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What a perfect place. Clyde will love it, I reckon, and the cough should go down in a meadowy place, for sure.

Best wishes for his retirement. Yay.
There was some trepidation about his age when you first got him, but he's been a wonderful companion for you hasn't he?
How old is 25 in human equivalent years.

I think it is 7 years for dogs but that would make him 175 and he can't be that old, so is it fewer years for horse age conversions.
Apparently you times by 2.2 (which makes Clyde around 57) but it depend on the breed.   Clyde may be around for some time  :D  a well looked-after pony can make it to 40 calendar years.

Or more precisely, from a different source:-

First Year = 12 human years
Second Year = 7 human years
Next Three Years = 4 years apiece
Subsequent Horse Years = 2 ˝ years each

So right now Clyde is something like 31 + (21 x 2.5) = 83.5 years if Clyde is 26.
Aww, thanks for all these good wishes!

Yes, he has been a wonderful friend.  And, let's not forget, a champion too - Allen's Hill Best Pony 2005 - Jay has around 90 rosettes he won for her with his dash and his boldness and his flair.

We've been to see him every day.  It's a bit like dropping a child off at a new school and then peeping through the playground bars while they're not watching!  Yesterday we brought him down to the yard for a brush-up - he saw me coming to the gate, neighed loudly - and galloped down the hill, screeching to a stop just in front of me, cartoon-style.   :D

Today we parked in the carpark and just watched him for a while - he didn't know we were there - he was cantering madly round the field, tossing his head like a brumby and lookng like he was going to leap the fence to join the Bad Boys in the field next door.  What joy to see him galloping freely around his new kingdom, up and down hills and over dale - and never a single cough!

At last, at last, I feel we've really done the right thing by this good old friend of ours  :cry  <--- happy tears
Can't wait to come and see him in new surroundings - confess I also had a tear in my eye when I heard the good news  :clap
We can't wait to take his Auntie-STPD  to see him  :D

Here's a picture of him and his little Shetland friend at the top of the hill - massively zoomed as he was about half a mile away.
I have just seen some Poor Dartmoor Pomies out in the snow on the news and thought of Clyde.

So how is Poor Free Clyde doing out his dreadful snow, has a snow shelter been found for him. If it has would he even use it as sometimes animals are stubborn and don't think on human sensible lines.
Aww Furby thanks for thinking of him.  We are a bit worried tonight to be honest  :(  

I just said bracingly to a stricken Jay when Mr M cheerfully told us that it will be 'minus double figures out there tonight'  :bash that 'either all the horses will freeze to death or none will' but it didn't seem to cheer her up!

I am hoping Emma will bring in the ones that look sorriest for themselves into the pig-barn which has sort of rough pens laid out, but probably priority for emergency pig-penning goes to the finest beasts which counts Clyde out, but she won't want a spate of horsy corpses on the hill so hopefully she has things in hand.

As you say, horses often don't choose to walk into an open-sided barn when any human would run in there at once to get out of the rain/snow/wind, so let's tell ourselves that even if we offered Clyde a snug stable right now he would cock a snook at us and prance about happily in the snow.

Not convinced really...  will phone the yard tomorrow...

:(
I don't think there is any need to worry. Mr M has a point about ' all the horses freezing or none'. When did you last hear of 100s of horses being stricken by the cold in this country?

For horses, cold weather does not mean coming in from the cold,

Horses are very tolerant of cold conditions; in fact, horses tend to be far more stressed by heat than by cold.

The horses winter coat is a horse's first defense from the cold. When allowed to grow, a horse's natural hair coat acts as a very effective thermal blanket, it increases both in length and density as the days grow shorter. A Horses  winter coat is also naturally greasy, which helps it repel snow, ice, and sleet. A heavy winter hair coat  a tremendous insulator and provides as much warmth as the best blankets

Winter care for horses


Interestingly it says that a thin blanket is worse than none at all because it flattens their coat.
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