Training for your horse at the Feedyard Because of the YouTube videos embedded in this page, your computer may give you an "Active X" warning. Lots of wet saddle blankets Your horse will learn to deal with cattle, cattle and more cattle... A single cow, lots of cows, cows being driven or cows walking by him. Your horse will learn to deal with gates, gates and more gates... Heavy gates, awkward gates, "you-absolutely-have-to-stand-still" gates... and lots of gates in a row. In a days work she will... Hurry up and wait, get into tight spots, and deal with bad weather. The work is hard. We start at 7am and usually ride till noon or later. Sometimes there is more horse-back work to do in the afternoon. To support our horses' needs for this heavy work schedule, we feed 2 to 4 gallons of grain a day, plus all the hay they want to eat. Aside from all the obvious horse and cow stuff, horses have to learn to deal with machinery at this yard. We frequently see semi trucks, front end loaders, tractors with implements, feed trucks and four wheelers coming by us, more or less fast. All horses should learn to work for a living for some time in their life. I have even used my dressage horse, Blackie, in the yard. It is just good for them. It is amazing how fast they learn to settle down, relax and go to work. To find a training log for several horses I took to the yard, click on these HorseCity.com posts... Palomino 5yr old Mare Sorrel 3 yr old Mare Sorrel 6 yr old Gelding Send your horse... Your horse will need shoes, specifically the kind they call "Rims". They give a little more traction than any other type of horse shoe. Your horse will need a current health certificate by a vet, and a current record of his shot schedule. Feed is included in the training. The training cost is $550 per month. This is counted by actual time your horse is used. If the weather gets too bad to safely ride, or I get sick or take time off, your horse ain't being used. So I tack that time on to the end of the time that your horse will be here, and you can rest assured that you will not be paying, while your horse is standing in his run doing nothing. Contact me to schedule your horse's training!
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