Tuesday 20 November 2007

A bIt aBoUt tHe sTuD.

My uncle Euan and his fiancee run the stud just outside beauly on the muir of ord straight, they at the moment have the two stallions Fun and Maddok, both welsh ponies as the stud we have mainally consists of welsh ponies altho there is a few others as you can see in my other posts. We use are stallions on our own mares to produce high quality foals, which we will either keep and break or sell as foals, but also welcome other mares from all around the country to come and visit to be covered.
As Natalie is a riding instructor she likes to keep some of the best foals to break and school to then sell ready to be worked and shown although these will be more expensive then they are allways very well schooled and should be suitable for adults and children to work with although all horses and ponies have different temperaments not all will be suitable for a child wihh may not have the experience to handle them.
When visiting mares come to stay there are usually at ours for around three weeks so that they can either run with the stallion or be covered by him every about twice but maybe more so we can be sure the mare is in foal, could not come back into season after the three weeks. T o do this it will be quite expensive as you would have to pay for the keeping of the mare while its staying with us and then the fee for the mare to be covered wich will be around £300 approx.

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