Category: Pony Grazing

Week Ending March 14th

Thursday, March 12th.  My daughter – a primary school teacher, had asked be if I would give a talk to her class on 18-19th century smuggling

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Week Ending February 28th

A busy week again managing the pony grazing… Monday.  We reached agreement with Natural England and a local farmer to spring/summer graze asap ‘Berwick Down’ near Alfriston.  This

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Week Ending January 17th

Monday, January 12th.  Following another gale, I was out the door after breakfast to check the state of the two electric fences down on the

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Reshaping the Horse Through Millennia

This is quite a long article but of interest to those of us into horses but there’s no direct reference to our Exmoor ponies… http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141215154627.htm

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Week Ending November 22nd.

Monday, November 17th.  A drab, wet sort of a day which was cooler than of late.  Spent a morning checking ponies on Chailey Common and taking up

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Week Ending November 15th

Monday, November 10th.  Whilst checking ponies at the National Trust’s Blackcap site, which where the ponies are, is steep and partially wooded, I was caught

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