Post by guesstimation on Oct 20, 2011 13:08:33 GMT 1
Numerous Dartmoor Hill Pony colts and fillies looking for homes, various shapes and sizes! Price is just the cost of passport and microchipping – they are currently on the waiting list to go to the zoo for meat and we’d much rather find them loving homes. My pony Tigger came from one of the farmers we are working with and he’s amazing, now 6 years old and a fantastic pony, very well put together with great confirmation, at 12.3 and being sturdy he happily potters along the lanes with me on him! I also know of at least 5 others from this farmer and all are fab temperament wise and confirmation wise. If you’d like to see photos please look at the Dartmoor Pony Training Centre Group www.facebook.com/groups/18291682731 and they are the most recent photos on there. If you live far away there may be a possibility of sharing transport to help cut this cost – I know we have people interested around different areas of the country.
If you can’t help by taking on a pony maybe you’d consider a donation to Friends of the Dartmoor Hill pony Registered Charity Number 1141045 who are pioliting a scheme to help prevent this situation occuring year after year - details below:
Due to the economic problems being felt in this country and abroad, the sale of equines countrywide has dramatically decreased.
...
This is particularly a problem for the semi-feral herds in the U.K.
It is necessary to introduce a new management system because of the vast reduction in demand for foals and we feel Equity has role to play in this. Is it possible that Pfizer Animal Health UK could help with this project?
Dartmoor relies on its herds of ponies to keep it as it is. The moor would loose its rich ecological diversity, and, in many in places become too overgrown, without the ponies grazing.
A better way forward would be to REDUCE FOAL NUMBERS coming onto the market, whilst still retaining the ponies on the moor.
The Friends of the Dartmoor Hill Pony are putting together a pilot scheme to work on the feasibility of using “Equity”. This however takes TIME and inevitably considerable FUNDING.
We URGENTLY need help with this project.
We have the support of World Horse Welfare and Natural England, also the Dartmoor Commoners Council and many other welfare organizations on Dartmoor.
WE NEED TO RAISE £6000 FOR THIS PROJECT, VETS FEES BLOOD TESTS FEEDING THE
PONIES THROUGH THIS WINTER READY FOR THE SPRING. TRANSPORT INSURANCE A LOT
OF THE COSTS WE HAVE BEEN DONATED IN KIND SO THANKYOU AS THE AMOUNT NEEDED
WOULD BE EVEN HIGHER.
To donate please visit
www.friendsofthedartmoorhillpony.co.uk and use the donate button.
Or call 01364631036
Many thanks for your support
If you can’t help by taking on a pony maybe you’d consider a donation to Friends of the Dartmoor Hill pony Registered Charity Number 1141045 who are pioliting a scheme to help prevent this situation occuring year after year - details below:
Due to the economic problems being felt in this country and abroad, the sale of equines countrywide has dramatically decreased.
...
This is particularly a problem for the semi-feral herds in the U.K.
It is necessary to introduce a new management system because of the vast reduction in demand for foals and we feel Equity has role to play in this. Is it possible that Pfizer Animal Health UK could help with this project?
Dartmoor relies on its herds of ponies to keep it as it is. The moor would loose its rich ecological diversity, and, in many in places become too overgrown, without the ponies grazing.
A better way forward would be to REDUCE FOAL NUMBERS coming onto the market, whilst still retaining the ponies on the moor.
The Friends of the Dartmoor Hill Pony are putting together a pilot scheme to work on the feasibility of using “Equity”. This however takes TIME and inevitably considerable FUNDING.
We URGENTLY need help with this project.
We have the support of World Horse Welfare and Natural England, also the Dartmoor Commoners Council and many other welfare organizations on Dartmoor.
WE NEED TO RAISE £6000 FOR THIS PROJECT, VETS FEES BLOOD TESTS FEEDING THE
PONIES THROUGH THIS WINTER READY FOR THE SPRING. TRANSPORT INSURANCE A LOT
OF THE COSTS WE HAVE BEEN DONATED IN KIND SO THANKYOU AS THE AMOUNT NEEDED
WOULD BE EVEN HIGHER.
To donate please visit
www.friendsofthedartmoorhillpony.co.uk and use the donate button.
Or call 01364631036
Many thanks for your support