Button meet......Buttons
| Button meet......Buttons Staff at World Horse Welfare in Snetterton have their hands full at the moment, bottle feeding a very special foal who was rejected by his mother. Button, a Konik foal, was found early in the morning on Saturday 18th October at Wicken Fen in Ely where the National Trust graze a herd of the rare Konik ponies to manage the fen vegetation. Carol Laidlaw, Conservation Grazing Warden from the National Trust says: "When we found Button on Saturday morning his mother had no interest in him whatsoever and he was receiving some unwelcome interest from other members of the herd. |  Looking after Button is no easy task with two hourly bottle feeds morning and night but luckily senior groom Adele Edwards has a little help in the shape of unlikely foster dad.....Buttons the Shetland pony. |
Looking after Button is no easy task with two hourly bottle feeds morning and night but luckily senior groom Adele Edwards has a little help in the shape of unlikely foster dad.....Buttons the Shetland pony.
"Coincidentally the only suitable foster parent we had has the same name," says Adele. "He is doing a great job and is a good influence on our new arrival."
Hall Farm in Snetterton is open to the public every Wednesday and weekend from 10am - 4pm and visitors can watch Button the foal being bottle fed. Entry is FREE.
Added on: 22/10/08.
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