Feather - The Far North Wild Foal

Feather - The Far North Wild Foal Follow the journey of wee ‘Feather’, the 8 month old foal mustered from the Far North of NZ

06/09/2026

What better way to spend a horrid rainy day than getting kisses from your wild weanling! I’m so in love 😍 ❤️🥰❤️

I can tell Feather’s coat is looking healthy, despite having the darn cover on still 🤦🏼‍♀️. It’s looking lovely, rich an...
29/08/2026

I can tell Feather’s coat is looking healthy, despite having the darn cover on still 🤦🏼‍♀️. It’s looking lovely, rich and shiny ⭐️. I can’t wait to see underneath… gotta be patient, each day we are making tiny baby steps👏.

29/08/2026

Today Feather was in an inquisitive mood. It was the first time she had wanted to come and check out the trolley despite me using it every week to clean out her stables. I’m loving the curiosity ❤️👏

Gutted - today I got dished up a massive reminder that this pony really is still wild 😢❤️‍🩹. I spent most of the weekend...
16/08/2026

Gutted - today I got dished up a massive reminder that this pony really is still wild 😢❤️‍🩹. I spent most of the weekend just being with Feather and sitting in her space holding her feed bucket and patting her face. She was really quite relaxed and tolerant. I was able to have a rope around her nose and rub it on her face. But when I tried to put it over her head and it touched the cover she was off. She ran and it fell off and she calmed back down pretty quickly. I tried it again a bit later in the day but this time she just flawed it straight towards the stable gate and tried to jump it!! She got caught dangling with her front legs over it and her hind legs off the ground 🤯. She wriggled and managed to flip over and off it. I burst into tears in that moment knowing I had majorly fu*ked up 💔😢… putting way too much pressure on her. Then a wave of panic that what if she had really hurt herself I can’t catch her to help!!! 😬😳 Luckiky she came away with superficial cuts but she will be sore for a bit. Gate is rather stuffed. I was really surprised afterwards that she went back into the stable relatively easily and allowed me to pat her again ❤️🫶. The reality is there will be joy but also heart break on this journey.

Feather has barely eaten any hay since arriving here, choosing her hard feed and eating dirt 🤷🏼‍♀️, over eating hay. Ins...
05/08/2026

Feather has barely eaten any hay since arriving here, choosing her hard feed and eating dirt 🤷🏼‍♀️, over eating hay. Instead she would spread it everywhere and sleep on it! 🤦🏼‍♀️.

Today I rolled out an entire large round for her. At first she went and stood at the opposite end of the paddock and was like ‘What on earth is that!?’ But eventually she was brave, got closer and then decided it was yummy 👏

25/07/2026

Keeping at it, small steps forward all the time 🫶❤️🦄

Here’s me worrying about Feather having her cover on permanently at the moment. Probably not a bad thing for a Far North...
21/07/2026

Here’s me worrying about Feather having her cover on permanently at the moment. Probably not a bad thing for a Far North beach pony… You know it’s cold when the dripping tap drips freeze into a stalagmite! 🥶

Molly the cat as helpful as always…. Not! She was bashing and crashing up on the roof when I was trying to work quietly ...
21/07/2026

Molly the cat as helpful as always…. Not! She was bashing and crashing up on the roof when I was trying to work quietly with Feather below 😻😳🤦🏼‍♀️🤯

19/07/2026

Slow progress but some progress in the right direction 🫶❤️🐴

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