Crescent Valley Working Paints

Crescent Valley Working Paints We own a beautiful property of 7,500 acres, that is between Gin Gin and Mt. Perry. The country is undualting, with beautiful hills and lush valleys and flats.

This page, Crescent Valley Working Paints, is to provide information of upcoming clinics and events to be held here at the property, and for posting of photos and videos made at these clinics and events. Gin Gin Creek runs through the property along with a number of smaller creeks. There are beautiful water holes along the creek with white sand banks. Of course, when the flood rains come you don't

see much apart from the water rushing along! We breed beef cattle and Paint Horses :)
The countryside here is just perfect for trail rides, as you can have the more sedate rides along tracks, or for the more adventurous and experienced riders, there are plenty of places we can ride to satisfy your keen sense of adventure. Koalas are plentiful, grey kangaroos, plains turkeys, eagles, owls and just a huge variety of wildlife. Unfortunately we have dingoes and wild pigs visit at times. Our dream is to provide a venue for people to be able to come and learn how to handle cattle, on foot and on horseback. We have very experienced and talented instructors that are local blokes, but have a wealth of experience behind them. They are great communicators and treat the people, the horses and the cattle with great respect. They are also a ton of fun! Our clinics cater for beginner horses and or riders, to the more experienced. No mad riding out here with the cattle. Just learning how to understand where and what amount of pressure is needed to have the cattle do what you are asking. We are keeping the costs of the clinics to a very reasonable price, so that more people will be able to come and enjoy this great adventure. We also run a small canteen that caters for basic 'needs' like soft drink and food!!! All at very reasonable prices. This is run by two very young girls who are learning money and business management. Meals are also provided at very reasonable costs and this money goes to the Gin Gin Heritage Help Bank. We are planning to hold mustering days in the near future, where there will also be branding and calf marking etc in the cattle yards. This year we are holding a Memorial Trail ride for our dear friend BRONWYN TUCKER who left us earlier this year. I am hoping this may become an annual trail ride, with all donations being forwarded to her charity of preference, HANNAS CHOICE FOUNDATION. We would like to encourage good mateship, and we are not in competition with any other people who organise clinics, but will be willing to work together so that dates do not clash if it can be avoided. We like to encourage good communication, because if you make sure you have that, there can be no problem that cannot be sorted out in the proper manner.

15/01/2026
09/11/2025

POSITION FILLED thanks to about the 50+ enquirers, some of whom may still yet get some work, or work experience, with us.
So enlightening to see so many 15-19 yo’s wanting to dabble in the cow horse and performance horse industy 💕 and if we can help them get some experience to follow their dreams and get a start; that we shall. We just can’t take on too many at once 😉
HORSE HANDLING HELPER
(Please read TERMINOLOGY EDUCATION at end prior to enquiring)
Short term SINGLE casual position at Rhondhu Stud.
IMMEDIATE start for ONE person for 2-3 weeks at this stage.
Main focus: Basic handling of a dozen quiet QH weanlings.
2nd focus: Assist truly talented young emerging horseman/horse breaker Fergus Friend for the next 2 weeks whilst here starting colts. Ground chores include catching, tie ups, rugs, washing down, picking up feet of breakers. The person won’t be tuitioned by Fergus, as he has not dnoigh time for that either, just working for and around him, so if they watch they will learn a lot.
Other stuff: Assist feeding am/pm, lots of that dreaded wheelbarrow throughout the day and maybe a few odd jobs not horse related.
Skills required: Good basic horsemanship savvy. Riding ability not so important, but ability to handle, or be easily shown how to handle, young horses to OUR standard protocols.
Tools required: None, but your own saddle would be handy. Comfortable work boots and clothes. All horse handling gear supplied.
Own transport. No pets.
May consider a local who could do 3-4 days straight once a week for a month.
Accommodation and meals for one single person provided.
Age & gender not important, so long as healthy, fit and able to perform tasks required. If under licence age, needs to be a mature minded person, as we have no time for babysitting.
Would consider a travelling nomad with a partner/spouse in their own van; if still duly capable.
Remuneration - definitely not a get rich quick deal, but satisfactory on negotiation, pending age and experience.
Would REALLY suit a young person looking for a huge learning curve. We have years of experience with breeding & riding horses, AND so much to learn from assisting and watching Fergus whilst he is here. The longer it takes someone to get here, the less time they will get around Fergus.
Please PRIVATE MESSAGE ONLY, or text/call Liz on 0413 397 075. Comments within the post are too hard to monitor as I'm not very tech savvy. Comments have been left on for now to enable sharing. Friend requests may have to be accepted by us on our Rhondhu page to enable messenger to work.

About us ...
Barry & Liz Miller of Rhondhu Stud have been breeding Quarter Horses for 40 years this year. Our 20,000 acre property is located between Townsville and Charters Towers, 7km South of Mingela. We have 3 resident stallions, about 15 broodmares for natural carry, about 40 mares that are either competed on, or in training to compete, some of which we transfer embryos from into recipient mares, and an 80-100 +/- herd of recipient mares. We breed about 25-30 foals most years, the majority the result of Embryo Transfer. We sure don't get to enough Campdrafts & Challenges to promote our stud as we should, due to our busy lifestyle mostly. In fact we struggle to find the time to even ride a horse most weeks. Our cattle property supports 5 main fully accountable stud paddocks - Charolais/Charbrays, Brangus, Grey Brahmans, Red Brahmans and Speckle Parks, plus a Commercial paddock for those that don't comply. We sell young polled paddock herd bulls, and sell steers and speyed cull heifers to live export or saleyards. So mustering, branding and mothering up every calf takes a lot of time. We also have road trains, and mostly load cattle on the live export boats. No days off here. We don't think of it as work, as we're passionate about it all, but there is a lot of work, and as we get older, we struggle to get to it all ourselves. We have decided to start outsourcing some of our load in order to try get the time to ride our horses more again ourselves.

Our terminology ...
Short term ~ Just a few weeks. No promise of further work, but for the right soul there just might be more work.
Single ~ Just you. Not partner, spouse, children or friends.
Casual ~ No strings attached. No overtime. No holiday pay.
Immediate ~ This week, as in under 5 days, ideally in less than that even.
Straight ~ Just whilst Fergus is here, being such a short time and a late thought for some help, we'd like to make use of that time and work as close to 2 weeks straight as we can.
Handling protocols ~ Catch respectfully, kindly desensitise, teach to pick up feet, lead, tie, go on walker, be led off a horse and 4 wheeler, be bathed, rugged, manes clipped and stand for photos.
No pets ~ No means no pets. No dogs. Yes snags & puppies are dogs. No dogs. No horses. So please don't even ask. Just you.
Own transport ~ No matter if it's yours, or someone brings you here, but we don't have the time to pick up people from buses or planes. You do not need a vehicle whilst on the job, only to arrive and leave or go to town if required.
Accommodation is a comfortable ac double bed room with an ensuite, separate to the main house. Linen provided. Meals are basic breakfast (not cooked), morning smoko (home cooked most days), sandwich lunch, wholesome night meal. Tea, coffee, water provided. BYO softdrinks, cordial and alcohol. Alcohol limited to a couple of beers a night, prefer no spirits. Non smoker preferred, mainly for room cleanliness.
Remuneration ~ Pending age & experience. We are not a mine. We cannot afford or justify huge money. But we can discuss a satisfactory amount once we know your deal. For a young person, the learning experience for the next 2 weeks would be huge.

06/06/2025

If your horse is unsound, aged, or no longer has a good quality of life and you cannot keep them, the kindest, most responsible thing you can do is euthanize them...not give them away to a stranger who “promises” a good home. Euthanize.

The people who pick up these horses, whether through a giveaway post, a sale ad, or a word-of-mouth favor, don’t love your horse. They don’t know them. They have no emotional history. No context for their quirks, their limits, or their medical needs. That bond you’ve built over the years? The memories, the care, the promises? That dies the second you hand over the lead rope.

From that moment on, your horse is just another mouth to feed. Another vet bill. Another project. And when they get inconvenient: when they can’t be ridden, when the arthritis flares, when the hooves need special care or when the meds cost too much, there is no reason for that new person to keep trying. They don’t owe your horse anything. And that’s the root of the problem.

Too many horses, good horses, kind horses, horses who were once someone’s heart, get passed down the line until they land in a place no horse should ever know. Auction pens. Kill buyers. Backyard neglect. Starvation. Loneliness. Confusion. Pain.

And do you know what I hear every time? "We had a contract." “I thought she went to a good home.” “They promised they’d keep him.” “They said they had a pasture for her to live out her days.”

If you truly love your horse: if they stood steady while you learned, were a shoulder to cry on, nickered when they heard your footsteps, and showed up for you on their best and worst days, you owe them more than hope and a handshake.

You owe them peace. You owe them safety. You owe them a dignified end that is pain-free and fear-free, before the bad days outnumber the good.

And this responsibility doesn’t only apply to the horses who’ve been your partners for years. Even if it’s a horse you’ve just purchased, they still deserve the same compassion. A horse doesn’t need to have earned your love to be worthy of a gentle ending.

All horses deserve that kindness, that dignity, and that final act of selfless care.

It’s not selfish to make the decision to euthanize. It’s not “giving up.” It’s doing what people who truly care about horses do: taking responsibility. You stay with them. You look them in the eye. And you make sure they never have to wonder why the person they trusted walked away when things got hard. Let them go with love, before the world gets to them.

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Gin Gin, QLD
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