Great Dunton Farm track livery

14/02/2023

Nearly 24hrs apart.
Crisp, fresh foggy morning but still no rain...I'll take it !!

13/02/2023

Could this be the end of a very wet winter and the start of the spring ??!?!
We live in hope !!! If it is we can open the doors to new herd members 😃

16/09/2022

This evening we said goodbye to Gary.
Blood test revealed Liver and Kidney failure after he appeared "off" on Wednesday.
He had so many people around him over the last 2.5 years who loved him. He was such a character and yet so quiet. My boys took him in and gave him everything he could ever want, which wasn't a lot really. All he ever wanted was good grub and a cuddle. I've obviously been in contact with the boys in Australia ( they left on the 11th Aug for a year travelling) and we all came to the same decision if the bloods came back not good.
I held him tightly when he left us earlier to join Roxy and inca ❤💜💙
R.I.P Gary, you were definitely very special, even when you tried to eat your own p**p !!

04/09/2022

Nice early start this morning, Sam is very keen to be 1st for breakfast!!

26/08/2022

I was spotted sneaking onto the track for breakfast !! Not a lot gets past Archie !!
The others fast asleep under the tress 💤💤

22/08/2022

This is so true 😍

04/08/2022

We are excited to be hosting Jayne Forster for a 2 day liberty horsemanship clinic August 13th/14th at Great Dunton Farm. There are a few non-horse spaces available

Working with horses at liberty why? Well there are many reasons. There are lots of trainers now and lots of approach’s. Some work on tricks, some use clickers, some using halters to teach pat…

29/07/2022

Another very warm day today 🌞
Sam enjoying the misters under the trees this afternoon. The rest of the herd had cleared off to do some hedge picking!
Think a track system could help your gelding? We have space for geldings to join our herd. Contact me for more information.

28/07/2022

One set of mesh ears with fringe, one field safe headcollar a bunch of cord and an industrial sewing machine has made Sam's all new bespoke fly mask !!!
I noticed his spacial awareness wasn't really there with his full face black mesh mask, so we have made him up something more suitable for him.

08/07/2022

When your only little but want "that bit" up high !!
(Apols for the shaky vid, I was at the other end of the track hiding !)

21/06/2022

So after the initial suspicious dance they soon realised it delivered food !!!

16/06/2022

What a scorcher today has been 🌞
It was reading higher in the barn than my car that's been in sat in full sun allday, saving grace has been the breeze today.

07/06/2022

Congratulaions Rhonda Simmons & Billy, Your prize will be going out to you soon.
We sponsor a class at the Mane Show every month and the 1st place price is a Nibbleze Knotless small holed haynet. Nibbleze are the original knotless mesh haynets availble in the uk.
www/nibbleze.net

Class 9 - Best At Home Photo - Sponsored by Great Dunton Farm track livery www.greatdunton.co.uk Judged by Rachel Murphy

1. Rhonda Simmons & Billy
2. Heidi Gaskin & Ruby Tuesday
3. Julie Williams & Woody
4. Billy Jo Howe & Pumpkin
5. Rebecca Black & Ponies
6. Lizzie Cameron & Yuandi
7. Tracy Weston & Glaven’s Touch of Magic
8. Leanne Lawlor & Charlie

24/05/2022

I'd keep your head Down in the haybox Don with what's coming up behind you r⛈🌧
Has anyone else had hailstones, thunder and sunshine today ??

23/05/2022

A lovely evening for picking at the hedge.

16/05/2022

We have spaces available for 3 geldings to join our herd.

22/04/2022

Team work makes the dream work !!

21/04/2022

Happy 96th Birthday your Majesty 🍾🎁

Released a new photograph of Her Majesty.: Taken last month in the grounds of Windsor Castle, The Queen is pictured with two of her fell ponies, Bybeck Katie and Bybeck Nightingale.

Happy 96th Birthday Your Majesty!

20/04/2022

Trimming on the track is all in a days work for Mark, it's so much safer to do hooves on the track amongst friends!! (They are stood behind me!)

19/04/2022

When you've just got a little itch that needs scratching !!!

30/11/2021

Sorry for the prolonged silence. Still can't believe our little inca isn't here anymore.
We all miss he so much, Roxy especially. Old age has hit her suddenly and quite hard.
We went off to do some fencing this morning , she trotted over with me, a lap around the field and that was her done😔
She sat in the wheel Barrow like a queen!!

10/08/2021

Full house😃
I'll get them off now, should have the results tomorrow if not Thursday.

10/08/2021

It's gonna be a long wait 😅
We have used intelligent worming for years to keep our horses healthy. It works, each horse is different, they have their own resistance to worms and shouldn't be blanket treated.
I've also found over the years that keeping the horses on a track system improves sample results, even on our grass track. I'm thinking it's because their main source of forage is from hay boxes rather than the ground 🤔

05/08/2021

A lovely photo taken this morning by ACEventing.com of a couple of our horses that benefit from our centre paddocks.

Sleepy morning

27/07/2021

Late one tonight, paddock full of thistles sorted...I mean, there are thistles..& then there is ridiculous!!!

16/07/2021

That's a workout 🤣

04/05/2021

Heavy weekend boys 💤💤

01/05/2021

That was a good productive start to the weekend, 196 Mudcontrol mats collected and ready to go down.

29/04/2021

Meet Bradley, he joined us 10 days ago, small but full of personality.
I got him settled in with Chilli and Sam who have shown him the ropes of track life. He'll be meeting the rest of the herd over the weekend. Bradley has taken a liking to Archie over the fence to😀

05/04/2021

Archie & Rehy have that bank holiday Monday feeling 💤

31/03/2021

Getting creative with lockdown hair!!

29/03/2021

Our OAPs enjoying the sun today in one of the paddocks. These guys need that little bit of umph given they are early 20's & TBs. The rest of the herd are doing well so no umph needed !!

16/02/2021

Happy Pancake day 2021 🥞

15/02/2021

What a difference a day can make!!
Good old British weather 🥴

11/02/2021

❄️❄️Hasn't it been an awfal week❄️❄️Hopefully no more snow but the big defrost is ahead...
Had hedge cutting today but could only do a small amount as surprisingly the ground is very soft under the snow, its just not worth damaging the ground. I'll think about hedges in September!

09/02/2021

Well, nobody was in a rush for breakfast!!

08/02/2021

When you have to nick the last bale net from stock & whip a 2nd bale net up because the other bale nets are frozen 😂

24/01/2021

Great Dunton Farm has been an established livery yard for the last 15 years. We are based in the Kent countryside just outside the M25.
I started using a track system for my own horses many years ago, the health benefits outweighed anything else I’d done in the past, I didn’t have the worry of moving fields, weight concerns, laminitis worries or riding a rocket straight from the stable. Everything seemed so much calmer. Liveries soon joined me the track as they could see the benefits my horses were experiencing.
Now I only offer track livery, helping horses transition to barefoot. We have typical curvy native ponies which thrive on the track as well as horses that have been allowed to get rather to curvy & voluptuous through no fault of their owners but purely down to the environment that was on offer before they found me. As we are a grass track the English weather dictates when we come off the tracks & start grazing the paddocks within the tracks. Hay is offered all year around.
We are a Geldings only track with a small herd of 12, we have tried a mixed herd and it just doesn’t work for us. The horses safety is far more important. We have a 20/40 rubber sand school and off road farm hacking with T.R.O.T on our our doorstep as an extra option. Every horse does have their own stable in the event of an emergency. For more information please contact [email protected]

21/12/2020

Congratulations to you all, your doing so well, not long now before we are putting our wellies away, stripping off our layers and complaining we're too hot 😂

18/12/2020

What a neat little tash you have there Don 😀