One of the cobs was suffering from a severe eye infection, leading to the removal of the eye.
Alfie Doyle, of Hampstead Lane, Nettlestead, near Maidstone, was prosecuted by the RSPCA and pleaded guilty to three offences under the Animal Welfare Act 2006.
He was sentenced at Maidstone Magistrates’ Court on February 17.
As well as the disqualification, Mr Doyle was handed a 12-week prison sentence, which the magistrates suspended for 12 months.
He was told to attend 10 rehabilitation activity days and complete 200 hours of unpaid work.
The court heard that the body of a piebald foal in very poor condition was found in the same field on March 1 last year.
Eleven days later, RSPCA inspector Harriet Daliday went to the location after World Horse Welfare (WHW) had visited and issued an alert.
This was after a piebald cob mare was seen grazing the same field with an eye infection.
The police, a vet, and a WHW field officer were in attendance, and the three-year-old cob and another piebald mare, aged seven, were removed from the field.
Both cobs were underweight, and the one with the eye infection was also suffering from rain scald.
Neither of the equines were microchipped, and the field they were in was said to be grazed by multiple horses owned by several people.
Mr Doyle later admitted ownership of the seized cobs and agreed to sign them over to the RSPCA.
A vet who examined both equines scored the one with an eye infection as having a body condition score of 0.5, which is classed as emaciated, while the other equine’s score was 1.5.
Both cobs were suffering from a parasitic infection to their intestines, and they also had heavy lice infestations on their coats.
The infected eye was surgically removed from the younger cob, and both equines were dewormed.
After being removed from the field, both cobs have been cared for by World Horse Welfare and have put on weight and returned to good health.
One of the equines has since been rehomed by WHW.
The vet concluded that both horses suffered for several weeks from Mr Doyle’s failure to provide adequate preventive veterinary care and then address the clinical needs of the equines once they became sick.
The court was told that Mr Doyle had taken the cobs on from a friend and accepted he hadn’t done enough to look after them.
He was also told to pay £400 court costs and a £154 victim surcharge.
Speaking after the hearing, inspector Daliday said: “Both these cobs suffered terribly left in this field without care and attention.
“Owning an animal is a privilege and ensuring appropriate veterinary care when they need it is a key part of the responsibility we have towards them.”
