Youngsters - Dragon Driving

[candyflosspot]

I am just browsing DD and there is advert after advert advertising fillies who look straggly and have been broken to drive (one is 17 months old and was "broken in 6 weeks ago". She is a very unhappy looking filly
Another who is 4 years old (allegedly but looks like a baby as he looks very scrawny).

I feel like buying one and saving them from a miserable existence. It makes me so sad.

bit of a pointless post tbh but seeing the poor babies looking sad makes me unhappy.

 

[Ruskii]

It's for those reasons I don't look on there

 

[daisysp8]

Oh don`t, i have banned myself from going over there now, just breaks my heart

 

[candyflosspot]

its the first time i have been on in ages and the sad looking babies are on the first page.

 

[Cortrasna]

I very occasionally risk a quick peek when someone puts a link up - but other than that I avoid it like the plague, leads to sleepless nights worrying about them all.:redface:

 

[candyflosspot]

is 3 too young to be pregnant? There is a filly who is due in april and only 3 years old??
http://www.dragondriving.co.uk/horseforsale-30641.html

 

[candyflosspot]

Then you get the total opposite of the straggly horses..fabulous fresian for 15k !! (HOYS 2011)

http://www.dragondriving.co.uk/horseforsale-28738.html

 

[Cortrasna]

is 3 too young to be pregnant? There is a filly who is due in april and only 3 years old??
http://www.dragondriving.co.uk/horseforsale-30641.html

Yes far too young IMO -means she would have been covered as a 2 year old. Personally I wouldnt want to breed with anything less than 4 years old at covering. But I think many people find it acceptable so who am I to judge?:devil:

 

[Dannii5691]

thats a lovely picture of the mare thats for sale. i can see that lovely and clearly .....

 

[LexxLizz]

thats a lovely picture of the mare thats for sale. i can see that lovely and clearly .....

Lol Dannii you make me laugh... :biggrin:

I don't go on DD either after hearing about the type of people who frequent it. Ahem :unsure:

 

[newforest]

A horse does not nature physically until 6.
How can a horse look after a baby when they don't know about life themselves.

I wonder how much is effected by whether mare is you or old, as in ability? Though in wild guess get covered when come into season any age.

 

[Frances144]

Dragon Driving has gone drastically downhill in the last 5 years imho.

 

[Joyscarer]

Oh don`t, i have banned myself from going over there now, just breaks my heart

Ditto

 

[learningcurve]

Only ever looked at links provided....the site makes me shudder, full of heartbreaking stuff .

 

[Toffee_Monster]

Just seen that 17month old on there, such a shame as she looks a lovely type, poor thing is clipped out and Apparently will do 30mph

http://www.dragondriving.co.uk/horseforsale-30711.html


My boy was on there at one point, although that's not where I found his advert, I tend to browse the carriages rather than the horses now

 

[candyflosspot]

Just seen that 17month old on there, such a shame as she looks a lovely type, poor thing is clipped out and Apparently will do 30mph

http://www.dragondriving.co.uk/horseforsale-30711.html


My boy was on there at one point, although that's not where I found his advert, I tend to browse the carriages rather than the horses now

Poor mare. What a oop: life she has probably had so far.

 

[joosie]

Oh dear. I want to produce Mouse as a ride& drive - he's barely 2 years old, and I was planning to wait til he was about 3 and a half before I got started - but now I'm thinking I better get going now as he is already waaaaay behind! At 2 he should already be doing 10km drives and learning to jump. If he's a ride&drive schoolmaster by the time he's 4 I should be able to get a few thousand £ more for him...