Cascade Stud

Cascade Stud Breeding great minded horses that will be pleasure horses suitable for the whole family, with the bonus of colour. Call me, Wendy, on 027 733 2252

Available for lessons in natural horsemanship, foal handling and education, float loading training.

If you have been sitting on the fence about getting a Tex baby, this season is his last season here in Auck. He is going...
04/08/2026

If you have been sitting on the fence about getting a Tex baby, this season is his last season here in Auck. He is going home to Invercargill as of the end of Nov and the LFG will be honoured by AI from Invercargill. It was a surprise so I'm sorry I couldn't give you any more warning as I've just found out myself

Finally, Frida is free of her rope halter. With either Scully (her daughter) or Tango's help (the tied off end was chewe...
26/07/2026

Finally, Frida is free of her rope halter. With either Scully (her daughter) or Tango's help (the tied off end was chewed and slobbered on lol), her halter was on the ground and she is a free woman. I bet she is enjoying not having that on any more. It was so solid, it stayed in shape, as per the photo lol

Tex (Gotta Noble Legacy) has decided that Spring is here as he is casting his coat already in preparation for the warmer...
05/07/2026

Tex (Gotta Noble Legacy) has decided that Spring is here as he is casting his coat already in preparation for the warmer weather lol

I did a thing! Topaz went to her new home yesterday as I want to reduce my numbers, so of course I got another horse! We...
14/06/2026

I did a thing! Topaz went to her new home yesterday as I want to reduce my numbers, so of course I got another horse! Welcome Skye (Popinjay), a bay 15.3hh Warmblood mare that is a maiden mare and will produce an amazing type of sport horse crossed with Tex. Roll on Spring! Now to just make sure that I don't replace every horse I rehome with another horse lol

Today Topaz (Cascading Deja Vu) went to her new home. She was a really good girl to go on the float and travelled well, ...
13/06/2026

Today Topaz (Cascading Deja Vu) went to her new home. She was a really good girl to go on the float and travelled well, but did a bit of a rumba while waiting for the float to get moving lol. This is a picture of her at her new home, looking quite settled already, and with her new friend (to be, in time lol)

OK, day 5 of weaning, it is getting to be the same each day now. The girls udders are slack and just warm, they are seei...
11/06/2026

OK, day 5 of weaning, it is getting to be the same each day now. The girls udders are slack and just warm, they are seeing their babies but not concerned about them being in the next paddock and the babies are that way too. Utah does a wee call out from time to time, but that's it. I can almost exhale now as we are over the worst of it. Topaz goes to her new home on Sat, so she'll be in great shape to be leaving her boy Utah. I'll finish updates here now, and do some more when the next girls are weaning their boys

This is the other away mob, with Tex (the stallion) and the 3 mares that are in foal to him (all due in Dec). Devon and ...
11/06/2026

This is the other away mob, with Tex (the stallion) and the 3 mares that are in foal to him (all due in Dec). Devon and Tex are best mates and hang around together a lot of the time, and Flute & Tuppy tend to spend a bit of time together. They are all doing well, and the girls are growing nice baby tummies. I find it interesting how they all hold their babies differently. Flute doesn't look that heavily in foal and she is due first, on the 7th of Dec. She is quite a roomy mare and she doesn't particularly stick out or down a lot, just a bit of each. Devon looks like she has triplets on board and she is due last of the 3, on the 24th of Dec. She carries high and VERY round and sticky outy (it's a proper description, really lol). Then there is Tuppy, she's due on the 17th of Dec. The 2 foals that I have bred from her where both 2 weeks early, so if she keeps to that, she'll foal before Flute, but time will tell. But, to the way she carries her foal, she goes down a lot and out a bit. All different! I shifted them to the next paddock and that earned a yehah hoon, and then to the serious business of head down and eating ha ha ha. I think that they might have enough grass there!!!

Day 4 of weaning, and all is going well. Both mares are very slack in their udders, and absolutely no heat there, so tha...
10/06/2026

Day 4 of weaning, and all is going well. Both mares are very slack in their udders, and absolutely no heat there, so that's really great news. They are also very relaxed about their foals being on the other side of the fence, so that is really great. I really believe that the emotional side of weaning is just as important, if not more important, than making sure the mares don't have too much grass that would lead to making milk when they're not having it being drunk by their bubbas. That is the reason I wean the way I do, so they can all see each other and they know all is well with their foal and mum, they just can't keep drinking. Utah seems to spend a bit more time hanging with his mumma than Tango does, while she's happily in the big herd. Boys and their mums aye lol. With it being warmer today the big herd weren't that interested in hay and they hadn't finished all their hay from yesterday, so that is good news. I gave them more hay and they all had a chew and moved off to eat grass.

When I visited the "away" mobs (the ones grazing off the home block because I have too many horses oops) today, I made t...
10/06/2026

When I visited the "away" mobs (the ones grazing off the home block because I have too many horses oops) today, I made time to take photos of them (which I often forget duh!). Here are some of the juvenile herd, and the "old" girl of the herd is Dora, and she is a big 3 years old lol. She is my friends full Clydesdale, then there are 2 x 2year old's and a yearling. The first photos of them individually is in the paddock they've been in for a few days but there is minimum sun there with the big trees, so I let them through to the other side of the trees and quite a bit of sun (and Dora managed to go into the shade again ha ha ha) and a lot of grass, and they went exploring.

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