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Gypsy vanner folk!

I start with my hubby because without him, Harkaway Gypsies would not be possible! Thank you so much for all your support hon...

...and here's me (Maggi). General wheeler of barrows and mucker of stalls. Picker of paddocks and mower of fields. Groom, trainer, planner of breedings and all around dreamer!

Bob and I moved to America from England 16 years ago. We love it here, every day feels like an adventure in a new land!

 

I have bred Irish Draught horses for many years, both back in my homeland of England and now here in America....but five years ago we decided the time was right for me to fulfill a childhood dream.

And that dream? 

As a child in England I knew these horses and finally it was time to have a Gypsy Vanner of my own!

So after a long and painstaking search we found a Gypsy Vanner mare to add to our small band of Irish Draughts. Since then we have discovered that Vanners seem to exert "the chips effect"

~   you can't have just one   ~

So back in '04 we found another grand type of mare to join our Harkaway Greys!
And when she had a super little filly?
Well, doubtless you can imagine the rest. So then we had three Gypsy mares (well, two and a half really since Daisy is still a baby). I'm not quite sure how that happened, it certainly wasn't my intention...but the chips effect is indeed a powerful force!

Then in '06, Tansy had a colt that I was supposed to sell. But he's still here too.

 Back last summer I heard that a mare I had dreamed of owning for a number of years may be available and I probably don't even have to go further here. You've likely guessed what happened. So what if we have to exist on pasta and ramen noodles for ever more!!

Suffice it to say, in the many decades in which I have been fortunate enough to have lovely horses, I have never been happier than I am with these creatures in my life. They bring qualities of peace and contentment that is rare in this busy, hustle-bustle world.

Our aim, now, is to breed a few quality foals each year. And who knows...one day I may be able to bring myself to sell one! Certainly it would be lovely to help someone else towards their own dream of owning a Gypsy Vanner...and we are running out of space so I simply mustn't fall in love with another fluffy foal.


Lest we ever forget, we are only ever 5 months away from snow here in Wisconsin!!

 

More snowy Vanner pictures!

 

These little rascals are paid to keep mice out of the barn but it sure looks like they are sleeping on the job!


 

...Luckily someone around here is awake! This is my buddy, my Newfie Summer. We have her nephew, Teddy, too but I need to take some new pics of him.

 

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