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I believe that Gypsy Cross Ponies out of sane, good natured mares provide family horses for those who can't afford a pure Gypsy, or maybe don't want to be bothered maintaining all the feather and hair that comes with them. So we will be breeding some foals from our Welsh Cob Val and our Shetland Pony Cassie, for ponies between 11 - 14hh. All of our foals will be trained to lead, load and pick up their feet. They will be accustomed to people in all shapes and sizes, dogs, cats, cows, pigs, sheep, goats and poultry and will have been around cars, trucks, tractors and other noisy farm machinery. They will be desensitized to tarps, plastic bags etc. We aim to do all we can to send home foals well on their way to becoming bomb-proof. |
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Val
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Valentine is a very steady trail horse who stops when her rider falls off, it happened once when Stephanie slipped off her. Then later Madeleine & Stephanie both staged falls and each time Val stopped dead and looked down at her rider on the ground. To me that is a good horse, so she is staying until my daughters feel that they want to part with her, if that day comes we will find her a forever home with a family. She has a lot of good traits to pass onto her foals, her colt Bug was very calm and an amazingly quick learner. |
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Our Shetland Pony Cassie is a great little pony with a very friendly personality, she has a lot of good things to pass onto her foals. In case you are concerned, the half Gypsy horse foals will not be too big for her to deliver. See the article The Maternal Effects on Growth & Conformation in Shire Horse-Shetland Pony Cross reposted with permission. You can see the original here. |
![]() My daughters did a lot of early training with Bug & Stormy, their Gypsy Sport Horse colts, but we will never know what was to be. Their stories are here. We were very happy with their conformation, intelligence and temperament, they would have been keepers, as I have no doubt that they would have been all we had hoped. The Haflinger X Gypsy is becoming a very popular cross, litte Stormy had amazing feather for a half Gypsy. Val our Welsh X Haflinger mare gave us Lightning "Bug" an extrememly friendly and intelligent colt. |