Every day, undergraduate students, staff, and volunteers arrive to feed horses and clean stalls. Through the work, students learn about breeding and foaling, nutrition, exercise physiology, stable management fundamentals, and more.
Participants in the volunteer program gain equine experience through feed shifts to provide daily care to the horses at the Smithfield Equine Unit and the Equitation Barn. Additional opportunities exist to attend vet and farrier appointments, assist with training and marketing of youngstock, and much more.
All of the horses have been donated or were born at Virginia Tech. Horses are used for breeding, research, equitation lessons and other courses.
For questions about the Equine Volunteer Program, please contact Abbey Collier at aecollier@vt.edu.
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