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Please go to the website first and fill out an application. Thanks for looking!!
Grey Filly: Born March 2nd
Dam: 16.3 Grey Draft
Stud: Unknown Thoroughbred
We have placed 5 foals so far!! YAY!!! More will be here on Tuesday!!! Come and play!!
1) There will be a $150 application fee. You will not get on the list until the fee is paid. It can be paid on-line by PayPal or by Check sent to Equi-Kids at 3962 Gardner Lane, Cincinnati, OH 45245. The application fee will be taken off of the adoption fee of $350. Therefore, when you pick up your baby you will only have to pay $200. If you do not pick up a baby in 2009, your $150 will be forfeit.
2) You may not get exactly the baby you want. In the past we have tried very hard to match color, size, and breed to the adopters request. This left about 1/2 of the bay average sized thoroughbred babies out in the cold. These babies need homes too! And many times adopters overlook a sweet tempered well put together baby for a flashy one. If you are adopting this year, please have a good heart and see that all of the babies find homes! Our policy, as always, is first come first serve. We cannot hold babies without them being paid for.
Once again it is time to think about the Orphaned Spring Nurse Mare Foals. For those of you not familiar, these are babies born solely so their mothers will produce milk. The mother, the Nurse Mare, goes to another barn to "nurse" another foal. Why? Because sometimes a show or race horse mare may not be able to feed her own foal. This happens for various reasons but most commonly: the mare died at birth, the mare needs to be shipped to be re-bred and the "expensive" baby cannot be risked, or the mare is not a good mom or does not produce enough milk.
Yes, it is terrible, but yes it is legal. Our job is not to question the system, but to find these unwanted babies homes. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of these babies born on the East side of the US alone. If they are not adopted they can go to the killers, where they are skinned for soft hide and packaged for meat to be shipped outside the US. (Please do not buy products made of PONY SKIN)
The Nurse Mare Foals tend to be very nice horses. Their fathers are generally a very nice stallion, often a registered race horse or show horse. Their mothers are generally a larger breed, good milk producing, very quite laid back mare. The combination often gives off a sweet tempered larger horse with a good confirmation.
Generally, Nurse Mare Foals cannot be registered. Many of their mothers are not registered. And the majority of the time the farms cannot tell us who the stallion is. This is to protect very nice stallions from having "unwanted" progeny in the market. However, there are occasions where they may be registered. By size if a pony. And by color, such as a palomino, paint, buckskin... etc.
No. You do NOT need a lactating mare to adopt. Babies learn to drink from a bucket within minutes.
Yes. You DO need another horse to adopt. Babies need another horse to grow up with. If they are without other horses they will begin to act like your other pets, dog, goat, or whatever.
No. You CANNOT have barbwire. These little ones will get into it in a heartbeat. Can we say "Huge Vet Bill"?
Yes. You MUST discipline your baby right away. They are definitely cute and cuddle, but those little hooves can hurt if they kick you. You must teach them to lead, load, blanket, pick up feet, stand for grooming, etc before they get too big.
COSTS: $350 per baby. In the past we have collected a list of names in late winter of people who would like to adopt. Unfortunately, many of the people who signed up changed their minds before the babies arrived and left the barn holding the bill. This also left the rescue with too many babies on hand. To avoid the rescue going bankrupt (Equi-Kids is totally non-profit) we are going to have to implement some financial safety measures.
There is limited room to keep your baby but we can board for up to 14 days if necessary ($15 per day beginning the day they are marked adopted). The sooner they go to a new home, the more babies we can save.
It's $100 per bag of milk.
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Company / Facility:
Beechmont Stables & Rescue LLC - Our goal is to foster unwanted horses and retrain them so that they may be adopted out to people who dream of having their own horse.
