About Our Farm
After having New Forest ponies for several years we decided to downsize and miniature Shetlands were the obvious choice. We strive to breed true to type foals of good confirmation with particular attention to temperament, as a great number of miniature shetlands become a child's first contact with ponies. They also make wonderful companions and are obviously a lot cheaper and easier to manage than a big horse. We sell a lot of foals to showing homes and several have been exported abroad to Ireland and Europe.
We have a wide range of colours, with a preference for duns and roans. We particularly like the New Park bloodlines as they are solid well-boned types. Our foundation stallion New Park McDuff sadly died in 2005, but we have retained some of his fillies. Southsands honeypot, nicknamed Teddy, has now retired, but you will notice he appears in several of our mares pedigrees. He is enjoying his old age with a suitability old mare!
Our stallions are very quiet and easy to handle and this lovely laid back attitude is being passed on to our foals.
Wotknotts Squirrel Nutkin has given us some lovely well boned foals with a good mixture of colours and great laid back temperaments.
Eiger Noah is a tiny golden dun stallion, extremely friendly with Kerswell on both sides of his pedigree. He produced two foals in his first year, which were both tiny, chunky and show quality, so we are hoping for more lovely foals to come.
Hillash Whistler is a very well bred cremello stallion producing some beautiful dilute coloured foals. He took a few years to get going but is now a well established, good-looking stallion with a great temperament.
Clooney Vom Buchberg was purchased as a colt from Germany as several of my mares which carry the mushroom gene share bloodlines, so I wanted a complete outcross. Clooney is quite fine and small but has the most gorgeous head. He is an adorable little stallion with the temperament to match. When he passed his VVE the vet commented that his movement was one of the best he had ever seen.
We have a herd of miniature Mediterranean donkeys , most of which have been imported from the United States , with the stallion coming over from Ireland. They are extremely friendly, love attention and have a very calm attitude. Miniature donkeys are for obvious reasons not as hardy as our ponies (they originate from a desert climate) and they don't like the rain, which has been rather trying this last year as we are only a few miles from the Somerset levels, but we have plenty of barn space so they were tucked up there for most of the winter.
We have a small herd of Pygmy goats just for fun. They are great escape artists so they are allowed to roam the fields all day but come back to their paddock in the evening, unless it’s raining then they don’t get up. They are great browsers eating brambles and hedges. We occasionally have kids available.
To see this year's gorgeous foals, see our 'for sale' page