Goals
- Provide even greater quality care and comfort to the horses at SMILES
- Develop a rotation for horse usage increasing their program longevity
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Overview
Your votes will help to enhance the care of the horses at SMILES who are responsible for enormous benefit to the 150 riders they help weekly. Please check us out and see the wonderful gifts that our horses and volunteers give to so many with special needs.
We plan to create a new pasture area with its own shelter, water source and fencing where horses will get scheduled breaks, separate from those on duty. Now that SMILES runs year-round, a rotation system is needed to prolong longevity in the program.
The main paddock currently floods, sometimes flooding the arena and barn, causing damage. The arena needs gutters, stalls need footing repair and the paddock needs excavation to send storm water to a more appropriate location.
A skidsteer would do so much on our 35 acre farm. Maintaining paddocks and grounds, unloading trucks of feed or bedding, moving 800# bales of hay, cleaning up manure, plowing snow and digging fence post holes could be done quickly.
How will the 50K be Used? |
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| Budget Notes: Most of the labor for these projects are not included in the budget. We are so lucky to have so many caring friends, both individual and corporate groups, who volunteer their time and talents. | |
| $ 29,000 | Purchase of Skidsteer and attachments to maintain our 22 horses |
| $ 10,500 | Automatic water system, fencing and shelter for planned new pasture |
| $ 10,500 | Paddock excavation, repair of stall footing, & add gutters to arena |
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