Big Hoof Foundation

03/08/2024

New update video about Ava and Pearl after their eye surgery!

Episode 93If you haven't been following our story, we rescued two horses recently that both had tumors in their eyes. Our foundation has experience with thes...

24/07/2024

Because of all of your amazing support, generosity and kindness we were able to raise the funds to rescue the two Belgian Draft horse gelding and the mare from Bowie Texas Livestock. We picked everyone up this week and acquired another traveler while at the livestock yard. When we arrived to pick up the Belgians we went down into the pen area to see the mare because she wasn't in the loading area yet. While we were down there this little standard bred horse kept following us around, just like Blue the donkey did to get us to take her home. When we went back up to the truck this horse followed us to the gate. So me being me...I asked if he was available and they said he was and he was scheduled to ship to slaughter on the next truck. Of course, I wasn't going to let that happen so we loaded him on the truck with the Belgians! I know he doesn't fit the "draft breed" but sometimes everything happens for a reason and you have to make exception for the animals that steal your heart.

This video is from their freedom ride and the first days on the farm. The farrier will be here on Saturday and everyone will be to the vet this week. We will continue to have updates on all the horses as soon as we can after the vet sees everyone.

Thank you to everyone that supported our fundraiser and helped us rescue these amazing horses!

Episode 92Because of all of your amazing support, generosity and kindness we were able to raise the funds to rescue the two Belgian Draft horse gelding and t...

21/07/2024

With an extremely heavy heart, we said goodbye to our sweet Sophie girl. She was down in the pasture when we went out to feed this morning. Sophie could not get up and her breathing was extremely shallow. At first glance, when I first got out to where she was, I thought she had already passed on her own. We made the difficult decision to end her pain and suffering.
Sophie was diagnosed with Cushings disease back a few months ago and you could see the signs lately that it was catching up with her. She would walk in slowly from the pasture and was distancing herself from the herd. But still stayed with her friends when she was feeling up to it.
Sophie was one of the original 6 horses we rescued. She had two and a half years of love, kindness, care and a perfect retirement life.
Sophie passed peacefully and we all stayed with her till the end. Elias, Noah and Dutch were right behind us as we said goodbye. Her herd was with her till the end. Run free sweet girl! We love you!

19/07/2024

I usually don't talk about my feelings when it comes to rescuing horses but this week I have felt absolutely defeated and heartbroken! As of this morning, July 19, 2024, Bowie Texas Livestock has 4 pages of available horses (probably about 50 horses) that are scheduled to ship to slaughter. Out of those 4 pages of horses are 6 Belgian Draft horses that all came in together as a group. As much as I would like to rescue every horse on the website, we just don't have the capacity to take on all of them. However, we are going to rescue 3 of the Belgian Draft horses if we can raise the funds for their bail, transport and initial medical care. There are two geldings and a mare.
These horses have been worked on a farm and all of them look to have arthritis and the saddest part is one of the geldings is only 6 years old! These animals deserve better! All three of them will be brought to our farm where they can live out their lives peaceful and will be able to live the retirement life they deserve. This video gives a little info on the horses we are working on rescuing.
We are doing a fundraiser to save these horses from shipping to slaughter. All the details of the fundraiser are at the below link on our website.

Episode 91I usually don't talk about my feelings when it comes to rescuing horses but this week I have felt absolutely defeated and heartbroken! As of this m...

16/07/2024

Ava and Pearl our newest Belgian Draft horse mares are doing well. Their eyes both need to be cleaned/wiped off daily after their surgeries to remove tumors from their eyes. They both have some discharge and we are keeping an eye on it. Ava behaves…however Pearl is not so easy…hence no video of her 🤦‍♀️

13/07/2024

Fiona is so happy to have Pearl home from the hospital after having eye surgery. We caught them grooming eachother last night in the barn after dinner.

If you haven’t seen our update videos on the new rescued horses had over to our farm YouTube channel at Fletcher Farms Amarillo and see everything that has been happening with the new rescues.

02/07/2024

We can not thank everyone enough for all of your kindness, support and generosity! We were able to raise the money we needed for the two Belgian mares lot # 8111 & 8113! We will be heading out to Bowie tomorrow to pick them up! Stay tuned for their freedom ride! And thank you all again!

30/06/2024

EMERGENCY FUNDRAISER for two direct ship horses from Bowie Texas Livestock!
We have been watching these two girls all week and everyone has been messaging us to help save these 2 lives. Please consider making a tax deductible donation to the Big Hoof Foundation to pay for bail and transport.
Lot # 8111 has a swollen back leg and lot # 8113 will need a surgery to have a tumor removed from her eye.
Bail for both horses $2,870.40 and transport will be approximately $400. I will have a full video on our YouTube channel with all the details on these two horses. Please help us save these two beautiful horses!
www.bighooffoundation.org

20/06/2024

We are back! It has been a rough few months around here and we apologize for being away for so long. This video explains everything that has been happening. I wanted to say thank you to everyone that has sent emails, messages, etc. to check to see how we are. WE truly appreciate your support and prayers!

Episode 88We are back! It has been a rough few months around here and we apologize for being away for so long. This video explains everything that has been h...

24/04/2024

We have been watching lot #2424 from Bowie Texas Livestock this week. She is a Belgian Draft horse mare that came in with a group of horses from an Amish farm. She was the last horses in the group that was not rescued. Her ship to slaughter date was 4/24/24. We couldn't watch her ship to slaughter so we decided to rescue her!

We have secured her bail to keep her off the slaughter truck but we need your help as we were not planning to save any more horses at this time. She is going to need medical treatment and a surgery because it looks like she has a tumor in her left eye. Welcome to the family sweet girl!

If you would like to support the rescue of this new girl a fundraiser is posted on our website with all the details on where your donation will be going. The Big Hoof Foundation is our 501c3 non profit organization. All donations are tax deductible.

https://www.bighooffoundation.org​

Once we pick her up we will have more information about her so stay tuned! We appreciate your support!

13/04/2024

It has been a busy few weeks around here! We have had visitors to the farm, baby donkeys born, pasture walks with Will and Grace and Korbin has finally left the back yard!
Check out everything that has been happening on the farm in our latest full update video!

Episode 87What a busy few weeks it has been on the farm! So many things have happened and we want to share everything going on with all the rescued Belgian D...

06/04/2024

WE HAVE A BABY DONKEY THIS MORNING!!! The little one looks to have been born around 6am. The baby is nursing and momma Blue is doing well. I’m pretty sure the baby is a girl! More updates to come!!!

23/02/2024

Our first rescue mission of 2024! We need your support! We are working on rescuing 3 Belgian Draft Horses from Bowie Texas Livestock. One mare looks to be in good condition however the other two are in serious need of medical attention. All the details to this rescue are in this video.

You can help support this rescue mission via PayPal, GiveButter and Venmo at Big Hoof Foundation. All the donation links are listed at the bighooffoundation.org. These horses need your help to be saved! They deserve a happy retirement!

https://youtu.be/SDdyMWZFo6I

Episode 85We are working on our first rescue mission of 2024 and we need your help! We were not planning on rescuing any horses at this time after the recent...

17/02/2024

Back a few months ago we worked with another rescue group to save a Belgian Draft horse who we named Aurora. This sweet horse went through so much. She was dumped at a kill pen and was almost sent to slaughter. After we picked her up and got her to the farm we found out that she was extremely underweight. We found out she had cellulitis in her back leg along with Squamous cell carcinoma tumors in both of her eyes. After having surgery to remove the tumors and two weeks of chemotherapy we had Aurora on the road to recovery and enjoying retirement life! She was receiving acupuncture every two weeks to help her lymphatic system move some of the fluid through her leg to reduce the swelling. She made friends with one of our other rescued horses Amelia. They were best friends and went everywhere together.

Last week we had an emergency colic situation with Aurora. This video is everything that happened with Aurora. Rescuing senior horses is always challenging because you don't know their history and what they have been through. Our mission is to give them the best retirement life we can give them for as long as they have. Live everyday to the fullest as tomorrow is never promised.

Episode 84Back a few months ago we worked with another rescue group to save a Belgian Draft horse who we named Aurora. This sweet horse went through so much....

02/02/2024

"Produce Acres Korbin" was a registered Belgian Draft Horse Stallion who was dumped at a kill pen here in Texas back a few months ago. Our foundation rescued him days before he was scheduled to ship to slaughter in Mexico.
Korbin was gelded (castrated) last week and this video is an update on how he is doing after the gelding procedure.

Episode 83"Produce Acres Korbin" was a registered Belgian Draft Horse Stallion who was dumped at a kill pen here in Texas back a few months ago. Our foundati...

24/01/2024

It has been unbelievably cold here so I thought I would give you an update on Dax and the horses from inside the house! Things are always busy around here as usual!
The first week of the New Year was quite hectic! Cory found another dog running down the highway when he was heading to get hay one morning. We can't seem to find his owners so there is another dog addition to the farm. Lena (one of our rescued Belgian Draft Horses) spent 8 days at the vets office for a cornial abraision. We had coyotes in the barn...and Korbin our registered Belgian Draft Horse stallion is heading to the vet this week to get gelded...FINALLY! We will be so happy to get Korbin turned out in a few months with the rest of the herd after his operation. So...many things happening here and busy as always! And...also an update on all the other rescued Belgian Draft Horses on the farm.
We hope you enjoy this video! Make sure you like, comments and subscribe to our channel so you don't miss anything happening around here! Because it's never a dull moment!

Episode 81It has been a year since a starved and neglected pitbull dog showed up on our doorstep after being dumped by someone on the county road behind our ...

11/01/2024

Everyone please share and sign this petition to end horse slaughter!!! We need your help!!

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01/01/2024

Finally uploaded! Our last video update of 2023 with all our the rescued Belgian Draft Horses saved from shipping to slaughter! Hope everyone had a safe and Happy New Year!

Episode 812023...what a phenomenal year! WE have accomplished so much this year and we wanted to give you one last update for the year on all the rescued Bel...

01/01/2024

2023 what a phenominal year! Wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year and put a smile on your face with some pictures of all the horses! I am trying to get a YouTube video posted as well but our internet is super slow today! Happy New Year!

25/12/2023

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas!

20/12/2023

It has been a few weeks since we posted a YouTube video but I think after you see this video you will understand why it's been a bit! We have been extremely busy these last few weeks because we rescued another 3 Belgian Draft Horses! Check out the video for all the details!

Episode 80Back about 2 months ago, I had a lady reach out to me from Weatherford, Texas because she needed to re-home her two Belgian Draft horses. Zeus and ...

14/12/2023

Only 16 days to go! Don't forget to vote for the Big Hoof Foundation! We are ranked #77 as of today! Thank you to everyone that has voted for us, we appreciate your support.

Each year MyGivingCircle gives away $500,000

08/12/2023

Freya has been with us now for a little over a year and a half. She is doing amazing and living her best life filled with love, food, kindness and the attention she deserves. This video is everything that Freya has been up to since she arrived at our farm and how she is today!

Episode 79Back in March of 2022, we rescued a neglected, underweight and abandoned horse from Sexton Horse and Mule in Sneedsville, Tennessee, who we named F...

06/12/2023

Y’all we need a caption for this gem I took this morning during breakfast 🤣 Freya was not sharing breakfast with Andy! Comment below! 🤣🤣🤣

28/11/2023

It's Giving Tuesday! GivingTuesday is a global generosity movement unleashing the power of radical generosity. GivingTuesday was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good and support others.

As a growing horse rescue group, we rely on monetary donations to keep the organization moving forward. 100% of the money we raise goes directly to the rescued horses' bail fees, transport, feed, hay, medical bills, medications, alternative medical treatments, supplements, surgeries, etc. Every dollar raised is for the horses!

Please consider making a tax deductible donation to the Big Hoof Foundation to help us save more of these precious lives and to care for the ones we have already saved.

All the information for our Giving Tuesday Fundraiser can be found on our website.

https://www.bighooffoundation.org

27/11/2023

It's Cyber Monday! If anyone would like to send a gift to the horses we would truly appreciate your support! We have added new items to our wishlist. Lots happening around here and a big announcement coming this week! Stay tuned!

23/11/2023

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! Hope your day is filled with happiness and love. We are so incredibly grateful for everything we have accomplished this year and for our wonderful followers, subscribers and new friends!

16/11/2023

I’ve been slacking on pictures!