Canham Farm Horse Rescue and Rehab

10/29/2024

When you see this it's easy to figure out why the Devil's Garden Horses are rounded up. 2021 Modoc County Livestock Report.

10/28/2024

Today begins the first day of the round up of up to 998 Devil's Garden wild horses using motorized equipment ie. Helicoptors. Please call the Forest Service at 530-233-8738 to voice your concerns regarding the practice of mechanized equipment and the rounding up of these iconic horses. Please also call the contractors CD Warner Livestock at (801) 360-2100 https://govtribe.com/vendors/c-d-warner-livestock-llc-cameron-warner-6qbd0 to encourage them to stop working with the Forest Service on wild horse gathers and round ups.

10/27/2024

Good news indeed
Thank you Animals' Angels USA for all the work you do investigating and exposing those involved in horse slaughter and the people/non profits who are involved in this trade.

Great news from our EU campaign: Carrefour, the French multinational retail and wholesaling corporation which operates more than 13,800 stores, announced that it will no longer buy horse meat from South America. The decision, which will go into effect by the end of 2024- will include every store located in Belgium, Italy and France.

Since 2012, Animals’ Angels and our EU partner organizations (Animal Welfare Foundation, Gaia, Welfarm and others) have reported about the cruelty of the horse meat trade in the Americas and have urged politicians and importers to stop buying horse meat from businesses that do not care about animal welfare and traceability issues. Our investigations in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Argentina and Uruguay have shown over and over what horrors horses trapped in the slaughter pipeline go through. Carrefour’s decision is another milestone in the fight to end this atrocity for good.

10/24/2024

Devil's Garden Wild Horse Cleo is starting Liberty work with Malia. No coersion. No Control, Just Building Trust.
Don't forget you can sponsor Cleo by visiting https://canhamfarm.com/sponsor-a-horse

10/14/2024

As we suspected Serif has been diagnosed with Cushings Disease or PPID. Serif will be started on Pergolide, a presciption medication that will cost approximately $50 per month. Please consider sponsoring Serif https://buy.stripe.com/dR61704ZF7Zh3mM28m so we can made sure the cost of this medication is covered each month.

What is Cushings Disease?

Cushings disease occurs when the normal mechanisms which control hormone production by the pituitary gland are damaged so that the inhibitory part is lost. Thus there is excessive production of the normal hormones from the pituitary. These hormones then enter the circulation and affect the whole body. Clinical signs include increased coat length and delayed shedding of the winter coat, laminitis, lethargy, increased sweating, weight loss and excessive drinking and urinating.

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10/12/2024

Weekly Roundup (pun intended)
We just wanted to share a few photos of the goings on this week at Canham Farm Horse Rescue.

And also to let you know we are now selling our own Love and Protection bracelets https://canhamfarm.com/shop/love-and-protection-compassion-bracelet/ show the world you love and protect horses who have been badly treated. This is a soft launch so your feedback is appreciated.

10/10/2024

Did you know that today is the first annual DAF day? DAF is short for Donor Advised Funds, is a tax-advantaged charitable
giving account.

Give using Your DAF account. Https://canhamfarm.com/donate-support and scroll down to the DAF link. Thank you.

DAFs are often compared to a 401(k) for retirement savings or a Health Savings Account (HSA) for healthcare expenses.

Any person, couple, family–or even company–can open a DAF account at more than 1,000 providers around the country. DAFs have surged in popularity in recent years because they are incredibly effective at increasing giving capacity.

Please donate to help our rescue horses and to help us advocate for wild horses, neglected and unwanted horses everywhere.

10/10/2024

The vet is coming out tomorrow to check on Serif. She was a little wobbly today, has been peeing excessively and is a tad lethargic. The vet will lance the abcess, and take some blood for analysis. We are hoping it is not cushings (PPID) Fingers crossed for her. She is such a sweet girl. This is a video of Serif from last year.

10/08/2024

At the top of the Santa Cruz Mountains, in a broken down shed, Betty the ex dancing horse had languished for the past 8 years. Devoid of the company of other horses and surrounded by old broken-down cars and junk, Betty’s eyes had a blank, faraway look as if she is resigned to her lonely life.

Betty had not been abused. Betty was a victim of well-meaning people who, although know very little about horses, believed they were doing right thing by taking in a horse that they assumed nobody wanted. There’s no doubt that Betty’s owner loved her but love alone is not enough and caring for a horse is an expensive business.

A phone call from Betty’s previous owner started the ball rolling and enabled us to persuade the owner to relinquish Betty to us. The owner, in ill health and with financial constraints, came to realize he needed to find another home for Betty - and that home was with us.

We did manage to rehabilitate Betty and she lived out her life in her adopted home with happy, caring environment that gave her the ability to bond with other horses and have the space to ‘just be a horse”.

Although Betty passed away some months ago, she is often in our thoughts as is the volunteer carer who took Betty under her wing until it was time to say goodbye.

10/08/2024

It has been confirmed...
To help Serif out would you consider becoming her sponsor (or one our other horses in need) for just $25 a month? https://canhamfarm.com/sponsor-a-horse/
They sure could use your help!

10/03/2024

When You Donate To Our Horse Rescue, This Is How Your Dollars Are Spent!

There are other things of course such as veterinary care, farrier, etc., but thanks to YOU ALL our horses have food in their bellies - a life-giving necessity
all living things share. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!

If you would like to contribute and help us continue to feed our herd, for as little as $10 a month you can become a 🐎🐎🐴 HORSE PROTECTOR!🐴🐴🐴

TEXT HORSES2 TO 44321
or donate on via our secure online network at https://secure.givelively.org/donate/canham-farm-horse-rescue-inc/donate-monthly

09/30/2024

Who is up for a Monday contest? 👍

We're looking for your funny/witty captions for this candid snap of Arizona Wild Yearling Jamaal. 🐴 The funniest caption wins a wild horse mounted photograph by Nancy Holliday!

Post your captions in the comments below ⬇

09/24/2024

We often push horses away when they get 'too" close and label them as being pushy or disrespectful, but letting them in to investigate us (as a herd member would) promotes healthy trust.

09/20/2024

This is my first ride on Serif, the relinquish horse that came in skinny and lethargic. I am having a little trouble steering. It seems she understands right leg on to turn left, and left leg on to turn right. Is this a thing? I have always used inside left to turn (and body of course.)

09/18/2024

Z**i and volunteer, Julianna, headed out for a brisk morning walk!

09/18/2024

There's been a lot of talk amongst legitimate horse rescues regarding the revenue of mass bailing horse rescues insomuch as it is believed the mass bailing rescues are taking money from the smaller, legitmate rescues. While I am not sure if that is true, I thought in would be interesting to see if you all could rate the BIG FOUR in order of their annual revenue. Comment your answer, PM me and let's see how many of you get it right!
This video is for educational purposes only. Content not developed by Canham Farm Horse Rescue Inc/Julia Hyde may be provided on this platform from time to time for educational purposes.
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09/13/2024

A huge shout out to photographer, Nancy Holliday, for donating this wonderful photograph of a wild mustang to our online auction. The photograph is 20 x 16 and printed on beautiful untreated birchwood. The retail value of this item is $320 and bidding starts at $50 or purchase for $200. Check it out here:
https://canham.winningbidder.com/Item/46572
Or visit our complete auction listings here: https://canham.winningbidder.com/event/3295

09/12/2024

HOW TO "MAKE A KILLING" AT A HORSE AUCTION!

(long read, sorry!)

I’ve been reading all the posts and comments about horses headed to slaughter both domestic and wild, and I am disheartened about how the well-meaning people are being asked to give away their hard earned money by a few mass bailing rescues at (so called) kill pens. So for anyone who is in ANY doubt about these so-called horse rescues and their legitimacy, here is some truths about the industry.

Kill pen mass bailing rescues, many of which are working with the kill pen owner as a go-between, use live social media feeds, often showing horses being held in cramped corrals, horses that look sick, and/or have injuries in order to whip up a feeding frenzy amongst their followers. The object being that their followers provide money to help pay a “ransom”. for a horse because if “you don’t donate to have the horses released into their care, those horses are taking a field trip to a slaughter house in Mexico and/or Canada. This is no sightseeing trip, the horses are literally being driven to a horrendous death.

Now the “rescue” typically gets the money they ask for, sometimes more, and load the horses into their own trailer or one provided by their partners in crime and head off into the sunset, leaving the people who donated feeling they have righted a wrong with their contribution to saving that one horse or horses from the horrors of shipment and slaughter.

But, there’s a problem: The mass bailing rescues are asking for money for horses that are NOT scheduled to ship to slaughter at all. Yes, we know horses do ship (you can see how many on the at the USDA livestock shipping records) but those horses are most likely held in a different area where the public are not allowed.

You may remember that back in 2017/2018, it was the kill pen owners (traders) who were asking for money (bail) to save a horse. Given that the literal meaning of the word bail is the temporary release of an accused person awaiting trial, on condition that a sum of money be lodged to guarantee their appearance in court. It’s as if, upon payment of a fee, the horse or horses will be let go on their own recognizance and be required to follow up with some kind of horse probabtion officer once a week.

Now in 2017/2018 horse meat wholesale prices were running around $2-4 (US) per pound. So the minimum amount a trader would get for shipping a horse to slaughter was $2000. Yet they would set a horse’s bail amount at between $300 and $400. How do I know this? I fell for it myself ending up with a pony that grew to be the tallest pony I have ever seen, and never likely to see again.

But I digress.

So let’s ask a question: why on earth would a for-profit business (kill pen owner/trader) pass up the offer of $2000 for horse meat et all and choose to sell a whole, live horse to the public for $400? It just doesn’t make any sense.

But when you factor in that the horses the traders offered to the public were never destined to ship for slaughter, it makes perfect sense. The horses sold to the public were either not legally allowed to ship due to USDA requirements, were deemed too skinny, too small, or too sick, to make selling and tranporting them to slaughter profitable.

If fact, the Ministries of Agriculture and Treasury in Mexico requires an International Health Certificate for the import of animals from the United States. The certificate, issued by a veterinarian authorized by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), must certify that the horses in the shipment are examined and deemed to be clinically healthy. The veterinarian must also certify that the horses will be transported in clean and disinfected vehicles and have or will not come into contact with other animals not included in the shipment. The horses held at the auction (sick or otherwise) have undoubtedly come into contact with other animals and therefore cannot legally ship to Mexico.

And it only gets worse.

Over recent years there has been shift. Due to investigations by Animal Activist Groups and individuals, the horse traders found themselves under scrutiny. Some were fined, others prosecuted for misrepresenting the horses they sold. Not wanting the attention from the public and/or government agencies, the traders offered less and less horses for the public to “save”. Some traders even went out of business. And it was around that time that the MBAR’s came out of the woodwork.

Calling themselves horse rescues, most with very easy to get non-profit status’, the MBAR’s began using social media to do exactly what the traders had been doing but with more drama than the Kardashians could dream of achieving.

They, or should I say their CEO’s, began to create fake emergencies (tears and sobbing included at no extra charge) using live social media feeds to spew out fake deadlines and other frenzy-inducing rhetoric to their cult-like followers telling them “the horse will ship IF You don’t Help Us save them”. The MBAR’s encouraged anyone who has empathy to send money in order to “save” 20, 30, or 40 of these “poor souls”.

And, of course, they did!

It all makes you wish for good old days of horse trading where a local individual would purchase horses from a trader at just over meat price and go on their merry way knowing the horse would be sound and that they could return the horse if it didn’t suit their needs. After all, they knew the trader, he or she was local and word would get around fast if the trader was anything other than upfront and honest in his dealings.

But back to today…

Time and time again, these MBARs have been, and still are, defended by their army of followers and other players in the industry. I have read statements such as “I don’t care where my money goes as long as that horse is safe” or “at least I saved one horse, what did you do?” All this does is defend and perpetuate an industry that is based on lies and deceit.

You have not saved a horse from slaughter when you give up your hard earned money to the MBARs.

This year (2024) wholesale horse meat prices shipped from the United States are between $0.63 and $2.20 per pound. So assuming the whole horse is processed even if we go with the low end (wholesale $0.63 per pound) and estimate that the average horse weighs around $1000 lb, kill pen buyers will get $630 for every horse they ship to slaughter. Of course, if we took the higher wholesale meat price of $2.20 per pound we are seeing some serious money change hands. So why on earth would they “sell” that horse to a mass bailing rescue and lose money on the deal? They wouldn’t, well not if they wanted to stay in business.

The horses the mass bailing rescues are asking you to send money for were never going to ship to Mexico or Canada. They might be “shipped” to another auction if they don’t sell but they will not be headed to slaughter.

So next time you are tempted to donate your money to bail a horse from “slaughter” take a good, hard look through the social media pages of the horse “rescues” who are pleading for your money.

Note how much money they are asking for to buy the horse from the kill buyer. (One of these mass bailing horse rescues recently posted, “We can purchase her for $450 and get her out of here and taken care of.”)

Then do the math. If the money they need is lower than the meat price of that horse, put your money back in your wallet where it belongs.

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09/12/2024

A huge thank you to New Leaf Community Markets for donating a $200 gift certificate for our online auction. Support Local! Here's the link to the auction. It is open now until November 4th.
https://canham.winningbidder.com/event/3295

09/12/2024

I talk a lot about Consent-based horse training, not in a literal sense but in a way that tunes in to what the horse is feeling and trying to take a step back and try to understand what is bothering the horse. This is an experiment to see how Willow will react to the change in my voice using a headset which amplifies and distorts my voice. If I just ignored her concerns and marched up to her hell bent on getting that halter on, I would be doing her a disservice and not respecting her concern. Instead, I walk away when she shows signs of distress (note the snorting). I am acknowleging her fear and letting her know I understand her emotions.
We are a small non-profit that cares deeply about horses and their future. We rely on your donations to help us provide gentle and consent-based training so the horses in our care can go on to lead a life without fear. If you would like to support our mission, please consider sending us a donation.
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I talk a lot about Consent-based horse training, not in a literal sense but in a way that tunes in to what the horse is feeling and trying to take a step bac...

09/09/2024

You may remember that when Serif arrived in October 2023 she was thin and unstable on her feet. Well look at her now. This is the first time we have asked her to carry our weight (she was way to frail and skinny before). How she has blossomed. Not only in her stamina, muscle and weight-gain but her emotional well-being. She seems content and eager. Dare we say we are optimistic for her future!

If you would like to sponsor Serif's and be a part of her transformation and progress, click this link, choose the amount you would like to send monthly then choose Serif from the dropdown menu. https://buy.stripe.com/dR61704ZF7Zh3mM28m

To learn more about Serif visit https://canhamfarm.com/sponsor-a-horse/

09/07/2024

For Those Of You That Support the mass Bailing of Horses, This Is Often the End Result. This horse is/was a victim of mass bailing horse rescue from so called kill pens/holding centers/auctionhouses (whatver you want to call them). Mass bailing of horses that is endorsed by large wild horse or horse advocacy non-profits, and the mass bailing rescues, is unacceptable. No one or entity wants to be held accountable for either supporting or endorsing this practice. We need to speak out and end this practice. The horses, like this one, will always be the victims unless we ALL join together and let it be known this is not acceptable. This video is for educational purposes only. Content not developed by Canham Farm Horse Rescue Inc/Julia Hyde may be provided on this platform from time to time for educational purposes.
Copyright Disclaimer under Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976: Allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education, and research.