Profile of Boogie

Versatility Rose Gold - this is my starting photo. She is filthy dirty (her tail is actually white!) those patches you can see on her are palomino. She has been grown out naturally on grass. Our philosiphy is to raise our horses on natural food as youngsters so they last well into their twenties.

History;

“Boogie” as i like to call her. Boogie’s birth is a story in itself, she was born in the rain, at approximatley midnight on February 4th 2008. I found her at around 1 am on the wrong side of a barbed wire fence, on the side of one of the roads that borders our house. After running down to the house in the pouring rain, waking phil (not happy jan!) and the ensuing drama of getting mum and bub down into our yards safe and sound. we found we had a gorgeous blue eyed filly, mainly white with palomino patches. Boogie was fairly well desesitised to human contact, between the rainscald and the rugging that she needed on top of the fact that i just couldnt leave her alone! When she was a foal, i handled her often, not letting her walk away from me, and me establishing who was the leader early on in the piece. I also spent hours in the paddock just watching her, and taking photos - so she was very used to my presence. I also had to float load her at an early age a couple of times to move her and her mother, and thus she was halter broker early on.

At around 8 months of age, her mother had basically weaned her naturally, so i finished the process by seperating them. She was then left to her own devices for a few months.

I pulled her in when she was around 18 months old, handled her a little more, taught her some of the ground skills (Ken Faulkner), re-esablished human contact by brushing, handling, rugging, tieing her up etc. I then let her go once again into a large paddock (which ended up being not only our paddock but next doors aswell - their cattle trampled the fence so my horses get free rein on their lush, slashed paddock until the fence is repaired, and they dont mind, still rugged (with her pink skin she needs to be protected from the elements most of the time), and left her to her own devices once again for around 5 months which brings us to the present day.