Boarding

  Please find the details regarding our Track System boarding below to help determine if it is the right fit for you and your horse.

Our facility prioritizes species-appropriate care to ensure the highest quality of life for the horses in our charge. This system is designed specifically for owners who value the long-term well-being and happiness of their horses above all else.

Please be advised of the following considerations:

- Pricing: This is not a low-cost or budget boarding option.

- Accessibility: To maintain a natural environment, horses are not confined to small areas for easy access. Owners are responsible for retrieving their horses from the track.

- Catching Services: For your convenience, I offer "catching" services for a fee of $10 per day.

This approach offers significant advantages for equine health, behavior, and land utility:

- Increased Movement: By strategically placing food, water, and shelter at various points, horses are encouraged to walk continuously, mimicking their natural foraging behavior.

- Physical Health: Increased activity helps horses burn fat, build muscle, and improve endurance. It also promotes better digestive health, reducing the risk of colic.

- Hoof Quality: Regular exercise on varied terrain stimulates hoof growth, resulting in thicker and more resilient hooves.

- Weight Management: The track system allows for the elimination of lush grazing, which is essential for preventing obesity and laminitis while still providing ample space for movement.

- Natural Enrichment: Horses can live outdoors 24/7 in an environment that simulates natural terrain, including woods, sand pits, and water features.

- Mental Well-being: A stimulating environment allows for natural herd socialization, which significantly reduces the likelihood of developing stable vices such as cribbing or weaving.

- Reduced Herd Conflict: Multiple feeding stations allow the herd to spread out, minimizing competition and aggression often found around single feeding points.

- Increased Confidence: Navigating diverse terrain and obstacles on the track helps horses become more confident and adaptable, which translates well to trail riding.

The costs associated with our track system reflect the extensive maintenance and skilled labor required to operate the facility effectively.

Unlike traditional boarding, our track system involves continuous investment in varied footing, new features, and frequent adjustments to fence lines for grass management. These operations require skilled labor rather than general assistance, which incurs higher costs. Furthermore, the daily management of group feeding, watering stations, and regular dragging for manure management demands significant time and resources.

In addition to infrastructure upkeep, our team conducts twice-daily horse checks and manages strip grazing schedules and optional muzzle management throughout the year. These comprehensive services ensure the highest standard of care for the horses but require a substantial commitment of materials and specialized labor.

We are currently offering a budget-friendly self-care boarding option in our dry lot, which features run-in sheds. At this time, we have one dry lot space available.

This space can be configured in two ways:

- Partial Space: $400 per month for one owner with one horse (occupying half of the space).

- Full Space: $800 per month for one owner with one to three horses.

This arrangement includes one stall for hay storage. Please note that hay and other optional amenities are not included. However, hay and hay feeding services and fair weather/daytime track turnout can be added for an additional $400-600 per horse. Cleaning services are not provided for this specific boarding option.

 We do not offer any work trade for boarding. 

While we believe that a full-time outdoor lifestyle is most appropriate for horses and do not offer traditional long-term boarding, we understand that some owners may prefer overnight stabling during extreme winter weather or for horses requiring special care.

For the winter months, we have box stalls with runs available to rent under a self-care arrangement. This means that morning turnout, evening stabling, stall cleaning, feeding, and watering are entirely the owner's responsibility. Please note that daily track turnout remains mandatory unless weather conditions are severe.

The rate for a dry stall with a run for winter overnights is $350 per month. While we do not offer regular paid care for stabled horses, we can cover these duties on an occasional basis for a fee of $50 per day if you are unable to attend to your horse.

Our approach is based on the temporary nature of horses in training. While we do not support long-term confinement in small areas, horses in training and sales programs are typically boarded for only three to nine months before returning home or being sold. Because of this short-term duration, we offer trainers the opportunity to lease space to operate their businesses.

Furthermore, horses in training receive consistent daily work. Introducing unfamiliar horses into a new herd for a limited time can be problematic due to the necessary adaptation period. Therefore, it is more prudent to keep horses in separate, adjacent enclosures for the duration of a short-term training program.