Welsh Cobs For Sale

This is Nantgwinau Cadog our yearling colt by Geler Sparc x Rhandir Farwel Haf by Rhandir Cadno, born 31 May 08. A very smart fellow, quick to learn, good natured - though with the usual wish to use his teeth on everything!
We think well worth £1000.

Well we are now halfway through 2009 and seriously behind in news items! Brief summary:-

The winter was reasonably normal until February when extreme cold caused our mains water supply to freeze, and it stayed that way for a week! Much hacking out of ice from the field tanks ensued, to be melted on the Rayburn and then taken out again - this was supplemented by many contributions from our very kind neighbours, an interesting experience but we were very glad to return to normal.

Spring eventually broke through, as usual the wild daffodils were well ahead of their cultivated cousins, followed by snowdrops & pussy willow, and a general unfolding of greenery. This year seems to have been very good for bluebells, gorse, and laburnam - the latter grows like a weed in the hedgerows in these parts. By now the garden flowers and hanging baskets are joining in the fun, let's just hope for a more settled summer than the last two so that we get a good show of colour into the autumn.

No foals this year (on purpose) but we are hoping to sell our two "boys" fairly soon, Cadno Coch is now a really attractive chestnut 3 year old gelding, ready to start schooling and hopefully he will be as enthusiastic as his older brother & sister - Desert Fox and Croeso Haf. Our bay yearling colt Cadog is extremely handsome and naturally we think full of potential!

The 3 mares Ffarwel Haf, Rosina, and Rachel are all "resting" at the moment. Rachel looks like a good ridden cob prospect so possibly that will be her future rather than breeding.

Time to catch up before September bows out!

Quite pleased to say goodbye to "summer" with all it's dreary drizzle - for the first time ever we had to take down our hanging baskets before the end of August because they were just rotting away. Here is a picture as a reminder that there was some colour in mid July, but even then the plants were suffering.





In August we said goodbye to Bella and sent her off to her new life in Bedfordshire with our granddaughters - she can be seen above with a new friend and seems to be settling well to a much busier lifestyle, we hope she will be a credit to Nantgwinau and to the Welsh Cob breed in general.


NB Nantgwinau Rebecca mentioned in an earlier post is no longer for sale.

We also have regular visits now from a family of Greater Spotted woodpeckers who have great enthusiasm for peanuts - and a squirrel one day tried to reach the feeder hanging outside the kitchen window