Storeybrook Farm

11/13/2024

🌜Good night farm🌛

11/12/2024

We are SO excited to announce that we have been featured in this months issue of ‼️ It never ceases to amaze me the support our little rescue has. I am Beyond thankful and grateful for all of you that continue to support us and for for putting our rescue on a bigger stage ❤️

10/17/2024

Do not worry, Cholula is fine.

I got pretty emotional when I was thinking about writing this post. Last night, while working with Cholula, Josh was combing her mane and getting some of the large snarls out of her hair. And he started crying while doing it.

I know in my bones that we are the best place for her right now, but that doesn’t mean that it is necessarily a happy story. She lived in the wild for 8 years. She was born there, learned how to be a horse there, and had a family. She lived a lifetime in the wild before it was torn from her.

While combing her mane we coudn’t help but wonder if those snarls of hair still held a bit of Utah in them… grasping at a life that is gone.

We worked through her hair, combing and cutting, smoothing out the roughness… and it felt like we were taking the last bits of wild out of her. Trimming her edges to fit this world’s mold.

It was heartbreaking.

Don’t get me wrong, I do not regret anything. She came to us after being in a holding facility or something similar for 4 years. She was wild and dangerous, and our job is to ensure she lives a long life by being safe for people to be around… because the world she came from that made that wild spirit of hers, is gone now.

I know this is a long and rambling post, but it was such a different feeling than I have ever had with rescues. Horses that grow up around people only understand that life and they know no different. Cholula only knows a different life and is being forced to adapt. To trim her edges to fit society’s mold.

And while I think she will make an excellent horse for people, I would be lying if I said I wasn’t dreaming of a giant sanctuary like with thousands of acres to let these horses go back to the life they once lived.

To feel like they’re home 💔

09/29/2024

BIG NEWS!!! On the two year anniversary of purchasing the farm, our new logo has arrived and the change of farm name is finally social media official to Outlook Farm! With the strong foundation that has been built here under the Pirouette Farm name our entire family is excited to move forward and begin the next chapter.
For us, the name Outlook Farm is a reminder of the importance of perspective, and is inspired by relationships we have had and aspire to have with animals, people, and the land.
We are grateful to the community of friends and family who continue to support us on this journey! 🐴🥰🙏

(Big thank you to Lori Decato for the beautiful logo design! )

09/19/2024

If you follow us on Patreon you will already know this exciting update! Today Valentine and Luna finally made it to SBF!

These two have been a long time coming though. If you have followed us for a long time you may remember who these two are.
The bay one is Valentine and the white appy is Luna. We rescued valentine a few years ago. The police found her on the side of the road tangled in barbed wire and some of it had wrapped around her leg and cut to the bone. We bought her for $65 at an auction in Texas.
Luna was bought as a baby with her sister at a Pennsylvania auction. Aurora, her sister, tragically passed away right after we saved them. (Yes she’s completely changed color and is soooo white now)

They both have been at a WONDERFUL facility for the past few years. A friend had them and they lived on a 40 acre pasture and got to be babies again. We were planning on brining them into our program to get started last year, but with the chaos of the move we decided to push it back.

And now FINALLY, after YEARS, they are here at sbf to start their training and the next chapter of their lives! I am excited to share more about these ladies once I get to know them better ❤️

09/16/2024

🚨Hospital Funds NEEDED ASAP🚨
Today the filly was seen by the vet and her wounds were evaluated. This poor little filly has such extensive wounds. She is in incredible spirits though, with a mild temperature and an absolutely capturing personality that is so endearing.

Unfortunately, even though her spirits are incredibly high, the damage to her body is so severe.

Tomorrow I will be bringing her to the hospital with her mother to go into their care. Our fear is that the infection in her leg has gone into her knee joint and it needs to be treated in the hospital.

While we have not been given an estimate for what her hospital stay will be, I would like to start fundraising ASAP for her medical needs.

Please donate and share to help us get this filly the hospital care she so desperately needs.

To make things even worse, her injuries look more like she was dragged by something. My heart hurts so much for her.

Please help us to show her how good life can be… all she’s experienced is pain and suffering in her short life thus far.

We have decided to call her Sundance (Kid for short) ❤️‍🩹

Tax deductible donations can be made through:
Venmo: storeybrookfarm
PayPal: storeybrookfarm
Donorbox: linked in profile and on our website

09/13/2024

I am so sad to update you all that we lost the baby that we rescued with his mother. We are not sure what happened, but he suddenly started getting lethargic and died right before going to the emergency vet hospital. Unfortunately, babies have such a hard time in this auction/ kill pen world because they have no immune system yet. It could have been a number of things that led to his decline, but we don’t know the exact reason.

I am grateful that his last month of life was in a safe place with his mother. Being loved and cared for. Even when he was dying, he was surrounded by loving people trying to help him.

His mother is stable and doing well and is with her herd she was rescued with at All Seated in a Barn’s quarantine. We have been talking with Tahlia about best options for her, and we both agreed that it is probably in her best interest to stay with her wild horse herd given how close she is with all of them.

And so, she will be staying with her herd and going to an 1,000 acre sanctuary where she will get to stay wild and most importantly, SAFE.

While I was so excited for them both to come here, I know in my heart that it would be selfish for me to bring her to Vermont when she has such a great opportunity to stay with her family and stay wild.

I’m sorry to be giving you all this sad news, but unfortunate this is a part of the rescue world 💔

We are currently on our way to Oklahoma and Kansas to pick up the other new rescues. We are hoping to save another soul when we are there and put them on the trailer home to Vermont.

This will be my first time going to the Oklahoma kill pen and I would love to raise the funds to save some souls while I am there. It’s extremely rare for us to be all the way out there and have space in the trailer for more lives to be saved.

🚨PLEASE consider donating to help us load some extra horses on our trailer and bring them to the good life of Vermont 🚨

It’s going to be so hard to be there and not save them all, but I want to try and help the ones we can. I know this community can make a miracle happen 🙏🏼

Tax deductible donations can be made through:
Venmo: storeybrookfarm
PayPal: storeybrookfarm
Donorbox

08/22/2024

Came home to the most wonderful and thoughtful surprise! Thank you so much for sending us this incredible gift!! Not only does this company make superior supplements for horses and dogs, but they even sought US out and wanted to help without us asking.

You have no idea how special it is for brands like this to give back to causes that need it, but it’s even more incredible that they asked to help without our begging and pleading ♥️

I love feeling the good in this world and sharing those moments whenever I can.

Thank you so much !!!! 🩵🩵🩵

07/31/2024

07/31/2024

Aaaaarrrggghhh :-)

07/25/2024

Baloubet Du Rouet at the Olympics