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Interesting facts about Mountain Equine Rescue:

 

• Every week we use about 38 to 40 bags of feed for the animals on the farm!

      

• We use about 25 bales of hay per day or 175 bales for a week, currently at $3.00 a bale!

• The rescue uses a cord of sawdust each week in the summer and a cord and a half during the winter plus about 5 bags of shavings for the misc. animals or to add bulk and softness to the older horse’s stalls.

• Every horse drinks about 10 gallons of water a day.  In the winter all those small water buckets in the stalls have to be knocked free of frozen ice and refilled with fresh water!

 

 

• We remove about one wheel barrow of manure per stall times the number of horses we have (right now there are 40ish, but that can change!) per day!

 

• We soak 6 buckets of beet pulp per day to feed, each of buckets weights 48 pounds!  Since they are soaked with hot water in the house........we carry them back out to the barn!

 

• The isle of the barn is 100ft long and we sweep it at least once a day, we wear out about 4 push brooms and 3 corn house type brooms per year.

 

• We use 20 – 50 lb salt blocks a year for the horses

 

• There are 38 light bulbs in the barn, which need to be replaced on a regular basis!

 

• This year we used 3 cases of paper to send out information and printed items.

 

• Because all horses are not created equal – each horse and pony has its own bridle and we have to have a large variety of saddles for all the different sizes and shapes of animals we have.

 

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