The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Blueeyes on August 29, 2011, 07:33:18 pm
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Well for the first time today our 2 Shetland ponies, 6 Shetland sheep and our cairn terrier all met up without fences separating them, Tilly our Cairn snuck in by accident!
They all got on fab, though the sheep looked very puzzled by the dog running round like a mad thing! Was nice to see them all mixing together ;D
We were surprised when we got the sheep (a couple of weeks ago) that with all the space they and the ponies have in their separate paddocks they all seem to stick close together!
Blueeyes xx
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thats great! :)
our dog is too lairy to be trusted, huge prey drive (if it moves, chase it and eat it!)
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Tilly thinks everything is a friend and even manages to look insulted if another animal isn't as happy to be friends, she met a swan at lake Windermere a few weeks ago that hissed at her and she hid behind my legs :D
We seem to have got so lucky with all of our animals, they are all so funny and friendly with proper personalities, god I'm sounding totally mad now ;D ;D
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not to me, we've turned all our animals daft! :D
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My animals all have personalities and no it isn't mad it is just normal. My ex racehorse is at his happiest when he is in with the sheep if I have to seperate them he goes off his food and looks depressed, he has one favourite Marlyn (we nicknamed him black spot as he had a spot on his head when he was a lamb but it has gone now) he stands under the horse at feed time and waits for any hay or stray nuts to fall. If we whistle and they are in the top field the horse actually rounds up the sheep and brings them all through safely