Orphaned Kaapsehoop foals need your help
Two foals were recently orphaned and are being hand-fed and raised by the Kaapsehoop Horse Trails team, but they need funding to help take care of them.
The scenic mountaintop village, Kaapsehoop, is famous for its architecture, arts and crafts shops, and most of all, the wild horses roaming the town and its surrounds.
The population of over 200 wild horses in the area has recently grown.
Kaapsehoop Horse Trails rushed to the aid of two orphaned foals, Valentine and Ivy. Valentine’s mother had passed away of suspected African horse sickness when the filly was only a week old, while Ivy was found abandoned on one of the many hiking trails in the Kaapsehoop area.
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The two foals, who are respectively five or six weeks and six or seven weeks old, are hand-reared and bottle-fed around the clock by the Kaapsehoop Horse Trails team.
Deeds like these do, however, come at a price. Valentine and Ivy need to be fed with milk supplements every few hours, and the substitutes cost around R500 per foal per serving.
The Kaapsehoop Wild Horse Fund needs the help of the Lowveld community to raise these foals to be healthy and strong.
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To help the cause along, Boots and Bridles Equestrian Club is hosting a fundraising day at Pondarosa Ranch on April 1. Barrel racing, pole bending, a bitless riding challenge and a jump course are only some of the events in which riders can enter.
Event entries cost R300, of which R220 will be put aside for each foal.
Saddle up and help support Valentine and Ivy!
Visit their Facebook page to find out what you can do to help: https://www.facebook.com/kaapsehoopwildhorses
