January
August
September
November
December
- Marking fees to be paid by the end of the month
- Two year old colts to come in
- Checking Stock
- Checking stock
- Heather baling
- Checking stock
- Heather baling
- Checking stock
- Foals begin to be born
- Start foraging silage on back up land
- Checking stock
- Welfare tour
- Beaulieu Road sale
- Silage making on back up land
- Foals born
- Checking stock
- Hay making and silage making on back up land
- Ponies begin to go to shade for hot part of the day to avoid flies
- Ponies and cattle grazing the lawns and wet areas
- Foals born
- Checking stock
- Hay making continues
- Ragwort pulling
- New Forest Show - Wednesday New Forest Pony day
- Ponies and cattle grazing the lawns and wet areas
August
- Checking stock
- Drifts begin
- Beaulieu Road sale
- Branding of foals to remain on the Forest
- Tail marking all ponies caught on the drift and recorded in the Agisters
- Diary
- Ponies and cattle grazing the lawns and wet areas
- Breed Show
- Straw cart begins
September
- Checking stock
- Branding of foals to remain on the Forest
- Drifts continue
- Beaulieu Road sales including foal show and sale
- Fern cutting and baling
- Wood cart begins for winter store
- Pannage season begins - pigs marked, rung, turned out and paid for
- Straw cart continues
- Wood cart continues
- Some cattle in to avoid acorns
- Hedge cutting on back up grazing
- Drifts continue
- Checking stock
- Branding of foals to remain on the Forest
- Ponies eating ash leaves in the woodlands
- Pannage season continues
- Stallions to winter grazing on Forest estates
- Hedge cutting continues
- Repair of fencing in preparation for winter
November
- Checking stock
- Branding of foals to remain on the Forest
- Pannage continues ( depending on FC)
- Winter welfare tour
- Burning programme commences
- Drifting continues
- Fitness training for Point to Point
December
- Checking stock
- Holly cutting
- Boxing Day Point-to-point
- Ponies browsing holly and gorse (fuzzing)
- Commoners supplementing the feed of stock where necessary on back up land with hay and silage made in the summer
- Some cattle in daily for supplementary feed
- Pannage season ends ( depending on FC and acorn crop)