The Mule Shack

12/10/2024

🎁 Need a last minute GIFT?! We have gift certificates available to purchase your horse lover a trail ride! We can mail them or you pick up at farm. Send us a message to purchase 💝

12/10/2024

Anyone looking for a mule? He’s down in Texas in a kill pen and his bail is $800. Shipping him up here is what’ll cost ya but he’s a nice guy! He has until 5pm EST. TODAY or he ships to slaughter!

12/10/2024

Does anyone have a sheet in size 87” or even a little bigger? We need to purchase or borrow a sheet until ours comes in! Sammy can’t be naked!
📸 Picture of the alfalfa covered snowman! ☃️

12/08/2024

Our newest rescues Bentley and Hershey have settled in well and starting to gain weight. They are the sweetest boys and we can’t wait to get them FAT! These guys were owner surrenders after they could not be cared for anymore. It takes a while to put weight back on thin horses. You want to throw all of the food at them to make them fat overnight, but that’s not how it works. These guys still look thin after being with us for three weeks. However, they have gained a good bit of weight and their coats have gotten very shiny! Winter is tough on horses as it is. Being thin makes it even harder to care for these guys. These guys have hit the jackpot with us and we are so excited to see what they become! 🐎
If you would like to come visit them and our other equines, please send us a message! They LOVE treats, Apples, carrots and pears!

12/03/2024

🎁 💝 It’s GIVING TUESDAY‼️💝🎁

Did you know we are a 501(c)3 Non Profit Rescue and Educational Center❓
We rescue our horses and mules from kill pens and other bad situations, rehabilitate them and offer trail riding to the public through our beautiful Gunpowder Falls State Park.
We rely on trail riding and donations to keep our animals fed, healthy and HAPPY!
We are in need of some farm supplies to keep the horses warm this winter. Most of these can be purchased at Tractor Supply which is local to us. They offer online gift cards which can be sent to our email immediately after purchase!
If you would like to help us help these equines, please see the links below or message us for a specific list. Thank you all for your support! Happy Holidays from our asses to yours! 💝🫏🎁

💲Tax deductible donation! Message us for a receipt.

Paypal link: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=XGQBGWUAMHYB6

11/22/2024

🍁🫏We have some slots left for trail rides THIS WEEKEND! 🐎 🍂

Sunday 10am 90min Stroll and 2:30pm Waterfalls

Please send a message for availability and to schedule!

11/20/2024

🫏The last of the available TRAIL RIDES for 2024‼️

Sat 11/30 9:30am Waterfalls 3️⃣ slots left❗️

Sun 12/1 10:30am Waterfalls 2️⃣ slots left❗️

Mon 12/2 11am 90min Stroll 4️⃣ slots left❗️
Mon 12/2 2pm Waterfalls 4️⃣ slots left❗️

Tues 12/3 11am Waterfalls 4️⃣slots left❗️
Tues 12/3 2pm 90min Stroll 4️⃣ slots left❗️

Wed 12/4 11am 90min Stroll 4️⃣ slots left❗️
Wed 12/4 2pm Waterfalls 4️⃣ slots left❗️

Thurs 12/5 11am Waterfalls 4️⃣ slots left❗️
Thurs 12/5 2pm 90min Stroll 4️⃣ slots❗️

Fri 12/6 11am 90min Stroll 4️⃣ slots left❗️
Fri 12/6 2pm Waterfalls 4️⃣ slots left❗️

Sat 12/7 10:30am Waterfalls 4️⃣ slots left❗️
Sat 12/7 1:30pm 90min Stroll 4️⃣ slots left❗️

Sun 12/8 9am BRUNCH RIDE to Gunpowder Lodge for the BEST BRUNCH AROUND❗️4️⃣ slots left❗️
Sun 12/8 2pm 90min Stroll 4️⃣ slots left❗️

List to be continued… in the meantime, please send us a MESSAGE for a specific date!
As always, this list is ever changing so please send a message or call/text for actual available slots 🐎

11/20/2024

We made it to NC!! Our baby horse, Hope is settled in at her new home for the next 6 months. She is in training to learn to be the perfect little Paso Fino Horse that she’s bred to be! 🐎
🚚 We have A LOT of supplies to unload!!
👀 LOOK at what we have been able to get so far from your donations‼️ A whole pallet of horse feed, lots of T posts, horse blankets, fencing wire and clips, all sorts of barn supplies, and so much more! This is amazing! We are helping folks down here to rebuild what they lost in the hurricane.
If you would still like to HELP- gift cards and monetary donations are still accepted. (Folks have been emailing us TSC gift cards-ASK for email) There is a tractor Supply and Walmart nearby down here. Still need lots of metal T posts for fencing! Anything helps these folks before the cold weather strikes 🥶
Please send us a message if you would like to help. 🙏 ❤️🫏🐄🐓🐎🚚

11/14/2024

🚚 ➡️ NC 11/18 🐄 🐎 🐓 🔴 Supplies for hurricane victims heading south!

We are making a trip to NC leaving 11/18 and COLLECTING supplies a farmer has specifically asked for. They have lost their entire farm and in need of help rebuilding and caring for the animals in the meantime. If you can help these folks, drop off is in Kingsville or Forest Hill. New or good used condition please.

- Metal T posts 6’ - needs hundreds of them!
- Sheep, Goat, Chicken, cattle feed
- Cat litter, cat & dog food wet & dry
- Rubbermaid water troughs and electric heaters.
- Metal trash cans with lids for feed storage
- extension cords for outdoors
- room heaters
- fencing supplies like barbed wire, electric fence wire, wood boards, t post clips,
- gift cards to local stores (TSC, Lowe's, HD, Walmart)
-monetary donations to purchase items once we are down there.

We are limited on space for larger items so we would like to purchase them once we arrive down there. We are able to take with us the items on this list.

11/13/2024

We have some new friends in at The Shack! Drew and Ben are arguing over who’s going to clean the feed bowl, Summer is showing off how pretty she is!, Hercules strolling down the trails and our newest rescue pup, Cider!

10/30/2024

🎄 CHECK THIS OUT❗️Lauren’s Mom is a professional photographer and is offering a portion of her proceeds to help our mules! 🎄 Reach out to us or L Buchanan Photography to schedule your session❗️

10/29/2024

🐎🫏 We are looking for some beginner safe trail mounts for lease or lower priced sale. Would be nice if they can teach walk trot lessons to our volunteers! Please send us a message with what you have. Exceptional care with stall and turnout. Kingsville, MD. Will travel to some surrounding states for the right horse(s)! 🫏🐎

10/29/2024

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference”
- Robert Frost

10/29/2024

❤️🐎

A thought-provoking read.
By Jane Smiley

Most horses pass from one human to another - some horsemen and women are patient and forgiving, others are rigorous and demanding, others are cruel, others are ignorant.

Horses have to learn how to, at the minimum, walk, trot, canter, gallop, go on trails and maybe jump, to be treated by the vet, all with sense and good manners.

Talented Thoroughbreds must learn how to win races, and if they can't do that, they must learn how to negotiate courses and jump over strange obstacles without touching them, or do complicated dance like movements or control cattle or accommodate severely handicapped children and adults in therapy work.

Many horses learn all of these things in the course of a single lifetime. Besides this, they learn to understand and fit into the successive social systems of other horses they meet along the way.

A horse's life is rather like twenty years in foster care, or in and out of prison, while at the same time changing schools over and over and discovering that not only do the other students already have their own social groups, but that what you learned at the old school hasn't much application at the new one.

We do not require as much of any other species, including humans.

That horses frequently excel, that they exceed the expectations of their owners and trainers in such circumstances, is as much a testament to their intelligence and adaptability as to their relationship skills or their natural generosity or their inborn nature. That they sometimes manifest the same symptoms as abandoned orphans - distress, strange behaviors, anger, fear - is less surprising than that they usually don't.

No one expects a child, or even a dog to develop its intellectual capacities living in a box 23 hours a day and then doing controlled exercises the remaining one.

Mammal minds develop through social interaction and stimulation.

A horse that seems "stupid", "slow", "stubborn", etc. might just have not gotten the chance to learn!

Take care of your horses and treasure them.

* Our horses are our FOREVER horses 🥰

10/28/2024

2️⃣ slots left for TODAY @ 4:30‼️ Waterfalls loop @

10/27/2024

🍁🍁 UPCOMING TRAIL RIDES🍁🍁

🔸Monday 10/28 @ 12pm 60min loop 3️⃣ slots left❗️

🔸Tuesday 10/29 @ 11am 90min stroll 1️⃣ slot left❗️

🔸Wednesday 10/30 @ 11am Waterfalls 1️⃣ slot left❗️

🔸Friday 11/1 @ 11am *You pick the ride! 4️⃣ slots available ❗️

🔸Sunday 11/3 @ 10am BRUNCH 1️⃣ slot left❗️

🔸Saturday 11/9 @2:30pm Waterfalls Loop 2️⃣ slots left❗️

🔸Sunday 11/17 @ 3pm Waterfalls Loop 4️⃣ slots left❗️

Please send us a message to schedule!