KNP Malka's Journey

23/06/2024

Malka leading his little herd up to say "Hello, hooman."
Malka is 3 and a half years old now. He is looking so good 😍

20/04/2024

Very informative reading.
I followed up the research and have included the link below.

"... we further found it extremely difficult to disentangle the stream bank impact attributable to deer, horses, or feral pigs given that they all drink, wallow, or cross streams in the same places."
" .... camera traps suggested the activity of deer was far greater than that of horses."

https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wlb3.01107?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3blN7yFdHhWPH8bYO_NJLrnJlyhigDRfWYqeBe2JhgLoFH_1n7BvaXe54_aem_AQy08gBKOgbB_nK305nfWuuD65FdmuLSrI0mf7-ynGg_GBvB9j2Gotuwtsw11_ZhT0APfDbvR4pDSpkWigMMoRAb

New Research delves deeper into wild horse impacts on the environment. A decade of Anti-Brumby rhetoric has been challenged by new research showing over 99% of Bogong High Plains and 82% of the Eastern Victorian Alps had NO impact from horses. It's becoming obvious that the current Brumby eradication program was driven by conservationist ideology lack of objective research and the real impacts being overall insignificant. The War horse now 🐎 outlawed and shot on sight.

13/04/2024

Malka and Black Sallee. Australian Brumby and Australian Cattle Dog.
Gosh Malka has matured into a lovely boy.

07/04/2024

Malka: Yay. Someone sent the maid in to clean up 😃
My boots are of interest apparently lol

01/04/2024

Happy Easter everyone.
Here's me and my best mate (a Standy saved from being racehorse "wastage") having a hoon and living our best life 😃

20/01/2024

Mum says the holidays are over and it's time for me to go back to school because I'm getting 'chonky'. How rude!!

08/11/2023

Very windy today so we kept our lesson nice and simple. Malka's flight response kicks in big time with the wind.
Very pleased to see him resting his back foot and doing lots of licking and chewing whilst we go through our routine. Baby steps and no expectations. Im learning as much as he is 🥰

Who is coming to the Brumby connection and horsemanship clinic this weekend?

29/10/2023

Adding another item into our training.
Sniff, taste, check out if the colour suits, yeah it will do 😆

29/10/2023

Malka is always given time to familiarise himself with new items before I add them to our routine. Not sure I'll let him 'taste' my saddle when the time comes though.... 😬😅

28/10/2023

"Hey Malka. Give us a smile."
"Like this, Ma?"
"That's lovely, little mate." 😃😆

26/10/2023

Malka and his bestie, Dude.

23/10/2023

This is a long video and shows his first introduction to a fly mask. I fully expected a rush backwards when I pulled the velcro 😅.
We did the same routine one more time and he allowed me to put it on.
So proud of him 🥰