The ponies and horses were the dispersal of the Arvorek stud, these included mares and foals, broodmares, ridden ponies and stallions.
On arrival our welfare officer Becky, introduced herself to the Auctioneer. The Auctioneer was welcoming and informed Becky that there were no animal welfare representatives at the sale. The sale was bankrupt stock from the stud and everything must sell. Lodge and Thomas do not usually do horse and pony sales and they assured me there would not be another.
The horses at the sale I have to say were very poor condition, very skinny, cracked hooves and generally looking withdrawn. However Lodge and Thomas did everything they could to move horses and ponies to and from the ring with minimal stress, however the metal gates clashing were startling a few younger ponies. Stallions were extremely stressed, box walking franticly, rearing and calling to mares near by, however the stallions were separate from the mares and foals.
Water was provided at the start of the sale by Lodge and Thomas for all equines going through the sale. Bedding was down in all pens. Everything was sold to private homes and no meat dealers were present. Our welfare officer watched the horses and ponies load onto their new homes trailers and off to their new homes.
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