Creating a stable home for underprivileged children through equine therapy and love!

Every child deserves to be in a home where they are taught, empowered, valued, heard, and loved! Rocky Start Ranch is a girl's ranch in Elmore County providing all of those things and more.

The Killian family have always had a passion for helping others, as well as, introducing the local community to horses. The incorporation of Rocky Start Ranch combines those two things! The Killian's have a combined sixty years of equine experience. They have inducted many children in the community into their Ranch family over the years. Implementing a structured, rudimentary, and honest lifestyle, the Killian's believe you can change one's future by giving them a new start no matter how rocky their past.

Empowering Lives

Providing stability allows children to flourish! Listening to them enables children to find their voice! Believing in them and showing them that they are capable creates confidence! We want each child to know that they matter, their past does not define them, and that they are loved!

Building Bright Futures

We provide a long-term or permanent home in a safe and nurturing environment. We believe in giving the children life skills and teaching them trades which they can pursue for their future. At our ranch home, there are many areas of the equine industry that might pique their interest, from every level of animal and stable care to any discipline of horse riding. Earning the trust of, learning to communicate with, and forming a bond with the horses will be healing for the children! The experience gained from ranch life is invaluable even to those who want an alternative future lifestyle.