Freedom Hill Horse Rescue
From AlexBrownRacing
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Basics
Web Address: www.freedomhillrescue.org
Phone: 410-474-7662
E-mail: poniesonly@yahoo.com
Paypal link freedomhillhorserescue@yahoo.com
Fundraising Drives on TWR: (add links to specific fundraisers on TWR, will help build a reputation for FOBs)
Media stories: (link to stories about rescue)
Frequently Asked Questions
1. Name of rescue and their address, city, state, zip and telephone number.
Freedom Hill Horse Rescue, 8705 Sam Hill Drive, Owings, MD 20736
2. Name of person who is soliciting funds and their relationship to the rescue (owner, partner, friend/supporter).
Founder
3. Primary sources of funding: private donations, (fundraisers, memberships, grants, other).
Majority of funding comes from adoption fees, fundraisers and private donations.
4. Do you received any funding from any federal, state, or local entities?
A couple of small grants from a State and Local entity
5. Are you a registered non-profit (501C-3)?
Yes
6. What year was your rescue started?.
2004
7. How many horses (on average) are in your rescue's care at any given time?
8
8. Where do the majority of your rescue horses come from? ( private parties, government seizures, local sources, auctions, kill buyers)
Abuse neglect cases, owner surrender, auction
9. Do you seek to adopt-out most of your rescue horses or are you more of a sanctuary? If you do adopt-out, what are your guidelines/adoption policies?
Adopt out. We require 3 references a site check and extensive discussion prior to adoption
10. Are you affiliated with or work with any other rescues in your area? If so, which ones?
Days End Farm, Celtic Rein
11. How many employees or volunteers do you have to assist you?
11
12. What is your position on slaughter - for, against, or on a case by case basis?
Against
13. Who is your primary vet and may we contact them for a reference? If so, please provide their name and clinic number.
This will be provided upon asking
14. Who is your primary feed store and may we contact them for a reference? If so, please provide a contact name and phone number.
Please contact me if you need contact information I prefer not to put it on a public forum
15. What happens to your horses and your rescue if something happens to you? (family or friends would take over, foundation or other agency would take over, absorbtion into another rescue, shut down, unsure)
Continue running with current BOD's
16. How did you discover the ABR website?
Through the rescue of one of our babies (Mason)
17. Has your rescue had previous help from the ABR website/FOB's?
Yes in the thread Lets Help Baby Mason
18. Do you have a WIKI page on the ABR website?
This is the current WiKi page and our website is located at www.freedomhillrescue.org
Rescue Network
List of other rescues this rescue works with.
Days End Farm, Celtic Rein, Cozee Valley, Pure Thoughts, AC4H
FOB Horses
Add updates of horses rescued with FOB fundraising money. Keep a running total on the number of successful FOB rescues ... all helps build a reputation with FOBs.
Please visit the thread Lets Help Baby Mason!
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TWO PALOMINO MARES IN DANGER OF BEING SOLD TO SLAUGHTER - OCT. 13th
... the meatman phoned Christy (AC4H Rescue) and inquired whether there is any interest to spare a very nice black & white gelding, approx. 15 hds. He told her he's a really nice horse, kid broke to ride, would like to see him get a home if theres interest. Supposedly comes up a little sore after riding/unsure of the cause. He needs $650.00 for him. Then there are two palomino mares, a 10 y/o and a 12 y/o- $975.00 for both ($487.00 each). ....
The paint is purchased by a private party and funds are raised to bring the mares to AC4H the NEXT Monday and then to FHHR.
UPDATE ON THE PALOMINO MARES 10/25/07
THEY HAVE GONE TO FREEDOM HILL RESCUE. FHHR
The Two Ladies Arrrive at Freedom Hill
Leaving NH!
Gidget coming home 
Tawny ...... 
..We named them Gidget an(d) Tawney.
Gidget is 14.1 hands tall and is approx 20 years old. She has long hooves, a long wavey coat that suggests cushings, a runny nose, and runny eyes. We have started her on Chastetree berry for the cushings symptoms (yes this actually works), sulfa tabs for the cold symptoms, and antihist for the same. She has a beautiful, white, thick, long mane and tail. She was given a bath Teusday and seems to tie well. She doesnt like her back feet fooled with but she had burrs in her fetlocks and up and down her legs. She was also wormed and given probios. She had a bad colic episode the first night. She was down and trembling. She was very dehydrated. I think the colic was caused by the dehydration and our fresh cut hay may have been too rich for her. We gave her injectable Banamine and put her on our old hay and she had a full recovery. She is friendly and happy to have some luvin but also has a pony streak in her. Sometimes when you are leading her if she doesnt want to go where you are taking her she will just stop and stand there and look at you like .... um Nope aint goin there. She loads well. We havent done any riding evaluations yet.
Tawney is approx 7 years old and is 14.3 hands tall. She doesnt have any signs of illness but it looks like she had a traumatic foal delivery and has a loose vulva. When this mare fills out she will be drop dead gorgeous. She has a deep golden color (they both have nice color) and long thin mane and tail. Tawney really likes people and is very quiet and cooperative. She loads really slow but will get on with gentle coaxing. She has a western jog to die for. I hope she rides as nice as she looks! She will pick up her feet but pulls them down quickly. She will stand and let you do anything to her. She tied for her bath. We had to cut a big thick rats nest out of her tail. We wormed her and gave her a dose of Probios.
Mel
http://www.freedomhillrescue.org/
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UPDATE ON PALOMINO MARES - 12/7/07
Both of them are doing well. Tawney is the younger one and she is going to a foster home after the 15th. Her foster mom is interested in adopting her but wants to foster first just to be sure. She has a torn vulva from a traumatic delivery of a foal. She is on the schedule to get stitches and she also has a sarcoid on her face that needs to be injected. She is picking up weight slow but steady and will be a gleaming golden animal in the spring !
Gidget is the older of the two and has had two episodes of fence jumping. I need to find a farm for here where she will not be close to a road. She is at a foster home with one of the nurse mare foals we got in this spring. She is a good mother figure to Peabody. She does not trust people all that much and doesnt like to give you her feet at all. Her foster mom is great with working with horses that need to build trust. She is a pretty mare and she is not bad she is just well seasoned and knows the ropes and doesnt know what we want to do with her.
I have a difficult time finding riders for our horses. I am very careful about who gets on the horses especially the first time. They still need to evaluated for riding. We have Gidget on the books for a riding evaluation with a natural horsemanship trainer in this area on Monday .... so cross your fingers.
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Feedback from FOBs
From volunteers who have visited the rescue etc which may include relevant links to the discussion board about the visit.
Questions from FOBs
This this space available for FOBs to ask questions. Answers can then be worked into the above content if appropriate.
