Quinten is a former Standardbred race horse who at the age of 4 suffered a leg injury. Rather than pay the vet bills to rehabilitate him, his owners decided to cut their losses and donate him to the local College of Veterinary Medicine. His injuries were healed and he spent the next 5 years being used in research and helping students in the vet school learn to give shots and do blood draws. Unfortunately, for much of his time there he was confined to a stall alone, unable to interact with other horses. Because he was now healthy he was no longer a good teaching tool, so it was decided that he should be sent to the research labs and be euthanized. Luckily, he had a guardian angel looking out for him in the form of some of the vet students who loved his personality. They convinced the school to adopt him out and through a series of fortunate events word about him got to me. As both a teacher and scientist I couldn’t help but feel immense gratitude and empathy for this poor soul who had been used to advance education and scientific understanding for so long. I decided to adopt him and let him live out his days running free here at the farm. He has become a favorite of everyone around here with his lovable goofball personality, and to the surprise of everyone he is becoming an incredible riding horse! We are so blessed to have him!
Pebbles & Bambam
Chloe was literally dropped in my driveway by a stranger half starved and infested with parasites. I had no experience with goats at this point but felt so bad for her I called the vet and decided to do everything I could for her. As skinny as she was its hard to believe that she had just given birth hours before hand. needless to say the babies didn’t survive. We began treating her parasite infection and feeding her as much fresh grass as she could eat and within about 6 weeks she was looking better. Goats are herd animals and so we decided she needed friends. Thats when a local horse rescue ended up with some pygmy goats that needed a home and so we adopted Oreo and Butterscotch. Now the three of them live together in a goat paradise where they have access to pasture, hills, shelter, water, and fun things to climb.
Chloe came to us half starved and infested with parasites.
Chloe came to us half starved and infested with parasites.
Chloe looking much better!
Oreo & Butterscotch
Cash
This cute little guys is actually a full grown horse (called a mini pony for obvious reasons). We got him after his original owner passed away and the family wasn’t able to keep him. We are very grateful to the Freyenberger family who actually knew his original family and provided him a good home for a few months with their sheep before passing him onto us so that he could have horse friends. Him and Quinten have become inseparable choosing to share a stall. Its a both the most absurd and adorable thing you’ll ever see watching them hangout and play together.
Patches
This handsome guy is Nubian buckling named Patches. We bought him to be our herd sire when we decided in addition to having goats to help keep weeds down we would also like goat milk to use in making our soaps and cosmetics. You cant get goat ilk without having baby goats so we obviously wanted the cutest buck we could find. He has the most interesting markings and LOVES his people. He is a unique guy in that instead of making the normal goat “baaaa” sound he just straight up screams with excitement when he sees his people coming.
Bucky & SweetPea
SweetPea is a doeling pictured on the left and Bucky is a buckling on the right. Both are Nubians which are known for their long adorable ears and their great milk production. We initially only wanted SweetPea because we already had Patches to be our herd sire but when we saw Bucky we couldn’t leave him behind. They were both small but Bucky was sick with diarrhea and a cough. We brought them home, quarantined them, and treated them. It took some time but they’re both happy and healthy and Bucky and Patches are now BFFs.
Honeybuns
Honeybuns is our youngest Nubian doeling with ears for days! She is a little lover that basiccaly wants nothing more in life than to be held, petted, and fed. Her and SweetPea have become the best of friends cuddling up at night to sleep together and foraging next to each other all day.
Maisy
Miss Maisy (formerly known as Goodie but my nieces decided she needed a prettier name) was adopted from Hannaberry Farms after they rescued her from an unfortunate situation where she was mistreated. She helped them in their lesson program for a while before becoming too arthritic to keep up with the demands of teaching all of those kids. Now she lives out her days as a fat happy pasture puff that occasionally gives pony rides to the kids that visit the farm.