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Chinny (left) is 13 weeks here, Condy (right) is 10 weeks old.

The boys sleep in an open barn. This allows them the best of both worlds - 24 access to grazing, and also 24 hour access to shelter from rain or flies (it always seems to be one or the other). The mangers run the length of the two short ends of the barn, which keeps the mares away from the door and allows room for all to come in without a row. The double doors to the barn are placed midway along the long side, so one horse can't block it off entirely, and there is always room to make a quick getaway if a foal has pushed his luck a bit far with the mares.

From an early age, the boys learned that sleeping on dry shavings is much nicer than lying on wet grass. Condy, at one week of age, would stay in the shed and let his mother go out to graze. When he got hungry, he would go to the door and call for her, and when he was done with her, go back to his nice warm bed and let her go back to the field. Condy also learned that he can sometimes reach the hay by rolling over and stretching his neck, without having to get up at all.

Chinny's passion is rolling, which he discovered when he was about a week old. He has excavated his own pit, in which he will lower himself, roll all the way over, then whilst still lying down, paw the earth in under his belly and roll again. He is the only horse I know who gets up again bum first, then jumps from his knees straight into a flying buck. He is also the only horse I have met who can get his forehead caked in muck when rolling - eyelashes are also a speciality.