Nutmeg

  • Posted: February 27, 2012
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Nutmeg arrived here in September 2012, he is actually a stallion but he is also in the region of being thirty years old and has lost any ideas of being amorous though he loves being part of an all female herd!! He is a miniature shetland and small even for a

Beau

  • Posted: November 10, 2011
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Beau is a 16.2 hand high Thoroughbred cross Warmblood chestnut mare, she is a gentle giant.  We do not know how old she is but guess her to be in her early twenties.  Mossburn was contacted by Beau’s previous owner and asked to take her on as she could not longer

Connie

  • Posted: November 8, 2011
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Connie has now reached a time in life whereby she can no longer eat hay, she has come through two winters very badly and will not be put through a third. There is a down side to every job, making the decision to put to sleep a pony who has

Strawberry

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Strawberry is an 11 hand high Welsh pony who has given her whole life in the service of humans but was going to be shot because she doesn’t jump anymore so can’t go hunting! Strawberry is a devil to catch but once caught she is the sweetest and kindest natured

Silillia

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Silillia is one of Mossburn’s characters, she is a mule, mum was a pony dad was a donkey. Her previous owner did not know when he bought his mare that she was in foal, he certainly did not expect a mule to arrive but that is exactly what happened! About

Rambler

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A shetland in distress call came in from a concerned member of the public about this pony who was living right beside a busy motorway. It was winter and the pony was spending his days standing in a frozen field with nothing to eat and no visable supply of water.

Megan

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Megan came down to us from an equine rescue in Lanarkshire, the landlord of the premises it occupied having given the tenant notice as he wanted his land back. The lady who ran the centre and looked after the horses and ponies managed to re-home all but three ponies and

Blackie

  • Posted: November 7, 2011
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Blackie is a middleweight cob, that is to say Blackie herself is rather portly and could be described as a heavyweight but her breeding is middleweight! Blackie is the mare everyone wants to own, she can carry riders from very small because she is so well mannered right up to