Tristan is a 4-month-old PMU Clydesdale colt who came from a Missouri auction in September. He's a pretty wary guy and will let us touch him only when he's eating. Otherwise, he's evasive. We're working with him and are confident he will come around. 10/09
Tris has settled down nicely, likes to roam around the yard looking for handouts, leads well, comes when he is called, and lifts each of his feet for handling. 12/4
Kenna is barely four months old. She is a bay roan PMU Clyde/Belgain cross who came from the same Missouri auction as Tristan. Kenna was untouchable at first but has become quite curious. 10/09
Kenna is totally unflappable. She allows all of her feet to be cleaned, will follow us anywhere and leads like a dream. She loves to be brushed and will stand quietly for long periods. She calls out when she sees us -- wants to be let out into the yard so she can get into the burros' food. 12/4
Faith is a 5-year-old Paint mare we rescued from a Nevada slaughter feedlot in September. This girl was brutalized with ropes. She is extremely nervous, scared and afraid. We have put her in her own little barn, with an outside pen, where she goes when she needs security. We are unable to touch her, although if all is quiet around her she will take treats from our hands. Faith will need lots of time, patience and quiet care in order to begin healing so she can trust. 10/09
Hope is a 4-year-old Paint mare we rescued along with Faith from the same feedlot. Her stall is right next to Faith's so they can comfort each other. Hope is skittish but we can touch her head and neck for a short time before she moves off. She seems to like attention and treats, and we think she will come around fairly quickly. 10/09
Pia is a 3-year-old burro captured by the BLM in July. We brought her home September 26. She is pregnant and due to foal in a few weeks. For living in the wild such a short time ago, she has come around amazingly fast. She is now out of her stall during the day, mosying around the yard with Paco and eating treats from our hand. Paco and Pia have become good buddies, and we're sure he's part of the reason she has become so trusting so quickly.
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On Saturday, March 28, 2009 we brought home a 3-year-old burro from the wild horse and burro sale at Apache Junction AZ. He had been gathered outside a herd area in Arizona. Paco is learning to trust. During this first month he has learned to lead, tie, he stands quietly to have his feet cleaned. He walks up to people hoping for a piece of carrot. He lives in a large fenced area -- our whole back yard -- where he has lots of room to roam and make contact with people and horses.
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Two new PMU Canadian Pinto foals arrived at NHER October 6, 2008.
Adopted Christmas Day 2008 by the Reynolds family.
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In July 2007, at the request of his owner we helped find another home for Arrow. He went to a good home in New Mexico.
Princess, a yearling quarter horse filly, was rescued from a Colorado slaughter feedlot in April 2008. She was sick and had nasty scars on her front pasterns. We pulled her from the feedlot, got her veterinary care and she was brought back to health.
Destiny is a 10-year-old Percheron/QH PMU broodmare who came to us in December 2007 from a former PMU ranch in Manitoba. At first very fearful, she is quiet and gentle, although obviously not used to attention. Destiny has had her vaccinations, teeth floated and hooves trimmed at the New Hope facility.
2/08 - Destiny was adopted into a home where she has lots of room to roam, grazing in the summer, and has six other horses for companions. She will be allowed to "just be a horse".
Destiny
Trinity
Trinity is Destiny's 2007 colt who arrived at the New Hope facility along with Mom in December 2007. He was terrified of people when he first arrived. When he settled down enough to be in his own stall he came around wonderfully and is affectionate and very easy to work with. He is in the process of learning the basics he will need to become successful in the world. NOTE: We lost Trinity in December 2008. His story is told at "In Memorium".
Trinity
Trinity
Canook
New Hope assisted in the adoption of this mare, who was from the same Manitoba farm, and traveled along with Destiny and Trinity out of Canada. Canook is now safe at home with her new family, Harlan and Jackie Dalthorp, in Young AZ, who say, "She's a love and we are very happy with her." They are all awaiting her foal in the spring.
UPDATE: Canook has had her baby. Click on her picture for story and more pictures.
We brought these six weanlings home from two auctions -- the Boone County sale in Columbia MO in September and the Troyer auction in Brighton CO in October, 2007. They all had homes waiting for them.
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In early October 2006, Noelle was seen pictured with the group of mares and foals pictured below, which were set to be picked up from an ex-pmu farm in Manitoba, Canada by a kill buyer, and a neighboring rancher was trying to save as many of them as possible. Noelle was four months old when she was abruptly removed from her mother and loaded onto a transport trailer.
This beautiful, gentle filly is now safe in Arizona. She is pictured here with Cimarron, a 5-month-old chestnut PMU weanling we also brought home in October 2006.
Cimarron
Noelle, Cimarron
The following are pictures of Noelle and her herdmates--both foals and their mothers. As far as we know, only one other foal in this herd was purchased.
Noelle & friends
Noelle
Noelle
These PMU mares, along with one stallion, were brought down to the U.S. from Manitoba, Canada, in the spring of 2007 in order to save their lives and those of the foals they were carrying. They were part of a herd reduction by a rancher who had had his production contract cut by the pharmaceutical company Wyeth. The alternative for them was being shipped to a feedlot, condemned to slaughter.
The stallion
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