Tufty's continued to improve over the last couple of days and is really enjoying her grazing arrangement. She goes out at 6.30 in the morning and stays out on the grass all day. We had the idea of trying her with some grass pellets as that should help her to keep eating through the night, and it means Faye doesn't have to handpick grass. That was a big success, Tufty loves them. Her worm count is high so she's started her wormer today. She's looking very perky and Topsy seems much relieved this evening, now knowing that her best friend is OK. Topsy loved the smell of the grass pellets too and ate them out of Faye's hand this evening.
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| Tufty "talking" to Hazel-Ann. Notice the buckets full with manure! |
Yesterday Faye had a lovely surprise as Ted and Jenny and the volunteers had organised a p4p poo-pickers party to celebrate her birthday. Faye knew nothing about it and after sorting out the ponies in the morning, she was absolutely exhausted after having very little sleep over the past 4 days. Off she headed to bed and when she awoke, everything was ready for the party - volunteers had arrived, there was a lovely spread of food that everyone had contributed to and Gill had made one of her wonderful cakes. Faye says thank you very much to everyone, it was a lovely party! Tess the dog did very well coping with a room full of people and even Mabel the chicken briefly came to join in!
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| Gill's birthday cake creation - delicious! |
We have so many more thank yous to say this week that it's probably best to put them all in a list!
A big THANK YOU to:
- Travis Perkins for giving us free delivery on the pea gravel that we had delivered this week.
- Graham for buying a bag of grass pellets for Tufty and for dashing to the feed store to get them before they
closed!
- Catherine for donating a huge bag of linseed for the ponies - apparently the ponies bought it themselves as a present to celebrate Faye's birthday...because if the ponies are happy, then Faye is!!!!
- Woodford Curtains for donating some blinds so that we can make a p4p banner for our upcoming stalls.
- Westgate Labs for giving us a discount on a worm count sample.
- Nikki at Twyfords for donating some "second hand" saddles for us to sell at our Brooke stand.
- Jane for donating some sugar beet for Tufty to try.
- Hilary for donating a feed toy for the ponies.
- Emma the vet at the Jonathon Wood practice for all her help with Tufty.
- And
especially to Ted and Jenny who have looked after Faye all week, enabling her to look after Tufty...and they have printed our latest newsletters for us.
The latest newsletters are in the process of being sent out, so pony sponsors and p4p pony loaners should have theirs by the weekend!
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