And then there were four

We temporarily have four horses. Darcy and Yeveed moved onto the derelict croft next door (where Merlin came from) a few weeks ago when their owner needed some temporary grazing for them and Hazel said he could use hers. Last night he knocked on our door to ask if we had any wire cutters as Darcy had managed to get his front feet over the stock-proof fence and was completely stuck.

We went to have a look and found Darcy (15hh-ish of extremely solid cob) looking rather sheepish, but he'd been sensible, bless him, and stood still rather than trying to struggle out of it and injure himself. The problem was that the fence was right underneath his belly and if we just sliced through it underneath him, it was going to go 'ping', whack him in the stomach and then probably curl itself round his back legs. We ended up cutting through it on either side of the fence posts (which were rotten anyway - that's how he'd got over it in the first place) and taking out the whole section underneath him before asking him to step backwards.

Obviously that left a large gap in the fence which he knew was there, so as it was almost dark Mick suggested that we prop the fence back up to fool the sheep and put the horses in our top two fields. Graham's coming back this morning to fix the fence, and Mick said Darcy and Yeveed can stay with us until his new field and stables are ready next week.