New Beginnings Equine Facility

02/08/2024

Selfless love frees them from danger, fosters a deep bond, and inspires love. When they leave, your heart breaks, but their liberation endures.

My heart has holes from all the horses I’ve loved and lost. 💔

01/08/2024

Beautiful ❤️

16/07/2024

Pasture conversations...LOL

28/06/2024

Find serenity in the graceful grazing of horses, a picturesque scene that uplifts and calms the soul. Some of our rescues after a rain tonight.

24/06/2024

Transforming lives one rescue at a time! This precious mare, saved from the Texas kill pen, found love and care with friends in West Virginia, and her gorgeous filly was born just weeks ago. Two lives changed, two hearts full of love! ❤️❤️❤️

09/04/2024

This should not be happening.

Panicked. Desperate. Frantic to escape. A horse’s final moments before slaughter are terrifying.

02/02/2024

Hard to believe people are this evil. I have to help save the horses from this torture. Please do right by your animals so they don’t find themselves in this situation.

A letter from a kill buyer... why we fight so hard for them .. please SHARE..‼️

HORSE SLAUGHTER - Donny the Kill Buyer

(A repeat due to recent questions about "Kill Buyers." Many new people to these issues)

“𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙪𝙮𝙚𝙧, 𝙄𝙩’𝙨 𝙖 𝙙𝙞𝙧𝙩𝙮 𝙗𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨. 𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙚𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙗𝙪𝙩𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙖𝙬 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙮𝙥𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙖𝙗𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙙. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙢𝙚𝙡𝙡 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪. 𝙄 𝙢𝙖𝙮 𝙗𝙚 𝙖𝙣 𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝙢𝙖𝙣, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙄 𝙖𝙢 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙖 𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝙢𝙖𝙣. 𝙄 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩'𝙨 𝙜𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝘼𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙡𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙉𝙊𝙏 𝙞𝙩.”

𝐃𝐎𝐍𝐍𝐘 - 𝟑/𝟏𝟓/𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟑 𝐚𝐭 𝟗:𝟓𝟎 𝐩𝐦 - "I hope that this passes and horses are protected. The horse followers of the Duquette and Wallis and McNeil troupe are misguided and have never walked through a slaughterhouse. I have, its the most grossly malicious thing you could EVER witness, a neighbors stolen horse went into the plant and I was told to stay out-but adrenaline never slows you down, I was a killer buyer, I know the fear in the horses eyes, he was gentle, I didnt find out he was stolen from a neighbors house until I was told by a car who followed me two hundred miles, when I got inside the plant I saw him get beaten, prodded, his head bloodly terrified, the guy had already started bolting his head, I saw them destroy this animal, the stories they are all true.

Another man killed a day old filly with a baseball bat to her head. Do you really think that this is the way for the horses to die? I was a killer buyer I know what goes on, I quit that day after 10 years of doing it, I realized that this is not the line of work I could be proud of and I want Americans to know-anything goes just get the horses there, dead half dead, fully alive, just get them there, and no one worries about the condition, broken bones, whatever, because they just dont care.

The worst part is that the USDA and other organizations knew the laws and so did we, we know in or through the state of Illinois that it was against the law to transport a sick or injured or dying or diseased horse to slaughter, we knew that their laws state NO one can move these animals and that aged horses have to be euthanized and that all injured animals even in transport through Illinois and many other states have to be removed from the trailer, travel alone and have to be vetted, thats why when people photograph their trailers the kill buyers and myself carried guns, baseball bats, busted windshield out of their cars, broke camera’s or just beat the people up, because we knew one way or the other we were going to jail, and the more injured or diseased animals or even aged dying animals that we were caught with the more jail time and fines were going to add up.

Not to mention we were running with no logs and going from state to state picking up animals and couldnt chance that we would get stopped running too many hours or no proof of where our loads came from. So paranoid drivers became violent, some resorted to stealing horses to make more profit and some just hired people who did it for them, some of those people even would up with attempted murder charges when people caught them stealing their horses and would try to save the animals.

ITs a dirty business, we buy a horse at auction and then tell the people who really wanted it a higher price and then we laugh when they wont pay for it. Trust me its a sad life-I saw the conditions those animals were in I dont need a antislaughter group to tell me this is stupid. Cheval employees told me they were unlikely to have 5 or 6 horses a week that actually got stunned on the first blow they did hundreds a week and only 5 or 6 would let them do it humanely-so thats a really bad thing. I was a cattleman before that-I saw cattle being butchered I never saw this type of abuse and hatred. I saw things but this appalled me so much I cant do it ever again.

As for my neighbor I lost a friend, it doesnt matter I didnt know that was her horse, it will never be repaired, I cant go back and unload him for her-I destroyed her life, I know that. I have done things I wish I had never done, I have done things I wish I never knew. Those slaughter people they just get crazy over time and you hear them talk about how they would like to *** people up and do weird things-but until you have been in the plant you cant understand why they are getting so whacked out.

Trust me this is not a subject that pro slaughter people will understand until they expirience it.

The smell-could never get it out of my nose, seeing all the rotting horses lying dead-the USDA said we cannot stand for this and wham the govenment closed it all down, thank God, now it has to happen again, Permanent. The smell never leaves you.

The USDA has tons of information about the trade and none of it is good because it wasnt good. I may be an old man, but I am not a stupid old man-I know whats good for America and its horses and slaughter houses are NOT it."

"𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐊𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐁𝐮𝐲𝐞𝐫" 𝐥𝐞𝐟𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐭 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐇𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐬, 𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤. 𝐈𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞.

(We added the photo for this post. "Bubbles" the old horse found at a kill pen who escaped his pen. I'm

11/01/2024

“Farm work doesn’t make you stronger. It doesn’t make you anything. It reveals you.

There’s gym strong and then there’s farm strong. They’re mutually exclusive.

The toughest women you’ll ever meet spend their days on a farm.

There are more uses for twine than you can possibly imagine. You can tie up a hole in a slow feeder, fashion a tail strap for a horse’s blanket, mend a broken fence and use it as a belt.

“Well that certainly didn’t go as planned,” is one thing you’ll say quite a bit.

Control is a mere illusion. The thought that you have any, at any given time, is utterly false.

Sometimes sleep is a luxury. So are lunch and dinner. And brushing your hair.

If you’ve never felt your obliques contract, then you’ve never tried stopping an overly full wheelbarrow of horse manure from tipping over sideways. Trust me, you’ll find muscles that you never knew existed on the human skeleton to prevent this from happening.

When one of the animals is ill, you’ll go to heroic lengths to minimize their discomfort.
When you lose one of them, even though you know that day is inevitable, you still feel sadness, angst and emotional pain from the top of your head to the tips of your toes. And it’s a heaviness that lingers even though you must regroup and press on.

You’ll cry a lot. But you’ll never live more fully. You’ll remain present no matter what because you must. There is no other option.

You’ll ask for so many miracles and hold out hope until the very last.

You will, at least once, face-plant in the manure pile.

You’ll find yourself saying things like, “we have maybe twenty minutes of daylight left to git ‘er done” whilst gazing up at a nonspecific place in the sky.

You’ll become weirdly obsessive about the weather.

You’ll go out in public wearing filthy clothes and smelling of dirt, sweat and p**p. People will look at you sideways and krinkle their noses but you won’t care.

Your entire day can derail within ten seconds of the rising sun.

You can wash your coveralls. They won’t look any cleaner, but they will smell much nicer.

Farm work is difficult in its simplicity.

You’ll always notice just how beautiful sunrises and sunsets really are.

Should you ever have the opportunity to work on a farm, take the chance! You will never do anything more satisfying in your entire life.

Well, that about sums it up, folks!”

-Unknown Author

All About Horses Rescue & Sanctuary

10/01/2024

When the kill pen calls and asks if you will take an additional horse, sight unseen I said yes without even looking up his picture. Turns out to be the best guy ever!

06/01/2024

Two Percherons at a risk of going to kill buyer located in Comer GA.
15+ years old one has a bent leg, would be best as pasture pets. $1500 for both.

04/01/2024

Progress on drafts.

01/01/2024

22/12/2023

So true!

15/12/2023

Do you ever feel God shining down on you? A few pics from tonight as I spent time with with the new rescues. My heart is so full. ❤️

30/11/2023

When girthing up the horse it is important not to over tighten it. An over-tightened girth may pinch and bruise the muscles - in particular the pectorals. trapezius, serratus ventralis muscles and latissimus dorsi (see red areas in diagram bleow). An over tightened girth may also cause bruising of the ribs and the intercostal muscles between the ribs. It will also cause the saddle to put more pressure on the back muscles.

27/11/2023

❤️😇

26/11/2023

Written by someone else but my feelings …

I DID NOT KNOW... by Alissa Kelly

I did not know a horse could bring people into your life that end up meaning the most to you.
I did not know a horse could make the hardest days of your life bearable.
I did not know a horse could teach you to put others first.
I did not know a horse could remind you time and time again that your gut is always right.
I did not know a horse could break your heart.
I did not know a horse could pick you up when you have fallen apart.
I did not know a horse could teach you to dream again, after you thought it was not possible.
I did not know a horse could make you believe in yourself.
I did not know a horse could teach responsibility, work ethic, and dedication.
I did not know a horse could make you believe in something when no one else does.
I did not know a horse could make you learn to forgive and forget.
I did not know a horse could humble you faster than you can say humble.
I did not know a horse could make you a winner.
I did not know a horse could also teach you how to lose gracefully.
I did not know a horse could instill patience in you.
I did not know a horse could make you listen better.
I did not know a horse could give you their heart.
I did not know a horse could change your life.
I did not know a horse could do all these things...
but now I know. ❤️❤️

23/11/2023

Happy thanksgiving from NBEF! So much to be thankful for. 🙏❤️