White Alpine Equine

02/11/2024

Old wounds and poo piles....

Eva is booked for some foot work and a hands on assessment for early next week.

As you can see, she has an old abscess that has burst its way from the top of her foot, and some bangs on her hip that are slowly healing. They have gone quite dry and one has bled a little so saline wash and white ointment are on the plan for her too.

The old hair from malnutrition and her winter coat is slowly coming away too.

She has made it clear that contact and brushing is a touch too far just right now. Not in a nasty way at all, just with body language and moving away.

She is eating really well, no sign of wadding her food and that terrible smell has gone.

Baby steps but all positives!!

And I just HAD to give Darcy kudos on his masterful poo pile that he has been working on since all of the brumby girls arrived! That is precision aiming if I've ever seen it lol.

01/11/2024

I've said nup to the cup for many years.

When I was a teenager we used to buy off the track horses through Newmarket sales and help them move on to being pony-clubbers, showjumpers and eventers.

Most made it to the other side and a good life, but the few that didn't were absolutely wrecked by the industry.

So imagine how many never even made it to the sales and were euthanised track side or in a back paddock at a trainers :-(

01/11/2024

Or 2 dogs and a horse 🤣

01/11/2024

Love seeing a happy herd :-)

31/10/2024

I think this should be a Saturday morning motto. Whose with me lol. Let's all afrolicing go :-)

*Always* been my motto!

31/10/2024

Love these littlies XOXOXO

30/10/2024

To those ladies who sent their lovely fat and shiny brumbies to me for safekeeping, my apologies….They aren’t so shiny anymore lol

28/10/2024

1 week photo check on Eva. Slowly slowly making progress XOXOXO

27/10/2024

Done for the weekend - time for me to wrap up with the horses and mentally and physically prep for work tomorrow.

I love being able to potter around fixing troughs, cleaning yards and hanging out with the brumbs as my work is 110% computer based and can be 10 hour days. I do get to take my laptop down to the yards to hang out during my breaks which is good for me, and for them XOXOXO

All are cleaned and have feed to get them through to mid-morning (for those that actually do need food.....).

Loving that Eva has attached herself to Mr Darcy (everyone adores Darcy) and I've asked him to let her know she is in a safe place with good people. Bad people find a locked gate and me with a big f-off scowl on my face if they try and come in lol

I'll get more updates done during the week but I just eyeballed 9 Forever Free Sanctuary horses, 5 of which were on their way to us from the Eurora sales this time last week, and I couldn't be happier with their progress. Eyes are cleared, weight has been gained, old scabbed wounds are healing. Good for the soul.

Some more brumbs arriving during the week so there will be pics!!

Take it easy everyone - and pray that Kiki is found safe and well XOXOXO

27/10/2024

Sunday's are great for cleaning water troughs, checking health and some light handling - yeah, I live a glamourous life lol

The Sanctuary horses are well settled in and the skinny's are slowly gaining weight. Can't say that the chunky chicks are loosing any though as I don't have any 'skinny paddocks' to put them in to :-)

Eva is wary of touch but is becoming more curious than shut down. If any pressure is put on, even by standing close, she starts to close off but is now happy to follow at a distance trying to work out what the heck I am doing XOXOXO

26/10/2024

Thank you Jules and Sustainability. You ladies say what you will do and do what you say. It makes working with you to get brumbies to Sanctuary a pleasure XOXOXO Getting to have a lazy Sunday morning was a rare treat!

26/10/2024

A beautiful sunny day with the brumbies :-) The little men are out in their own yard and paddock now. Such gentle boys XOXOXO

25/10/2024

Home!!!

After a lovely greeting from the Chunky Chicks I popped down to check the brumbs and Eva to find a lovely clean yard with heaps of hay in the nets and happy calm horses XOXOXO. Thank you Di and Poppy - 15 out of 10 for brumby care 101 which is more important than people realise.

I was going to leave Credits halter removal until the weekend but he was asleep in the yard and relaxed so I just walk in and undid the nose band while he was laying down and then when he stood up, twisted the head strap to his left side and undid it.

Like most horses who are forced into a halter he is headshy on the buckle side so we just worked around it :-)

25/10/2024

I had a lovely ‘welcome home’ from the Chunky Chicks 💕

24/10/2024

XOXOXO

23/10/2024

Checked on the big horses before heading to Canberra for work for a few days - all happy and well and loving their new paddock.

Di is keeping an eye on all things brumby while I am away and Kyle has care duty for the rest of the menagerie. It is a nice change to have everyone cared for!!!

22/10/2024

Eva quite likes having a wander around the place :-)

21/10/2024

Mares on the move :-) Change of paddock for these brumby girls. One of the colts needs mares out of sight and hopefully out of mind lol

19/10/2024

Life is short. Love big 💕🥰😍❤️

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19/10/2024

In the paddock with space to make their own.....

Edit to say they have buddied up nicely and are running around the paddock and through the dam having a ball. So I currently have a paddock of flat plonker mares one side of the driveway and my fat plonker geldings on the other side 💕