eggsy travel mug 

Every purchase helps Eggsy but what he really depends on are the donations he receives towards his care so thank you Elizabeth, Ros, Helen, Philomena, Candice, Diane and our anonymous friends for all your help it is very much appreciated. We couldn't do this without your support xx

 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

Happy Halloween from rescue pony Eggsy

Wishing all my friends and supporters a very happy and safe Halloween 

Have fun!

Love from

Eggsy Pony xx

I'd also like to say thank you to Linda, Elizabeth, Kerstin and the folk who prefer to stay anonymous for their recent donations. Thank you ever so much xx 

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

Another catch up with over due thank yous

I first started this post in the middle of September but never published it as I was having difficulties with the print size, some words were large and others small!

A few days later and I just didn't have the will to blog, we lost another of our equines. Ex-racehorse Tipper died on 26th September, to say I'm devastated is an understatement.

Tipper

Losing two in one year is hard to bear.

Tipper & Murphy

But life has to go on and Eggsy and I have thank yous to send so here's the post that I started a month ago now:

We had a visit from Nurse Moreland

Eggsy was rather pleased to see Nurse Moreland again, so pleased in fact that he forgot his manners and attempted to send the others away with a kick! After all he thought to himself Nurse Moreland is MY visitor.

Well maybe next time you're expecting visitors Eggsy you could try brushing your hair ~ what do you mean that's my job? Cheeky chappie!

Thank you Philo, Dick and the "kids" for another lovely visit and all the gifts which were very much appreciated. 

In addition to thanking Philomena we'd also like to thank Nancy, Karen, Alison, Helen, Graham and our anonymous friend for their kind donations towards Eggsy's care. 

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

Thank yous and what your donations are spent on

Hello I'm soo overdue with my thank you's so a huge thank you to Philomena, Diane, Elizabeth, Leighton, Veronica, Graham and dear anonymous  for your donations towards Eggsy's keep over the last couple of months or so.

I also need to thank Forelock & Fringe and Kath Smart for the fabulous box of goodies won in a Twitter giveaway way back in May

and Equi-Signs for the gift of this sign that will help to keep me safe. 

Thank you very much indeed.

All these thank you's have made me think that you'd probably be interested in knowing what your donated money buys, so here goes:

£5 will buy a feed / water bucket, Eggsy goes through quite a lot of these ~ those hooves!

Or a bag of HoneyChop chaff, well actually it's a little more than a fiver now.

£10 will buy a bag of oats or beet or bran

£12 buys the yummy alfalfa pellets and £15 would buy the Rowan Barbary Mash Eggsy has when the weather conditions get harsh and he needs a little extra help with feeds.

£15 will also buy some wormers though this one is £20 & necessary at least annually for encysted red worm.

£20 buys a bag of micronized linseed.

Hooves are £20 a trim every 6 to 8 weeks depending on hoof growth, Graham is kindly sponsoring this until the end of this year, thank you Graham.

£50 buys a bale of haylage, at current weight of bale Eggsy eats a bale and a half a month ( Wish I hadn't just worked that out that's £75 a month on haylage alone!)

Tetanus shots, every other year, including the vet call out fee comes in at just under £80 as does yearly teeth rasping. 

All a bit scary really when you start to see how much a pony costs to keep, thank you for your continued support, we couldn't do this without you. 

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

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

How we're coping with our forage crisis ~ an update on feeding rescue pony Eggsy

We're hugely grateful to those that rallied to help pay for Eggsy's feed when the 2018 hay shortage effectively doubled our costs. This post is to update you on how we're coping.

Firstly huge thanks to all who donated to buy forage for Eggsy, you gave us the breathing space we needed to come up with a plan. Finding twice as much money to pay for forage just wasn't about to happen anytime soon, we wouldn't have a GoFundMe for Eggsy if it was that simple, and the price, or in our case size of bales, isn't going to change until the 2018 crop is ready if then, we all desperately need a good hay harvest this year. So what to do?

Well there are a number of different feeds that can be used as forage replacers, mostly they aren't economically viable and of course you have to be very careful when it comes to changing an equines feed. However there was one type of feed that we've always fed that is very economical ~ sugar beet pulp, and this can be used to replace up to a third of forage. It's often used as a forage replacer for old horses with dental issues as it has to be soaked and that makes it nice and soft to eat. 

But if we were to increase the quantities of beet as used in our usual feeding regime which includes alfalfa, oats etc we'd be increasing costs even more. So we took a look at good old fashioned bran. Now as some of you will know it was once common practice to give hard working horses a bran mash once a week but that has fallen out of favour for a number of reasons that I won't go into here. Suffice it to say that bran isn't that great when fed by itself but mix it with soaked sugar beet pulp and you have a feed that's nutritionally sound, a feed that horses love, that's economical and can be used to replace part of their forage ration.

So that's what we're doing, as well as the usual hard feeds we're giving extra feeds of beet and bran to slightly reduce the amount of forage we have to feed. This has reduced costs a little, not a huge amount as obviously we have to buy extra beet and the bran but it is a little cheaper. In addition there's some grazing, sadly not enough but Eggsy is getting some daily grass now which also means that we don't have to feed quite as much hay / haylage as we did earlier in the year.

To sum things up, we've managed to reduce our reliance on expensive forage slightly, it's still costing more than ever before but we're hoping that a good harvest will eventually see prices falling back to affordable levels. In the meantime it's still a financial struggle just not quite so scary as it was about a month ago. 

Thanks are owed to Philomena, Diane and an anonymous supporter for their recent contributions to Eggsy's hay drive. 

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

Eggsy writes his first review

Eggsy's friend and benefactor @NurseMoreland  visited last weekend, it was bitterly cold and we were deep in mud. A week later and the weather is similar to her first visit last year ~ what a difference a week makes!

Anyway, Nurse Moreland arrived with lots of goodies and as Miss Darcey Puffle Dog wrote a review about her gift Eggsy has decided that he should too:

Carrots ~ so fresh and crunchy #nomnomnom

Apples ~ Delicious and so juicy, the juice ran down my chinny chin chin.

Extra Strong Mints ~ Perfect for after dinner  (or before dinner, or just for dinner!)

Thank you Philo, Dick and "the Kids" for taking a detour to visit us and for your kindness and generosity. Hope the weather is going to be kinder next time you visit.

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

Hay shortage 2018 doubling Eggsy's feed costs

Beginning to feel like all we talk about here on Eggsy's blog is hay, haylage, but, there's a nationwide forage shortage at the moment. The high rainfall during late summer and autumn of last year prevented additional cuts of hay / haylage / silage which has resulted in less available forage, that, and a higher demand for forage, again due to wet weather conditions, has sent the price soaring.

What a shock we had with our latest forage delivery, the bales were less than half the weight of our usual supplies effectively doubling the cost.

As we don't have enough pasture to supply all of Eggsy and his equine friends nutritional needs we have to feed forage all year round so this has come as a devastating blow to us. Imagine if you went to do your weekly food shop and found that everything had doubled in price. This is likely to last for several months until the new 2018 hay is ready, if there is a good crop the prices will hopefully fall again, if not then it will remain high. 

At the moment I don't know how / if we can ride this out, as you know we couldn't afford to finance Eggsy ourselves and depend upon donations to cover the cost of his care. We have had the most wonderful support offered these past few days with huge thanks being owed to:

Elizabeth, Christine, Norma, Lisa, Susan, Sally, Nancy, Amina, Pernille, Eleonore and several Eggsy friends who prefer to remain anonymous.

But can we sustain this during the coming months? What's to be done if we can't? Those are the questions giving me sleepless nights at the moment!

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