highland ponies

[Happychik]

Anyone out there got highlands? i have 9 of the little critters. Any stories etc will be greatfully received.

[Esther.D]

I haven't but I do think they are great ponies! I have the smaller version, even littler critters:D - I have 4 shetlands who I competition drive.

[abi_pring]

well ive got a highland x shetland!!! very sweet. will post pic wen im at home, inm at sskool now!!
bye

[Happychik]

Thanks for your reply

I also have 19 shetlands, they are a mixture of minitures and standards and they are all either show ponies or breeding stock, they are all little monsters but i love them all the same.

My favourite is called Doonhamer Venus and she is a chestnut yearling standing at 23" she is sooooo cute and likes to nibble at your feet when you are in the field.

[Billybo]

Hello! I've got two :) , Uileam of Shielhill, Billy to his friends (by Cameron out of Zoe of Shielhill) and Callum of Glencree (by Arran out of Eady of Dalbrack).

Do tell me about yours, I just luv 'em!!!

Mags

[Mossy]

Hi
I have a hairy Highland. Up to height, built like a tank and full of cheek. I love him to bits! He normally answers to Mossy, but when he steps on my toes it is more "Get off you ******%%&&!!!"

[Happychik]

i have attatched a couple of pics i hope you can see them the foal is yet nameless (miniture shetland) and the highland is Mayfly

[Happychik]

hehe i have several so here goes

I have Dunedin Mayfly - 13.1ish grey (white really but not very often)

Swallow Den Oren Mor - 14hh gelding yellow dun

Corrabelle - 14hh Yellow dun brood mare (just had foal 1week ago hehe cream dun colt still no name)

Missey - white brood mare (had foal on sunday again crean dun colt with no name)

Jessica - a stunning 13.2hh bright bay 2 year old i am hoping she will do well in the show circuit this year

Little Fenwick Rhona - she is 14.1hh yellow dun 3 year old full of mischeif and never out of trouble but soooo cute

[Billybo]

(white really but not very often)
I know exactly what you mean Happychik, that's Billy :D !

I take it you breed highlands, then? They're very addictive, aren't they? Do you show them? Were you at RHS? I was helping a breeder friend of mine, it was fabby!

Mossy, please do tell about yours?

Mags

[Happychik]

I didn't make it the RHS as it was our local gala down here and i was riding in it worst luck.

I had Rhona at the Stallion Parade in perth in March and got third with her so we have qualified for the Scottish Farmer Show at Strathallan.

We will be showing at Dumfries, Peables, Penrith, Rickerby Park, 3 Counties and Strathallen.

So you never know you might see me there getting led around the show field by my eager gang hehe

Mayfly is lovely she is very naughty and should never have been a girl she hates being clean and if you brush her mane she will shake and shake until it is a mess again. I bathed her last week and not 5 mins later she was as green as the grass:D horror.

[Mehitabel]

i have new forests, but if i were going to get another breed it'd be a highland! i think they're fab.

[Billybo]

I'll look out for you then at shows in the future as I gaze at the highlands with an attractive line of drool running down my chin:D !

I've never shown mine but plan to enter Callum in a few local M&M classes this summer, so if all goes well, maybe next year......

Mags

[Esther.D]

I assume you breed Shetlands seriously then? What is your stud prefix? Mine are all registered, they are Parlington Polo, Eastlands McEnroe, Strothesdale Gallant and Hazelhead Half Sovereign, alias Polo, Mac, Gallie and Bobby;)

Sorry I know we are supposed to be talking about Highlands not Shetlands :rolleyes:

If you are near Dumfries then we probably are not that far apart (relatively) as I live near Carlisle (well between Carlisle and Hexham).

[Happychik]

Hi Esther D.

I only show the shetlands but i do look after them the couple that own them are the registered breeders and their stud name is Doonhamer

We also own shetland bought in so we have a wide variety of names in our collection. Earlston Dan is our miniture stallion. and the Standard is called Dobbin for the life of me i cant remember his registered name but he is from top blood lines.

All the ponies are registered and are all to be shown this year except for Ella she had a bit of a rough winter and we are going to let her recover. We have just sold a batch at penrith sales

Nic xx

[Esther.D]

I haven't come across Doonhamer, not that that means anything as I have been out of the shetland circuit for years and I can't remember all the different studs. Do they have a website? Hardly any shetland breeders seem to be on the web.....

The foal looks lovely!

I do local driving trials with mine...I am planning to compete with the Dumfries and Galloway driving club next year, as well as the North West club.

[Happychik]

I have competed with the D&G club as well i am a member and usually groom for someone. The events are usually very good and they are a nice bunch of people. I really must get out to a few events to help this year if i can. I do miss the driving scene i only managed to get to 1 comp last year.

Good luck and i may well see you at an event

Nic xx

[Billybo]

Hi Happychik!

Any highland piccies by any chance???:)

Mags

[Happychik]

i sure do but you will have to give me your email add as they are too big to fit on here for some reason. It won't let me post them but i can email them to you if you wish.

Nic xx

[Billybo]

Pm'd my email addy to you, Happychik! Look forward to seeing piccies!!!

Mags

[sandra owen]

Hi, I have a highland X who is brilliant. She is called Fleur, and is 10 yo and grey (when shes not mud coloured!!) Her great great grandmother was an Irish cob x Connemara, they put her to the same Fell stallion that the Queen uses on her Fells, and the resulting mare they put to the Queens Highland Stallion, the result was my Fleur.

I'm a 46 yo and I have had many horses in the past (all a pain in the A....!) but she is brilliant. She does everything I want, gallop in stubble fields, come back to walk calmly, goes past anything and everything, is forward going, kind and gentle. If this is the breed in general then I would have another without any hesitation. At the moment we are studying Natural Horsemanship, which in her usual way, shes taken to like a duck to water.

I think most people who have trouble with their equines should try a highland or highland x, I don't think they would ever go back!

[Happychik]

Have you any piccies of fleur? she sounds fab

here is one of jessica my 2 year old

[sandra owen]

Hi,
Sorry, can't post pictures on (work p.c!) loved the piccie of yours though! think I might download it and use it as a screen saver!

[Happychik]

There is one of mayfly in another thread "share your pics" if you are wanting a look. I ams till waiting to get some nice ones of them at the shows but as i am showing them i don't get much of a chance.

[sandra owen]

think I saw that when I was browsing. Good luck with the show ones though.

[Sable]

Went to see some last two weeks ago. They were beautiful and sooooo friendly, if I wasn't lookung for an Icelandic at the moment, I would be very tempted.

[Happychik]

How cute how did u manage to resist?????

[abi_pring]

Sable - Dont you think my boy Smokey looks like them!?

http://www.newrider.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=22963

[Wally]

A lass down the road has a Highland X Shetland, "Teka" , She looks like a really good quality riding pony of "cob type" her father was the stallion who my friend owned...who jumped over the fence and had his wicked way with the Shetland mare. Teka is about 13hh and a very smart looking ride and drive mare. You'd never think she had something as hairy as a Shetland in her!:D

We have one or two little ankle biters, some not so little, all registered and daft as brushes.

Poor Pants came in with a really nasty cut on his neck today, if I had found it yesterday I would have had it stitched, it's quite horrid.......but he didn't get if from minding his own business. There's no way he was researching love, light and happiness and the others picked on him! OH NO! He was last seen trying to bring our 14.2hh Welsh sec. D to his knees! so I think he has finally been told to GO AWAY in no uncertain terms...poor boy.

He'll be at it again this evening, little midgy, blighting everyone else's existence, making thier lives a burden to them!:D :D Just an every day tail of an ordinary Shetland.;) ;)

[Sable]

abi_pring. Yes Smokey does look like them he's goergeous :D
Happychik. It was very hard to resist (especially this one who fell asleep with his head on my knee) but I do really want an Icelandic and am willing to wait for the right horse for me.

[Mossy]

What IS it about this summer!??? I have never known one like it for injuries. The vet is a daily visitor on our yard and a horse who reckons that Laminitis is the f word for horses are showing symptoms!!!

[Happychik]

Sable:- I know what you mean the right horse is the most important thing especially when u are investing your money into it, but im sure the right one is just round the corner. We have an icelandic trecking stables not too far from here and it looks like great fun.

As for the laminitus the grass was slow to appear this year but the sunshine and heat have made it sprout again so time to keep ponies in i think. Mayfly looks like she ate all the pies so a weekend inside for her i think.