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We are getting a lot of people asking us "how much does it cost for a Kaimanawa". Well this is a difficult question to answer. So lets start with getting a Kaimanawa from the muster. For an unhandled Kaimanawa it will cost you $200.00. The price rises sharply if you want any handling done before the purchase. So you would need to weigh up these costs to a handled Kaimanawa for sale who has been out and about. If you are wanting to save a Kaimanawa, then getting one from the roundup would be the way to go. As you would be expected to have experience with a un-handled horse that would be the way to go. In the right hands they are relatively easy to bring on. Just do all the right things and you will have a lovely pony. Kaimanawa's that are for sale in the paper or Trade Me vary a lot. They start around $1,000, and then seem to rise very sharply. Again you need to weigh up whether you would pay 6,000.00 for a Kaimanawa who has competed for one season. The versatality of the Kaimanawa does dicate the price, but remember if it is not registered you then need to prove it is a Kaimanawa. If you really want a Kaimanawa, look around at prices for other horses. Because gone are the days when the Kaimanawa was just a cheap commodity. People over the years have now realised what great little gold mines they have on their hands. You can also look around (including our site) for any Kaimanawa's or giveaways. This may occur when someone has brought a mare from the muster and she is in foal. They will keep the foal, but will often give the mare away. In most cases the mare would be unhandled. The best thing is to keep your options open on the price you are willing to pay, but do expect to save up your pocket money if you want a good all round pony. Remember, there is no round-up in 2011.
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WHY ARE THESE KAIMANAWA WILD HORSES SO CLOSE TO THE DESERT ROAD?
This is concerning why we have got horses so close to the Desert Road.
Why are they there in the first place?
If anything they should be way out, not this close after a muster.
Are they being hassled too much by the army and with taking out the herds like they are,
have we destroyed the natural barriers to stop horses from moving around??????
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Our Society and the Kaimanawa Wild Horse Preservation Society will be working together trying to get the protection order put back on the remaining 300 Kaimanawa Wild Horses. We will be doing this by way of petition and both Societies are currently working on the petition. We hope the public will sign the petition once we have it up and running Both groups are very concerned that the herd may fall well short of 300. Remember DoC promised 500. We will keep you all informed with regular updates and more information about why we are so concerned. Our meeting with the Kaimanawa Wild Horse Preservation Society is ear marked for October. We have found a lot of common ground and their will be a lot of issues that the two Societies will be talking about. We want a better future for the Kaimanawa wild horses, which we are sure most of the public do as well. |
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Your welcome to use our free classifieds section.
In special circumstances we will put a free photo of
your Kaimanawa on our website. Special circumstance could include a neglected or unhandled Kaimanawa, or a stallion. In the past DoC have allowed people to take on large numbers of Kaimanawa's and subsequently these were either negleted or sent to slaughter. Thankfully this pratice has now been stopped, but there will be pockets of Kaimanawa's out there which are roaming free. The Kaimanawa is very much in demand so there is no need for them to be neglected. If you do know of people having problems with their Kaimanawa you can also contact us and we will endeavour to help out with our network of highly experienced horsepeople. |
You can register your Kaimanawa. It is never to late. We will need proof it is a Kaimanawa, but if you are unsure please contact us and we may be able to help out. It is important that you register your Kaimanawa as it will give us a history about this breed. Research is on-going and it is only by you registering that we can find out more about the "Kaimanawa". We will soon have up on our site the Society's Breed Standard. This is being compiled at the moment.
Thanks for visiting the Kaimanawa Horse Breed Society.
| Did you know ... Kaimanawa's have larger teeth than other breeds? |
Please bear with us while I learn how to update our website. Robin from Horsetalk has been doing this for a number of years now. You may find missing links and pages, but I hope to rectify those problems as soon as I can. We would like to thank the Horsetalk team for all their hard work over the years, and we appreciate our continued association with them. If you need to know all the latest horse news, just go to their brillant website for all the horse information you can digest. www.horsetalk.co.nz.
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IN MEMORIUM (Summer left and centre. Tussock right) It is hard enough to lose one horse, but two is tragically heartbreaking. It was not only the untimely deaths of mother and daughter, Tussock and Summer, but also in the horrible way they died (accidents, which are to graphic to put here). After Tussock died Jann had the memories of her in her daughter Summer. Summer was certainly starting to show the star quality that Tussock had and Tussock was a star. Summer's heart was just as big as her mothers and she was so giving. As in Janns own words "Summer was broken in at the beginning of 2006, and she was amazing. So brave, and such a sweet girl – just like her mother she gave everything she had and more. She was going to be a star too – amazing ability and potential." To add salt to the wound, Jann was horribly injured herself. She has spent the last years trying to get re-habilitated and can now do light riding. As a keen eventer Jann had it all in front of her. But one thing we can say is in Tussock and Summer's short lives (7 & 3), they proved that Kaimanawa's have huge hearts and great spirit, which we who own them know they possess. Goodbye beautiful girls.
We are also offering free registration for any Kaimanawa's in the month of August. You can print out our registration form, or you can contact us and we will send a form out to you.
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"Hey I'm not walking through that scarey thing". 10 year old Aidan trying to coax Hawksby through part of the obstacle course without success until human intervention intervened.
10th December 2010.
