new forest ponies try and take new born shetland foal:(
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- new forest, wild ponies take faol from shetland mother.
lailaandkrys 1 second ago
i could not of sone anything, no one could. they are wild ponies and hardle ever come into human contact only if they come into the camp site,
I love how the Shetlands stick together it's so cute
Not knowing if these are domestic or wild New Forest and Shetland ponies, but being a biologist and horse breeder, I observe two things 1) Aggressive behavior happens in many animal species when there is overcrowding. There were two many equines in too little an area. 2) This was probably a dominance and possibly a territory dispute, probably between the mares in both bands (herds) of ponies. The foal looked worn out and possibly injured. It was lucky to have survived. 3) It was unlikely that any stallions would be involved, because oddly
enough breed usually hang out with breed. A cousin of ours that is Amish keeps five different draft breeds and Morgans on his several hundred acre ranch. Each stallion runs with his own mare band with no fighting. The Morgan stays with his Morgan mares , the Belgian with his Belgian mares.
4) If these are domestic owned horses, there is definitely mismanagement of the pasture set-up and something should be done to separate the Shetlands from the New Forest ponies. If this is a wildlife preserve, then there is overcrowding and one of the pony bands needs to be relocated. There is no excuse for even halfway intelligent park, preserve, or boarding facility managers to allow something like this to continue.
I am not just a biologist and horse breeder and trainer. I have been a shelter and rescue volunteer since I was 18 and doing equine rescue and rehab with my hubby since 1992.
I wish to thank the person who made this video for being aware. Now it is time for you to do more. It is a preventable problem.
Blessings, Katy Behr F.
Katherine Behr well said couldent agree more
The New Forest is a very large completely open reserve in Hampshire, UK, where all the ponies are free to roam. All the animals are owned by Commoners of the New Forest who have various rights to turn their animals out onto the open forest. www.verderers.org.uk/rights.html for more info. Although alarming to watch, it is natural behaviour and is probably territorial as the different groups of ponies tend to stick together on the Forest.
"natural" or not, taking ownership of an animal comes with responsibility to keep that animal safe, healthy and fed. Dogs fight, roosters fight. Its "natural", but to allow it is illegal, and for good reason.
tama yeager gibson k
Cracking explanation Katherine thank you :)
Wow! Like watching Lord of the Rings! Glad the wee Hobbits were okay in the end!😊
Im dead 😂
The suspense in this video was so real
Moon Cat
No kidding I don't want the baby to get hurt
I am so happy that ,that poor horse got her foal back
Deivia Keskküla Wow triggered much?
The foal is dead that just a photo
Right;)
and me and me and me and me and me and me and me me too me too me too
@@agustinacalderon1723 no it isnt
I think it's just shows how much herds love each other enough to follow each other into a battle with horses 2 times Their size
The dramatic music is a little much
True. :/
aww c'mon...it added to the suspense
Almost as much as a lack of spell checking?
I agree 😂 it made it... not serious
@@ajdahun
LOL
I love how the other Shetlands are helping and sticking together!
The...the fucking music is getting to me....I can't stop laughing...its sad but its to damn dramatic..
That Shetland pony mom Was like "FUCK THIS SHIT!! I'M GOING TO GET MY FOAL BACK!!"
Yes if i was with them i would kill the mama horse and send her to horse heaven
@@daplant_official3723 😐
What if i brought a gun
@Natalia Merkulov .
@@daplant_official3723 Even if you bring a gun, you are going to kill the pony and that still won't be helping the foal. Bringing a gun and killing the pony won't be helping anything or anyone.
I’m so happy the mother got to keep her foal. She finally showed dominance and won the battle. It was also so cool how all of the other shetlands risked themselves just to help and protect the foal.
She was going to win anyway.
I love how all the Shetland horses are making sure the foal is okay by all sticking together
I was screaming “GET HER GOOD MOMMA!!!” the whole time
Big respect for plucky little shetland ponies! I never new they were so brave!
Put the big horses in a different part of the field
I don’t think the horses belong to the person filming
I think that maybe they can’t put the words in a different field because maybe there’s a budget budget and they can’t really make another area for the other horses but this is not right the baby could’ve been killed💔
Its on the new forest, so they are wild.
All the horses are so beautiful in this video, but I absolutely ADORE Shetland ponies. THe white one is BEAAAAAAAAAAUTIFUL! Just such beautiful creatures.
I'm at a 1:06 and I'm sorry I just burst out laughing the fucking music man 😂😂 I can't take it seriously 😭😭
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now I'm like noo the foal but then the music got me ded whyyyy 😩😩
Madiline Reilly it got me to man.
OMGGGG THE PONYS LOOK SOO FREAKIN BIGG 😂
my god about 10 people standing watching and no one trying to help that foal it could of been killed considering the shetlands belong to someone
carol Jamieson it says they are wild nothing could be done
You'd be the first to catch a hoof to the skull. Even smaller horses and ponies are dangerous. Mother Nature is brutal don't ever forget that.
carol Jamieson THEY ARE BEING HORSE PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO THINK YOU NEED TO STEP IN NEED TO GO WATCH THINK LIKE A HORSE CHANEL
carol Jamieson- If you would step in you would have been killed. Those are wild horses and there was nothing they could do about it even if they really wanted to.
carol Jamieson you realize what could of happened if a human being that could be killed with a strike to the head tried to intervene?
i see this is still an on going subject even after all this time, ive read some pretty stupid comments written on here, when someone who lives / has lived in the new forest explains how things work there please take notice !! there are 95,000 acres of open land for these ponies to roam on, there are people employed to make daily inspections of these animals !! they all belong to someone !! unfortunately holiday makers and tourists take no notice of the " DO NOT FEED " signs that adorn the road sides thus encouraging the ponies to congregate in populated areas where they are fed all sorts of rubbish from picnic baskets etc, they then compete to get whats on offer and this can lead to disputes amongst the ponies themselves and often results in the people feeding them to get kicked or bitten. leave them alone, stop feeding them and trying to get "selfies " taken with them and they will wander off and do what any animal should be doing, grazing and leading their lives as they are supposed to do then these sorts of incidents wouldnt happen !!!
RANT OVER !!!
A logical comment on RUclips? NO Way! Just kidding, but in all seriousness it is so easy to forget what happened to the bears in many American national parks. We were killing them with the milk of human kindness(feeding them). I think a lot of these comments come from very young girls who just haven't learned about the hard knocks of nature. Happy Days to you!
go shetland ponies! Tell them whos boss
MrSocrcoach10 so your cheering for the ponies trying to possibly kill the New Forest foal? How could you!
AwkwardPrøductions she didn't tmean like that!
BREYER Collector2007 she's not a monster meanie
dude, the shetlands are the small ones, not the ones that stole the foal
This was an act of dominance. If these horses were domesticated or wild, I don't know, but there was overcrowding. Such overcrowding led to a dominance dispute between the forest ponies and the Shetlands. They should be separated, and this would have never happened.
Here's my take. I think the bigger horses don't think the little ponies are really adults. They think the little foal needs a real horse mom. They don't take the smaller ponies seriously, like they are smaller juveniles. But real mom and her posse kicked some ass and changed their minds. She's a great mommy.
My god I love how the pony’s all stay together and they all kind of protect the baby or at least try to in a way. It’s so cute
i could not of sone anything, no one could. they are wild ponies and hardle ever come into human contact only if they come into the camp site, unless you want to run into a group of wild, angry, frighten ponies, then you would of done the same.
OMG GUYS!! your all saying like step in and help them, blah blah blah and shit, for gods sakes there wild bloody horses, i'm guessing you have no idea what wild horses can do to you and i'm also guessing you've never been kicked by a freaking horse before, and yeh it hurts like hell. They could kill you by biting you and trampling you if you didnt know, anyway, your not exactly supposed to interfere with nature, people have and "lol" look whats happened.So just leave 'em to do there own thing.
Thatwildpony you can step in and shoo them away but not too close . Plus get a halter rope and shoo them like that too it's easy and if you. Really be safe you can put on the helmet
yeah right.... wild ponys and horses with grazing collars on and humans around....
and all them people in the pasture, idiot owners
they are reflective collars put on the ponies so traffick sees them in the dark
They are grazing collars..you should never turn a horse out with a cribbing collar on!
Mom: GET AWAY FROM MY BABY *kicks*
When the foal got knocked down my anxiety went from _ all the way to _________________________________i almost passed out
Wouw that whas amazing what Wa brave shetlandpony that mother is
I love that all of the Shetland heard stays and trys to help
That's life and they know it. Great video had me at the edge of my seat beautiful and thank you for sharing.
My mum has worked with horses almost all her life so I showed the video to her and thinks that because the foal is so young the ponies are trying to investigate it
Because if a baby came into my I would defiantly try to find out about the new little thing So I guess it’s similar with horses
Probably not though
It was very much the larger ponies having an interest in the foal. The part that shows the larger pony with his lips on the foals rump was in no way aggressive and was a grooming motion and it didn't seem like an intentional strike to the foal, more so the larger pony responding to angry mum shetland. I assume these are all mares (feral stallions can and will kill a foal that's not theirs) and the pony mares were just curious of the new foal. Mother Shetland was doing what comes naturally and keeping everyone away. Normally mum and baby would be alone for a little bit of time to complete the bonding process and allow baby to figure out how to stay with mum but since these horses don't seem completely feral they would have all come to the humans for food creating a dangerous situation for the foal. If there were no people around the shetties would probably have never been there in the first place or vice versa
Its probably instinctive behaviour the urge to mother young is something common to most animals, even humans.It doesn't always have to be their own young or even their own species.
“And then a pony comes over!” A bit dramatic XD
Horses/ponies have a natural fascination for foals. No one is trying to take the foal they just want to take a closer look. The mare is being protective because it's her baby. Bad situation for foal tho. When I'm out on my horse on the Forest and he sees a foal he stares at it like its a strange alien. Nice that none of the forest ponies harmed it and that the shetties joined forces but it's nothing sinister it's just that equines love babies
Great video and all but good God the spelling and grammar is abysmal.
mother is soo amazing !! she don't stop do defend her foal !!!
The musics made this seem like a war 😂
Nico Di Angelo it’s not funny 😒
it was awesome
I usually don’t find foals cute, but that foal was cute af.
First separation, then kill; they are not looking to adopt. Happens in a multitude of species. They are not killing it for food.
Biologist + Horse breeder + Horse trainer + Horse Rescue = BARN WITCH 😃😃😃😃
Im so glad they all stop fighting 🙂
Peter Myatt
Yeah but who knows if they didn't kill the baby after... :(
It's so sad that they too the foal
Took
That is an amazing video. I am in America and I have friends who tell about wild horses coming down and taking control of their farm horses and driving them out onto the rangeland, but I have never heard about them just taking a foal. I have no idea why they do that.
She protecc
She attacc
But mostly...
She lookin like a rat.
Jk lmao she’s cute 🐴 💜
Lmao
lailaandkrys 1 second ago
i could not of sone anything, no one could. they are wild ponies and hardle ever come into human contact only if they come into the camp site, unless you want to run into a group of wild, angry, frighten ponies, then you would of done the same. although all WILD newforest ponies are woned, the owners sell them onl once a year and may not live for miles around where they are, again, they are wild, no one could do anything.
the one that is interested the goal is that a female horse (i can't tell) cause if it is she might've lost her own goal now she wants that foal as her own some grieving mothers will do that try to steal another mother foal
If you don't know anything about horses, then stay out of it. It seems as if a foal is quite rare around this place, and the ponies were very inquisitive and wanted to see, and the mother got protective
Magali B
I believe this started off as being inquisitive of the new foal, but as soon as one horse starts bucking it is like a chain reaction. The dam was in a panicked state. Similar to a pack of dogs, one gets stirred up and then they all get excited.
Mares have been known to take a foal away from the dam, but this was in domesticated horses that I witnessed myself and they were a miniature horse foal and a Caspian who was a maiden mare and was just curious about the foal.
Mel Hawk
Cascadia Horse Farm and Little Hooves miniature horses in Montesano, Washington. You can check out their live cams (2) on their Little Hooves YT page. Camera 1 has one of their Caspians on. The cams run 24/7 365 days a year.
The numbers are coming back up since they have started the breeding program that will hopefully keep the Caspian from becoming extinct.
I was holding my breath all the way through....what a horrible experience for the poor Mom and its foal! Some mares try to steal the foal from another mare when they have had a still birth or also when they are very dominant with strong mother instincts (and don´t have their own foal to take care of).
Mean forest ponies!!! Hi sorry but why didn't you stop the forest ponies?!!!???!!!!!!??!!!
Alda macwright and Ida poproad I hope you get kicked
The Shetland baby is sooo CUTE
My question is why the person recording didn’t go and separate the fight? Yes it’s dangerous, but the interruption would probably have distracted the horses and spare the mom and baby from all that stress. Also, if you’re a horse owner and you see that, you should separate your horses.
Horses are both inquisitive and territorial. They were simply checking the foal out to decide whether it could stay or should go. You could have intervened although I wouldn't recommend it as you don't want to get caught in the cross fire but you would have only postponed the inevitable - the mare needed a chance to stand her ground and protect her baby so filming it was commendable enough. Anyone who says otherwise is just ignorant of horse psychology and behaviour. Thanks for posting!
U better help that foal the video made me cry😢
do you cry everytime you eat something? Something is killed everytime you eat whether plant or animal.
I have seen this in a suburban paddock of brood mares. It' was an inexperienced mother with a foal. The maternal instinct is so strong in some mares that even when they aren't in foal, they will steal a foal if they can. Unfortunately, the thief mare was dry and couldn't feed the foal and by the time the proper mother and foal were reunited, the new mother rejected the foal. Despite best efforts by vets and humans in bottle feeding, the foal died from enteritis. This was about 40 years ago, so I expect modern medicine has come a long way since then.
One of the new Forest mares might have lost there foal and got confused on who's it it and I know it's hard to watch but u can never get in between two fighting horses I know this because I've owned horses for 13 years and my family's had them way back
Well then YOU AND YOUR FUCKIN FAMILY ARE COWARDS, you dont KNOW SHIT
I would have been in the middle of that in a second and protected that foal. That was really hard watching those people just standing there doing nothing. If you aren't a horseman then get rid of your horses.
@@engineclinic Then you would've gotten hurt
@@ladyren1575 haven't yet.
@@engineclinic Still you will still get hurt and stop acting like it's never gonna happen cause it will
whew! Thank God ! I love how the mother was so brave and relentlessly fought for her precious baby..Let it be an example to us to fight for our children because the world and the God of this world wants to separate us from them to destroy them. Fight, fight because they are worth fighting for.
WHY DIDNT YOU STOP THE FORET PONIES???!!!!???!!?!!
Candida UnderNight I know is dangerous. I'm not stupid .
Guys I know is dangerous but you could of tried scaring it off!!
you would get trampelled there sorting out dominance
I love the other horses just running around like not helping guys
if I was that mum I would walk right up that pony and bite him
My guess is, the mare who approaches the foal and tries to take it from its mother has lost her own foal. Because she still has the maternal instinct, she tries to claim the foal to replace hers. It's sad to watch the foal in the middle of it all, but Shetlands are tough and feisty and in the end, the herd of New Forests leave.
they take the foal because its not theres and they kill it it happens with zebras and goats and anything like that
Kamy Playz they weren't trying to steal the foal! Also the horses wouldn't kill it! Zebra goats and horses or completely different and it's ridiculous trying to link them together! The fell ponies were interested in the new herd addition and they wanted to see it but the Shetland mothers was protective over the foal.
Forest ponies run things in there own backyard. Shetland foal probably got all gobby, banging on about how there lot can get to the grass quicker than the Forest ponies. A right gob shite, and of course mummy had to step in to save him. Again.
Lovely area, alot of time for it. Saw more Shetland's there than I did in Shetland
Why did you not try to!help!!!!!! This is stupid!!!!!!!
They were wild, get in the middle of them, and you would be lucky to walk away unscathed.
Lizzy Gunn not dead*
+SheepJesus - ?? Unscathed means without suffering any injury, damage, or harm. I'm sure saying you would be lucky to walk away without injury implies that you could suffer major injuries or worse, death. So while I do wholly agree with you, I do think my comment still stands. It is nice to see someone in the comments section who at least sees the insanity of trying to stop the brawl.
Lizzy Gunn right. I guess I translated that to "Without getting kicked" Lol.
She could have scared them off!!!! I would do it!!! And i have a Mustang so i know what i am talking about!!!! And she is standing right there and just saying " Oh no, Stop, Dont take it!!" This stupidity Here people!!!!
I look after a herd of mares and the similar thing happened to them. One mare stuck around the foal for hours and once the foal stood for the first time, she quickly bucked and snaked the dam away, as I saw the bay do to your shetland pony, the mare quickly tried to imprint on the foal while the mother tried to get the foal away. At one point the mare actually led the bewildered foal away, only to buck it in the face, to where the dam managed to get the foal back to her side. This all happened
they are not trying to take the foal at all, they are simply inquisitive of the young one, and naturally the mother becomes protective and things spiral out of control, the situation isnt realy as bad as it is made to seem.
ellis gregson this is were your wrong some horses will sometimes try and kill a new born just over dominance it might not be intentional but as you seen if poor baby gets knocked down and kicked in head then that's it and it's so tiny
carol Jamieson no I actually think you're in the wrong here. Sure, horses or animals in general can kill the babies to stop overcrowding, I agree with that. However in this particular situation no one tried to kill the foal. If you look at the horses they're not aggressive towards the foal at all, just curious. The only aggressive move is between the mother and the horses she is trying to protect her foal from. Since the foal tragically ends up in the middle of the fight he accidentally gets kicked and pushed. There is no trying to kill the foal in this situation
i agree. The herd never was agressive, but curious. It's the mother that became nervous and tried to protect her foal against them. The fact that the foal was lost in the middle of the herd while the mother was running away was an accident.
MiraJane D honey not everything is cupcakes and rainbows this was a battle of dominance, the forest horse was trying to assert dominance over the shetland by stealing her foal, they could have easily killed the foal and thought nothing of it, this was not curiosity this was thought out and done with no heart, just a fact of nature hun
The lead was licking him. Why?
Very late to comment.
This happens quite regularly on the NF.
Owners try and keep the mares at home when they are about to foal. But obviously mistakes happen. My mare dropped early while she was still out and her foal was stolen. By a stroke of pure luck, somebody local saw the foal with the different herd, knew it didn't belong with them and contacted us. We found the herd, the foal was lying on the grass (obviously weakened), we picked him up and bundled him into the back of the car and got him home. The second stroke of luck was that my mare had spent enough time with her foal so she didn't reject him and he was able to nurse, so it was a happy ending.
The mares in the small herd she was part of come home every evening. That evening she didn't turn up and then not until late the next day, and it was clear she had dropped the foal. I think she came home for help.
Mares on the NF often do not breed every year, the amount of stallions being run has dropped significantly and the time period they do run is quite short, two months at most. So a lot of mares are very frustrated and jealous and steal the foals that are born. Of course the foal ends up dead if they can't be found in time.
It's one of the reasons why mares foal about the same time. If you notice, there are no other foals about.
Horse/ponies are very strange when it comes to foals anyway. They do attack them, they do kill them. I know somebody who was badly injured trying to protect a foal from another mare and that was nowhere near the NF.
This really annoyed me and made me sad
Way to go mom! There's nothing stronger than a mom protecting her baby! Glad it turned out alright. Hopefully in future the Shetland mares about to foal can be segregated somehow.
What I'm wondering the whole time is why didn't the people filming do anything to help
it´s nature, don't get interfered
Sophie Benschop true true
Maci Parker also anyone who interferes could have been injured or killed.
the fact that no one even tried to help is unhumane
I'm sorry I couldn't have filmed this I would have gotten involved there is no way I would have allowed that Little Pony to go up against horses I'm sorry but those look like horses to me the little ones of course our ponies but to film this and not do anything about it I don't care if they're wild horses are not you can see the ones that have collars around their necks those are obviously domesticated horses should have never been in this situation ever this baby could have gotten killed instantly by a kick or one of the horses biting it on the neck which I've seen happen personally myself
Elizabeth Hodge that's what I was thinking and if they were that wild why were people standing in there
Going in and interfering would be dangerous and the fell ponys aren't doing anything wrong! They didn't have there ears backs and they were just interested in the new member of the herd. The shetlands were just being normal mares and being protective over the foal.
Emily Cahill are you serious? Did you even even watch the clip? They had their ears back probably the entire freakin time
Simone van Veen have you ever heard of dominance? That's what their doing! They don't want the shetland to grow up thinking he was the boss so just made sure if it! And actually the fell ponys only had their ears back when the Shetlands were kicking them.
Elizabeth Hodge they were ponies shetkands are just small
This is so sad im happy that the baby is back with it's real mom and I didn't think the mean horse was it's mother I love you mother and baby horse keep up your fights and you'll be safe love so much
I tend to believe the people who are careful with their spelling and respectful of others, and can avoid profanity and punctuating their sentences with "lol." Why should we trust the opinion of anybody who thinks that horses live in "heards"?
because some people have dyslexia, poor education, talents that others don't have or are very young...bad spelling does not mean you are barred from communicating on youtube
Hi pitchfork, I did not say that bad spelling or bad manners should bar someone from RUclips. That's what's called a "straw man" argument - re-framing your opponent's point in an exaggerated and ridiculous way. What I said was that I personally am more willing to believe people who have exercised care in how they present themselves.
I notice that you do not address the other half of my point, concerning rudeness. Do you have anything to say about that?
They are herd animals...they live in bands/herds, plus sometimes not everyone has great grammar, get over it.
I am most always polite, I do not use profanity, I do however, tend to overuse my LOL. I like to laugh, and I suppose I try and pass that over through my writing. You are scolding others for what you find distasteful, even calling that young lady rude. My question to you is, do you not see that your supercilious attitude comes off just as rudely? I mean honestly, I can do without the profanity as well, but I choose to look the other way, as for grammar, Ha! I’m just glad I can still communicate, I have had 2 traumatic head injuries, cancer and a horse nearly killed me.. I have severe neurological symptoms but I do my best. I’m not on here to impress people like you. So if my LOL, or if I miss punctuation, or grammar I’m not going to sweat it.. Try being a little nicer and worrying less about stupid crap, because let me tell you.. all this stupidity will still be going on when you are gone
Why do you consider me to have a "supercilious attitude"? There are some really rude, awful posts on this thread by people who know nothing about horses. They post irresponsibly, for their own momentary amusement, and if we do not speak out, we are being complicit about their trolling, which damages something that could be an excellent public forum about horse care.
It was like a train wreck. You don’t want to watch it but you can’t turn away.😟 I hope the over crowding of the ponies is taken care!!🙈
wild or not i would have still helped
Echo Magicstorm there was no need to! They will have known the ponys and knew they would have settle down, which they did! And if you interfered what would you have done! If you went to help the foal to Shetland you will have been stealing the foal. Also the foal wasn't injured at all.
X.Alexandria.X it would have been worth it as long as the baby lived apparently you dont care as much as i do and if you were that foal if i went out there and aved your life you would have been happy
Same
The foal would have had no idea what you were doing, other than attacking it. Also, that would have been ANOTHER major stress on the mother, and probably have gotten you attacked. More stress + more fear= panic=attack on newest threat.
Emily Westpark how do you know where you there???????? Did you see the foal after this attack?
Wow...to think someone just stood there filming instead of helping!
wow, are you crazy? why would you breed horses if you already have that many? If you would get a long whip to scare the horses and then get a halter to get the mare and her foal away, this would never even happen.
theyre probably wild
dont know where you are from but this is the new forest in hampshire england, thy run free over several thousand acres but they do all actually belong to different people with grazing rites
Wow! Are you dumb? There are tents and loads of people, clearly they are wild. Think logically
no im NOT dumb. i lived there most of my life, THEY ARE OWNED BY PEOPLE CALLED COMMONERS WHO HAVE GRAZING RITES TO THE NEW FOREST. sadly its also a tourist attraction and they feed the ponies all sorts of rubbish, encouraging them to populated areas and road sides, if you doubt me please try googling new forest ponies and you will see for yourself !!!
well, these people try not to use wipes and scare horses, it's called NATURE, read about it.
right ok i have into horses deeply and ive been early this year and going again in a few weeks to see the ponies, but mare have a thing when it comes to foals, if she wants a foal and isnt pregnant she will try to steal it and the other mares will help. They comunicate, but luckily for this foal, the mother kept fighting otherwise if she gave up, that foal wouldnt survive. its common in animals, stealing babies
what the hell why didnt you take him and his mother inside he cold have been killd thenk god he isnt
The mother and foal need to be separated, not put indoors. btw your grammar is killing me.
Horseena Seperating a newborn foal from its mother is about the worst thing to do, the Dam was not trying to hurt her foal. The mother should have been taken to a more secure place before she foaled and been kept there for a week or two then reintroduced. However, these are practically wild horses, the people watching likely couldn't do anything. In many places like this where it is a community pasture or a horse reserve you can actually get fined severely or even arrested for interfering with horses that are not your own.
Silver Scale Productions I see you misunderstood me. what I meant to say was that the mother and foal (together) should be taken into a different place.
Horseena Sorry, I thought I was replying to the primary comment... I agreed with you and was clarifying further. :)
Silver Scale Productions Oh haha, it's fine.
The dramatic music is making it lowkey funny
My guess would be that the father of the foal was not around to protect it. Therefore, any new dominant stallion would bred with the mare once the foal was removed from the equation. Brutal nature.
As heartbreaking as it was watching that foal get taken, kicked and stomped on. That music with those shetlands was very comical. Quite the emotional rollercoaster. lol
That was an intense video I was so on edge hoping the Shetland mother would get her foal back.😮😮😮
The adults need new foals for their herd so they take other foals and raise them as there own, the grey adult horse looked like the father.
The forest ponies did look wild though they were definitely not broken
When the word said fight
Shetland mare: you give my flipping foal back you mainiak
New Forrest mare: HELL NO
Shetland mare: steals foal back
Foal: yay mama saves the day
Aww it’s sad when the foal gets knocked over but GO SHETLANDS
usually this happens due to a mare wanting her own foal but doesn't have her own so when she sees a perfectly good baby she is going to try to take it
Cheers to the two other brave Shetlands that just protected it because it mom was family
Something similar once happend to my sister. In case to protect "her" foal, she ran between them. Well, she ended up in hospital
It was a battle of dominance. The lead forest pony was trying to dominate the Shetland by stealing her foal. It happens even in wild herds dont worry about it
lol what inspired u to put requiem for a dream there lmaoooo im crackin the fuck up the music, the slow motion scenes, the captions, your voice when u said "THEYRE TAKING HER FOAL!" this is award winning drama right here!
All you criticizers, ever been kicked of bitten by a horse? It hurts and the kicks can kill. It is NATURE! I'd like to see YOU step in and make things right.
There's Danish myths about ponies being mythical creatures called changelings. They take infants and leave one of thier own in it's placed.
Though a more realistic theory is they perhaps smelled the after birth of the foal and it gave them anxiety.
Happened to a mare with her foal in the pasture of my riding instructor. The foal got killed by the other horses, because the instructor wasn’t there when the mare gave birth and when the chasing and knocking over started. She always separates the foals with their mother for a while tho, as she wants to prevent this exact behavior.
The group of new forest ponies must have a few mares because mares seem to fight over foals ALOT.
I know this was a year ago, but if the shetlands aren’t wild, keep the mother and the foal in a separate pasture.
Maybe one of the new forest mares once had a foal that did'nt survive so she wants to follow that motherly instinct
I do think the horse which was taking the foal, wanted it for her own because she wanted a foal. I'm pretty sure that's why.
Mares tend to steal foals on occasion for a few reasons.
Also, music was well done, but hilarious
Why do other mares trying to steal other horses foals?
It could of been for dominance,but I think the biggest reason is they did it for sport,horses pick on others sometimes if they are different
Several years ago I had the same situation happened to my horse that I was boarding in a field of about 30 horses. My Welsh mare was head of the herd and several of the mares were pregnant. The mare who had the first birth unfortunately had a stillborn, and this was her first foal. The next day my mare gave birth and this was her fifth foal, healthy with no complications. I went out to the farm the next day to see the new foal and this very same situation started to take place instigated by the mother who have lost her foal, and the field stallion.
(sorry that wasn't finished) The Grieving mare, and the field stallion were side by side driving my mare and the new foal throat the 10-acre field. The stallion was behind the mare and The Grieving mom behind the foal. These two horses started squeezing between my Mare and Foal with a stallion trying to cut the mare away from her colt, while the bereaved mom was cutting off the colt, keeping him away from my mare. Know my mare was head of the herd, so this is a pretty brave action on the part of the other two horses. The driving the horses away was very similar to this clip, and of course the wee one was tired and confused and my mare frantic and screaming and kicking at the other horses. I went out in the field and my horse seeing me there led the whole parade over towards me and as she came alongside me, I grabbed her Mane and swung up on their back as she was trained to be ridden without reins. Now that I was mounted, I could anticipate the actions of the other two horses trying to steal the foal for the bereaved Mare and the stallion trying to separate my mare for his own purpose. I stayed mounted for a couple of hours protecting the foal and driving off the other horses. They tired of this and moved on as it got dark. The next day two more foals were born, and the mare only made a brief attempt at trying to steal a foal, to replace hers. Within a couple of weeks all of the mares had foaled, and the bereaved Mare no longer hassled any of the other horses was content to walk among the foals without any attempt to kidnap. This was clearly a case of a mare trying to replace her dead foal, made more unusual with the enlisting of the help of the stallion.