The Committee

Thank you for visiting The Committee! We provide a safe, caring environment for horses who were headed down the road to oblivion or abuse, and send them on their way to new, loving homes with another chance at life.

Committee History
The Committee was established early March of 2002, and has become increasingly popular since. We are deeply associated with C&H Ranch, located in the mountainous terrain of California, and receives donated feed, supplies, vet and farrier services, and horse transportation from them. The Committee was formly located on the C&H Ranch grounds, until it grew too big for C&H. On August 26, 2002, the purchase of 500 acres in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas of California was finalized, and is current location of The Committee. The foothills were chosen for a number of reasons. While it is somewhat close to C&H (allowing for easy access to vets, farriers, and transportation), the climate is more mild and lacks the harsh winter that C&H experiences, which is much easier on rehabilitating horses. Green grass is sustained for longer periods of time in the spring, but we have also lain irrigation lines, so the grass is year round. The land is hilly, and while it provides great excercise for the horses, it won't tax the ones getting back into a healthy shape. We are also completely free from the Sacramento Valley smog. On August 24, 2002, The Committee took on Sammy as the new Vice-President and Manager. We are honored and delighted to have this wonderful, caring, and knowledgeable person on our staff and couldn't have asked for a better partner.

Pictures
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A sunrise at The Committee's lake Outside The Committee's main office in the fall

Facilities
1. Hydrotherapy pool with undulated rubber for traction below. The pool bottom can raise or lower, which gives the options of having the horse stand in the water for a whirlpool bath (muscle therapy) or swimming for muscle toning when they aren't able to have the stress on their bodies from the hot walkers. The changeable levels also makes it possible to use with any horse size, from mini to draft.
2. 1/2 mile dirt training oval
3. 3 hot walkers, all indoors
4. 2 arenas, 1 indoor, 1 outdoor
5. 3 round pens
6. One large hay storage/grain barn, trailers and tractors are parked under the large garage connected to it on the side.
7. Tack barn adjacent to and connected with the horses in training/up for adoption barn, which is capable of housing up to 50 horses.
8. Hospital/recouperation barn, capable of housing 20 horses. Each stall is secluded from the other, and the horses have no contact with each other, other than seeing one another from across the isle.
9. Connected to the hospital barn is the therapy barn, which includes the hydrotherapy pool, X-ray machine, and X-ray/magnetic therapy.
10. Each barn (except hay and tack) have their own full small offices and living quarters for two people (one room each) and a bathroom in the office. Each barn is a breezeway, and large enough to allow a truck to drive through it. The isle is cement with special rubber covering the entire walkway. Each barn also has it's own air condition, heater, 75 gallon water heater, and large, deep sinks. Each stall in the barns (yes, the hospital one too) has it's own small pipe corral so the horse can also be outside, but each stall is equipped with Dutch doors, so the horse can be fully locked in, can have it's head out, or can have access to its paddock. Each stall is built out of wood, but fully covered with padded rubber to discourage chewing or injury. Any exposed wood is painted with special paint that discourages the horse from chewing. Inside the barn, the stalls have stainless steel bars separating horses and openings that make it possible to feed and water the horse without entering the stall. Stalls are furnished with special rubber matts and either shavings or straw is used, depending the horse. It actually looks faily similar to C&H Ranch, except The Committee will have more precautionary features and won't have as much of a wood barn look. Portable surveylance systems will be ready in each barn.
11. The office is the first building you would see, and has a bathroom, living quarters for two, a file room, and a book/work/waiting room. The book/work room is the first room you step into, has a woodburning stove, and a country kitchen feel to it, being furnished with wood. There are comfortable couches and chairs, a large desk with two computers, and books on just about every kind of horse thing imagineable surrounds the room (along with horse pictures). The file room is basically just that, and isn't much to look at.
12. The indoor arena/hotwalker area has washracks that can hold 4 horses.
13. All barns are semi-connected by a cover that allows you to go from barn to barn without getting wet in the rain.
14. The rest is basically pasture land, with a couple large pastures (that has a large enough lean-to that can cover and feed up to 20 horses) and a lot of smaller pastures for horses who aren't social, are in solitary confinement or quaranteen, are still weak, or cannot be pastured with more than a couple horses at a time. Each of those pastures have lean-to's capable of covering and feeding up to 6 horses.
15. All pastures are pipe corral, and roads run between to each gate for easy access.

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