UK Native Ponies: Mountain and Moorland
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We have a new addition to the ponies on the way to work. This one can only be a day or so old and is just full of the joys of spring
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This was taken on my first visit to the New Forest in Hampshire . I was hoping we might spot some of the wild ponies I had read about , I need not had worried there were ponies everywhere also pigs goats deer and donkeys roaming around; you need to drive cautiously in the Forest. The photo was taken on a walk on some of the open pastures in the forest .I have never seen unfenced horses before in England, it was rather delightful
If you have the time the text underneath gives an explanation as to how the system works its rather peculiar and archaic
The breed of horse is indigenous to the New Forest in Hampshire in southern England, where equines have lived since before the last Ice Age; remains dating back to 500,000 BC have been found within 50 miles of the heart of the modern New Forest. DNA studies have shown ancient shared ancestry with the Celtic-type Asturcón and Pottok ponies. The grass in the New Forest always looks remarkably tidy, it is a direct result of animal activity. In fact, their grazing and browsing supports rare plant species including wild gladiolus and chamomile. This in turn helps the wider ecosystem and encourages other species to thrive here including the Dartford warbler and the southern damselfly. In fact, the southern damselfly lays its eggs in the water-filled hoofprints of ponies (and cattle) nearby to the streams that pass through the New Forest.
All ponies grazing on the New Forest are owned by New Forest commoners – people who have "rights of common of pasture" over the Forest lands. The ancient tradition of commoning dates back from before the days when William the Conqueror made this area his private hunting reserve and imposed strict laws on the locals. In return for this, the locals were given the rights to graze their animals on the ‘common’ (this being the land which is now known as the New Forest).
An annual marking fee is paid for each animal turned out to graze. The population of ponies on the Forest has fluctuated in response to varying demand for young stock. Numbers fell to fewer than six hundred in 1945, but have since risen steadily, and thousands now run loose in semi-feral conditions. The welfare of ponies grazing on the Forest is monitored by five Agisters, employees of the Verderers of the New Forest. Each Agister takes responsibility for a different area of the Forest. The ponies are gathered annually in a series of drifts, to be checked for health, wormed, and they are tail-marked; each pony's tail is trimmed to the pattern of the Agister responsible for that pony.
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New Forest ponies’ series. Dozens of iconic New Forest ponies with foals were grazing or basking in warm sunshine. New Forest National Park. Hampshire, England, UK.
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This pony and friends are employed to help manage the invasive bracken, in Hastings Country Park - HSS!
From our Boxing Day outing, walking in the Foggintor area on the moors. A typical Dartmoor scenery - soggy ponies in a boggy moorland.
A rather handsome looking pony. In England they are simply called spotted ponies but in the US I believe they are called Appaloosa ponies - I prefer appaloosa! This is a stallion photographed in Cornwall on a recent trip. There was also a foal in the same colouring.
I must get out more and capture more horses and ponies. Such fine creatures, intelligent and strong. And here they are free to roam the mountain top. Wild!
Das Islandpferd, auch Isländer oder Islandpony genannt, ist eine aus Island stammende, vielseitige und robuste Pferderasse, die dank ihres kräftigen Körperbaus auch von Erwachsenen geritten werden kann.
The pony, encountered with delight on Yr Elen, stayed absolutely still, apart from the wind blowing through her mane and tail...
The prominent peak on the right is Elidr Fawr..
This was one of my earliest digital images, but was only recently processed in Lightroom. .
My Painted Pony.
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We arrived at Loch Bi in South Uist just in time to see this Eriskay pony wade onto the island, a lovely moment.
Away to Assynt for a few days :)
Two pesky ponies, followed me all over in hope of a sandwich, even gave me a nudge now and then. :-)
This was taken on the north-east side of Dartmoor, a few miles from Chagford, which is behind the hills in the distance. The Dartmoor pony is arguably the landscape’s most hardy animal and one that has become the official symbol on the national park’s logo. They’ve lived on the moor for centuries, thriving despite harsh winter weather.
All of the moor’s ponies belong to different keepers, who ensure that each herd is healthy. There are several different types — the pedigree Dartmoor ponies are a hardy, rare breed, herds of them can be found on many areas of the moor. They are up to 12.2 hands high and can be bay, brown, black, grey, chestnut or roan. Dartmoor hill ponies can be any size from tiny to large, and any colour including mixed colours.