{"id":152558,"date":"2025-03-23T23:29:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T23:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/animal\/living-off-nothing-my-shetland\/"},"modified":"2025-03-23T23:29:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T23:29:58","slug":"living-off-nothing-my-shetland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=152558","title":{"rendered":"Living Off Nothing | My Shetland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-77265\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>I can\u2019t understand how little the Shetland ponies can live off.\u00a0 It is basically fresh air.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77272\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_6271.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Their field upsets me now. There is nothing in it. If I saw this, I would report it to the authorities, desperate that they should do something for the poor, poor ponies who live there.\u00a0 My ponies. My field and this is what is needed to get them to a) stay alive and b) possibly lose some weight.\u00a0 This is on veterinary instruction too.<\/p>\n<p>(Newt is only slightly bigger than the poo pile! \u2013 I clear up daily so at least the field is \u201cclean\u201d.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77271\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_6274.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Shetland ponies only have access to this field for six hours a day.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77270\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_6272.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>By 3 p.m., they are all waiting by the gate asking to come into the paddock for something to eat.\u00a0 A bowl of nothing and then a specific amount of soaked hay.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77269\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_6275.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>And apparently this is all a Shetland pony needs to live off for 24 hours.\u00a0 I never thought I would keep ponies like this but here I am realising it is the only way to keep them alive and, God forbid, even healthy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77268\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_6277.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I am also trying to open up a small part of the track so they can live on it in Spring\/Summer but not get laminitis.\u00a0 Rather than give them the whole track, they get a new section of almost nothing once a week.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77267\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_6278.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This is the next section.\u00a0 If they can get fat on that, then I give up.\u00a0 I am suprisingly staying strong!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77266\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/IMG_6282.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-block sd-like jetpack-likes-widget-wrapper jetpack-likes-widget-unloaded\" id=\"like-post-wrapper-47143706-77265-67e09975b1b54\" data-src=\"https:\/\/widgets.wp.com\/likes\/#blog_id=47143706&amp;post_id=77265&amp;origin=myshetland.co.uk&amp;obj_id=47143706-77265-67e09975b1b54\" data-name=\"like-post-frame-47143706-77265-67e09975b1b54\" data-title=\"Like or Reblog\">\n<h3 class=\"sd-title\">Like this:<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"button\"><span>Like<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"loading\">Loading&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sd-text-color\"\/><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\">\n\t\t\tThis entry was posted in <a href=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/category\/myshetland\/\" rel=\"category tag\">MyShetland<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/living-off-nothing\/\" title=\"5:33 pm\" rel=\"bookmark\"><time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"2025-03-23T17:33:46+00:00\">March 23, 2025<\/time><\/a><span class=\"by-author\"> by <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/author\/francestaylor\/\" title=\"View all posts by Frances\" rel=\"author\">Frances<\/a><\/span><\/span>.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- .entry-meta -->\n\t<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;appId=249643311490&version=v2.3\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u2019t understand how little the Shetland ponies can live off.\u00a0 It is basically fresh air. 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