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- Volunteers undertake essential maintenance work.
Posted by Andy Harris on 19 April 2010
Our volunteers are definitely a hard working lot and last Wednesday they helped Owen and myself completed essential repairs to the Exmoor Pony corral on Cothlestone Hill.
The corral is vital to the management of our twelve “wild” Exmoor Ponies as it’s a safe working area where we can check on their health and do supplementary feeding when necessary away from the public without causing stress to the herd. With a chill breeze and some great banter six volunteers replaced three gateposts and re-hung four gates as well as replaced some rails and do a general tidy up. This work couldn’t have been done at a better time as we’re planning to give the ponies a health check any moment now and it’s definitely a peace of mind knowing the corral is in working order and safe for ponies and staff to use.
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