With four large rescue and rehabilitation centres in England and Scotland, the organisation offers a good home with professional care for the horses, until they have recovered and can be rehomed to a kind and loving family.
For World Horse Welfare, it is important to be able to offer their animals a life with plenty of space and self-determination. Therefore, during their time at the centres, most of the animals are kept outdoors in large fields and with shelters, so that they can seek shelter from wind and weather. At their rescue centre, Hall Farm in Norfolk England, World Horse Welfare had to realise that several of their field shelters were in such bad condition that it was not worth repairing them any longer. However, the horses and especially the donkeys, who lack waterproof coats, cannot do without a field shelter in which they can seek shelter from rain, wind or scorching sun.
The lack of shelters in some of the fields meant that World Horse Welfare had fewer opportunities to use all their field shelters throughout the year. For an organisation that must be ready to urgently receive animals from animal welfare cases, flexibility is an important factor. Therefore, they had a great desire to have new, good shelters in the fields.
With support from, among others, the QATO Foundation, World Horse Welfare was able to build three new, mobile horse shelters. The shelters are designed so that there is plenty of room to get in and out, even for the horses that are low in the ranking. The shelters are also mounted on a kind of ski, which allows the tractor to pull them from one field to another, providing maximum flexibility.
World Horse Welfare is a British organisation that works to improve the lives of equines. This applies to horses in the sport as well as working equines around the world and horses rescued from welfare cases in the UK. For the horses in need, World Horse Welfare runs four rescue and rehabilitation centres, where more than 300 horses are returned to good health every year and rehomed.
