Shea with a chestnut horse

A program of Sacred Light Ministries

We Save Horses

Equine welfare and veteran services. A crisis bridge for the horse and the person who loves them — not a warehouse herd.

Hungry Horses — feed & vet help

The roll

Faces of the work.

Swipe the film. Coming soon — Buck, the first horse we ever saved.

Shea with Shugg, cheek to cheek
Shea and Shugg.
Sakiel as a little one on Delyla
Sakiel and Delyla.
Stanton resting against Jericho under live oaks
Stanton and Jericho.
Seigan with young Delyla under the oaks, just rescued
Seigan and Delyla. Just home.
Seigan in the saddle on Shugg under the oaks
Seigan and Shugg.
Stanton and Seigan on the evening ride
Stanton and Seigan.

Then

Us. Back then.

Copano. Warrior. The kids. The farm. From the old channel — wimberleyfamilyfarm.

The Bridge Fund

A transitional safety net — not a warehouse.

If you are in a thin season with a horse you love, you are in the right place. We stand in the gap for retired service horses — military, police, first responders — who carried their people through trauma and deployment. This is equine welfare braided with veteran services. When a veteran hits a financial wall, the horse is often the first to the low-end auction. We interrupt that sale.

We are not a permanent shelter sitting on a static herd. We are crisis intervention: an ICU and rehab bridge of three to six months of boarding, feed, and medical runway so the horse can stabilize and the person can keep the animal they love.

Three-stage stabilization

Stage 1

Interrupt the sale

When a veteran or family hits a wall, we step in so the horse does not go to the low-end auction. Boarding, feed, and a medical runway — three to six months.

Stage 2

Stabilize

Gut, hoof, and nerve. The Magikal Pellet and quiet pasture. The person gets breathing room. The animal gets a body that can carry them again.

Stage 3

Return or rehome

The goal is the original home when it is safe. If it is not, a vetted landing. We are a bridge, not a warehouse.

Magikal Pellet

Feed grown on the land.

We do not buy chemical-heavy commercial feed packed with industrial byproduct. The pellet is milled from sunn hemp and alfalfa grown on ministry land, bound with farm-surplus wet binders — goat colostrum and quail egg — to support gut health in high-stress animals.

This is a nutrition protocol, not a veterinary drug claim. The land grows the feed. The Bridge Fund pays the emergency bill.

Why the land matters to the horse

A typical rescue ration of commercial feed and supplements can run about $1,700 to $4,500 a year per horse. Grown-on-site forage and mill, in this model, is designed to land near $150 to $300. Those are program estimates — not an audit. Every dollar not spent on a feed bag is a dollar that can meet a veteran’s vet bill.

See Magikal Farms

We Save Horses is a charitable program of Sacred Light Ministries, EIN 41-4870927. Gifts go to the Ministry. The wesavehorses.org name will hang on this same house.