CK Freelance Equine & Animal

04/06/2024

09/05/2024

🥪🍖🍟🥤FRIDAY 10TH MAY🥪🍖🍟🥤
Special is hot roast beef sandwiches with gravy served with chips and gravy and a drink either tea, coffee, can of pop or bottle of water. £8.50 😋😋
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Telephone order number: 07544746726

Address:
The man cave cafe
Meadow bank road
Rotherham
S61 2NF

Opening hours:
Monday - Friday 7:00am - 14:00pm
Saturday: closed
Sunday: closed

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13/04/2024

11 Year old French stallion looking for a new home UK🏡 Looking for a light hacking home. Described as very easy to handle with manners to burn on the ground ♥️ Good to catch, load & shoe

10/04/2024

06/04/2024

🫶Retirement livery 🫶
pop us a message for any queries..
from £40 per week

02/04/2024

A lovely wet day on the field making progress

30/03/2024

❗️Exciting News! Save the date!❗️
🏵️ Come and join us at Holywell Farm on Sunday 14th April for our first showing show of the year kindly ran by LegUp Equestrian!🤩This is one not to miss and will be a great day to be had by all☺️.
Schedule will be released closer to the date. We look forward to seeing you all, new & existing visitors🤩.

28/03/2024

😢 if you can’t take care of them don’t have them !

There is no excuse for this :(

28/03/2024

*** PLEASE DO NOT GIVE AWAY/SELL YOUR OLD and/or UNRIDEABLE HORSES ***

Today I did one of the saddest euthanasias I have done in a long time. This wasn’t a client of mine, and to be fair, it actually wasn’t this person’s fault. I don’t normally go out to non-clients, but I wasn’t going to say no when I was told the horse had collapsed and couldn’t get up.

I arrived to find an emaciated 20+ year old, riddled with lice. The client had been sold the mare 7 weeks ago, and told she was a 7 year old. The old mare was gobbling away at feed, so she genuinely was just too weak and emaciated to stand. With some really good, strong help, we tried twice to get her up, but she just didn’t want to. So I made the quick decision to let her go.

No horse should end his or her life like that. She was scared, and whickered at me when I came back with the catheter and Somulose. She went with no dignity, in a place she had been for just a couple of months.

I want to cry when I see these awful posts on social media, offering a 20 year old horse for sale “as a companion”, for £50, or “free to good home”. I want to cry even more when I see posts on social media, with people in complete and utter shock and disbelief that the “beloved/much loved etc” horse, that they gave away just two months ago, was now being sold as a ridden horse.

I’m sorry, but wake up. Not many people really want to take on an old horse and the associated vet bills. I do appreciate there are exceptions, but if you are going to give your old or unrideable horse away, do NOT expect to then be able to take the moral high ground when he’s advertised two weeks later. He’s not your property at that point, and, unless your circumstances drastically changed, you didn’t care enough about him to now be “devastated” and “appalled” that he’s being moved on again. I do understand that circumstances can change, but the kindest thing in most (not all) cases at this point, is to let your horse be put to sleep with you, at the home he has known for many years.

A horse is as expensive to keep as a companion as it is a riding horse, so not many people want to take on old or unrideable horses. Or if they do, they don’t have the money to be able to look after the horse properly.

It is obviously completely different if you have known that person for many years, and know the home the horse will be going to, and I know several old horses who have been successfully rehomed to friends, or at least acquaintances.

You could also try a reputable rescue centre, if your financial circumstances changed, but many of these are full to bursting. Rescue centres normally ensure that if the home doesn’t work out, the horse is returned to them again, and therefore won’t be passed around.

If you can’t look after your old and/or unrideable horse, then do the responsible thing, and if you can’t rehome to a person you know extremely well, have them put to sleep at home, with you by their side. Don’t let someone you don’t know, have the horse for free, and sell him two weeks later as a lot younger, or ‘buted up as a ridden horse. Your horse deserves better.

Photo of my old man, Harold, who is rising 22 this year! He hasn’t been ridden for a few years now, and is just an expensive field/stable ornament….as is Molly….as is Mojo….as is William 🤦‍♀️😂

23/03/2024

22/03/2024

Summers nearly here your holidays are booked !
Have your sorted the pets ? Contact us today 📱 horses,small holdings allotments and much more pop a message to ask any questions 🌟

🐴Equestrian groom 🐴

💥Poo Picking 💩
💥Grooming
💥Tacking up
💥on hand for vet / farrier etc
💥Mucking out
💥Turning in / out
💥Rugging
💥Feeding 🪣
💥Stable & Field Maintence 🌳
💥Holiday Cover ✈️
💥 One offs
💥Help at shows 🥇
Insured✅ Registered with BGA✅DBS checked ✅
£20ph for 1 hour 💰
£15ph over 2 hours 💰
Hours can be split between mornings & evenings
Please note First hour will be daily check / feed / rugging / turning out,
any additional work will follow on

22/03/2024

Growing to such a handsome dude 🐾

22/03/2024

Spaces available 💕