Dungarron Highland Ponies

Autumn is here already!

January / February were nearly pleasant, with not too many ultra hot days (though there were more than enough hot and sticky nights)

We had rain, 4 whole inches that were soaked up by parched paddocks - leaving dry dams dry - but enough to see the existing pasture green up and newly germinating grasses and clovers push away with the sunny days and cool nights. We can only hope that autumn is as generous.

Rose and Millie are both back in foal to Adie. Rosie will be going home at the end of March. We will be sad to see her go, but thank Julia from Harkaway Lodge for the fantastic opportunity to have her with us for as long as we have (and put up with our false start) and hope that Rose's next foal is as lovely as Ghillie is. Millie and Flora will foal in the spring, with Flora quite early (mid-August) and Millie not until November. Both mares will then have a well deserved 12 months off, and (fingers crossed) Tammy and Verona will join the breeding program for the 2010-11 season.

As water gets more and more scarce out in the paddocks, we end up with a fair bit of wildlife coming in closer and closer to the house and yards to drink out of the troughs. Tammy is not a fan of 'roos and had chased this lot out of the creek paddock into the shed paddock next to the house, where they looked to be debating as to where to try next for a drink.

Geordie was content to sit and watch them this time ... he's not as keen to negotiate fences in pursuit of kangaroos as Senga was.

New pictures of the foalies in their albums and some reference pictures on Ghillies for sale ad.