Ponies on the Pyrenees..

BevBeevers

Bevbee

Time of past OR future Camino

Camino Frances Sept. 2014

• Aug 11, 2014

• #1

Having just read a thread "Crossing the Pyrenees", I read a post by a member re- the wild ponies being bred for meat.. Are the Mérens horse (Pyrenean wild pony) not now a protected species??? Please someone tell me they are!!!

 

xin loi

Active Member

Time of past OR future Camino

Walked May 14, 2014 from St Jean France

starting to walk again August 25, 2016 --SJPDP to Finisterre

• Aug 11, 2014

• #2

One or two of the many Camino books claim that the horses with bells are "meat horses". I don't believe it-the horses with bells appear to be the herd leader and you can hear them for kilometers. On the other hand, just why are those horses so BIG?

 

GerryDel

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Camino Frances, July 2014

• Aug 11, 2014

• #3

I encountered them at full gallop in the fog. Freaked me out. I didn't know what was flying by.