Talia's Kaimanawas
This page is to raise funds so I can personally adopt some Kaimanawas, and save them from going to slaughter.
Feilding, Manawatu-Wanganui
This year 230 kaimanawa horses will be mustered from the wild. I would like to save as many of those that I am able.
Every $2000-2500 raised can save another horse.
I have sufficient paddocks for 4 horses. I would need at least $8000 to save this many.
The muster is scheduled for 25th April.
Funds will cover costs for rehoming these beautiful horses, and helping them heal, grow and blossom into their best domestic selves.
My volunteer helpers and I have the time, but we need the funds (which I can't fund alone, being slap bang in the middle of building a house).
Funds will cover: Horse purchase and transport; vet bills for dentistry, wounds, and/or castration costs; hoof care; hay and supplemental feeds; dewormers and digestive support supplements, and safer fencing for wild horses.
These are horses I saw in 2022 on a bus tour of the Kaimanawa ranges. The idea that any of these might end up in the slaughter house breaks my heart.
Please help me to help them.
If you know me at all well, you know I would do anything to save even just one of these horses and give them the best of lives. In advance, I really really appreciate your love and support.
"Perfect love casts out all fear."
If I do get a chance to take some of these horses home, you can follow our journey here:
https://sites.google.com/view/taliaskaimanawas/home
If I cannot raise sufficient funds to rescue at least one horse, funds will be forwarded to Kaimanawa Heritage Horses (KHH) to fund other rescuers efforts instead.
Use of funds
Horse purchase and transport; vet bills for dentistry, wounds, and/or castration costs; hoof care; hay and supplemental feeds; dewormers and digestive support supplements, and safer fencing for wild horses.
Latest update
They have arrived! 2 May 2024
Two beautiful mares arrived after the muster last week, and have been quietly settling in this week. They are both calm and cautious, but also very curious.
Thank you all for your very generous and kind donations. The two horses we saved have arrived!
We have found them in the Field Guide (a database of wild Kaimanawa bands/herds). Their names are Emperor (with the big white blaze, left) and Arwen (flaxen mane). Both girls.
After their arrival I realised that Arwen was still producing milk, so would have been separated from her foal at the muster. Many people only want to adopt foals, so they are well sought after, but not the mothers that go with them. The only upside is that at least both Arwen and her foal found homes. But my heart grieves for Arwen's loss of her baby.
They are making great strides with their taming milestones. They have eaten grass from our hands, sniffed humans, learned to eat from hay-bags safely and even a little beet from buckets, which means we can start getting vitamins and minerals into them soon. The other day, one even lay down to sleep, which shows they are feeling safe in their new home. When mucking out and feeding, we can pass within a metre or so, and they only sometimes move away.
It is amazing how far they have come in less than a week!
Photo was taken the day they arrived, within minutes of getting off the truck. How beautiful are they?!
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