Roses Bower Equine Retirement Services

21/02/2024

Make sure you have your high viz on! Here’s our team showing us how it’s done! 😎

18/02/2024

Herd behaviour never ceases to amaze or educate me! So the grey horse arrived yesterday, he’s a baby in comparison to the rest of the herd (7) and very self assured but respectful. The head of our herd (pinny) took an instant shine to him. This is his entrance for the first time to our barn as I won’t let them in for the first 24hrs until they bond incase of accidents. You can see how flabbergasted he is and you can also see the little chestnut (zephyr) see him off - zephyr is second from the bottom in herd order. He continues to back into, treaten to kick and push mistro out. Mistro then navigates around zephyr and heads to the back of the barn - a risky strategy! He goes behind pinny and woody (second in command) and I have a nervous breakdown…. But just look at the dynamics! Pinny and Mistro interact playfully, whilst the alpha mare and zephy look on in amazement. When zephy attempted to go to the back to push Mistro out, both woody and pinny blocked him, quietly and accurately trapping Mistro in the corner away from him…. Once zephyr retreated they moved away and continued to eat!!! Look at the expressions of the other horses!

Each and every day I learn lessons about this incredible species - we are so very honoured to be around them 💜

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08/02/2024

Snow outside so we are all having a barn party tonight ❄️ 🥶💜

31/01/2024

Thank you Intake Veterinary Services LTD for a very well organised and smooth procedure on Tuesday to look at a recurrent case of choke with the scope. There’s so much of the horse we don’t normally see!

28/01/2024

As yard owners, we don’t always consider the impact those around us have on our day to day lives until they are gone. It’s hard to put into words how we feel when we lose a horse here, but equally as hard to lose the owners. We grieve for both because both have had such a big part to play in our family home. Thank you to every owner who chooses us, you will never know how much it means us and we are proud to care for your best friend

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25/01/2024

Some days are harder than others, especially when there’s a goodbye involved. 2 glorious years with this beautiful lad have flown by. A more gentle, kind and funny horse you could not have asked for. Always looking after those who couldn’t fight, never having a cross word, we feel truly lucky to have had you in our family. Your family have been part of ours and given us so much love and we will miss you terribly.

Fly high Orin, you have nothing to do now but show them all up there what it’s like to be a roses bower graduate - your friends are waiting and you will forever be in our thoughts.

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08/10/2023

Happiness is OAPs in their winter field ❄️ 🥰

07/10/2023

At least someone is excited about winter woody 🤦🏼‍♀️🤣🤣🤣🤣

07/10/2023

Can’t fight it anymore…. Winter mode engaging…. Downloading now….. ❄️ ❄️

24/08/2023

Our summer in a nutshell 😎

09/08/2023

DO HORSES AND DONKEYS GRIEVE?

Personally I am absolutely certain that equids grieve for lost companions and family members. And just like humans their grief is experienced and displayed in different ways by individuals (that's a post for another day though!).

Sadly there is very little research into grief in equids. However, Emily Wilson (an animal behaviour student at Lincoln University) is about to change that. She is studying grief in horses and donkeys and she needs your help. Details from Emily below:

The Grief in Horses and Donkeys online survey is now live and we are now seeking participants to complete. To participate, you must be 18 years old or over and be the primary care giver to an equid which has lost its companion. The survey should take approximately 20 - 30 minutes to complete.

If you wish to participate, please find the link below:
https://unilincolnlifescienc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0OpEEbEKEhHA538

The research project has gained a favourable ethical opinion by the University of Lincoln ethics committee [reference 2023_1069]. If you have any concerns, please contact [email protected]

If you have any questions, please contact Emily on this email address [email protected].

26/07/2023

Just posting some sunny pics in the hope the weather will remember what it should be doing this time of year 🙈☔️☔️☔️ we need some hay mr weatherman just a few days please 🙏 ☀️

12/06/2023

Happiness is oaps finally in their summer field 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

08/06/2023

26/05/2023

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26/05/2023

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24/05/2023

Play hard…. Sleep hard 💤 🛌 🤣🤣🤣

24/05/2023

Being a livery here means assisting with acclimatising the new recruits! Aylsa got double trouble with new kids on the block Sam and Bonny this morning - lucky she didn’t mind 🙈🤣💜

14/05/2023

********* A HORSES WISH ********

If the day should come when i'm in pain ,
And you know i won't be well again ,
Promise me, you will do what must be done ,
If this is the battle that cannot be won .

It'll break your heart, but please be kind,
Don't let your grieving sway your mind,
For this is when, you will let me see,
Just how much you do love me.

Together we have had happy years
The future now, can hold no fears !
Please don't let me suffer so ........
When the time comes please let me go.

For a kind vet please will you send ?
But please stay with me till the very end.
Hold me steady and talk to me
Till my bright eyes ........no longer see.

In time i hope you'll come to see
It's the last kindest you can do for me
One more time please stroke my mane
and know that i'll have no more pain.

And dont be sad that it was you
who decided this was what to do ,
we've been such buddies through the years
don't let me be the cause of tears.

You'll always see me graze now,
with the sun upon my back .
Painful limbs won't tire me now ,
However long the hack.

I live now in your heart and mind
a lovely place to stay
and what you have in memories,
no one can take away.

In memory of Titan (admins horse)

09/05/2023

Horses with us are part of our family, each one leave a hoof-print on our hearts. We try with everything we have, to make sure that they feel loved and cherished until the very end. The end of the incredible journey arrived for 29yr old Monty yesterday evening, and what an amazing journey he had. From France to Northumberland this absolute gent has never known anything other than love with debbi and Brian. He’s been an absolute pleasure to care for and I am so grateful for their trust in us. His leaps and bucks around the field on a sunny day filled us with joy, he looked after everyone, loved unconditionally and made us all realise that you can’t leave feed and nuts on a bike even a moving one near him without they were scooped off the bike at breakneck speed and deposited in his barn 🙌🏼. I didn’t photograph the last haircut his mother gave him but I wish I had 🙈🤣💜💜💜. Thank you for being with us at the end of your journey and giving us so much love, we will forever remember your presence and forever be thankful.

One less feed bowl in our stack and one more gift to rainbow bridge 🌈 look after this one he’s a keeper.

Fly high big lad you are so loved ❤️

06/05/2023

It’s that time of year again!!! 🙈🙈🙈🤣

06/05/2023

Thanks Graham Burns for another amazing industrial numbers job. Everything calm and happy and even a tooth trophy! 🦷 dentists wear capes too 🦸‍♀️ x

14/04/2023

Shetland walking… one of the many varied activities available on the farm this season for our guests to get roped into 🤣🤣🤣💕💕💕

21/03/2023

Come on spring 🤞🤞🤞🌞

19/03/2023

A smarter pair of rat catching employees I never did see! They don’t strike either and work for dreamies! 🐈 💕