New England Equine Rescues

Do you have an extra stall?? ...for a quarantined horse?

Could you take on a project?  Do you have the space, time, and ability to retrain or recondition a formerly slaughterbound horse?

Could you put an older horse out to pasture?

Could you hold something until we can find it a permanent home??

We have lots of horses who needs lots of different things...but we need foster homes. We can't pull more from slaughter until we have a place to put them.

We have all different kinds of fosters, and all of our fostered horses get ANGELS (see ANGEL page).  If you can take on a horse, including basic care expenses, please let us know.  NEER pays for the big and expensive stuff.  The foster pays hay and grain, and anything above and beyond, that they can afford, and all espenses are tax deductible.  Fostered horses can be either already quarantined and coming from another foster, wherein they would be quarantined, inoculated, wormed, floated and trimmed, or, if you have the capacity to quarantine for 30 days (minimum 25 feet away from all other horses, and no visiting escapees:), then you could take a horse, straight out of the kill pen.  You would then work with NEER to get the horse vetted and updated on everything needed to get ready for their new home.  (Some fosters fall in love, and the horse never leaves.  We like this:)

Fosters always have first right to adopt.  But remember, even when adopted, a NEER horse is still a NEER horse...NEER retains ownership at all times to try to protect the horses that we have already saved once, for as long as we can...this has always been our policy.  But assuming that fosters are meeting their 'contractual obligations', and working with NEER to keep the horse safe and healthy, we would never remove a horse from a foster or adoptive home that loves it.  (That would defeat the purpose, don't you think?  In 5 years we have removed 2 horses from one couple).

Money spent on a fostered horse (above and beyond regular maintenance) will be put toward any adoption fee, but we are more concerned with good homes than we are adoption fees.

All different needs, ALL the time.

Can you help?

Please contact: Beth...  fatoldfarmwife@verizon.net for more info, and a Foster Contract.

Thank you!

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Foster requirements:

Shelter: 3 walls and a roof...doesn't need to be a 'barn', can be a run in.

Safe fencing: NO barbed wire, and high tensile only if it's electric.

Adequate space without mud.

Grain, hay, fresh water (no streams/ponds).

Good References: vet, farrier, dentist, one professional non friend, etc.

A willingness to work with NEER.

Financial stability in terms of being able to care for a horse indefinitely.

A signed contract.