Thread: Any one come across feral horses in the alpine areas in there travels?

They are everywhere around Thredbo.
It's not called Dead Horse Gap for nothing.
haven't seen them down on the Murray, only bloody Deer.
i remember one night on the old Alpine Way near Major Clews hut where a mother could climb a bank but the young one couldn't. We waited about 30 minutes while the bloody thing ran around.

Regards PhilipA

Seen quiet a few while back backing. They like everything introduced need management.

My next door neighbour is a driller and was working on sone of the new Snowy tunnels for ten weeks, he only returned home last week.
He said the size of the mobs are huge, they were constantly on high alert driving through and working in the National Park. One of the crew he was with totaled his work ute hitting one and the horse had to be destroyed.

Originally Posted by rick130

My next door neighbour is a driller and was working on sone of the new Snowy tunnels for ten weeks, he only returned home last week.
He said the size of the mobs are huge, they were constantly on high alert driving through and working in the National Park. One of the crew he was with totaled his work ute hitting one and the horse had to be destroyed.

That bad now? crikey, it's a wonder NSW didn't cull them also.

Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares

In read an article about feral horses about feral horses are increasing in the Alpine national parks and are a bigger problem now and culling happens now. The population has exploded since the days of the man from snowy river times.
I have never seen them myself in Vic high country or in the Snowy mountains of NSW.
A recent new article reported the the ACT and Victoria are actively culling them and NSW had a lot captured and penned then for the reason of nostalgia released them all back into the bush. Those horses mustn't step foot into the Vic high country nor into the ACT as the invisible force field keeps the there.

Old bloke by the name of Sess lived up the back of Anglers rest in this old bus and made his living trapping brumbies , He had pens all over the place with trip wires if you like,that would shut the gate once the brumbies were in. He would go down to the Blue Duck (pub) have a belly full,slouch over his horse and it would take him home to his bus.
Passed on about 10 years or so now. Pristine area by the river with his bus and holding pens , public got wife of it now so "say no more". Photos taken November 2020

Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares

That bad now? crikey, it's a wonder NSW didn't cull them also.

I thought NSW were, I was surprised to hear how big the numbers are atm.

Plenty around the Bogong High Plains, despite regular trapping.

Originally Posted by rick130

I thought NSW were, I was surprised to hear how big the numbers are atm.

i cant find the news article now, they did release some they caught it said.