After a slow start Luna gets a grip on things and becomes a great mother to Snelsmore Sienna.
I’ve always slightly blamed myself for Snelsmore Nightingale losing her first foal last year; I wasn’t there for her and have never forgotten it. This year she didn’t help me make up for it and with no warning and no udder to suggest she was ready to foal, she popped out a baby all by…
Unfortunately we missed the South of England show waiting for Snelsmore Illianna to foal. Typically she hung on to the early hours of this morning to give birth to a little filly. Never mind it all went well and we definitely made the right decision in staying at home. Fours hours later, with her foal happily drinking…
Kirstall Acacia is very much a loner in the herd, so I wasn’t surprised when she decided to give birth quietly in the field one evening when nobody was around to watch apart her best friend Luna. As usual early in the morning sleepy eyed, I glanced across at the foaling camera by my bed…
Foaling started here at Snelsmore rather unexpectedly on the 7th of April. It was a sunny morning and luckily I noticed Snelsmore Nymph, a maiden mare, giving birth in the field with her friends. Once her little piebald daughter, Scarlet, was strong enough we moved them to a more suitable field where Nymph could quietly settle…
Snelsmore Juniper has been placed show ring as a youngster but in more recent years she has been at stud. Juniper has already bred three foals and has been running with Merrylees Satchmo this summer, believed in foal for 2016. As well as a super mum, Juniper has the right temperament to make an excellent…
As well as the Shetland ponies we have a homebred show jumper called Catch the Beever, better know around the stables as Buster. On the fourth of July 2007 we had been showing at Royal show, Stoneleigh, having already had a great day winning the Championship, we weren’t to know our day was too get…