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  • Tiglath
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    The collective noun with our 9 moggies is 'an argument of cats.' The most we've ever managed on the bed at one time is 5 of them, and they all went flying in the middle of the night when I got fed-up with the lack of space and the growling :)

    It's very grey here - I've got back from the shops and put the lights back on. Expecting rain imminently.
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  • lostinrates
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    Tiglath wrote: »
    The collective noun with our 9 moggies is 'an argument of cats.' The most we've ever managed on the bed at one time is 5 of them, and they all went flying in the middle of the night when I got fed-up with the lack of space and the growling :)

    It's very grey here - I've got back from the shops and put the lights back on. Expecting rain imminently.

    Oh, that doesn't sound like i imagne it!

    My two are always tangled into knots of limbs and purrs and they drape themselves over us, snuggle into us.

    Nine cats sounds good, like a single duvet, but not if they bicker :(
  • There is now no upper height limit on welsh cobs, but a small cob would carry you both fine. As would a highland ( upper limit 14 hh) highlands are my favourite natives, and they carry tall men ( I have had men of over six feet tall on them) and upto about twenty stone if they have to. You would not be underhorsed, and their wide barrels take up extra leg, so would not look wrong either.

    They will both pull too.

    Others might be dales (I prefer fells which would both cope with weight and pull, but I think that your daughter might feel a little tall on a fell).

    You are spolit for choice really. British large breeds carried men, sometimes taking their farming men owners hunting, worked under saddle and in harness. They are amazing.

    I would take an over height or full up highland if I could find one!
    alfie_1 wrote: »
    a welsh section c or d would do you...good strong and solid not too tall and well built....
    lucielle wrote: »
    Can be stubborn and need to know whos boss.
    I actually prefer welsh cs to the d ones, BUT, they are less comfortable for a tall rider ime, and also, ime, there are other benefits over them to the other large breeds I listed.

    Welshs are certainly the easiest to get hold of though.
    Exmoors are more than capable of taking an adult on a full day's ride.


    Wow, what can I say? Such wonderful replies from everyone! It seems we're going to be spoiled for choice when the time comes. I'm delighted to know that the natives are perfectly capable of what I want - given their history it's what I hoped, but I needed it confirmed by people who *know*. I'm very glad I ordered a book on native ponies, as although I've heard of the Welsh cobs I don't know what the different sections mean, and I couldn't identify a Dales or Fell or Highland if it stepped on my foot :rotfl:Exmoors I know, and are lovely (to look at - never ridden one.)

    Due to my weight, I've been put on a horse in the past that was just over 15hh, and I didn't feel like I had much control at all - my legs just didn't go very far round it. I'd far rather develop a rapport with a pony, which would be closer to my own height.

    How much land would I need to run two ponies on for most of the year, say March to November?

    :T Thank you all SO much for the answers! You're all really generous with your time and knowledge on here. Chickens, I know quite well. Ponies? I'll be led by the experts! :cool:
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  • Tiglath
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    It's always the girls - the boys are generally fine and just throw the odd punch, but the girls fight like ninjas and plot revenge. Two of the girls are torties so it's even worse. I have permanent scars on my arm from deep gashes by one of them when she turned psycho on me; she was trying to dig through the front of the washing-machine to beat up one of the tabby + white girls when I interfered.
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  • lostinrates
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    Alexelisey wrote: »
    Wow, what can I say? Such wonderful replies from everyone! It seems we're going to be spoiled for choice when the time comes. I'm delighted to know that the natives are perfectly capable of what I want - given their history it's what I hoped, but I needed it confirmed by people who *know*. I'm very glad I ordered a book on native ponies, as although I've heard of the Welsh cobs I don't know what the different sections mean, and I couldn't identify a Dales or Fell or Highland if it stepped on my foot :rotfl:Exmoors I know, and are lovely (to look at - never ridden one.)

    Due to my weight, I've been put on a horse in the past that was just over 15hh, and I didn't feel like I had much control at all - my legs just didn't go very far round it. I'd far rather develop a rapport with a pony, which would be closer to my own height.

    How much land would I need to run two ponies on for most of the year, say March to November?

    :T Thank you all SO much for the answers! You're all really generous with your time and knowledge on here. Chickens, I know quite well. Ponies? I'll be led by the experts! :cool:

    Hmm......you might not want any grass for them in spring and summer and autumn. E.g. This year my equine podiatrist assures me almost everything has had low grade lamionitis. :o. How hard are you going to work them, where will you kepp them in winter?

    Personally, i think you should aim to have a decent size yard and barn or field shelter, and reverse your turn out iseas, so have a couple of well drained acres for winter turn out. (you could runa track round like i do for summer grazing...google paddock paradise) and then in spring summer and autumn supplment the grass with some LAST YEaRS hay (the modern fashion is to feed this years hay to horses. Its just too 'rich' for many ponies, and personally i think this relates to lots of the increase in laminitis issues). Fwiw, when i showed ponies, we used to feed them oat and barley straw too, appropriately balanced. Its vital to keep guts moving and fed, and straw (not wheat straw, thats what is usually associated with colic) so that they were always eating, but not always eating grass and hay.

    How much actual land you want will depend on what you do with them and what soil you have, and what the grass you inherit is. You will not need much for grass, but imo its not fair to keep them without the ability to have a gallop and a flick of their heels and a play.
  • lostinrates
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    Tiglath wrote: »
    It's always the girls - the boys are generally fine and just throw the odd punch, but the girls fight like ninjas and plot revenge. Two of the girls are torties so it's even worse. I have permanent scars on my arm from deep gashes by one of them when she turned psycho on me; she was trying to dig through the front of the washing-machine to beat up one of the tabby + white girls when I interfered.

    Mine are girls. We are thinking about gettiong a couple opf kittens soon, and are thinking about boys. I have never had a boy cat :o but i am told they are more loving. I cannot imagine more loving than my girls:o. Quietly, i would stick with girls given a choice, purely out of familiarity. So its probably good to have a change!
  • Davesnave
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    Tiglath wrote: »
    Two of the girls are torties so it's even worse. I have permanent scars on my arm from deep gashes by one of them when she turned psycho on me; she was trying to dig through the front of the washing-machine to beat up one of the tabby + white girls when I interfered.

    You put your cats in the washing machine?:eek::eek::eek::eek:

    Hello, by the way.:) Nice to meet you.....err...I think! :rotfl:You have to watch what you write on this thread. We is quite[STRIKE] litreat[/STRIKE] litterate, y'know. Almost like doing Shakespeare sometimes.;)

    I have two torties. Mad as fish, but very gentle.
  • Tiglath
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    Should've clarified - that particular tabby + white lives outside during the summer months, and behind the washing-machine when it's colder :) Nice to meet you too :)
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  • Itismehonest
    Itismehonest Posts: 4,352 Forumite
    edited 14 September 2012 at 10:44AM
    Alexelisey wrote: »
    How much land would I need to run two ponies on for most of the year, say March to November?

    LIR's right - particularly for the moor & mountain ponies - although they are also designed to live outside happily all year. They find something to survive on where most would think nothing existed. Less is more in their case.
    Ours only get supplement feed if the ground is frozen or there's thick snow but that's because their only work now is mowing :)

    Rhiw - Unfortunately, I doubt it but it's a case of "If I don't no-one else will".

    CTC - I had to nail a bargeboard/fascia back on the gable of one of the cottages the other day. It was a case of one ladder up the wall & another one hooked over the roof ridge with me laying on it. :eek:
    For some reason that was less scarey than balancing on a ladder. I think it may have been because, when I was on the roof, there was roof beside me & not just a big drop on both sides.
    It gets even more interesting because of my urticaria. I have to wear really thick-soled flip-flops or the rungs make my feet swell. Flip-flops on ladders are ........ interesting :D
    As it is I have a swollen leg today from the rung above the one I stood on having pressed into my shin :( Good thing the rain has put paid to carrying on for this morning at least.

    Oops - Hi Tiglath :wave:
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