Sunny update! More photo spam!

[Scott]

Phenomenal update, Hannah! Amazing pics, the first color one belongs in a fashion magazine! Video of Sunny drinking water is amazing!!!

 

[AmyMyBlueFront]

Phenomenal update, Hannah! Amazing pics, the first color one belongs in a fashion magazine! Video of Sunny drinking water is amazing!!!

Then wiping his face on Mum's sleeve..just like any little boiii does!



Jim

 

[HannahandSunny]

Hahaha
Thanks for enjoying our photos

 

[Scott]

We always do!! I never tire of seeing your adventures with Sunny. Truly a unique example of human/avian bonding.

 

[HannahandSunny]

Here are some photos of Sunny recently.. As you can see, Sunny HAS to be involved in everything, Mr center of attanrtion!

 

[Betrisher]

What's the property you live on, Hannah? The ponies look good. Are they stock horses, or for showing/jumping/dressage etc?

Lovely photos of Sunny, as always. Rosetta sends her best regards.

 

[HannahandSunny]

What's the property you live on, Hannah? The ponies look good. Are they stock horses, or for showing/jumping/dressage etc?

Lovely photos of Sunny, as always. Rosetta sends her best regards.

Hello!

They are Brumbies! I live on a Brumby Sanctuary, they come here straight from the National parks instead of going to slaughter.
We educate and find them loving homes
The 2 horses is those photos are my young Brumbies, Binki and Cappa whom I trained from totally unhandled from the wild! Love them dearly :01:

 

[Betrisher]

Oh! Good for you! The Brumbies are such a hot topic at the moment. It's nice to see someone really *doing* something about it rather than empty words on a page. Both those ponies are nice types. I wish you well with them.

 

[AmyMyBlueFront]

Golly Hannah I truly envy you! Such a beautiful place you are living at,with your crazy loving sweet Sunny and your horsies It's been ions since I've been on a horsy too. They are also amazing creatures,so smart and beautiful! Please keep posting about them and your little Sunny boii :35: It's so wonderful reading about his life with you and his fellow feathered brother and sisters.
Has he found himself a "mate" yet? (besides YOU of course )
Do 'too's mate for life? anyone know??




Jim

 

[Scott]

Gorgeous updates as always, Hannah!

Now I know why Sunny is so attracted to you... your devotion and love for animals is so extraordinary! Deep respect for rehabilitating horses and saving them from a horrible end.

 

[TiredOldMan]

Beautiful pics with beautiful subjects.

My hat is truly off to you for all you do for Sunny and the Brumbies!

You are definitely my kind of people.

 

[HannahandSunny]

Oh! Good for you! The Brumbies are such a hot topic at the moment. It's nice to see someone really *doing* something about it rather than empty words on a page. Both those ponies are nice types. I wish you well with them.

Thank you Bertrisher! Yes the Brumbies are a big controversial topic. It’s sad, they deserve to be in the parks and forests. People think they do so much damage, which isn’t true at all. It’s the humans, the humans and their 4x4 tracks, their ski lifts, Their destruction. The Brumbies are in the way and they would never admit it. They just use silly excuses and won’t look at the big picture.
Anyway, We love and fight for them. And always will.

Golly Hannah I truly envy you! Such a beautiful place you are living at,with your crazy loving sweet Sunny and your horsies It's been ions since I've been on a horsy too. They are also amazing creatures,so smart and beautiful! Please keep posting about them and your little Sunny boii :35: It's so wonderful reading about his life with you and his fellow feathered brother and sisters.
Has he found himself a "mate" yet? (besides YOU of course )
Do 'too's mate for life? anyone know??

Jim

Thanks Jim! I will keep posting about them all
No unfortunately Sunny is still with me more than the wild Birds. Maybe he’s not mature enough for this years mating season. He’s still a juvenile. Maybe next year.. or maybe next year he’ll be living in my house.. like he wants

Gorgeous updates as always, Hannah!

Now I know why Sunny is so attracted to you... your devotion and love for animals is so extraordinary! Deep respect for rehabilitating horses and saving them from a horrible end.

Thank you Scott, I do devote my life to these animals and I honk they know it! It’s hard work with the Brumbies, but I love it. Without the sanctuary all these horses would have been slaughtered. Now they have the chance of a new beginning.

Beautiful pics with beautiful subjects.

My hat is truly off to you for all you do for Sunny and the Brumbies!

You are definitely my kind of people.

Thank you for the kind words. I truly love and care for all animals

 

[Betrisher]

O dear. I'm afraid I can't agree with you about Brumby damage, Hannah. Brumbies aren't native to our country: they were brought here, just like foxes and rabbits and cats. Check out the water holes where the horses and cattle pug (trample) the edges with their sharp hooves, killing the native grasses, mosses and sedges that bind the banks. Without them, water run-off increases in leaps and bounds and can leave the high-country at serious drying risk in the heat of summer.

Our native flora evolved to co-exist with soft-footed native fauna, not hooved beasts like horses and cattle and sheep. All three of those should be *gone* from the sensitive parts of the high country! It's bad enough that much of the rest of the country is given over to the accommodation of livestock, but our Alpine meadowlands are so limited and so delicately balanced, they really do deserve to be protected from hard hooves and heavy grazing.

I don't believe in the cruelty of aerial culling, but I do think moves should be afoot to muster the Brumbies and put them in less sensitive areas where they wouldn't do so much unfixable damage. If it weren't for that bloody poem (which, don't get wrong, gives me goose-pimples every time I read it), something sensible would have been done about the Brumbies years ago.

I've been a horsewoman all my life, so please don't think I'm a Brumby-hater! It's just that I've also spent a lot of my life studying Australian ecosystems and I hate to see so many species disappearing needlessly.

 

[HannahandSunny]

O dear. I'm afraid I can't agree with you about Brumby damage, Hannah. Brumbies aren't native to our country: they were brought here, just like foxes and rabbits and cats. Check out the water holes where the horses and cattle pug (trample) the edges with their sharp hooves, killing the native grasses, mosses and sedges that bind the banks. Without them, water run-off increases in leaps and bounds and can leave the high-country at serious drying risk in the heat of summer.

Our native flora evolved to co-exist with soft-footed native fauna, not hooved beasts like horses and cattle and sheep. All three of those should be *gone* from the sensitive parts of the high country! It's bad enough that much of the rest of the country is given over to the accommodation of livestock, but our Alpine meadowlands are so limited and so delicately balanced, they really do deserve to be protected from hard hooves and heavy grazing.

I don't believe in the cruelty of aerial culling, but I do think moves should be afoot to muster the Brumbies and put them in less sensitive areas where they wouldn't do so much unfixable damage. If it weren't for that bloody poem (which, don't get wrong, gives me goose-pimples every time I read it), something sensible would have been done about the Brumbies years ago.

I've been a horsewoman all my life, so please don't think I'm a Brumby-hater! It's just that I've also spent a lot of my life studying Australian ecosystems and I hate to see so many species disappearing needlessly.

We don’t disagree that some should be removed and humanely dealt with, such as rehoming. It’s unfortunate people believe the Brumbies are the biggest problem in the parks. Deer, cattle, pig which are more populated that the horses cause water ways to become silted and damaged. The areas I’ve been to I’m yet to see damaged waterways where Brumbies live, in fact I’ve seen noting but beauty and a thriving ecosystem in Kosciuszko.
The organisation I volunteer with are dedicated to research and studies. And work closely with National parks and the government to come up with a solution that everyone, including the Brumbies is happy with.

We’ll have to agree to disagree on this one Bertrisher. I can’t rely or do justice to all the information the Association has, so I won’t even try haha.

Give Rosetta a kiss from Sunny and I

 

[Scott]

Forgive a naive question, but is it possible to sterilize (or deliver a Norplant type device) in the wild to reduce breeding?

 

[Betrisher]

The Brumbies are truly feral and, therefore, difficult to catch and dose in the usual way. There are those who advocate aerial dosing and/or culling, but that's inhumane and vastly inefficient. Hannah's quite right when she says deer, cattle and pigs are all just as bad (pig-damage is the worst!)

I can't help myself: I'm a botanist and zoologist as well as a horsewoman and Pony Club Mum. I'm afraid I, too, have to respectfully agree to disagree with my friend, Hannah.

In the end, it won't be us making the decisions: some gormless pollie will sign a paper one day and one of us will be cross about it.

 

[Amsterdam]

why cant i see any pics ?

 

[Scott]

why cant i see any pics ?

You can't see any of the pics on this thread? Have you tried a different browser or device? There are some absolutely stunning pics!!

 

[HannahandSunny]

Forgive a naive question, but is it possible to sterilize (or deliver a Norplant type device) in the wild to reduce breeding?

We have been exploring fertility control, The president of the Brumby association has even been to America to research and practice how it’s done there, on the Wild mustangs. It works in America and has been proved to be a great way of managing the population!

We do understand the numbers need to be managed. Like Bertrisher said, it’s unfortunately still common for the gorverment to Aerial Cull shoot with helicopters, which is disgraceful and extremely cruel and stressful. We are also working towards stopping Brumby running, which is when people on horse back chase them with dogs, tie them to trees and leave them for quite some time there. Causing significant damage and stress.
We fully support yard trapping, horses are lured in gradually with food into a yard and set off a trip wire that shuts the gate. Much less stressful and the horses don’t become terrified of humans.
This sanctuary has homed more than 500 Brumbies. And there are currently around 80 here in various stages of their education. From new wild herds with foals (pregnant when they arrive). To confident happy Brumbies ready for a new home of their own.

 

[Betrisher]

YES! That's the way it should be done! Not *one* of those animals asked to be born: they're there because of human beings. It's up to us to care for them properly and manage their needs (they suffer *terribly* in drought years, cold years and in between with parasites, injury and illness). Killing them should not be the go-to solution!

I like the idea of fertility control because that's an easy, painless fix and would show good results in just a few breeding seasons. I had no idea that solution was even on the table! I'm glad we had this chat, Hannah - thank you!