TheWolds Stud

05/08/2023

Only breed the best of temperaments!

Here is John, having a break from the ladies, and put straight into the paddock with Lutin, draco and coda (coda isnt in this pic but he is there!). So that's our working 10yr old stallion just taken away from the ladies and put into a paddock with a 2yr old c**t, yearling c**t, and a 3yr old gelding.

John is there at the back in the purple rug! Who says stallions need locking up behind bars???!!! That's just no life for them!

20/07/2023

Not a lot to see, but here we go. So, Desire, our 14.2h cremello chunky monk mare is confirmed in foal, along with Sarah, our 14.2h native type cob.

Both in foal to our shire, Melindwr Sir John, and I can tell you now the colours of those 2 foals!

So, desires foal, will be 100%, no other colour options, buckskin! - this is due to John being homozygous bay, and desire being cremello, what is double cream. Desire also carries the silver gene, so she may pass that too. So, we have 50% chance of getting silver buckskin out of her (search the colour - it's beautiful!!)

Sarah's foal, will be either bay or buckskin. There's a 50% chance of both. This is know because again, John is homozygous bay, and Sarah is palomino, so single cream. So, there's 100% chance of the foal being bay, and 50% chance of the cream gene being passed. If the cream gene is passed, it turns the bay into buckskin.

So we have confirmed 2 beautiful mares to produce 2 beautiful foals for 2024.

Our other mares at the moment, scan empty (although this could be a false), so they are running with John a little longer and will be scanned again in another couple of months for another check.

The other mares to hopefully catch on this year - (still time yet!!)

Blackdymond Liberty - 16.2h Percheron x KWPN (100% bay foal)

Rosie - 14.2h super hairy traditional cob. (50% bay tobaino, 50% bay foal)

Bonny - 14.2h palomino native type cob. (50% bay foal, 50% buckskin)

Crystal - 17.2h shire! (50% bay foal, 50% gray foal).

Looking forward to some lovely dilute coloured foals for 2024!

10/07/2023

Rosie had a little potter about under saddle yesterday with little humbug watching and learning what he is going to be doing when he grows up! Rosie hasn't had a saddle on her back for over a year - and look at her with my young novice sister. How cobs should be! Best temperaments!

02/07/2023

Melindwr Sir John, our stallion this year with Lenny baby talking!

01/07/2023

So our main man, John has been busy this year!

The vet is coming to scan the girls in a couple of weeks to see what we have!

So, due to next year we are in the hopes of -

Blackdymond Liberty, 16.2h Percheron x KWPN
*Foal will be a bay heavy weight hunter type to make 16/17hh*

Sarah, 14.2h palomino Irish cob
*Foal will be a bay or buckskin drum, to make 15/16hh*

Bonny, 14.2h palomino Irish cob
*Foal will be a bay or buckskin drum, to make 15/16hh*

Acresdale Desire, 14.2h cremello heavyweight traditional cob
*Foal will be garenteed buckskin heavyweight drum, to make 14.2/15hh*

Rosie, 14.2h tri coloured heavyweight traditional cob
*Foal will be solid bay or tri coloured drum, to make 14.2/15.2hh*

All those above will be by our shire stallion, Melindwr Sir John, 17.2h super hairy, fully registered shire stallion.

Then we will have the minis!

Willow, 33" blue roan
*Foal could be a wide range of colours! And be to make approx 35"*

Hermits sky, 34" blanket spot
*Foal could be a wide range of colours! And to make approx 35/36"*

Those above will be by our Goliath, 37" spotty boy!

03/06/2023

Patricia Philomena, our oldest resident looking well! 25yr old thoroughbred, with next to no teeth!

Sure she will feel better after a the bath she's just had, get rid of all that winter ming!

Meena is fully retired off all work, and a great nanny here having had foals her self in her younger years, she's that right balance of mumsy enough but not too mumsy to look after the babies after weaning!

02/06/2023

And same again for Rosie. Not been rode in a year! Jump on, and ride loose, head collar only, with foal at foot, and in the field with her man! Walk and trot. Perfectly behaved!

02/06/2023

Can you get a better stallion? John hasn't been rode in a few months. He is currently running with Rosie and Sarah, Sarah in season, Rosie coming in... Just jump on, no control, and ask a walk and trot. Only breed the best of temperaments!

30/05/2023

DNA varified parentage all sorted! Just waiting for the results of the miniatures.

30/05/2023

So that's a farrier day for 23 horses and foals! First time trim for humbug, Carina, nova and Tilly! All were good guys! And all mums, dad's and our riding horses!

Just scary when you get the outcome bill with very little change from £700!!

28/05/2023

Test results have come back for our dilute babies!

So,

Aurora is true dun tobaino. (E/e, a/a, D/nd2, n/T)
Nova is buckskin tobaino. (E/e, A/a, Cr/n, n/PATN1, n/T)
Carina is cremello. (e/e, a/a, Cr/Cr)

And they are all negative to any relevant genetic disorders including PSSM1

20/05/2023

Our foals are all priced upwards of £3,000. (But for the miniatures, they are a completely different cost!)

Our mares are kept to the highest standards so therefore the costs that are involved and not just those who have a wild herd. All of our Mares, and foals on foot, get regular feet trimmings, up-to-date on vaccinations, worming, and any additional care they need. We are there on all foalings to ensure the newborns get the best start and any veterinary treatment needed is there straight away.

Please bare in mind, horses arent like dogs who can have multiple litters a year. You have to keep them there almost a year before you potentially have a healthy foal born. In that year you have given the mare hay, we also give our Mares a hard feed daily to ensure they have all the nutrients they need to produce a strong, healthy baby. Our mares are scanned by the vet to see if they are in foal, and that there is only one and not two! To those that don't know, it's a massive health risk to the mare and the unborn for there to be twins. There is a very low survival rate of twins! And we do all this to get one foal out of the mare.

So if you tot up a year's keep for a horse, hay, feed, farrier, worming, vaccinations, scans, additional vet treatment. And then you add up the foals keep for 6 months, passporting, vet care, DNA testing, farrier, vaccinations, worming, that will give you a large figure!

Horses are not cheap, not quality anyway!

Please understand that unfortunately we are not in the business to be giving things away! Many true horse breeders out there, I feel will strongly agree! To do it right, and be there for the horses, it really is not a cheap game.

20/05/2023

And the future stallion, Lutin de L'huette (silver bay comtois) also looking fab doing what he does best! (Sleeping!!!). (nb - the rope on his head collar is just because he is now 2yr old and starting to get a feel for the big round things between his hind legs! So, he must also learn to respect electric fencing and that he only goes to see the ladies when we allow it!)

20/05/2023

Our stallion, John, looking mighty fine this morning!

20/05/2023

Humbug has the droopy bottom lip! 😅 Proper cob! 😂

13/05/2023

Blackertor Maggie May (registered Shetland) and Goliath (spotted miniature) have given us a beautiful filly, appears to be buckskin & white, will be tested to be sure! What a beautiful little lady! To make 38". Now for another name to think of!!

12/05/2023

The beautiful Nova is now sold. Only little humbug and eclipse left to go, and we are still waiting on one more to foal!

Atleast we get to see them grow and spend time with them for the next 6 months!

11/05/2023

Nova having a little brush today. Much nicer to get them handled And used to daily life while young!

11/05/2023

The beautiful Nova today enjoying a run around with mum!

08/05/2023

14/04/2023

Sarah, who is daughter of the world famous Shambo, gave birth to a beautiful filly last night!

Sire - Mallow Prince, by liberty's golden rule.

To make 15hh+

12/04/2023

The camera is on Rosie now, but she sure is clinging on to that baby! Due any day!

12/04/2023

Willow had a blue roan little filly on 27th April.

Willow is a registered international miniature, measuring 33". She's a fantastic temperament, being a ride and drive. Goliath, the sire, is a 37" spotty boy! This is our Goliath's first baby, and he sure hasn't disappointed! What a great, strong girl little whisper is!

Tests have been sent off to see if she carries the spotty gene off dad.

Available at weaning!

12/04/2023

Our Blackdymond Liberty foaled a beautiful filly on 21st March, taken so much to her dad!

Surely enough, this filly was reserved instantly!