Horse Care Barn Volunteers

We need superstar volunteers who love for horses (experience appreciated, but not necessary) to assist our Equine Specialist with basic barn chores. If you enjoy taking care of animals, being outdoors, and doing some hard work - we invite you to come and help care for a very special small herd of horses and donkeys who change and save lives for a living.

HORSE CARE BARN VOLUNTEER Duties Include:

Helping to take great care of the Herd, who, as animal therapists, do help trauma survivors heal and are award-winning service animals. Our budget is always tight, yet we do our best to give them the best care. As a barn volunteer, you can help us do that. Horse experience is appreciated, yet not required. What is required is a gentle attitude, patience, interest to learn, reliability and a love for animals.

• Horse Care duties: feeding, grooming, leading to pasture, sometimes hand grazing outside.
• Barn Chore duties: empty and scrub water buckets, fill hay nets, prepare morning feed, sweeping, tidying up client spaces for next day, if time allows - some stall cleaning.
• Outside Sunset duties: maintenance of outdoor water sources, cleaning up manure from barn lot, donkey pen, indoor/outdoor arenas - if and as needed before it gets dark.
• The herd includes 3 horses and 3 donkeys

Barn volunteers are taught the patterns, the tools, and the specific chores needed in the SRoL barn.

All barn volunteers start with a trial run in the beginning to determine fit.

Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

SRoL does require reliability, dependability, and commitment to the Horse Care Barn Volunteer position. In return, we will offer an opportunity to learn horse-keeping skills, a Zen way of being with horses, and the accomplishment that you are a part of the service we provide to others, in that these animals are our esteemed colleagues, and we honor that.

VOLUNTEER SERVICE HOURS COUNT: SRoL will verify/validate service hours for those who come here and give their heart and hard work to the herd that heals. This counts for Boy/Girl Scouts, 4-H, School Service Hours, Church Groups, and more.

Because of the AMAZING work these horses do and the miracles they set forth, we are picky about their care. If you are detail-oriented, this will be a fit. :)

We hope to see you inside the barn!