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home buyer The New Forest UK National Park covered in white, fluffy snow is a truly beautiful and magical sight to see.

However, it is also a very harsh environment for the New Forest ponies, other animals and wildlife which have to try to survive in this stunning area day by day. As the temperatures drop and food is virtually non existent.

Let me share my experience of living in this beautiful landscape with you, and also try to give you an insight into what it is like for the wildlife and animals and how they cope.

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At no time could the New Forest be described as a winter wonderland for the New Forest animals.

Here are just a few dangers they face every day:

• Starvation – to keep warm they must constantly graze and eat whatever they can find
• Death by cold – if they get too wet or too low by not getting enough food they may collapse and die
• Death by car etc on the New Forest roads – many die each year
• Death by ignorance – it’s illegal to feed the New Forest ponies – why? They may die from cholic or choke to death if you try to feed them – they only need the vegetation of the New Forest – not a sandwich please!
• Death by litter – all animals are curious and usually greedy – if you leave your picnic behind and don’t take your rubbish home, the New Forest ponies etc will eat it, plastic and all and die in agony!

This sounds a tale of gloom and doom, but it isn’t, on the whole. All the New Forest ponies I have seen since Christmas have been fed with quantities of hay by their diligent Commoner owners and have been munching their way through many expensive bales of hay each day, in various locations on the New Forest.

The New Forest pony breed is extremely tough and sturdy. They are mild mannered and that is why they make lovely first ponies for children.

How they adapt to a harsh winter of snow:

<LIInsulation – their coats are made up of various layers which provide different types of insulation – providing they don’t get too wet and then too cold

• Using their bottoms to face the storm! – it really is true because I have seen it many times. When a blizzard or hailstorm is coming the ponies will always turn so their behinds get the full blast of the storm. They do this so that the bad weather hits their backsides and travels along their (hopefully) rounded tums and along to their front – but misses their heads and more vulnerable bits! – amazing adaptation or what?
• Feeding – they are constantly eating: grass, heather, bracken and gorse and anything green they can find. To see them eat gorse is quite unique – have you ever touched gorse? It is like razor blades. They delicately use their tongues to make it flatter and less thorny before giving it a very tentative chew! Ouch.
• Shelter – gorse has another really great use and that is why you see it, and smell it, with its coconut scent, all over the New Forest. The ponies use it as a field shelter and all huddle in the great clumps away from the penetrating wind and rain and today – snow!

I hope you have enjoyed this insight into living in the New Forest UK National Park during the harsh, snow bound winter. There are lots of photos for you to see on my New Forest travel site – you will get an idea of just how bad this snow was for the New Forest.

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