Salary
Depends on Experience
Work Type
Permanent; Contract
Work Time
Part-time
Live-Out
Live-Out (No Accomm.)
Bring Own Horse
Training Available
Non-Smoker
Job No
216353
Status
Looking
Updated
10/27/2024
Expires
in one month
Views
369

Help us with our US Pony Club program at hunt/dressage/western pleasure facility that also does training, boarding, equine rehab, equine assisted psychotherapy, and rescue horse training. Learn Horse Whispering, do regular barn chores as well as manage the rest of the crew, and help provide first aide, medical maintenance and alternative therapies. NO mud, NO wheelbarrows as we are a modern farm with tractors.

Whimsy Brook Farm, Ltd is a Connecticut Horse Farm of Environmental Distinction, a MODERN, 53-year-old facility that is holistically oriented and veterinarian-owned. We are engaged in training, boarding, and providing alternative equine rehab therapies, as well as offering horse science instruction and private/semi-private mounted riding lessons to children and adults. We also offer equine-assisted psychotherapy and are a Licensed United States Pony Club Riding Center.

Requirements

The Candidate needs to be a non-smoker, able to drive a tractor, and work well with others, effectively manage a team, and will participate with the rest of the crew in the general care of horses including stall cleaning (no wheelbarrows and only 12 stalls), feeding, watering, turning out, blanketing and unblanketing, grooming, leg wrapping, tacking up/untacking/cleaning tack. If we feel you are competent to do so, you may be asked to school horses.

You must be well versed in horse science, including weights and measures, humane restraint, thorough knowledge of riding/training equipment, horse clothing, hoof care, and medical record-keeping. The position requires a detail-oriented, organized, cheery team leader, who is willing to follow established protocols and able to give constructive feedback to supervisees, including interns, in a positive fashion.

Required Key Skills
Driving license Equine First-Aid Lunging Bandaging People Skills
Required Expertise
Dressage Riding School Working with children Flatwork Hunter Seat
Job Benefits

Workers Comp/SS/Medicare

Employer No
104459
Website
http://www.whimsybrookfarm.com
Location
Redding, Connecticut, USA
Dressage Hunt Riding School Other Breeding/Foaling Training Western
Equestrian Employer Details

We are a CT State Horse Farm of Environmental excellence with the following pristine facilities - 2 barns with 12 insulated rubber-matted stalls, Staff and Boarder's tack rooms, inside and outside wash stalls, 10 sand/ 4 double fenced pasture turnout areas, covered lunging arena with enclosed viewing area, 70 x 160 rubber covered/ lighted outdoor arena with enclosed viewing area, hot walker, mini medical paddocks, run-in sheds w. heated stock tanks, compost facility, mini trail, picnic area. In addition to boarding horses, we provide classical seat riding instruction as well as equine wellness services, including Class IV Therapeutic Laser, homeopathy & nutritional approaches, corrective shoeing, & saddle-fitting. And we are also an educational institution & United States Pony Club Riding Center. We serve as an intern site for high school ag-tech programs, Vet tech programs & universities. We also teach anxious students and students with learning disabilities.

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