White Alpine Equine

15/01/2025

Little Charlie in deep snooze pre-surgery. He had both te**es down but one normal size and the other a little weeny one so lucky it hadn't been retained.

Gave them a good check over this morning and they are healing well.

Bute and tetanus done - they stood there like seasoned racehorses well used to injections XOXOXO

I wasn't sure how they would feel with me haltering them up and doing their meds as I have only said 'hi' in the yards but they were super chilled out - which is a testament to Shannon's gentle handling approach.

There are in their nice grassy paddock with Eva now which will help them fatten up some more before they head to Forever Free Sanctuary.

14/01/2025

You all know I am a big advocate of Sanctuaries. I am also a big advocate of planning for the safety of ALL of our horses.

My clydies are off to Sanctuary at Heavy Horse Heaven tomorrow, thanks to Kaz welcoming them in.

I reached out to her as we are looking at selling our property and moving closer to the coast and (hopefully) simplifying our life a little :-) While I have an 18 month timeline, I asked her early for when she had a space. She does, and I am grabbing that space now rather than closer to our move date when she may be full.

Golden girl Marnie is a 14 year old champagne buckskin clydie x who a lot of people tell me I should sell as a brood mare. No way. Bay Stolli is her 5 year old boy and I want them to stay together.

Elle is a 9 year old saddle and cart trained clydie who is stunning and will soak up the love and attention that she will get at HHH :-)

Could I sell these horses for lots of $$$, heck yes. Would I rather make sure that they are loved and safe for the rest of their lives, HECK YES.

There will be tears when they go, but knowing that their future is going to be golden is going to help me sleep at night XOXOXO

13/01/2025

Received a lovely update about 2 fillies that I rehomed in 2022 - Molly and Meg.

Molly was especially shy and reserved and had some very basic handling while Meg was a lot more confident and comfortable being haltered.

Their owner is an experienced horsewoman but has had a professional trainer working with them for some time. Now that Molly has turned 4, time for some mouthing and very gentle backing XOXOXO

12/01/2025

A fabulous rainy end to a fabulous brumby weekend 💕🥂❤️

11/01/2025

A great way to spend the day :-)

Come along to our Summer Day Camps starting the 2nd week in January.
15/1/25 3 Spots left.
EAL Stables is close to town, 83 Park Road.
Orange. Small groups for social skills building
Make new friends both human and animal. Let your creative side flourish in our Art Therapy session. Lots of fun to be had.
Be sure to book early to secure your spot.
Under cover area to keep out of the heat Email Jenny [email protected] or Ph
0412 086 092

11/01/2025

Just one of the reasons we love them

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11/01/2025

A beautiful day for a brumby event.

Finally some good heavy rain yesterday and last night, now sunshine until the next storm this afternoon/evening.

The paddocks and yards are freshened up - no dust - and the grass isn't crunchy underfoot.

These are just the overnight campers and 2 early arrivals - going to be a popular day I think!!

10/01/2025

Many a brumby rehomer will be familiar with that - maybe not quite from that angle if they aren’t handled yet 😊

08/01/2025

So important to not leave a horse without access to food!

With yarded brumbies I do a 3 to 1 mix with the hay nets. 2 of lower ‘quality’ hay, and one of higher ‘quality’. They will scoff down the lucerne and take their time with the clover or meadow.

But I never leave them with nothing at all.

Ad lib forage (grass or hay) is the gold standard for digestive and mental health for horses. They were designed to graze for up to 16 hours a day, so making sure there is always something to chew on is really important.

If your horse is not seriously overweight, and especially if it is underweight or a poor doer there is no such thing as *too much* forage.

"Ad lib" means free choice, or effectively never running out. This means you need to work out how much your horse is likely to eat over the time period and provide at least a little more than that.

With my horse Tiento, who is a good doer, I achieve this by providing a whole netted bale of low sugar, low energy hay, alongisde a net with a set amount of slightly more nutritious hay. The whole bale will take him around a week to consume, so I only need to replace the smaller hay net for each night, and don't need to worry about him "running out".

*My horses are barefoot, shod hooves do present a safety risk with hay nets on or low to the ground*

What do you do?

07/01/2025

Come join us!

I am really excited to be meeting people that mainly up until now have been facebook names 😊

07/01/2025

It costs nothing to be kind and caring - and it helps the world be a better place XOXOXO

07/01/2025

Had an invite to join the Cardi-girls to talk brumbies tonight.

They are part of Cafe Locked out and we are hoping it opens up a much larger dialogue to help our remaining brumbies and give our Government and Parks a big kick in the arse.

It is a long session but hopefully shared to a bigger community what is really happening to our brumbies and the wonderful community fighting the good fight XOXOXO

https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=1096976298574438

07/01/2025

Yep, this is how I pick out our carpets, rugs and couch covers. Having black and white (and previously grey) dogs I've gone for a mix and match of all of them :-)

06/01/2025

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04/01/2025

A few people have raised valid concerns about Penny Sharpe's stated aim of overturning the KNP Wild Heritage Management Plan.

If she can achieve this, and Invasive Species Council support the overturning and have volunteers in shopping centres, in tourist towns and even accosting people on walks in the Snowy Mountains, they are no longer legally committed to keeping a population of 3000 wild horses in retention areas.

I have attached a link to the Plan so that you can download it at your leisure:

https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/research-and-publications/publications-search/2021-kosciuszko-national-park-wild-horse-heritage-management-plan

The plan is worth a read as it has some very good background for those who don't always understand the terminology or references that we use - and bolsters discussion points as we raise awareness about factual breaches of legislation committed to by the Government - in fact, legislated by both LNP and Labour.

Section 5.3 Wild horse retention areas shows their utter complacency (or target map) for where most of the northern KNP ground and aerial culling took place.....

And a great page to come together and actively push back on the Governments, ISC and Reclaim Kosci agendas is Park Off.

It is administered by some stalwart brumby supporters with a lot of experience:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1461837297698596/

Dick Roberts has posted maps on the page showing the difference in ferocity of the bushfires in 2019/2020 in areas grazed by horses versus those left with no grazing and no maintenance by NPWS.

These links to documents and resources will all have been shared previously and available on some of the regular brumby pages.

This email is not intended to overwrite their efforts, but to give easy access whilst the topic is hot, and I believe, one of our biggest areas of concern in 2025 and onwards.

This management plan has been prepared to meet the requirements of the Kosciuszko Wild Horse Heritage Act 2018 and is the current management plan. The plan was amended by the Minister for the Environment on 23 October 2023.