After the exciting, entertaining photo of April, we now have a much calmer and "cute" photo for May. This is a photo of one of the many foals born to the original herd in the "herd field"...we believe this little colt foal is Rosco who is being temporarly looked after (or perhaps that should be foalsitted??) by an "aunt". This quite often happens in herds of ponies so that mum can go and have a rest for a while or attend the watering hole etc.
Our ponies were very lucky to be rescued as a whole group together and Rosco is now one of our loan ponies. The youngsters had the best start in life with sympathetic handing and no mutilations, making them much more well rounded individuals ready to take on their futures as domesticated family ponies.
Foals are very cute but we most certainly have a no breeding policy here at p4p and steps were taken very swiftly once the original herd was rescued to stop the breeding. Overbreeding is one of the biggest issues facing equines in this country at the moment and it's a situation that needs to be taken much more seriously. For years we've seen large charities prepared to sit back and do nothing to attempt to stop the impending crisis. The answer isn't to start eating horses...it's to stop the irresponsible breeding in the first place...which means gelding colts and stallions and removing stallions from the moorland areas.
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