It’s the depths of winter here at Pine Hill and all the animals are fluffy and muddy. This is our first winter we haven’t needed to feed hay to all the horses every day and we’re pretty proud of that achievement. It’s certainly been a wet winter, but our soil conditioning, weed management and spelling programs are also starting to pay off. If you’re keen to know more about our approach to land and horse management, check out the Sustainable Horse Blog for more info.
We are starting to prepare for a busy first breeding season for our wonderful young Australian Stock Horses stallion, Pipersrun Captain Thunderbolt (aka Jack), and you can check him out now in the Horse Deals August Stallion Special Edition. Jack will be offering limited live cover (depending on competition schedule) and full chilled and frozen semen options. Please get in touch if you’re interested in him.
The babies from last season are now both weaned and like big fluffy teddy bears. Both boys are pending ASHS registration and we’re so impressed with Oliver (Pinehill McIntyre HSH) that we’ve kept him entire for the next year or two to see if he’ll grow into the sire-quality colt he is promising to be. We only have one foal due this year due to last season’s drought and fires, so stay tuned for a September/October baby out of Kilburns Madonna (TB) by our own Jack.
The rehabilitation of our creek has been a time-consuming project over the winter months and is now finished. I’ll be writing a blog post on that so if you’re keen to see what we got up to, head over to the Sustainable Horse Blog. We only have a couple more big infrastructure projects to complete – the surface of the arena and the creation of two more paddocks – and we’re pretty happy with how the farm is looking.
Thanks for reading and hopefully we’ll be posting more on our adventures as we get to some competitions and training days over the next few months (COVID-pending of course).
Cheers,
Nadia