Ponies love eating hay

We know that winter is here when the ponies start eating the hay we put out.   At around £4.00 per bale this is expensive food for them but they need the fibre and goodness it provides.   There’s little food value in the grass now and a pony needs to eat constantly, they are grazing animals and corn feeds, although helpful in small rations, just won’t do.   A dog will do well on one meal a day, in a natural life he is used to hunting for his food and filling himself up and then sleeping it off.  It might be two days before he will eat again.   But ponies have a quite different digestive arrangement and need to be munching away all the time.  If you’d like to buy a christmas pressie for the any of the ponies, a bale of hay would hit the spot!   Food presents are much better than trinkets for animals, you know they’ll enjoy them and they haven’t literally cost the earth, unlike plastic and manufactured items.   If you can buy a bale of hay for the ponies online – we’ll do the rest.

You can’t put all that in your mouth at once Chloe!   This little pony always been very determined where food is concerned.  It’s probably because she was half starved when we first rescued her.  When animals have known hunger they tend to never forget.

Bridget is a dainty eater, she’s always had plenty to eat.   Sundance likes his share but he doesn’t stuff himself like Chloe.

A bale of hay for the ponies is £4.00 online, we have thirty horses and ponies to feed every day.  They have a home for life with us and we can’t let them go hungry, please help if you can.  Even a small donation is a great help and is much appreciated.  [donate]