Doghill Farm Stud

“For sale” (To the right home) When we sell our horses, we’re often asked why we insist on potential new owners coming to meet our horses in person before they commit to them, especially given the number of horses that are sold “unseen” over the internet via videos and pictures. There’s nothing wrong with buying “unseen”, providing you know exactly…Read More

  The Doghill youngsters are always looking to be involved with anything we are doing. We had a professional photographer on the farm a few days ago and of course, the “babies” wanted to be involved. As usual, Elsa was the most cheeky and caused more than a few laughs with her clowning about. We try really hard (within reason)…Read More

When “HW Little Miss Lily” was born it was love at first sight. Not only am I incredibly fond of her mum, Topsicana, but I thought she was the most adorable foal I had ever seen. She’s definitely one who is staying!

We’re often asked why we freeze-brand our horses as many people think that it’s cruel because it’s effectively a cold burn. It’s a good question. Today we had our annual visit from Alison at Premier Equimark, who freeze-brands all our horses. Freeze-branding is a method of visibly and permanently identifying horses, ponies and donkeys. At Doghill, we do it because…Read More

Simply put, a “Dunalino” is a Palomino who carries a dun gene. Except as these things always are, it’s a bit more complicated than that! The dun gene allele is a dominant one, so the phenotype of a horse with either one or two copies of the gene is dun. Because it is a dominant gene it will always show,…Read More

Hay making is finally coming to an end after a frantic few weeks for Huw because he was taking advantage of the hot weather. One of the best things about making our own fodder, is that we know exactly what is in it (i.e. we know it is completely ragwort free) and we can use hay from different fields for…Read More