Tonkawood Farm owns extra land that was purchased to use as a rehab site. We have water, fencing, shelter and good access to the main facility. We have rehabilitated 36 horses over the last 5 years on the site. Our budget will include veterinary care, rehab procedures, and personal to care for the animals. Once the horse is over the initial injury, it will be turned out into the herd to rest, make new friends, and recuperate.
Nature has an amazing ability to heal.
Some of the horses cannot make it. They are either to injured, or too far gone. We believe that every animal that has served humans to the best of their ability deserves a humane death. To that end, our veterinarian Dr. Dan McBride will make the evaluation as to the future prospect of each animal we purchase. It the horse cannot make it, it is humanely destroyed in kind painless, fast way.