Rutgers students team up with horses in need of new homes

[Tango Two]

Horses in need of re-homing and animal science students -- perfect together. That's the idea behind the new Rutgers University Teaching Herd (RUTH): Fostering horses for teaching and outreach program. These horses, fostered at Rutgers for the spring semester, will be trained and shown by students at Ag Field Day on April 25. Representatives from their parent equine rescue/placement organizations will be on hand to accept adoption applications after the horse show.

Rutgers students team up with horses in need

 

[derleider]

Thats good. They used to get the horses from a farm out in North Dakota. The pregnant mares were used to get urine (a compound in the urine is used in some pharmaceuticals), and then I guess they didnt really need the foals, so the school could get them basically for the cost of transporting them back to NJ. But I guess they ended that at some point.