As you can imagine, this horse mission is costly. Like many other equine farms, Thaddledo Farm does not receive public funding and relies on the much-needed contributions of horse & animal lovers, private donors and volunteers to make our work possible.
❤️All but 2 horses on our farm are rescues for one reason or another❤️
Over the years we have retrained 11 horses that have and are still living full lives enriching the humans who take lessons here. Some of our current students we work with suffer from PTSD, Fibromyalgia, Alzheimers, Autism, Blindness, Deafness and other disorders. Some students are just very passive people who learn during lessons how to assert themselves in a stronger manner.
Providing food and shelter for the horses is costly. Horses that have come to the farm malnourished, sick or rejected, have regained their health in their care. Many are Thoroughbred horses which are breed for speed and therefore prove to have faster metabolism rates, and are the “hard keepers”.
It can be difficult to keep the funding necessary coming in to keep these horses nourished and healthy. Weekly?feed/care orders can cost upwards of $200 for the 9 horses here. Thaddledo Farm provides a safe environment for retired horses and is designing a program to provide educational materials to the public in an effort to reduce animal abuse, neglect and abandonment.
Our 2016 goal is to purchase the 15 acre farm (land and house) which abuts the family owned land on which we trail ride students. We need to raise the additional $350,000.00 – half of what it will cost to purchase the investors property. We are producing (in-house) a Kickstarter project and hopes to make as much money there as the potato salad guy made: who had 6,911 backers who pledged $55,492 to help bring his project to life…for potato salad???…LOL !
Lets talk about horses helping humans.
Horses have served humanity since the dawn of time
They’ve pulled our wagons (hence horsepower)
Plowed our fields
Carried us into battle and over long distances
Often under harsh conditions.
Today they run (race), jump (hunter/jumpers)
and even dance (dressage) to please the human.
We find solace just being in their presence.
Why wouldn’t we do whatever we can
to help them when they may need us most?