Two young horses

i hope you made a mistake when you said a bale of horse hage would last 2 weeks a bale should be used in 3 days 5 at the most otherwise you run the risk of botulism!! there is nothing wrong with good quality hay unless a horse has a dust allergy and cheaper to . have you informed the local eqine liason officer as ive not seen it on my emails?

You may be able to get big bale hay in Basingstoke for cheaper than Haylage but getting equine quality hay in South Wales at the moment is practically like buying gold dust.

The big bale haylage is £30 and the rescue have 15 horses it is opened and gone usualy within a day and a half. We estimate that if we use a bale in a day and a half then £30 would cover what 2 eat in 2 weeks.

I am not sure which equine liasion officer sends you e-mails but the police, several large animal charities, two large horse charities, the local council and the BHS were all aware of the danger these horses were in and were they are now.

If there is anyone you think can help us with these horse in any way, even trying to trace were they came from in the first place then please pm me, their name or organisation so I can get in touch with them for our rescue.

Caaz

sally i think your thinking of the horse hage that comes in small the bags

caaz is talking about the big bales of haylage and this is not as wet as those small bales and lasts much longer and is safe for longer than 5 days even though she does say it normaly eaten in a day and a half

p.s caaz i have 3 eating a large bale of hay in a week and a half so estimate sounds about right

Hi Caz
I'm broke at the moment, but as soon as I can possibly do it, I'll send y ou some money via paypal for the new babies xx

as said in pm equine liason officers are at your police station it is more a case of collecting info and working out a pattern. sadly most of the dumped horses we deal with down here are dead. do you have fields of coloured horses or gypsy types nearby they may have escaped or been let out unfortunately theses types of places are drop off points for the meat trade

The people who contacted the police and the Police themselves made enquiries about the wereabouts of an owner for 5/7 days, before the horses were moved and are still trying to trace and owner as the 28 days are not up as yet.

The local council who should have sorted the situation would have nothing to do with it. If the council had taken responsibility then the horses could now be passported and sorted out but as the police handed them to us we can do nothing for 28 days in case an owner turns up.

Caaz

Two offers of help have come forward to try and gain the girls trust we are taking both to meet them tomorrow.

Caaz

for them

Count me in Caaz. Any help I can give, just call me, if I can I will

caaz just wondering are there any Intelligent horsemanship people in your area ??

or maybe the people who have offered have trained this way ?

if not i will post on IH and see if anyone is in your area unless your a memember one there yourself if so i will butt out

misunderstood wrote:Count me in Caaz. Any help I can give, just call me, if I can I will

What area are you Maureen?

Caaz

cracker wrote:caaz just wondering are there any Intelligent horsemanship people in your area ??

or maybe the people who have offered have trained this way ?

if not i will post on IH and see if anyone is in your area unless your a memember one there yourself if so i will butt out

One of our offers has trained with Monty Roberts but feel free to post as he hasn't been able to get here to work withthem as yet (he has donated 4 sacks of food for the girls though)

Noooooooooooo don't butt out We need all the help we can get, even for making their plight more noticable.

Caaz

Sorry Mo just twiged who you are, you can get up there and talk to them any time you like you know were they are.

Put your wellies on though the gate way is very muddy.

Caaz

Well one of the offers of help won't be happening.

Apparently not interested in helping a rescue that doesn't already have perfect facilities.

I apologise for living in Wales and not being able to control the weather but every one of our volenteres gives their all to improve the lives of the animals that are handed over/dumped on us.

We are fundraising to get the fields improved and to get some stables put up. Until then some of our horses are in a field that is very muddy one end but they get checked 3/4 times a day, their feet are cleaned and checked regularly and our vet and farrier are here on a regular basis (usually at least once a week).

Sorry for a little sounding off but, the contact was from here and when I dislike a situation I prefer to help rather than critisise.

Caaz

We have started to collect together sugestions for names for the girls if you wish to make a suggestion via the web site we will be naming them the two most popular names as we now have 30 to sort their passports.

We have boxes up with a £1 donation on suggested donation on paypal is £1.50 to cover the costs as well.

We are also now selling pet accessories, rosetts and keyrings to try and raise funds for these girls. (and the other animals here of course).

Caaz

Rosetts are nearly ready. Just waiting for the rest of the materials to arrive.
The tails are going up for printing this weekend.

LOOKING GOOD!! (Even if I do say so myself)

Rosetts and keyrings now for sale

Name the girls is alsoin progress suggested donation with names you would like is £1.50 via our paypal.

Wonder why we're having a few Golf type names suggested !!!!!!!

No nobody so far has tried Outside Lane and Hard Shoulder lol

Caaz

The Black Mare is having her Back checked tomorrow and her dentist appointment is the 28th Feb

We still can't get near the Coloured (with Blaze) so she will have to wait till next time the girls are out with our horses or down at PC.

Caaz

How are they doing now?

Well done Cazz for all the hard work and efforts you have made for these 2. Wish I were nearer then I would offer to help too. Hope they both get a second chance. Again well done for all your efforts. How are they doing now?