The year's foals are starting to join their new families. A moment always filled with emotion, it is a heartbreak for us each time, bearable thanks to our superb adopting families, who take great care of our foals and regularly give us news.
We were particularly touched by the recent visit to an equestrian pension near the city center. See horses, locked in boxes 24 hours a day, “waiting” for their owner to come and take care of them.. We are taking advantage of this post to raise awareness of the absolute necessity of housing your horses as much as possible in a herd, in the meadow, in the paddock as much as possible, and as infrequently and for as short a time as possible in the box, for their well-being. The horse, an animal weighing 500 kg or more, made by Mother Nature to walk around 25km per day, locked up and condemned in an area of 9m2 to wait for its owners to be able to move, is inconceivable for us.
We realize that sometimes there is no choice. For example, we have a few boxes at the breeding site for monitoring foaling, the infirmary (horse requiring rest and/or care) but we absolutely do not make it a year-round accommodation for our horses.
Deseada VPB, PRE broodmare at our breeding, followed by her 2024 foal Oléo VMD, November 2024.
