The Shetland Pony Stud Book Society..

I had my membership card through from The Shetland Pony Stud-Book Society yesterday.
Members now have on-line access to the Society Stud Book and Registry on-line.
What a brilliant idea. I spent some time yesterday going through all my Ponies records. You can look up member details, animal details, pedigrees and progeny lists.
Hopefully, later on in the year they are going to add all the show results to the database as well. They've also said that in the future they may also move onto on-line applications to register foals, transfers, death and do show and sale entries.
Makes every one's life so much easier. I can now print of official Pedigree Certificates for any of the Foals which we sell, instead of writing them out by hand.

Pictures...

Just a couple more pictures taken today..

Snow's Still Falling...

We've had Snow all through the night and it's blowing a Blizzard at the moment.
The Ponies took shelter in the Barn last night, but we still had to remove snow from a couple of the little ones tails, as they were dragging snowballs, around this morning behind them..
Lucky for us the water butts haven't frozen yet, just gone like slush puppy. But the outside taps are all frozen. As we knew the snow was coming, we filled up loads of containers with water yesterday and put them inside and they haven't frozen.

My Birthday Present...

Today is my Birthday.
I'd like you to meet my Birthday Present, Birchwood Viscount, AC2358S. Isn't he Handsome. I'm totally thrilled to bits with him. He is a fully registered Multi Champion Stallion. To see his full pedigree please click on this link: Horse/Pony Pedigree.
His Sire was Little Jo Of Green Meadows 003301 and his
Dam is Birchwood Biscuit 015689.

Amigo...

I had an email from my cousin's Micky & Bev this evening, to tell me how Amigo got on at his first show. He jumped a lovely double clear. Lucky for them that it was indoors, but was still a lot for him to contend with what with the echo, lights and also as they go down the course, they are jumping towards a cafe, which is behind large glass windows, so the Horses can see movement and light reflected in the glass. Apparently the ground outside was treacherous and one Horse went over trapping the Rider's legs. "Rooney" who rides Amigo, was over the moon and she was like a dog with twenty tails to wag.
"Congratulations Amigo & Rooney", I think your be at Olympia before long...

Happy New Year Everybody...

Happy New Year Everyone, lets hope it's a good one. While Mick's parents were staying with us over Christmas & the New Year, we managed to get the Stable doors fitted. It's been extremely cold here over the last couple of days and this morning the temperature was Minus 7.. Even the water buckets in the stables had ice in them. All the outside taps were frozen, so we've had to run water via hose from the kitchen and then bucket the water to the trough's outside.. I've taken these pictures today..
The top photo's are of the girls stuffing their faces on some hay and the bottom photo's are the new stable doors..

Ponie Pictures..

Took some photo's of the Ponies today. Can you believe all the mud. Little Warrior's coat was a lovely red, it's now a lovely muddy colour.
I opened up the little paddock in the home field for the girls and they were soon in there, chomping at the grass. Just wish the ground would dry up a bit around the gates.

Stables On Hold..

There's no further work being done on the Stable's at the moment, as Mick had a very bad accident on Sunday, with the table saw.. He cut the top of his thumb off, making a bird table, would you believe it. Did think to start off with that he would need plastic surgery, but the Doctor's said that as it was a Diagonal cut, running from the top & down the side that it should heal itself. He's having to have, the wound dressed every three days.
The first picture was taken on Tuesday, when the first lot of dressing came off and the second photo was taken today.. Gross... But it seems to be healing nicely...