Storm Creek Horse Co. Farm & Rescue

Purple Reins 4 Healing Hearts would like to help a fellow organization in their time of need. We have a special place in our hearts for these people and their mission. Our sweet pony, Kelsey, came to us from Kansas. She is an integral part of our assisted equine therapy program! Please read their story below!

Idk what to say. The single most life changing thing we have ever gotten was this 1969 John Deere 4020. We were only able to do it because of stimulus checks, our crazy aunts B & K, and a guy who believed in what we were doing and cut us a heck of deal.

Last week she started spraying oil and making an awful sound. Just like that, we are back to unloading round bales by having to roll them off the trailer. We have to drag them with the truck and a rope. We have to roll them by hand to get them into the hay feeders we built along the back pens because we can't get the truck in there.

Last night, a tractor guy agreed to come and look at it but said it sounded like a complete rebuild and quoted $14k. FOURTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS. It might as well be a million.

Square bales are more expensive, don't allow the horses free choice grazing (which can give them digestive issues), and we always struggle to keep them stored dry over about 100 bales (that's how much our loft can hold).

Not to mention cleaning pens, working the arena for lessons, and the hundred other things we use her for.

And, listen, we used to do all that by hand. But that was before cancer and neck fusions, and the steel rod through Dustin's femur. I just don't think we can do this without the tractor. Especially facing the winter.

Does anyone have any good tractor or Kansas lottery hookups?

I'm about to make Mr. Storm Creek an OF page. Is that for dudes, too?

We have 2 weeks of feed left. No square bales. Enough round bales for 2 weeks. And I was planning on doing a big push for Giving Tuesday to try to raise the funds for a semi load of hay which would get us through the winter months but...

We are stubborn and determined and strong. I wish we could get a break from having to prove it. Sometimes, it's so dang hard not to give up.

#rescue #hay #johndeere #kansas #enoughisenoughalready