- 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
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- 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 SkillsRequired Expertise
Dressage Riding School Working with children Flatwork Hunter SeatJob Benefits
Workers Comp/SS/Medicare
- Employer No
- 104459
- Website
- http://www.whimsybrookfarm.com
- Location
- Redding, Connecticut, USA
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.