Category: Horses

Long table with lots of food on it and lots oof people looking into the camera smiling
Bring on the challenges, 2024. It won’t always be easy, there may be hard work, there may be tears, but we will grow stronger together.
Closeup of a horse
Shady our little Bush Pegasus has peacefully crossed the rainbow bridge today. We are so glad he was able to go gracefully and peacefully with all of us and his best mate Rusty by his side.
Momma duck with her little ducklings
Apart from the usual winter farm activities, there has not been much exciting stuff happening. It’s been a typical winter with lots of rain, lots of mud but rather warm in comparison. It looks like nature has decided that it is spring.
Two black and white goats eating hay
The weather has turned from somewhat wet and warm to rather wet and cold. The horses have been rugged up just like the goats. The rodent infestation has become noticeable, so we started putting up more traps on top of the traps and bait stations we already had.
Closeup of brown
It’s so nice to get outside between rain break. The weather has been warming up over the the last days and we are getting 20 deg during the day.
Two grey ducls and a brick pathway in the wet with wet grass behind them.
It’s been rather wet, foggy and cold in the last couple of days. The cats spent more time inside and expressing a form of cabin fever when awake but they are mostly asleep. The horses are asking for more food, the chickens are hiding in their house and the ducks – well, the ducks are in their element.
View of the valley with fog lingering over the Kaipara river meandering through the valley
The seasons are changing. Summer went and Easter and Autumn came around. We have been starting to prepare for winter to come.
Picture of stairs
We have been busy on various little projects to keep us busy. From cooking to exercising, watching some movies to projects outside.
Shorn alapacas looking like stick anaimals running through a gate back into a wide paddock
A weekend of alpaca shearing, vet attendance, fixing fences and water troughs.
Bunch of alapacas on a green grassy hill behind some white electric tape fence
Most animals stick to electric fences – our alpacas do not.
View of the flooded valley
Merry Christmas to everyone. Its been pretty wet all of yesterday and this morning the valley greets us with a bit of ponding water.
Duck flapping its wings
The early spring mornings here are foggy and cold but beautiful.