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My Pets: Sparkie

Name: Sparkie Animal: Cat Colour: Black and White Size: Big (not fat) Breed: Unknown Gender: Male Birthday: 31st October 2009? Sparkie came to us a stray. We first saw him on Halloween 2011, when he was sitting by our kitchen window at about 6.45am. I went out and offered him some food, to which he […]

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Weaning Victor – Day 3

Friday 28th October 2011 – (Today’s my Dad’s birthday!) Well, today when I got up I was doubtful as to whether Victor (our five-and-a-half month old miniature Shetland foal) would still be in his new field after his spectacular escape the day before yesterday. Luckily it seems, the enormous amount of fencing, repairing holes and […]

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Weaning Victor – Day 2

Thursday 27th October 2011 Today when I went down to the field (where all four ponies now are, due to Victor getting out late last night) Gradbach wasn’t letting the little foal out of his sight! He was so worried yesterday when Victor got out. So today, my Dad and I did loads of fencing […]

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Weaning Victor – Day 1

Wednesday 26th October 2011 This morning I decided it was time to wean Victor, our lovely mini Shetland foal (he’s five months and three weeks old). We’ve decided to move him into the field next to his mum, Rosie, along with Gradbach, our lovely gentle stallion who gets on well with the foal, leaving Rose […]

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Goldystch Shetland Pony Update – 24th October 2011: Farrier Visit

Just a quick post about the latest farrier visit. The farrier (David Lawrence) was due around our farm at about 4-4.30pm, so at 3.15 I went out to get the ponies ready. I quickly caught all the ponies, put their head collars on and then lead Rosie up to the gate, and the rest followed. […]

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My Pets’ Update – My Day: 10th October 2011

Well I’ve had quite a busy day. Got up at 6am and headed out to feed the animals at about twenty past six. Firstly I went to the shed and fed the guinea pigs and Velvet, my rabbit. I gave them hay and water.  Then my mum came out and we went down to the […]

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Shetland Pony Update – Photos August/September 2011

So, I thought I’d do a quick update of the ponies with the recent photos that I’ve taken of them! Hover over the images to see they are.  

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Halter Training Victor – 10th September 2011

I’ve just got in from a monring session of training Victor (Mignon Velvet), the adorable miniature shetland pony foal we have. Today he was very lively; jumping everywhere, annoying the mares (Morjoy Tulip and Hermits Velvet Rose) and rolling about on the wet grass. Luckily for our stallion, (Goldsytch Gradbach), Victor chose to ignore him. […]

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Halter Training Victor – 9 September 2011

Today I did some halter training with Victor, this time quite late in the evening – about 8pm. And for the first time I heard his neigh! My dad and I went down to see the ponies, I had the lead rope and halter for Victor and my dad watched – it was the first […]

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Halter Training Victor – 8 September 2011

Today I attached the lead rope to Victor’s halter for the first time. I’d managed to catch him and get his head collar on fairly easily and clipped the blue lead rope onto the metal ring. At first Victor was confused. He moved his head up and down trying to shake the rope off; he […]

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Velvet’s Big Day Out – 24 August 2011

Ok, so I’m a little bit behind with writing this post, but everything’s just been so busy! So on the 24th August 2011 Velvet (my black rex rabbit) was due to have his next injection (he has one for CYLAP every year and one every six months for anti-myxomatosis) so we took him in the […]

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My Pets’ Update: July 2011 – August 2011

  Well, I haven’t done a ‘My Pets’ Update’ for a while, so I’ve decided to one that convers the last two months. Ok, so I know it’s actually the beginning of September as I write this, but hopefully I’ll get round to doing another update very soon. Well actually I did do an update […]

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Halter Training Victor – 4 Sep 2011

Just got back in from another training session with Victor (Mignon Velvet) – a very adorable little skewbald roan miniature Shetland foal. And today I managed to get his head collar on easily. And he didn’t mind! The other times when I’ve been training him I could get the nose loop on him and bring […]

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Goldsytch Shetland Pony Stud Update August 2011: New Ponies

I’m pleased to announce that the Goldsytch Miniature Shetland Pony will be growing in terms of pony numbers. Currently our herd consists of: Goldsytch Gradbach (29″ red roan stallion) Morjoy Tulip (31″ bay mare) For a while now we’ve been looking to get a new mare (to celebrate my birthday last January) and have found […]

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My Pets’ Update December 2010 – June 2011

In the last five or six months I haven’t updated this site a lot, mainly beacuse so much has been going on. Unfortunately not all the stuff going on has been positive. On December 15th 2010 Charcoal, one of our lovely guinea pigs had to be put down. This was a very upsetting time for […]

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