Wish List
(Updated February 2012)
Items available just about anywhere:
- Large First Aid Kits
- 50 pound bags of grain:
- rolled corn (or rolled COB)
- cracked corn *we go thru this the most!
- sweet grain/cattle feed
- chicken scratch
- Used (clean) or new blankets for the pigs (we collect these year round)
- Cat Litter (we prefer the kind that clumps - Tidycat Multiple Cat is what our kitties are used to)
- Pine Shavings (for bedding)
- Bales of Straw (clean & dry please)
Items available at Intermountain Farmers Association (IFA) in Riverton, Utah:
- Purina Senior Food for senior horses - 50 lb. bag is approx. $19 - we use 3 per week.
- Purina Ultium for horses - 50 lb. bag is approx. $24 - we use 2 per week.
- "Legacy" (joint supplement) for senior horses - $27 - we use 1 per week.
- Ching Farm Custom Blend Pot-Bellied Pig Food - 50 lb bag is approx. $16 - we use 7 per week.
- Rubbermaid Big Wheel Cart 5642 (Wheel Barrow), 7.5 Cubic Feet - the kind with two wheels! Also available at Home Depot,Lowe's, etc. for around $220
- 150 - 300 gallon Rubbermaid livestock tanks.
- Water heaters for Rubbermaid livestock tanks - not the floating kind (the animals can chew thru the wires!)
- Solar Panels. For a few hundred dollars, many farm supply stores have large solar panals available and we'd love to have some to supply electricity to our barn, green house, and pig houses.
Other Needs:
- Farrier Services (or money to pay for them) - approx. cost is $35 per horse (our horses need done every couple of months). Or, if you are a farrier, please consider donating your time!
- Money for hay - we use 1/2 ton alfalfa and oat/grass hay per DAY - cost is soaring, and prices are supposed to continue to rise. If you have good hay to donate, please know that we do NOT have the means to transport it here, we would need you to deliver it and quite possibly stack it.
We have many other needs such as new fencing made of 5' x 16' Wire Horse Panals available at any farm supply or fencing store (or can be found used!). We have gotten most of our fencing changed over to this kind of panal, but there are still gaps and we still need more!
We do NOT accept:
If you are able to supply us with any of these items, please contact us at volunteer@chingsanctuary.org to arrange a drop off (please don't just show up, we may not be home!) and THANK YOU!