Dungarron Highland Ponies

Hairy ponies everywhere.

Shedding autumn's short hard coats, growing in winter's long protective outer coat over short, downy undercoat.

The babies are weaned and have been in the yards, but got put back out in the paddock before yesterday's icy winter blast. I very rarely rug anyone other than Gypsy, and certainly don't have any baby pony size rugs, so Ghillie and Kez were better off out where they could tuck themselves in behind a tree lot to stay out of the freezing southerly winds. The photo's above are a couple of weeks old now (were for the last update that got eaten) Dull, overcast wintery days have put photo taking into the background at the moment.

Flora's bump is looking promising. She was never scanned, so we are crossing fingers. What do you reckon?

This photo is from 23 May 2010

This one 2nd June

She's such a lovely mare. I'm so excited about the prospect of a Jag / Flora baby. VERY early baby for us. I usually wait until Late Sept. /October before considering babies on the ground, but we have contingency plans even if we do not have stables - just in case we get a proper cold and wet winter.