Branscomb Farm is not a public boarding facility. As our primary mission is breeding, raising, training, and competing exceptional USA-bred warmblood horses for a variety of owner/clients around the country. However, due to our extensive staff and facility capacity, and in response to request from many of our breeding clients who have partnered with Branscomb Farm bred foals and youngsters, we offer the following boarding services to our clients:
A. FULL SERVICE STALL BOARDING WITH PROFESSIONAL TRAINING: Stall boarding with turnout and daily grooming along with our professional training program (four training rides and/or teaching lessons per week). Horses and riders in this program should look forward to excellent care for their equine partner with feed (hay and/or grain) offered normally four times per day, scheduled turnout and/or Eurocizer exercise, grooming, blanketing, basic front end tack care and access to the facilities of the farm (covered and uncovered rings, trails, grass and/or sand paddocks). Veterinary care and farrier services may be coordinated through the farm either with our affiliates or you may bring your own on a scheduled basis. Lessons are generally private or semi private and never larger than four persons in the same group. We have five full time professional rider/trainers, three of whom double as riding instructors as well as a dedicated amateur-friendly instructor for after hours and certain weekend days. Clients in this program may have access to additional instruction offered on a periodic basis through clinics hosted by the Farm or regular visits by Rudi Leone and Jill Humphrey on an additional paid basis.
B. MANAGED SMALL GROUP FIELD BOARDING: This program is for horses that are not being ridden (too young, retired, taking a break). Horses are assigned to a socially compatible small group (usually 4 to a field) usually on a same sex/age basis. They have regular, mid-day access to a multi-acre field with or without grass (depending on weight) and are brought nightly into containment paddocks of approximately 100x100 where they are fed twice daily and subject to daily inspection, and given medications or supplemental feed as needed. Containment paddocks are inclusive of a 12x24 or 12x36 shelter in inclement weather. There is no owner riding from these fields and we ask, that to preserve safety and the tranquility of the herd "unit" that owner have their horses brought into day stalls by our staff if the owner wants to work with or groom their own horse. There is a nominal charge for this service.
C. YOUNG HORSE DEVELOPMENT HYBRID OPTION: Based on our experience, young horses between 3 and 5 years of age do best transitioning from the freedom and consistent life of being field raised to embrace the inviting but sometimes challenging experiences of learning to enjoy being ridden, working with trainers on a regular basis, and venturing into new circumstances and experiences on and off the farm as training progresses. To accommodate a smooth and gradual transition to being stabled and regularly ridden by their owner/rider, and to address some of the economic concerns of young horse investors, we have developed a hybrid option where horses in our young horse training program, can remain living in a small herd grouping much like in "B" above but be brought in 2-4 times a week (depending on fitness, season, and stage of development) to receive grooming and age-appropriate professional training. This program is available only to the owners of horses between 3 and 5 years of age, has a six month minimum commitment (starting through basic foundation dressage and or jumping aptitude development). Horses in this program may be included in "kindergarden field trips" or other off-farm show experiences but it is expected that once a horse is competition ready they would graduate to a normal stabled accommodation as in A above. Not suitable for stallions. Pregnant mares between month 3 and 8 of gestation are accepted. Horses may transition back and forth between B and C on a month to month basis subject to staff and owner approval.
D. MARE and MARE with Foal at Side BOARDING: Heavy mares are accommodated as "B" boarders until they transition to a foaling stall with associated foaling paddock which are located near the employee housing. Mares must come into a foaling stall/and or paddock situation no later than 10 days before their expected foaling date so the Foal Alert system tranceiver can be implanted and they can be monitored closely. Large bedded foaling stalls and daily turnout when appropriate are charged on daily basis consistent with our normal large stall board and grooming rates. Mare owner should expect a minimum of one week before and one week after foaling for use of a foaling stall but depending on the mare or foal use of these stalls could be up to a month or more. Mares and foals generally transition to a private paddock or small group field board with other compatible mares with foals at side. There is a small additional charge to our standard field board rate for the use of private paddocks and the addition of a foal at side in field boarding. For more information contact the Farm.
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