Welcome,
Kaimanawa Heritage Horses (KHH) is a non-profit charitable trust dedicated to the welfare of Kaimanawa horses in both the wild and domestic environments. The Kaimanawa horse is a unique and historically important link to New Zealand’s recent past. Identified as a breed with distinct and unique characteristics, the Kaimanawa horse has proved to be a great all round riding pony.
Weather permitting, the DoC muster will be this weekend.
Thanks to the Herculean efforts of all the volunteers and your generosity we have homes for 107 horses. Thank you all.
People approved to take horses, please start to prepare. For instance, have hay, water and a companion horse ready for your new arrival/s. Here are more details.
Thanks to all that have supported us through donations and 2012 Gold and Silver memberships. Your support is appreciated. Please note that Gold and Silver memberships are still available. Thanks also to those individuals and media organisations that have got behind us and promoted the cause.
And of course thanks to all who have applied for horses. The job is not over. We will be in touch as soon as possible to arrange home checks. After this we have the muster and post muster work!
Spare a thought for the volunteers from KHH and other organisations working hard to save as many horses as we can. It is a frantically busy time.
Thanks to you we are making a difference.
Time is running out!
Applications to buy a wild Kaimanawa horse direct from the Muster close on 15 May 2012.
This is your last chance for two years to get one of these beautiful heritage horses. Un-homed horses will be slaughtered!
Please get your application in now:
With the muster coming up, there is more and more in the media about it. If you are not familiar with the history, you could be forgiven for being confused about how often the muster takes place now.
Biennial and biannual are amongst those confusing words in the English language, up there with affect and effect.
I’ll let our trusty Collins dictionary explain:
biannual vs biennial biannual means twice a year biennial means every two years
So, to be clear, the Muster happens biennially – every two years.
Membership fees are now due. Here is a way your annual membership can help even more in 2012.
In 2010 we introduced two classes of annual membership; 2010 Gold and Silver memberships. This was in recognition of members who gave beyond their annual membership fee to help with the additional costs of the musters and homing of horses.
This raised much needed funds to allow KHH to sponsor additional horses from the muster, beyond those we had homes for. It covered costs for transport, vets, training of the horses and grazing costs. Thanks to the 2010 Gold and Silver Members many more horses where able to be saved.
This year we are offering 2012 Gold and Silver Memberships in anticipation of the upcoming muster. We are expecting this years’ muster to be large with 170+ horses coming off the ranges. Once again, the additional funds contributed by 2012 Gold and Silver Members will be invaluable in saving heritage horses’ lives.
