Tara Farm - Education

	CLASSROOM EDUCATION
	Classroom, Home Schooled children are welcomed at Tara Farm. We have programs specifically designed to suit their needs. In addition, we also have in place Girls Scouts, Cub Scouts and Boys Scouts programs to help with their badges. We also welcome the 4-H Club. The mission of the 4-H Club is to assist youth in acquiring knowledge, developing life skills and forming attitudes which will enable them to become self directing, productive and contributing members of society. EDUCATION FOR ADOPTERS The simple truth is that there are more horses than people who want them. Is Horse Ownership For You? Understand what’s involved with horse ownership before you get a horse. Some people don’t fully realize how expensive it is to own a horse and care for it properly. Then they get in over their heads and need to get rid of the horse. They also may not think about how long a horse can live, or what they’ll do if they have to move. For a summary of these and other issues, please read: Before You Get A Horse and other related interesting topics.	I've spent so many years enduring hard work on a farm in the Amish Country. Thanks to my new Dad and Mom--John & Bonnie Jeanne, I can finally rest and be ME, because I know for sure, I have a forever home. Please visit our sponsor page where you can see photos of me and my donkey friends.
The fate of unwanted horses So You Want to Volunteer at a Horse Organization? What to expect when owning a horse Checking your horses vital signs
	In 2006, more than 100,000 unwanted horses were killed in slaughterhouses in this country. Thousands more were shipped across the border to be slaughtered in Canada and Mexico. And every day, horse rescue groups across the country are deluged with calls and emails from people who no longer want their horses and hope to surrender them to the rescue groups. Most of these groups are full and have to turn animals away. No one knows how many of these unwanted horses end up becoming a slaughter statistic, or are left to die slowly of neglect in some distant pasture. There are 9.2 million horses in the United States, based on a report prepared for the American Horse Council in 2005. That study found there are 2 million horse owners in the U.S., and 238,000 of them are actively involved in breeding their horses. So even as we struggle with the fate of thousands of unwanted horses, each year’s new foal crop adds more horses to the population.

CLASSROOM EDUCATION

Classroom, Home Schooled children are welcomed at Tara Farm. We have programs specifically designed to suit their needs.

In addition, we also have in place Girls Scouts, Cub Scouts and Boys Scouts programs to help with their badges. We also welcome the 4-H Club. The mission of the 4-H Club is to assist youth in acquiring knowledge, developing life skills and forming attitudes which will enable them to become self directing, productive and contributing members of society.

EDUCATION FOR ADOPTERS

The simple truth is that there are more horses than people who want them.

Is Horse Ownership For You?

Understand what’s involved with horse ownership before you get a horse. Some people don’t fully realize how expensive it is to own a horse and care for it properly. Then they get in over their heads and need to get rid of the horse. They also may not think about how long a horse can live, or what they’ll do if they have to move. For a summary of these and other issues, please read: Before You Get A Horse and other related interesting topics.

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I've spent so many years enduring hard work on a farm in the Amish Country. Thanks to my new Dad and Mom--John & Bonnie Jeanne, I can finally rest and be ME, because I know for sure, I have a forever home.

Please visit our sponsor page where you can see photos of me and my donkey friends.

In 2006, more than 100,000 unwanted horses were killed in slaughterhouses in this country. Thousands more were shipped across the border to be slaughtered in Canada and Mexico.

And every day, horse rescue groups across the country are deluged with calls and emails from people who no longer want their horses and hope to surrender them to the rescue groups. Most of these groups are full and have to turn animals away. No one knows how many of these unwanted horses end up becoming a slaughter statistic, or are left to die slowly of neglect in some distant pasture.

There are 9.2 million horses in the United States, based on a report prepared for the American Horse Council in 2005. That study found there are 2 million horse owners in the U.S., and 238,000 of them are actively involved in breeding their horses. So even as we struggle with the fate of thousands of unwanted horses, each year’s new foal crop adds more horses to the population.