Out2Pasture Farms is an LLC, dedicated to the permanent retirement of equines.
The main objective of Out2Pasture farms is to provide an alternative for individuals who have decided to retire their beloved equine companion. Additionally, Out2Pasture Farms provides quality of life options for injured or abused horses that might have otherwise been put down or possibly sold at auction.
Along with our private efforts to do our part for those in need, Out2Pasture has served as a satellite farm for the last 10 years for various equine rescue groups including the Exceller Fund, CANTER, the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation. In our capacity with these organizations, our farm serves as permanent retirement for those horses that are physically and/or emotionally unable to be placed back out into the public.
Another very important objective of our work at Out2Pasture Farms is to serve as a model facility for equine retirement and to do our part to educate the public regarding the standards of care that equine retirement facilities should be held to and adhere. We feel that serving as a model for permanent retirement for non-humans is one of our greatest responsibilities.
Our solemn pledge for those Retired at our facilities insures that: All souls under our care will be provided a quality of life with as comfortable and pain-free existence as we can provide. And when physical and/or medical circumstances no longer allow that quality of life; those souls will be gently and humanely euthanized.
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David’s Limit and Maverick
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Dorst and Ice Chief
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With A Purpose, Nelly Nelly, David’s Limit,
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Raneleigh and Sir Buffington
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OTHER TRF horses at O2P: |
Hooded Dancer - unsponsored |
Click on the Donate Now button if you would like to help support one of the retirees. 100% of the money collected online (minus PayPal fees) goes directly to the care and feeding of the horses.
No donations go towards manager salaries.
Our facilities take great pride in adhering to the guidelines for equine rescue and retirement facilities recommendations put out by the AAEP. Those recommendations include Basic Health Management, Nutrition, Basic Hoof Care, Caring for the Geriatric Horse, Refeeding the Starved Horse, Shelter, Stalls & Horse Facilities, Pastures, Paddocks & Fencing and Euthanasia.
We regularly request inspections of our facilities for the peace of mind of all of those who have chosen to retire a beloved member of their family with us. A copy of the AAEP Guidelines for Equine Rescue and Retirement Facilities can be found here.
An independent evaluation of our farm’s facilities was conducted by Dr. Stacey Huntington, DVM AAEP member was conducted in January of 2011.
Robin Hurst-March is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Robin has served as an educator for over 25 years. Zachary March is the Director of E-Learning with the University of Missouri system. Zac also has a long history in education. Leroy and Roberta Hurst are retired and are full-time care-givers for the horses at Out2Pasture.
If you believe our farm can be of service to a cherished member of your family, please contact us at:
Zachary March and Robin Hurst- March
Out2pasturefarm@gmail.com
660-849-2369
A better finish to the race
Of all the former race horses at Zac March and Robin Hurst’s Out 2 Pasture farm near Jamestown, “Twoey,” an 11-year-old chocolate brown thoroughbred, is the oldest and one of the more remarkable.
Two years ago Two Links Back, as the horse is formally called, was winning money at racetracks in New York and New Jersey. A photo from the time shows Twoey’s owner, beaming with pride, posing with the horse in the winner’s circle. A week after the photo was taken tragedy struck...(read the whole story)
Missouri group works to save
raced-out thoroughbreds
Seabiscuit, the horse that America cheered as an average guy going up against the bluebloods, is galloping across the big screen. Meanwhile, Robin Hurst of Jamestown, Mo., tends to 30 ex-racehorses whose racing careers really were average: They won big, won less, got hurt, won too little to pay their way and then went the way of business associates no longer profitable to the business.
As many as 6,000 thoroughbreds annually run that loser's circle and end up at the slaughter yards...(read the whole story)