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Mkulu Kei Horse Tack ShopMkulu Kei Equestrian Custom Made Riding Equipment |
Established in 1998 Cher-a-Don Mkulu Kei horse trails & riding holidays offers you personalized horse riding holidays on the Wild Coast Transkei in South Africa. We go the extra mile to make your equestrian vacation exceptional and to make sure that both our riders and horses are happy and comfortable. The best of equestrian and horse riding holiday safaris in South Africa, Mkulu Kei horse tack shop and riding apparel was first established to supply our own needs and due to client interest we have now started selling to the public.
Our own horse saddlery and equine supplies department now offers you the
opportunity to buy quality saddles, bridles, halters, numnahs, saddle
pads, chaps, horse printed T-shirts and other horse riding products direct
from the Cher-a-Don Mkulu Kei factory.
Manufacturers
and suppliers of equestrian riding equipment and lightweight saddles ideal
for pleasure, polo cross and endurance horse riding, we offer a saddle for
sale directly to you the public, where purchasing quality pony or horse
riding gear does not have to cost you a fortune.
Saddles and horseriding tack for sale directly from the manufacturer and custom made for you to your personal requirements. We sell a light weight polocrosse, endurance saddle, working or leisure riding saddles in leather or synthetic, durable fabric in black or brown. Buy riding equipment from a horse trail company that specializes in trail rides and understands the horse’s needs. After spending hours in the saddle, we understand how important a comfortable saddle must be to both horse and rider.
In trying to find the best quality saddle for our requirements, a saddle suitable for endurance riding for long distance equine riding, and having experienced problems finding one for our needs, we researched the ultimate saddle, a good general purpose, all round saddle. Shopping for riding equipment we encountered similar shortfalls in saddles available in the market place as you. With the long hours our horses are under saddle we required a saddle, not yet available in South Africa, that catered for our requirements. A synthetic comfortable, low maintenance, durable working saddle. We tried and tested different styles, noted what worked and what caused problem areas, but we could not find the perfect saddle at a realistic price, so we made our own. Through trial and error we manufactured and perfected a long distance saddle that is a cross between an English and a stock saddle, taking the best of both designs to manufacture the perfect trail saddle for our use and to sell to you. By putting the saddles through extreme conditions, ironing out the problem areas and improving the saddle's performance under critical eyes, we now have manufactured a saddle of quality, good enough to carry the Mkulu Kei Cher-a- Don name.
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------------- MK Saddlery - Mkulu Kei Custom made equestrian saddles and horse tack
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At Mkulu Kei we manufacture and sell saddles directly to you from our own equine factory shopBefore purchasing your saddle come try one out on one of our rides, then either purchase off the shelf or speak to Don, our saddle maker, to custom make one for you. Please
See our Equestrian Products info@mkulukeihorsetrails.co.za Fax 086 523 8259 Our equestrian tackshop is situated on a horse stud farm outside Morgan Bay, South Africa, north of East London on the R349 off the N2 highway just past Cintsa. An easy hour’s drive through from Buffalo City, East London.
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Cheryl and Don for an appointment to come view or to chat about your
requirements.
If you are interested in any of these equestrian products contact us by email, phone or come visit, we would love to help you. Having the industrial sewing machines from a previous sewing business we could make jodhpurs, blankets etc. to order, in time we will increase our equine range and product availability.
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Its our attention to detail that makes your equine experience with us in a whole new class, whether it is the quality of the horse you are allocated to ride, or our unique approach to teaching, we go that extra mile to make your horse ride worth telling your friends about. Mkulu Kei horse trails, a safari equine holiday along the South African, Wild Coast, riding horses on the beach and swimming through the rivers and estuaries. The hot African sun baking down with the ocean breeze a cooling effect. Sand, salt and rain making your equine adventure special for you but incredibly hard on our tack especially the saddles. Leather saddles need to be maintained especially with the salt water. Keeping the leather in good condition requires hours of tack cleaning, however the more one conditions the leather the quicker the stitching rots. We purchased synthetic saddles and where not happy with them at all, then with the growing demand of our rides we found ourselves in the position of having to buy a large number of saddles at the same time and constantly replacing the bridles. With clients ranging from very young tiny children through to large adults we have to carry a wide selection of different size saddles. Our clientele is as diverse as the terrain we ride through, and as a large number of our clients are new to riding and the number of hours our horses are under saddle we required a saddle that is not only comfortable for the riders but for the horses too. We found that the average beginner rider was sitting on the back of the saddle and not in the seat; as a result the saddle was pushing unevenly on the horses back with the rider’s unbalanced weight aggravating the situation. The nervous clients where trying to hang on the front of the saddle and were sitting incorrectly and were therefore unbalanced. Our enthusiastic little riders where kicking the saddle flap and not the horse or pony. The result; we started making our own saddles designed to be light, durable and practical, keeping in mind that it needed to be both comfortable for horse and rider. We are very happy with The Mkulu Kei saddles, having tried and tested a range of riding saddles, we required a special general-purpose saddle that would fit different horse’s shapes but more hardwearing than any we could find. We researched what we required in a saddle and |
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adapted the best features of the English and Australian saddle to meet our high requirements for both horse and rider. We have for some time been making chaps, saddle blankets, numnhas, girths, webbing and leather bridles and halters, for our own use so it was a natural progression to also manufacture saddles for our own use. The Mkulu Kei saddles have now been tested and used on the horse trails under extreme conditions and so Mkulu Kei tack shop was established from our riding clients interest and tack is now for sale directly from the manufacturer to you.
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Our trails demand that our riding tack is extremely durable and hardwearing, we put our horse equipment through conditions tack would never normally be expected to endure. Wooden trees and leather saddles are not made to swim in salty river estuaries and the sea. Having tried numerous brands and makes of saddles we needed to find a more hardy working saddle at a good price. Spending months testing saddles we diverted our energies and researched what we required in a saddle and started manufacturing our own. Riding clients made enquiries as to the availability and where they to could be purchased and Mkulu Kei tack shop was born. We keep a small stock and are more than happy to discuss your personal requirements and manufacture especially for you.
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Firstly THANKYOU for saving boht mine and my mare's sanity !!!!!! When I found your site I had just 'stopped' the weaning process, my filly was almost 8 months and mare was really not holdig up well - giving all to babe. I didn't want to do the whole 'seperation' thing in terms of moving either of them off the property as I do believe that mom/baby connection is a good one and is needed a lot longer than we often realise - anyhow without giving you a bedtime read here. I had tried to start them off by keeping in seperate paddocks for a while and then discovered that, contrary to what my grooms said, they had discovered the 'mom, you stand there by the fence and I'll just feed through the rails' method !!! soooo then it was seperate paddocks seperated by another paddock during the day and then back together at night (plan was to do this gradually) - filly was fine not stressed but my mare was absolutely distraught which obviously concerned me terribly - I managed to do this for 5 days and couldn't take it anymore and put them back together full time. I then googled "foal weaning halters" and magically your site appeared as the last one on the first page of results. The rest of this bit you know :) I put the halter on Ambika on Saturday and left all horses out together as normal. Within about half an hour Kersey (mom) had 'made' her own mind up about suckling and would not let little one near her hindquarter (no matter how much slooshing and 'awwww mom please' went on !). |
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Mom's milk is drying up beautifully (have cut her concentrate feed by half but left all else as is - horses out all day in huge paddocks with grass etc), babe has 'forgotten' about suckling and all is well in my little herd - thank goodness - I do not consider myself a 'paranoid' horse owner - more an 'in touch' one and for me this is the absolute in stress free weaning - so big big thanks to you for this and I appreciate 500% that we have gone this route. My mare and filly are both happy, filly moved into her own stable from Saturday night (mom can see her) and no stress for either of them at all. The only negative with the halter is that her friends amongst the herd are not too happy with her approaching them either now - she's obviously inadvertantly 'pricked' a couple of them when saying hi etc but no-one being untoward with her so overall that's a very minor negative in comparison to the trauma we would have inflicted by carrying on the traditional methods.
Thanks so much - I will keep the halter on for at
least another 3 weeks ?????
And I will spread the word far and wide for you.
Keep well and very keen to come and holiday with you at some stage - not this year perhaps next - will put in my 'shopping basket'
If there is anything you want me to do from my end to help you promote this then please let me know and where I can I will be only to pleased to help out.
Many blessings - Sharon van Rensburg
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16 Nov 2009 08:40
Hiya
ONE HAPPILY WEANED FILLY and a very relieved owner and mare - no stress, no fuss, no bother - you've got a winner there I have to say. The whole process has been totally stress free and is completed. Halter is off, Ambika not even interested and mom Kersey not stressed to max through being seperated from her beloved child !!!
THANKYOU THANKYOU THANKYOU you probably do have an idea as to how stressful the 'beginning' process of trying to wean her was - when doing the seperation way - I thank the day I googled "equine weaning halters" and found your site. You are a God send to mares, foals and owners. Market this big time because it works.
Much much appreciated and you can send people to me for referral - I have been talking about your halter non-stop.
Have a fabulous day Sharon van Rensburg Direct Email : accounts@wildfrontiers.com
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At Mkulu Kei we go the extra mile to make your equestrian riding holiday exceptional, we make the effort to not only make your riding holiday personalised but to make sure that both our riders and horses are happy and comfortable. The best of equestrian holiday safaris. Whether you are novice, intermediate or an advanced rider we have the product for you. Well-trained trail horses and management team and staff that want you to have the best equine adventure and know a range of quality equestrian products direct to you from the factory. |
Come for a ride on one of our horses and try out the saddle and visit our tack-shop. Alternatively if you are interested in buying tack online contact us for any of these equestrian products by email or phone and we would love to help you.
You could be here on your coastal safari horse
riding vacation, Mkulu Kei Horse Trails The best of equestrian safari
holidays and now our own range of equestrian equipment tried and tested by
us before selling to you.
Ever thought you would like to canter your horse along a beach, swim the lagoon or play in the waves with a horse or pony?
And what better to experience South Africa’s beautiful coastline than on the back of a horse …
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