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Red Bull Agressive
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Location: North Dakota | I am doing a market research project for a college course and would really appreciate yall's input. Thanks!!!!
1. How many horses do you have?
2. Do you keep your horses at home or board?
3. What price would you expect to pay for board in your area?
4. What are your top priorities when looking for a boarding barn?
5. Do you take riding lessons?
6. Do you ever send your horse(s) to a professional trainer?
Edited by cavyrunsbarrels 2014-10-28 8:37 PM
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Elite Veteran
Posts: 617
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2. Home
3. $225 outdoor $375 indoor
4. quality hay and care. safe pastures with not big turn out groups. Arenas with good footing.
5. Here and there
6. I do all my own training |
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Expert
Posts: 3147
 
| 4 head. keep them home. no idea on board. Attend barrel clinics. Yes, have sent horses to professional trainers. |
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 You get what you give
Posts: 13030
Location: Texas | cavyrunsbarrels - 2014-10-28 8:33 PM I am doing a market research project for a college course and would really appreciate yall's input. Thanks!!!!
1. How many horses do you have?
2. Do you keep your horses at home or board?
3. What price would you expect to pay for board in your area?
4. What are your top priorities when looking for a boarding barn?
5. Do you take riding lessons?
6. Do you ever send your horse(s) to a professional trainer?
1. How many horses do you have?
we have 10 horses
2. Do you keep your horses at home or board?
we keep them at home but I am shopping for a boarding stable in my college town where I'm living currently
3. What price would you expect to pay for board in your area?
The cheapest I have found for partial care is $200 which includes turn out and AM feedings. I would rather not pay that much and let me feed in the AM and supply my own hay.
4. What are your top priorities when looking for a boarding barn?
safety for my horses, good arena footing, good fencing
5. Do you take riding lessons?
not regularly anymore but I used to ride with a trainer when I could.
6. Do you ever send your horse(s) to a professional trainer?
when it's more than I can handle or if I want a horse broke for sure! |
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Posts: 209
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2. Board
3. $250 for pasture $350 stall and this is a little on the low end
4. Arena, safety, care of horses, drama/clickiness
5. Yes
6. I would if I didn't have time to further the horse myself or it was problematic |
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 Total Germophobe
Posts: 6443
Location: Montana | cavyrunsbarrels - 2014-10-28 7:33 PM I am doing a market research project for a college course and would really appreciate yall's input. Thanks!!!!
1. How many horses do you have?
2. Do you keep your horses at home or board?
3. What price would you expect to pay for board in your area?
4. What are your top priorities when looking for a boarding barn?
5. Do you take riding lessons?
6. Do you ever send your horse(s) to a professional trainer?
1. I have 2 horses.
2. I board.
3. The average for my area is around $175 or so, but I don't pay that as I board with friends.
4. I don't have a good answer, as right now I supply all my feed and the my friends feed as I tell them, and I take care of all my horses' needs as well.
5. I've taken lessons from trainer's who have trained my horse, but nothing more.
6. Yes, I do send my horse(s) to a professional trainer. There are just some things I can't do myself. |
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Posts: 1119
| cavyrunsbarrels - 2014-10-28 8:33 PM I am doing a market research project for a college course and would really appreciate yall's input. Thanks!!!!
1. How many horses do you have?
I have 3.
2. Do you keep your horses at home or board?
Home
3. What price would you expect to pay for board in your area?
$150-200 for pasture, $350+ for stall
4. What are your top priorities when looking for a boarding barn?
Safety, atmosphere, location, and accomodations (indoor, roundpen, etc.)
5. Do you take riding lessons?
Not at the moment, but I try to attend clinics when I can and have taken lessons in the past.
6. Do you ever send your horse(s) to a professional trainer?
Yep! Have one going to a trainer in November.
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 I'm Cooler Offline
Posts: 6387
Location: Pacific Northwest | 1. How many horses do you have? 4
2. Do you keep your horses at home or board? home, have never boarded
3. What price would you expect to pay for board in your area? it's not very expensive here...my cousins barn was I think $100 per month (with indoor arena) but it was self-care. Other full-care places are usually around $400.
4. What are your top priorities when looking for a boarding barn? if I had to board, the quality of care would be most important.
5. Do you take riding lessons? I used to take barrel racing lessons, my current mare isn't lesson-friendly though.
6. Do you ever send your horse(s) to a professional trainer? no |
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Posts: 1482
Location: on my horse | cavyrunsbarrels - 2014-10-28 7:33 PM
I am doing a market research project for a college course and would really appreciate yall's input. Thanks!!!!
1. How many horses do you have?
2. Do you keep your horses at home or board?
3. What price would you expect to pay for board in your area?
4. What are your top priorities when looking for a boarding barn?
5. Do you take riding lessons?
6. Do you ever send your horse(s) to a professional trainer?
1. one
2. home at the moment
3. pasture board is ~200 per month stall is 300 or more
4. top priorities are clean, safe, knowledgeable owners, someone present during the day (employee/owner, etc.) or on a private property, arena at or near by facility, I prefer to do my own feeding or my own specified amounts so an owner who is ok with that. some place that isn't super busy all the time so my sensitive neurotic horse can have some down time without staring at someone all the time haha
5. I do not take lessons at this time, I used to ride for a professional reining trainer (10 years under him) and so lessons were basically every day lol
6. I do not send my horses to a pro, I used to ride with one and would bring my horses to ride or board them there and ride them there and generally get yelled at and helped so I guess my answer is a yes/no. Now that I don't work there anymore I do it all myself
I've also never had a barrel trainer or any help with the pattern.
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 Midget Lover
Location: Kentucky | 1. How many horses do you have? - 2.
2. Do you keep your horses at home or board? Home.
3. What price would you expect to pay for board in your area? $400 full care.
4. What are your top priorities when looking for a boarding barn? Cleanliness, good reputation, indoor arena.
5. Do you take riding lessons? No.
6. Do you ever send your horse(s) to a professional trainer? No. |
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Posts: 1432
Location: Never in one place long | 1.) 2
2.) Always at my home
3.) $100-$250
4.) Indoor arena, large Turnout, safe fencing, location, and value
5.) Occasionaly
6.) Yes, I have sent a few. |
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 Bulls Eye
Posts: 6443
Location: Oklahoma | cavyrunsbarrels - 2014-10-28 8:33 PM I am doing a market research project for a college course and would really appreciate yall's input. Thanks!!!!
1. How many horses do you have?
2. Do you keep your horses at home or board?
3. What price would you expect to pay for board in your area?
4. What are your top priorities when looking for a boarding barn?
5. Do you take riding lessons?
6. Do you ever send your horse(s) to a professional trainer?
1. We have 4 horses
2. Our horses are kept at home
3. Board in our area ranges from $185 (self care @ crappy facility) to $650 (enlish show barn)
4. Safety. I want to know that the manager/owner is on the property and doing checks on the horses. I used to manage a boarding facility and I was always out making sure horses were ok.
5. I don't take lessons anymore, but I'm always open if I need refreshing or different approaches
6. I don't send my horses to trainers. I do it myself.
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Posts: 617
Location: London Ontario | 1. How many horses do you have? None at this time
2. Do you keep your horses at home or board? I usually board but are in the midst of looking for a new house to buy, hopefully with a little acreage, we will probably have them at home during the summer and board during the winter.
3. What price would you expect to pay for board in your area? Anywhere from 150-250 outdoor board and 300 and up for indoor depending on how swanky the farm is.
4. What are your top priorities when looking for a boarding barn? Knowledgeable staff, few staff so they can actually notice a change in my horses if there is one, good quality hay, stalls cleaned correctly and often, nice arenas, lots of turnout.
5. Do you take riding lessons? Yes, MIL is a dressage trainer, I also take lessons from a reiner and a barrel racer. I don't think you can ever stop learning nor should you ever stop learning.
6. Do you ever send your horse(s) to a professional trainer? Sometimes for 30 days or so for a tune up. |
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 Accident Prone
Posts: 22277
Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | cavyrunsbarrels - 2014-10-28 8:33 PM I am doing a market research project for a college course and would really appreciate yall's input. Thanks!!!!
1. How many horses do you have?
2. Do you keep your horses at home or board?
3. What price would you expect to pay for board in your area?
4. What are your top priorities when looking for a boarding barn?
5. Do you take riding lessons?
6. Do you ever send your horse(s) to a professional trainer?
1. 5
2. Home
3. There are no boarding barns in my area
4. N/A
5. Yes
6. Yes, I send them out for their first 60 or so days. |
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Elite Veteran
Posts: 1028
| 1. How many horses do you have? A whole mess of broodies, a yearling, 2 riding horses
2. Do you keep your horses at home or board? Home
3. What price would you expect to pay for board in your area? Big range here, anywhere from $195 for pasture board to $650 at a fancy english barn
4. What are your top priorities when looking for a boarding barn? Safety for my horse, quality of hay/feed (if i'm not providing), space to ride.
5. Do you take riding lessons? No, but I wouldn't be against it if I thought I needed a tune up
6. Do you ever send your horse(s) to a professional trainer? Not usually, but I did send a colt off this past spring because I didn't have time to break him myself. |
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Posts: 1037
| 1. How many horses do you have? 7
2. Do you keep your horses at home or board? Home
3. What price would you expect to pay for board in your area? 150-495 depending on care level
4. What are your top priorities when looking for a boarding barn? privacy, quiet atmosphere
5. Do you take riding lessons? no
6. Do you ever send your horse(s) to a professional trainer? yes |
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Elite Veteran
Posts: 762
Location: NC | 1. How many horses do you have? 2
2. Do you keep your horses at home or board? board (wish they were at home!)
3. What price would you expect to pay for board in your area? depends: rough (feed am/pm and buy own stuff) $200 or full $500 and up
4. What are your top priorities when looking for a boarding barn? Arena, other horses boarded are healthy, no drama!
5. Do you take riding lessons? yes, there always something to learn.
6. Do you ever send your horse(s) to a professional trainer? have in the past, although I try to do most work myself. |
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Posts: 3815
Location: The best kept secret in TX | 1. I have two horses
2. They stay at home.
3.Around the Weatherford, Tx area 150/Month is a box stall, you feed, and a free range pasture and trails. No arena. 250/Month is the cheapest I've found for full care full access to an arena boarding.
4. IF I was looking I would see who could provide the most trusted references and who could offer me the best price for full care full access.
5. No lessons. But I do take advice from trusted sources while in the practice pen if I think they will help.
6. No trainer. |
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 I Chore in Chucks
Posts: 2882
Location: MD | 1. How many horses do you have?
2
2. Do you keep your horses at home or board?
We board, but we rent the house on the property. So technically we have them at home.
3. What price would you expect to pay for board in your area?
Depending on what you're getting.
self care - 150-200 per head
partial care - 250-350 per head
full care 500 - 600 per head
4. What are your top priorities when looking for a boarding barn?
Safety, culture(low dramatics and run efficiently), an arena
5. Do you take riding lessons?
Not currently. I did take lessons at a riding academy from ages 6-15.
6. Do you ever send your horse(s) to a professional trainer?
Yes |
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Posts: 2457
| cavyrunsbarrels - 2014-10-28 8:33 PM I am doing a market research project for a college course and would really appreciate yall's input. Thanks!!!!
1. How many horses do you have? Currently 2
2. Do you keep your horses at home or board? Board
3. What price would you expect to pay for board in your area? Stalls with own run, you provide the feed/care ~$200 to $300. Full time pasture turn out with round bale ~$175. Stall with full care ~ $350 and up.
4. What are your top priorities when looking for a boarding barn? Safety. Then amenities, arena is a must for me.
5. Do you take riding lessons? Nope. :)
6. Do you ever send your horse(s) to a professional trainer? Sent my filly to a friend (who is a prof. trainer) this past summer when I had too much on my plate and not enough time.
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Posts: 392
Location: CA | cavyrunsbarrels - 2014-10-28 6:33 PM I am doing a market research project for a college course and would really appreciate yall's input. Thanks!!!!
1. How many horses do you have?
2. Do you keep your horses at home or board?
3. What price would you expect to pay for board in your area?
4. What are your top priorities when looking for a boarding barn?
5. Do you take riding lessons?
6. Do you ever send your horse(s) to a professional trainer?
1. How many horses do you have?
-3
2. Do you keep your horses at home or board?
-Home, my family owns a boarding facility
3. What price would you expect to pay for board in your area?
-300-350 for a pipe panel barn no shavings
4. What are your top priorities when looking for a boarding barn?
-A safe facility with good hay and a good riding arena. A good atmosphere also makes a huge difference. I had to move home for school last year but before when I was living a few hours away looking for a boarding facility was terrible. Its so hard to find the right combo of convienent location, adequate facility, and the right group of people. I had two horses and was spending a fair bit of time and money there, so I wanted to enjoy myself while there.
5. Do you take riding lessons?
-Yes a few times a year
6. Do you ever send your horse(s) to a professional trainer?
-No, but my mom was/is a professional trainer until she basically retired a year or so ago. We have a full time trainer working out of our barn now.
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Posts: 1162
Location: White Mountains of AZ | 1. How many horses do you have?
Two Horses
2. Do you keep your horses at home or board?
HOME
3. What price would you expect to pay for board in your area?
Probably (guessing) around 250-450 depending on place/people
4. What are your top priorities when looking for a boarding barn?
Never looked, but I'd want enough space for both my horses to be able to run around... preferably some grazing grass/ clean pens/shelter of some sort. I'd look at the other horses being boarded and look at their well being. I'd be picky!!
5. Do you take riding lessons?
Riding no, I have attened a few barrel clinics though.
6. Do you ever send your horse(s) to a professional trainer?
I train all my own horses.
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 Born not Made
Posts: 2937
Location: North Dakota | 1. How many horses do you have? Currently TWO.
2. Do you keep your horses at home or board? I board them.
3. What price would you expect to pay for board in your area? I have pasture board and I expect to pay $100 to $125 in the summer, and then extra for hay in the winter.
4. What are your top priorities when looking for a boarding barn? Well since I've never been at a "real" boarding barn, one of my top priorities would be that they have a heated indoor arena for winter riding. I would also want them to check on my horses at least once per day (and when I mean "check", I mean really look at them). Peace of mind is very important to me.
5. Do you take riding lessons? Once in a while I will take my horses to a reining trainer to work on advanced things such as spins and flying lead changes. I also take English hunter-jumper lessons twice a month in the winter.
6. Do you ever send your horse(s) to a professional trainer? I do the majority of my own training, but once in a while I will. I sent my colt (after I started him) for 30 days because they had indoor facilities to get him going in the spring, and I will be sending my older horse for reining training for 30 days to "brush up" on his reining moves and make it easier for me to get BOTH my horses in shape (if the reining trainer has one of them!!!). |
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Posts: 19623
Location: Peg-Leg Julia Grimm | cavyrunsbarrels - 2014-10-28 6:33 PM I am doing a market research project for a college course and would really appreciate yall's input. Thanks!!!!
1. How many horses do you have? I have 14 head right now.
2. Do you keep your horses at home or board? Home
3. What price would you expect to pay for board in your area? Full care board in my area is about $300/month
4. What are your top priorities when looking for a boarding barn? If I needed to board I would look for a facility like mine. Individual stalls with pasture access 24/7. I don't know of any like this. Usually they have stalls and separate turn out in groups. Rarely individual turnout.
5. Do you take riding lessons? No. But I know a lot of people like available activities at the place they board.
6. Do you ever send your horse(s) to a professional trainer? Yes I send 2 -3 year olds out for training.
Edited by OregonBR 2014-10-29 1:54 PM
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Industrial Srength Barrel Racer
Posts: 7268
| cavyrunsbarrels - 2014-10-28 8:33 PM I am doing a market research project for a college course and would really appreciate yall's input. Thanks!!!!
1. How many horses do you have?
2. Do you keep your horses at home or board?
3. What price would you expect to pay for board in your area?
4. What are your top priorities when looking for a boarding barn?
5. Do you take riding lessons?
6. Do you ever send your horse(s) to a professional trainer?
1. 3
2. At home
3. $300/mo for stall and run
4. Clean and chores done on time
5. No
6. No |
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Posts: 3782
Location: Gainesville, TX | cavyrunsbarrels - 2014-10-28 8:33 PM
I am doing a market research project for a college course and would really appreciate yall's input. Thanks!!!!
1. How many horses do you have?
2. Do you keep your horses at home or board?
3. What price would you expect to pay for board in your area?
4. What are your top priorities when looking for a boarding barn?
5. Do you take riding lessons?
6. Do you ever send your horse(s) to a professional trainer?
1. 11 on the ground, 2 sold but they are making payments, 1 bought and making payments, 1 on the way (however you want to do the math)
2. I do both. I currently board my 2 year old filly to keep her moving well and we board my husband's rope horse. We switch these out and let some take breaks. We want to buy a place so we don't have to though.
3. I pay $300 full care for the filly and $100 a head for others (different situation). I much prefer the self care $100 option.
4. I want a solid area to ride in; pasture acreage for trail riding is also great. I want them to have turnout (not just stalled). And an ability to keep your horse away from others but see them. I don't want my filly hurt but I want her happier by visiting with other horses.
5. Not really.
6. Yes. Got two there now and another going in April.
ETA: When I say we do both, I also meant that we have a number of horses on family land. My broodies are at my MIL's and she is going into business with me. My husband keeps most of his (and our retirees) at my FIL's and we cycle them in and out.
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 Elite Veteran
Posts: 999
Location: Sunny So Cal | 1. How many horses do you have?
4
2. Do you keep your horses at home or board?
Board
3. What price would you expect to pay for board in your area?
$600- $1,000
4. What are your top priorities when looking for a boarding barn?
Cleaniness, attenative workers, a few nice/well groomed arenas, the feed I want, trails. Would love to have some with pasture turnouts but not available in southern california.
5. Do you take riding lessons?
yes
6. Do you ever send your horse(s) to a professional trainer?
no, because I am in full training with a professional
Edited by Cowgirl Kat 2014-10-29 1:28 PM
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Posts: 178
| 1. How many horses do you have? 8
2. Do you keep your horses at home or board? At home
3. What price would you expect to pay for board in your area? 350-450 for full board
4. What are your top priorities when looking for a boarding barn? level of care, safety, if I like the people- knowledgeable, etc., nice riding areas
5. Do you take riding lessons? every once in awhile and clinics
6. Do you ever send your horse(s) to a professional trainer? on occasion if I'm too busy and want to get one going or for legging up if the weather is too crappy and show season is approaching |
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 Not Afraid to Work
Posts: 4717
| 1. How many horses do you have? 1
2. Do you keep your horses at home or board? Board
3. What price would you expect to pay for board in your area? $230 Pasture
4. What are your top priorities when looking for a boarding barn? Good quality hay, friendly atmosphere, small numbers, plenty of paddocks/pasture for grazing, indoor & outdoor arena, access to trails, trailer parking, knowledge and organization for farrier, vaccinations, etc.
5. Do you take riding lessons? I do like to go get "picked" on from time to time but not consistently just when I feel I need a tune-up. Lessons or a clinic. Usually its just letting a friend pick at me.
6. Do you ever send your horse(s) to a professional trainer? No. |
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 Balance Beam and more...
Posts: 11511
Location: 31 lengths farms | cavyrunsbarrels - 2014-10-29 6:33 PM
I am doing a market research project for a college course and would really appreciate yall's input. Thanks!!!!
1. How many horses do you have?
2. Do you keep your horses at home or board?
3. What price would you expect to pay for board in your area?
4. What are your top priorities when looking for a boarding barn?
5. Do you take riding lessons?
6. Do you ever send your horse(s) to a professional trainer?
1. 3
2. Home
3. $170 each for pasture turn out and feed 2x a day.
4. Safety of the facility, knowledge of the owner/operator, how long it takes for me to commute to barn, etc.
5. Usually do clinics but have taken lessons before and will I'm sure again.
6. Have when I wanted to start a discipline I had never been involved in before and another time when my colts issues were far beyond my capabilities.
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 Party Gal
Posts: 3432
Location: fun meter pegged OK | 1. How many horses do you have? - 1
2. Do you keep your horses at home or board? - Home
3. What price would you expect to pay for board in your area? - Don't know; never looked
4. What are your top priorities when looking for a boarding barn? - If I had to it would be Competent staff.
5. Do you take riding lessons? - No; but I will learn cues that my horses have been taught by the trainer prior to bringing the home.
6. Do you ever send your horse(s) to a professional trainer? - Yes |
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Posts: 3175
| 1. Two
2. Home
3. Outdoor pasture - $50-$75/month; Indoor with covered arena - $300-$500
4. Safety for my horse, cleanliness, knowledge of owners/caretakers, daily turnout
5. On occasion
6. Once, for the first 30 days, if I could afford it I would send for longer |
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The Advice Guru
Posts: 6419
| What is your view for your research paper?
The questions are quite vague, especially number 6 as most people buy their horses already started, this question can be interpreted two ways, and the way the question is worded it is a yes or no question. Also number 5 there is no definition of riding lessons, if you described this the answers would be more creditable, again yes or no question.
1)20
2)varies
3)350-500
4)indoor arena large enough for barrels, the ground worked in a regular manner, stalls cleaned daily, fresh shavings, lots of shavings, dust free hay, hay in front of horses 24/7, fresh water 24/7, turnout daily. Cleanliness, no hazards for horses.
5)depends on definition
6)varies |
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 Keeper of the King Snake
Posts: 7622
Location: Dubach, LA | I am doing a market research project for a college course and would really appreciate yall's input. Thanks!!!!
1. How many horses do you have? 6
2. Do you keep your horses at home or board? Home
3. What price would you expect to pay for board in your area? NA
4. What are your top priorities when looking for a boarding barn? If I had to board, I guess I'd look for turn-out and location.
5. Do you take riding lessons? No
6. Do you ever send your horse(s) to a professional trainer? I wish. |
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Posts: 12841
| cavyrunsbarrels - 2014-10-28 8:33 PM
I am doing a market research project for a college course and would really appreciate yall's input. Thanks!!!!
1. How many horses do you have? six
2. Do you keep your horses at home or board? home
3. What price would you expect to pay for board in your area?Most do not offer feed but around 2-300
4. What are your top priorities when looking for a boarding barn?
5. Do you take riding lessons? usually go to clinics but if my horse is at the trainer she works with me to ride the horse to its best advantage.
6. Do you ever send your horse(s) to a professional trainer? all of mine go to a trainer.
I am doing a market research project for a college course and would really appreciate yall's input. Thanks!!!!
1. How many horses do you have?
2. Do you keep your horses at home or board? home
3. What price would you expect to pay for board in your area?Most do not offer feed but around 2-300
4. What are your top priorities when looking for a boarding barn?
5. Do you take riding lessons? usually go to clinics but if my horse is at the trainer she works with me to ride the horse to its best advantage.
6. Do you ever send your horse(s) to a professional trainer? all of mine go to a trainer.
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Location: Friendswood, Texas | 1. Three horses
2. Board on leased property
3. $250/month per horse for partial and up to $650 for full board
4. Clean, safe facility with proper fencing and turnout with decent grass (minimal invasion of privacy is a huge bonus)
5. My daughter takes lessons on her own horse
6. We just got our youngest horse back from three months with a trainer |
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Posts: 113
Location: Tx | cavyrunsbarrels - 2014-10-28 8:33 PM
I am doing a market research project for a college course and would really appreciate yall's input. Thanks!!!!
1. How many horses do you have?
2. Do you keep your horses at home or board?
3. What price would you expect to pay for board in your area?
4. What are your top priorities when looking for a boarding barn?
5. Do you take riding lessons?
6. Do you ever send your horse(s) to a professional trainer?
1) 3
2) Home
3) No idea
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5) I have on occasion
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Elite Veteran
Posts: 788
| 1. How many horses do you have? 8
2. Do you keep your horses at home or board? home
3. What price would you expect to pay for board in your area? for a pasture about $10 a month per horse. Stalls would be more but we dont have any boarding facilities in my area.
4. What are your top priorities when looking for a boarding barn? n/a
5. Do you take riding lessons? yes, from a good friend of mine
6. Do you ever send your horse(s) to a professional trainer? no |
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 Northern Chocolate Queen
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Location: ND | cavyrunsbarrels - 2014-10-28 7:33 PM I am doing a market research project for a college course and would really appreciate yall's input. Thanks!!!!
1. How many horses do you have?
2. Do you keep your horses at home or board?
3. What price would you expect to pay for board in your area?
4. What are your top priorities when looking for a boarding barn?
5. Do you take riding lessons?
6. Do you ever send your horse(s) to a professional trainer?
1. 14
2. at home
3. When I boarded my horses where simply pastured, one place i stayed was free, another was $50 a month which i usually traded off for riding/hoof trimming work. Now if I was boarding I wouldn't even hope to find a place under $100 a month pasture board & in my area even more since I'm close to the oil field.
4. safety would be my first priority. Fences that are well maintained, horses kept in managable sized herds, a nice arena to ride in outdoor & indoor would be wonderful, people i trust to take care of my horses when i cant get there.
5. No
6. I train for a living but yes I have still sent my horses to others for specialized finishing work that I can't do at home. Last horse I sent out was trained for team roping, as I don't have a fenced arena or steers it wasn't something I could do myself. |
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Red Bull Agressive
Posts: 5981
Location: North Dakota | Thank you everyone for your participation! You have earned my eternal gratitude! |
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 Elite Veteran
Posts: 602
Location: Knoxville, TN | 1. How many horses do you have? 3
2. Do you keep your horses at home or board? 2 live with my mom at her house and 1 I board with me
3. What price would you expect to pay for board in your area? $100-200 for pasture, $300-500 for full board (East TN)
4. What are your top priorities when looking for a boarding barn? Good pastures, other horses look well cared for, other boarders who ride often, owners who are active with boarders and horses, place to ride with lights, water drainage, and TALK to other boarders
5. Do you take riding lessons? No
6. Do you ever send your horse(s) to a professional trainer? Not professional, just tune ups if needed |
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Posts: 137
Location: ILLINOIS | 1. How many horses do you have?
9
2. Do you keep your horses at home or board?
Home
3. What price would you expect to pay for board in your area?
Pasture 200, stalled 500+
4. What are your top priorities when looking for a boarding barn?
If I was looking for one. Would be ease of access, cleanliness, set up of facilities, access to arenas for exercising, friendliness of owners and other boarders, consideration to anomals, references, what their emergency protocol is, etc.
5. Do you take riding lessons?
No
6. Do you ever send your horse(s) to a professional trainer?
Have before. Dont anymore. |
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College assignment: could you answer a few questions for me?