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The Horses

Our project would be nothing without our horses, our partners and our friends.

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Permanent residents

Our permanent residents include retired carriage horses, our working farm horses, our general riding horses, and - of course - Cupcake!

 Crip

Horses available for adoption

Blue Star Equiculture wants to share the wealth of wonderful draft horses and other homeless horses. Click here to see horses in need of an adoptive forever home!

Blue Star Equiculture also lists horses who need to find new homes but do not belong to us. Click here to see them.

 Maddie

Equiculture Alumni

Click here to read about the horses that have moved beyond Burgundy Brook Farm to lead fulfilling lives in new homes, thanks to Blue Star Equiculture and your continuing generosity.

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In Memoriam

Some of our horses have gone on to greener pastures. Read more about them and the lives they touched here.

 Tony B's retirement party

Draft Horse Retirement

Blue Star Equiculture believes that all working horses deserve a good retirement, once their "useful" days are over. Click here to read more about our draft horse retirement program, how to donate a horse to our retirement program, and how to help draft horses in their golden years.

 TomToo

Draft Horse Rescue and Adoption

Blue Star Equiculture seeks to rescue draft horses from unfit living conditions or from the terrible fate of the slaughterhouse. We also seek to find loving forever homes for these horses. Click here to learn more about how to adopt your own gentle giant!

 The herd

Draft Horse Library

We have begun to compile a bibliography of useful books and information about draft horses. Click here for more.

 Horses at work

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There is a wealth of information about draft horses on the internet. Here are some of our favorite sites.

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Mark and Marcia 

Posted by Marcia Thursday, September 09, 2010 10:47:53 AM
Mark and I attended our first riding under saddle show September 4th at The Northampton Fair grounds Northampton MA. We entered two classes, Open Hunter Pleasure and Open Hunter discipline rail. There were jumps set up in the arena and a lot of... read more
 

Marks first horse show 

Posted by Marcia Sunday, August 22, 2010 7:00:08 AM
Marks first horse show was at the WMAA. Open Horse Show in Granby, MA. were I entered him in five, in hand classes. These are classes where I lead him into the show ring and he is judged on his conformation and my presentation of him. At ... read more
 

Mark and Marcia 

Posted by Marcia Thursday, August 05, 2010 10:08:00 AM
Mark is an 18.2 hand Belgian. He is the second biggest draft horse presently living at Blue Star. My name is Marcia Gamache. Check out my page for more information I started riding Mark a few weeks ago with the hopes of being able to ride... read more
 

Blue Star Belgians - Assembling a working rescued four -in-hand 

Posted by Christina Thursday, July 01, 2010 7:24:45 PM
Justin and Sally have started ground driving our Blue Star four horse hitch, thanks to the generosity of a volunteer who bought us four-up lines! Day one on Tuesday saw Iceman and Mark happily in the wheel horse position, but Daisy and Kelly seemed... read more
 

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Mark & Marcia Blue Ribbon Winners 8/15/2010   Zeus week of 8/9/2010  



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