A look at Eggsy's year ~ 2017

2017 kicked off with Eggsy's 2nd (official) birthday, we don't actually know his real date of birth so he gets to celebrate with the Thoroughbreds on 1st January 

In February we made long term plans for educating Eggsy

March and time to sort out those encysted small redworm an essential part of horse care   

Easter 2017 was in April 

May & we took a look at a day in the life of a rescue pony 

Eggsy had a visitor in June 

July was a difficult month what with Houdini Eggsy & the theft of our vehicle which was thankfully recovered 

August saw the adventures of destructor pony!

Incredibly September passed without a single photograph of Eggsy being taken we made up for it in October though when we managed to get some adorable pics of him literally lying in his breakfast! 

November saw the launch of Eggsy's fundraising blog shop 

and then it was Christmas !

31st December,

Old Year's Night, 

New Year's Eve 

and we present a random selection of Eggsy photographs grabbed from each month without thinking too much about the choice ~ so nice to look back on 2017.

We do something similar each year so if you'd like you can see Eggsy's 

2016 by clicking here

and

2015 by clicking here

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

Boxing Day ~ The feast day of St Stephen

December 26th the day after Christmas, we in the UK know it as Boxing Day others the feast of St Stephen, patron Saint of horses. In recent years it's become almost synonymous with the post Christmas sales but it wasn't always like that.

It was once the day when alms boxes were emptied and gifts of money, collected throughout the year, distributed amongst the poorer folk of the community. 

St Stephen's day was a day when one helped those less fortunate than oneself, remember the Christmas carol Good King Wenceslas?

Good King Wenceslas looked out, on the Feast of Stephen,

When the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even,

How he and his page gathered fuel & food to give a poor man warmth and a feast?

Ye who now shall bless the poor, shall yourself find blessing.

Wouldn't it be a little bit marvellous to help some horses on this day, St Stephen's Day, the patron saint of horses day? Especially as this year it also happens to fall on a #CharityTuesday.

So we'll be sending our donation from sales in Eggsy Pony Shop over to Bodmin Moorland Pony Rehabilitation to help toward their horrendous vet bills following an outbreak of strangles. You probably have your own favourite horse rescue who would be very grateful for a little financial assistance at this time of year when feed costs soar. 

Let's make it a new Boxing Day tradition to give to the horses!

 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

Have yourselves a Merry Little Christmas

"This Christmas:

Mend a quarrel.

Seek out a forgotten friend.

Write a love letter.

Share some treasure.

Give a soft answer.

Encourage youth.

Keep a promise.

Find the time.

Forgive an enemy.

Listen.

Apologize if you were wrong.

Think first of someone else.

Be kind and gentle.

Laugh a little. Laugh a little more.

Express your gratitude.

Gladden the heart of a child.

Take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth.

Speak your love. Speak it again.

Speak it still once again. "

                                                           Anonymous

Merry Christmas everyone 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.

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's Fundraising Shop

Eggsy has joined our nation of shopkeepers and opened a shop, with a little help from his friends!

This fabulous box of goodies came all the way from Germany, kindly donated by long term Eggsy friend Eleonore of  Marburger Pferdchen. Thank you Eleonore.

They're now for sale in the blog shop along with a few other things and there will be more shortly.

But why a shop?

Well we need to do a bit of extra fundraising to help pay for winter forage.

We've been lucky and managed to source some mini-hestons of hay at £50 a bale, which is a good price for round here, and, if possible, we'd like to get a few in before the price goes up. It's bound to go up as winter sets in and demand gets higher.

We'd also been thinking that as we've received so much kindness from so many of you, thank you Rory, Philomena, Elizabeth, Claire, Norfolk Bea, Bronwyn, Diane, Nancy, Karen, Christine and our anonymous friend for your donations, that we wanted to "pay it forward" and donate 10% of any sale proceeds (exclusive of post & packing which is charged at cost) to help someone else help a rescue equine.

Then this week we had horrible news from Twitter friends in Bodmin that strangles had hit their yard. Not only is strangles a nasty contagious disease that can become potentially fatal it's also an incredibly expensive one. All equines who have been in contact with strangles have to be tested usually by swabbing the guttural pouch every 2 weeks, 3 consecutive negative swabs indicate that the equine is clear of strangles. As you can imagine this is a very expensive procedure which can go on for months and Bodmin Moorland Pony Rehabilitation are going to have the most horrendous vet bills. 

So that's why we've opened a little Eggsy Shop in addition to Eggsy's GoFundMe and we'll be donating to 10% of  shop sales revenue to Bodmin Moorland Pony Rehabilitation  ~ paying the kindness we've received from all of you forward to someone else.

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

October update

Golly half way through October and no blog posts that's because Nurse Moreland suggested a table top sale which led to :

Eggsy Brooches

and

Eggsy Art

with hopefully more to follow then we can have a sort of online table top sale for Eggsy Pony!

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

The Adventures of Destructor Pony

If you've been following Eggsy since his abandonment as a foal you may remember the fence wrecking incident last year well it would seem that he's been at it again!

Not fences this time but feed buckets and not just his own

his friend's bucket has also received the "hoofing" treatment consequently biting the dust

along with some of the water containers used to carry water to the field.

If Eggsy was a child he'd have had his pocket money stopped for weeks. 

It's a good job he's so cute! 

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

The last day of August

Another month has flown by. What's changed during this last month of summer?

The biggest change for us is that after years of feeding haylage we've returned to hay, at least for the time being. 

You may remember my complaining about the mould issues, well the last straw was when all the equines started to loose weight despite having ad lib haylage.

As you can see the hay seems to be doing the trick, as a certain Eggsy pony is looking quite chunky, this is exactly what we want as we head toward the cooler months and winter.

You might also remember that we were experimenting with a fundraising thermometer to keep track of August's donations.

Did we hit our August target?

We did!!!
                                              

Provided by CoolFundraisingIdeas.net

Thank you Philomena Moreland, Christine King, Anita Neufeld and our anonymous friend.

Will we continue to use the thermometer? Undecided, if you have an opinion on it please share! 

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