Rosco's Rescue Ranch

Rosco's Rescue Ranch We rescue, rehabilitate, and adopt, horses, donkeys, mules and ponies.

OPERATION REHOMING FOR ROSIE'S RESCUE...UPDATE!Adopted: Marigold (Kune Kune pig) Thank you to Caprice H., for giving Mar...
09/09/2025

OPERATION REHOMING FOR ROSIE'S RESCUE...UPDATE!

Adopted: Marigold (Kune Kune pig) Thank you to Caprice H., for giving Marigold a furever home!

Adoption pending: Ranger (horse) Thank you Susan S., for your interest in Ranger.

Deadline SEPTEMBER 30th for the rest to find forever homes!

If you can offer a home to any of these horses, please call or text NICHOLE, of ROSIE'S RESCUE, at 402-926-6915, or KATE at ROSCO'S RESCUE RANCH at 402-533-2994.

*Adoption Agreement and Home Check required*

You may also comment on this post, and I will pass along info to Rosie’s Rescue.

*PLEASE SHARE! Time is of the essence*

ELLA: 4 years old. She is 16.3 hands tall. Came in as a neglect case and starving. She has EPM, and will require treatments to control the disease and have quality of life. Stands for vet and farrier.

GALILEO: 20 year old gelding. Previously in a barn fire and has permanent scaring on his back. He cannot regrow fur in this area. He also has lung damage due to breathing in smoke. He is not able to be ridden anymore. Stands for vet and farrier. Galileo gets along with mares and likes to be head of the herd with geldings.

WILLOW: 24 year old mare. Has been a broodmare. Could be broke to ride, but this has not been tested. Stands for the vet and farrier. She takes a bit to trust people, but will warm up to you once she does.

RANGER: About 20 years old. Broke to ride. Had a recent hip issue, due to slipping in the mud. Nebraska Equine is checking on his hip to clear him to be ridden again. Ranger gets along with geldings and mares. Stands for vet and farrier. *ADOPTION PENDING*

09/08/2025

Duck update!

It's taken awhile, but the ducks we took in from the Wildlife Rescue in Omaha, are finally grown up where we can tell the s*x. We have wound up with 2 drakes and one hen. Our Saxony duck, Daphney is a hen (of course) too.

Now to name the 3 black ones....
If course one will be Daffy. How can you have a black duck and not name it Daffy?? Lol. So we need name suggestions for the hen and other drake.

No your mark, get set, go!

09/06/2025

Rescue update for Luciano (Lu):

Turn up sound for video.

09/05/2025

ANNOUNCEMENT!!

Rosco's Rescue Ranch IS NOT CLOSING!

We are helping Rosie's Rescue find homes for their animals, because THEY are closing.

I apologize for any confusion about this, from our recent posts.

Thank you all for your continued support. Lets get these sweethearts a home.

ROSIE'S RESCUE has reached out to ROSCO'S RESCUE RANCH for assistance in finding homes for the horses listed below. Due ...
08/28/2025

ROSIE'S RESCUE has reached out to ROSCO'S RESCUE RANCH for assistance in finding homes for the horses listed below.

Due to unforeseen circumstances, ROSIE'S RESCUE must terminate operation within the next 13 DAYS.

If you can offer a home to any of these horses, please call or text NICHOLE, of ROSIE'S RESCUE, at 402-926-6915, or KATE at ROSCO'S RESCUE RANCH at 402-533-2994.

*Adoption Agreement and Home Check required*

You may also comment on this post, and I will pass along info to Rosie’s Rescue.

*PLEASE SHARE! Time is of the essence*

ELLA: 4 years old. She is 16.3 hands tall. Came in as a neglect case and starving. She has EPM, and will require treatments to control the disease and have quality of life. Stands for vet and farrier.

GALILEO: 20 year old gelding. Previously in a barn fire and has permanent scaring on his back. He cannot regrow fur in this area. He also has lung damage due to breathing in smoke. He is not able to be ridden anymore. Stands for vet and farrier. Galileo gets along with mares and likes to be head of the herd with geldings.

WILLOW: 24 year old mare. Has been a broodmare. Could be broke to ride, but this has not been tested. Stands for the vet and farrier. She takes a bit to trust people, but will warm up to you once she does.

RANGER: About 20 years old. Broke to ride. Had a recent hip issue, due to slipping in the mud. Nebraska Equine is checking on his hip to clear him to be ridden again. Ranger gets along with geldings and mares. Stands for vet and farrier.

Marygold: 2 year old sow Kune Kune piggy. She is very friendly and has gotten along with other mini pigs. Marygold cooperates to have her feet trimmed without sedation. Loves pets, belly rubs and hiney scratches.

08/25/2025

Baby silkie chick update:

They are getting more active now. Momma is sitting in different spots and they come out to eat and peck around, then come back to her to nap. Sometimes they use her like playground equipment. 🤣🐣

Volunteer day!Taking full advantage of the nice weather. We busted a move. Got 3 pens cleaned, and tree branches from th...
08/24/2025

Volunteer day!

Taking full advantage of the nice weather. We busted a move. Got 3 pens cleaned, and tree branches from the recent storm, cut up in Wibur's pig pen, giving Wilbur and Wilma room to get to their potty corner.

Thank you to volunteer Kim for her hard work today 😃

If you would like to volunteer or need community service hours, call or text us at 402-533-2994.

08/23/2025

The baby chicks are here!!

Folks who are following us on our Fan Club Page, know that our Silkie chicken, Dorothy, had 2 eggs that she has been sitting on. Her hatching due date was this past Monday. No eggs hatched, so I candled them and discovered no chicks inside :-(
Dorothy had been so dedicated to sitting on her eggs, and never left her nest. I had to put her food and water near her, so she would eat and drink.
I felt so bad for her, after all that effort. I called Sara, who breeds Silkie chickens, and she had baby chicks just a day or 2 old. She brought over 3 babies yesterday at supper time. After it got dark, and Dorothy had gone to sleep, I snuck in with the baby chicks and placed them next to her. She woke up to their peeps and immediately started to "twirtle" to them. They went right to her, and she gathered them up under her wing. They settled right down.

I checked on them this morning, and Dorothy was being very attentive to them. While she was busy, I took the eggs to dispose of them. She didn't even notice. I took each chick and dipped their beaks in the water, so they would know where to get a drink. Their food and water is right next to them and the "new mom". Apparently Dorothy can't count, because she doesn't seem concerned that she laid 2 eggs but has 3 chicks, lol. Not to mention that they don't look a thing like her. She has "her babies" and thats all she cares about. So glad my sneaky plan has worked and Dorothy is happy.

Thank you to Sara for helping us help Dorothy!

Stay tuned for more chick updates...

Rosco's Rescue Ranch's 6th Annual Fall Flower Fundraiser!!Brought to you by the BLAIR GARDEN CENTER!We ordered 5 each of...
08/16/2025

Rosco's Rescue Ranch's 6th Annual Fall Flower Fundraiser!!

Brought to you by the BLAIR GARDEN CENTER!

We ordered 5 each of the following colors:

Inventory update, as of 8/22 @ 9pm:

Yellow: 0 left
Orange: 1 left
Rust: 1 left
Purple: 0 left

See details in the flyer below.

Text your order to Kate at 402-533-2994

Preorder payments accepted through PayPal or Venmo.

Noticed blood on Goober's mouth today at lunch time.I checked for boo-boos around his mouth, but there wasn't any. As I ...
08/15/2025

Noticed blood on Goober's mouth today at lunch time.

I checked for boo-boos around his mouth, but there wasn't any. As I was spraying his legs for flies, I saw a raw area where flies had been biting him. Donkeys do not stomp to get rid of flies, so I am extra careful to keep them sprayed every day. On hotter days, I have to spray them more. They will not wear fly boots. They take them off of each other.

Goobs is good about letting me put medicine on his fly bites.

Hope everyone is ok, from the storm this morning. The rescue had a lot of tree damage, but the shelters held and the ani...
08/09/2025

Hope everyone is ok, from the storm this morning.

The rescue had a lot of tree damage, but the shelters held and the animals are safe.

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State Highway 133
Blair, NE
68008

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How It All Began....

Back in 2013, Rosco (my horse) was diagnosed with cancerous sarcoids on his groin area. I had been boarding him for the past 7 years, but with treatment and aftercare, my boarding facility could not be expected to give him the personal care that he needed.

I got permission from my mother to build a pen and shelter for Rosco on her acreage, and bring him there to care for him. Rosco needed another horse for company. My search lead me to Vinny (pictured above - in February 2018 at 30 years old). At that time, she was being fostered for the Nebraska Humane Society and needed a home. She was a severe neglect case and just skin and bones, when I agreed to take her. I didn’t realize it then, but she would be the start of Rosco’s Rescue Ranch.

Since Rosco and I trail rode often, I didn’t want Vinny to be left alone when we were gone. I found out about an older couple who had a donkey farm and could no longer take care of their donkeys. I rescued Fancy Pants to be company for Vinny. Fancy and Vinny became BFF’s.

It was after rescuing both Vinny and Fancy, that I realized what a need there was for equine rescuing. I decided to become a non-profit equine rescue in 2014, and Rosco’s Rescue Ranch was born! Over the past 4 1/2 years we have grown little by little, as more horses and donkeys needed help. We have built every shelter (except for the calving huts), put up all the fencing, gates, and transformed what used to be a Christmas tree farm, into the rescue and sanctuary that is here today.