Meersbrooke Farm Horses & Ponies

15/12/2024

Great result for the Meersbrooke Stables team.

12/12/2024

Big Ears...following in his Mum - No Ears - hoofprints

Congratulations to winner of the NRM High Points Show Hunter at the Feilding A&P Show (North Island Show Jumping Champ Show) Meersbrooke Big Ears and Jasmine Priest. Pictured here with our very own Nutrition Specialist Sonia McKay 💚

11/12/2024

Just sharing this...in case you're breeding a foal next season, and haven't heard about it.
You might want to check cost of microchipping in your area too...seems to vary alot. Our sporthorse foal was $200 to do...just the chipping...and that was part of a visit to get our TB one done. The DNA parentage stuff we chose to do was extra on top. And so would be registration costs with where ever you're wanting to do that.

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07/12/2024

Sacha Rennie in a different role to usual. Cas is a lovely young horse. He's got 1 foal on the ground out of Sacha's mare Kiwi Ash, with a nice group of mares to cover shortly.

SHOWING - Feilding IA&P Association: Whiskey D’Acciaio was winner of the Champion Led Youngstock Horse at Feilding Show. The young stallion is owned by Sacha Rennie & Josh Lavelle

30/11/2024

Great option if you're travelling horses this summer

OVERNIGHT CAMPING

With the closure of the desert road over Jan/Feb - would there be a demand for making our grounds more accessible for overnight campers?

We currently offer overnight camping, but it’s a bit clunky. We are looking to streamline this with a code and instructions on how to let yourself in and out just needing to message the page to get the info.

Camping is currently $20 per horse per night with your choice of a covered stable or open yard. Toilets and showers in the amenities building.

The best thing is McDonalds is about a 1 min walk away and New World a 5 min walk away with other options of takeaways as well.

Do we have a demand for this? 🤷🏼‍♀️

02/11/2024

Got to contribute my (rather rusty 😁) tail plaiting skills to turning out Sach & Josh's lovely 3yo c**t Whiskey D'Acciaio (Cas) today. It was his first show. Weather was terrible. He coped pretty well. Few young boy moments! Sacha's friend Katherine (who did a fabulous job on his turnout) was going to do the showing part...but Cas proved a bit strong. Sach stepped in & took over, as she knows him better. All about education & positive experiences...especially at this age, and being an entire.
Great result. Cas won both his classes & the led young sporthorse championship.
Cas is out of Snowfire (Charlton Javelin x Buttons) by Cassius GNZ. Snowfire is a full sister to Antara Whiskey Mac who Sach used to SJ. Cas was bred by an long time friend of ours Fiona Graham.

15/10/2024

Meersbrooke No Ears (24yo now) enjoying her retirement with best friend Snickers (City on a Hill x Don't Mind Me)

22/08/2024

Said goodbye to Meersbrooke Pizazz today. He's headed to his new home in Northland. Look forward to following his career.

18/08/2024

Not a horse post today...it's the dairy goats that occupy my time at this time of year. We only have 30 does these days...but 2/3 of them have kidded in the past week. Keeping track of who belongs to who is a full time job!
For anyone wanting little goats 🐐...95% of the wee boys are for sale - they make great pets. My older wether mob are awesome for cross grazing the horse paddocks & keeping along the creek tidy. We also have a few of the doe kids for sale.
Most of the kids are by our new sable buck. A few are by the nubian bucks.

12/08/2024

Great outing.

14/07/2024

Foal handling session today.

12/07/2024

After a long holiday, since being broken in, Sian's 5yo Pablo is back under saddle with Annabel on board. Pablo's by Meersbrooke Iced Ripples out of the TB mare Royal Enchantress aka Poppy (by Sir Percy).
Younger sister Ella & her pony Coco were babysitter's for the farm hack today.

09/07/2024

Our old stallion Meersbrooke Iced Ripples dusted off his moves today to show off. The TB spellers were racing each other...he wasn't going to miss out 😁
Not looking bad for nearly 28yo...he kept it going for quite a while.

09/07/2024

Great new product. Check it out

Introducing WoolGard • Utilising the potential of New Zealand strong wool to create animal health products that are naturally anti microbial, sustainable and 100% NZ grown and made.

We are excited to soon be releasing our first two products, a sheep’s wool alternative to your cotton wool gamgee.
This product is the ideal wrap for under your horses bandages whether it be for medical or everyday use. Wool is the favourable choice due to its inherent antimicrobial and moisture wicking qualities plus it’s also a superior and proven temperature regulator, meaning your horses legs are less likely to sweat.

Available in a 45cm and 30cm roll, simply cut your roll to size and use as you normally would under bandages.

We look forward to sharing more with you soon!

16/06/2024

So here's some more information I found this morning. It's separate from the current debate raging around pedigree verification in age group classes with ESNZ.

The info below will be of interest to breeders of stationbred/Coastie type horses in particular.

It's proposing introduction of compulsory microchipping of all foals born in NZ starting from 2025 onwards. The details would be registered on the Companion Register (your vet will have added your cat or dog etc to this if they've been chipped)...unless you were registering with one of the various breed organisations.

16/06/2024