Akhal-Teke Foundation

Akhal-Teke Foundation The Akhal-Teke Foundation is an award-winning all-volunteer non-profit for preservation of the rare & amazing Akhal-Teke horses.

Checks can be written to "Akhal-Teke Foundation" and mailed to: Akhal-Teke Foundation, 84020 Brown Road, Dexter, OR 97431

All good news! Monday was busy, as Yara was quieter during the night Sunday and on Monday morning. And a quieter affect ...
04/23/2025

All good news! Monday was busy, as Yara was quieter during the night Sunday and on Monday morning. And a quieter affect was the only outward sign that triggered her second hospitalization and a change of antibiotics. So, after consulting, we took Yara & her mom Zenus down to Virginia Tech for a third time.

And hooray! A full work up showed none of the inward signs of continuing infection — just some lingering inflammation that will take time to clear up — so she was released from antibiotics and we took her home.

Good job, little Yara!

Then on Tuesday, the next day, we were back down to Virginia Tech again. We picked up Kizy with her new post-bandaging fancy glue-on shoes with pads. And for trip chaining, we also took the mare Delguli down for reproductive and general health checks… and back home again along with Kizy. 😊

Good job, Kizy! Good job Delguli! 👏👏

It sounds so easy put that way. 😆 The minimum driving time from the Akhal-Teke Center in Lexington, VA to the Virginia Tech state veterinary teaching hospital in Blacksburg, VA is 90 minutes each way. So a _minimum_ round trip is easily four hours. Add to that trailer setup time, horse loadings, and whatever extra time things take at the hospital, and each day that has a trip to Virginia Tech is pretty much a day that other stuff (besides the baseline horse care & feeding) doesn’t get done.

If you appreciate Tara and Zenus and Kizy, and the all-volunteer efforts of the Akhal-Teke Foundation, maybe you can donate a little today to help…

Donate here:
https://akhaltekefoundation.networkforgood.com

For the horses. ❤️

A trio of Akhal-Teke girls from Saturday evening. Abby, cremello turning two, Dory, buckskin turning six, and Kebekek, p...
04/21/2025

A trio of Akhal-Teke girls from Saturday evening. Abby, cremello turning two, Dory, buckskin turning six, and Kebekek, palomino turning 21.

Akhal-Teke Center

Hooray! We’ve reached 9000 followers. Wow! Thank You to everyone who supports and engages with saving the Akhal-Tekes! 🙏...
04/19/2025

Hooray! We’ve reached 9000 followers. Wow!

Thank You to everyone who supports and engages with saving the Akhal-Tekes! 🙏

That’s nearly twice as many followers here as there are Akhal-Teke horses in the whole world. And it’s about 30 times the number of Akhal-Teke horses in North America. What a great milestone. 🎉

Together, we are making sure that the “world’s most beautiful horse” breed won’t flicker out.

Help us celebrate with a donation of any amount:

https://akhaltekefoundation.networkforgood.com

And please join our email list…

https://www.akhaltekefoundation.org/email_list.html

For the horses. ❤️

📷 Photo: Akhal-Teke stallion Liman (Lamart x Madonna) by Artur Baboev Horse photography, from "Golden Horse: The Legendary Akhal-Teke," p96.
Used with permission.

Kizy Update — Friday, Apirl 18, 2025The headline:  She is doing great! Yay Kizy!!!!! 🥰The details…Volunteers took recove...
04/18/2025

Kizy Update — Friday, Apirl 18, 2025

The headline: She is doing great! Yay Kizy!!!!! 🥰

The details…

Volunteers took recovering pregnant Akhal-Teke mare Kizy down to the Virginia Tech Veterinary Teaching Hospital today for a joint check up in the “podiatry barn,” with the hospital farrier and her surgeon, working together.

The upshot is that she’s almost certainly ready to transition from the hospital plate shoe and rugged bandage changes every two days, to more regular glue-on shoes with pads.

However, an inner layer of her sole was still a bit damp from the full-sole-abscess that had developed along with the navicular bursa infection. There’s no evidence of continued infection, but that sole should dry a bit before the recovery shoes with pads can go on.

So, a bit sadly, this sweet girl is staying at VT for a couple of days to best make this milestone shoe transition. Then she should be able to come home with a new level of comfort and resilience.

Kizy’s surgeon continues to be thrilled with her progress, and considers her ‘sound at a walk’ at this point. Likely even more, though time will tell. Such a huge comeback from a 50/50 chance of survival when she was admitted to the hospital.

🙏🙏🙏

Kizy still needs sponsors for her continuing treatment. Can you help?

Donate for Kizy here:

https://akhaltekefoundation.networkforgood.com/projects/241365-sponsor-swan-kyzyl-kometa

Join our email list…

https://www.akhaltekefoundation.org/email_list.html

04/18/2025
04/14/2025

With a hop and a skip, little Yara and her mom Zenus came home safe today from Virginia Tech. 💞 Yara is doing great, and for a full recovery she’ll be supported here at the Akhal-Teke Center with oral antibiotics every six hours, four times a day, until her next hospital checkup in two weeks. Zenus was also bred with frozen semen. Preg check in two weeks, too!

Help support Yara as she continues to get better…
https://akhaltekefoundation.networkforgood.com/projects/249036-sponsor-yara

Support Yara’s mom Zenus as she brings up her darling daughter…
https://akhaltekefoundation.networkforgood.com/projects/241403-sponsor-zenus

Join our email list…
https://www.akhaltekefoundation.org/email_list.html

04/13/2025

Coming back to the barn with Akhal-Teke gelding Ulduze, wrapping up a successful long-lining session. 😊

More outstanding volunteer work is underway this weekend at the nonprofit Akhal-Teke Center in Virginia. Thank you John ...
04/13/2025

More outstanding volunteer work is underway this weekend at the nonprofit Akhal-Teke Center in Virginia. Thank you John and Keira Brickley!!!

The team has already completed an extensive fence restoration at the maternity paddock, nicely in time for foals due in May and June. And a closed stall is being converted to a run-in for newborns and their mom, with a new sliding door onto a side paddock for great flexibility.

Volunteer with the ATF, and help save the Akhal-Tekes! Both hands on and remote projects are always available. Call or text us at 541-514-4766 or email [email protected].

And support the hard-working ATF volunteers, by supporting the Akhal-Teke horses. Donate here:

https://akhaltekefoundation.networkforgood.com

Two lovely   daughters were in breeding action today at the Virginia Tech veterinary teaching hospital, Anadana (Anikit ...
04/11/2025

Two lovely daughters were in breeding action today at the Virginia Tech veterinary teaching hospital, Anadana (Anikit x Merdana, 2014) and Zenus (Anikit x Zara, 2018).

We trailered Anadana down to Blacksburg from the Akhal-Teke Center in Lexington, Virginia. And Zenus was already right there with her dear little Yara, who is recovering from a lingering internal postpartum infection.

As part of the foundation’s program, each of these proven-fertile mares will be bred by a dose of historical archived semen, from special stallions, collected and frozen in the years before current standardized practices.

🤞🤞

Join our email list…
https://www.akhaltekefoundation.org/email_list.html

Sponsor Anadana…
https://akhaltekefoundation.networkforgood.com/projects/241330-sponsor-anadana

Sponsor Zenus…
https://akhaltekefoundation.networkforgood.com/projects/241403-sponsor-zenus

Sponsor little Yara…
https://akhaltekefoundation.networkforgood.com/projects/249036-sponsor-yara

04/08/2025

After breakfast lull for the Akhal-Teke girls at the big barn today.

Nusha, Tina, Abby, Ally, Dory (who will change pastures later today), Kebelek, and Gavinka (in the maternity dry lot, along with Arima and Sayda, out of sight).

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Introducing the Akhal-Teke Foundation

What a time we are in. We do hope you are staying safe and well.

None of us chose the challenge of COVID-19 for this time. And we would not have chosen to launch the Akhal-Teke Foundation into the middle of a pandemic.

Phil Case, the original importer of Akhal-Teke horses into the U.S., was a tireless benefactor to our beloved breed of Akhal-Tekes, and he is sorely missed, by many.

When Phil died in early December, 2019, our work together with him, to carry his legacy forward into something larger - a true public charity for Akhal-Teke education and preservation - was thrust forward by need into action, even as the coronavirus crisis was just starting to unfold around the world.