BS Hauler - 2018-03-01 10:25 AM Why on earth do you have 4 horses if you have to pay $ 450 a month. I would be down to 1 horse fast even if I had to give 3 of them away for free.  Each one of them is going to cost you $5,400 a year to board.   I am sorry your in this spot but lets look at pure economics here.  You could pay the payment on your own place for the $16,200 you would save on boarding costs.

ccarpe18 - 2018-03-01 1:42 PM The other ranch I checked out that has the hills (previously) is $275. Or I could pay $195 and provide my own hay. I just hate that they will be farther away. But at this point, I feel like I can trust the owner/manager way more than I can where I am at now. And especially after the price just shot up, definitely sounding like a winner. The owner seems to be way more into the horses vs giving lessons. & she will feed/clean/give grain/supplement. Anything I need. It's a smaller faciliy, But it's also 2 minutes from the beach where we can ride the horses & also about 5 minutes from a large park type area where we can take trail rides. The new barn also has trailer parking & tack rooms. She also has feed bins in the stalls & paddocks. The places where my horses are at now are fed on the dirt-and if it rains-in the mud. One of the pens has a cut down barrel, but they don't feed in it. 





 I had the filly up for sale, I had zero interest in her. I know I can sell her momma easier based off bloodlines, however she still needs to gain a little weight before I list her. She's already looking a TON better since being at my aunts. 



To add why the broodie was skinny to begin with-she's my first ever broodmare & foal experience. My vet said the foal was getting too big too fast at only 1 month old, and advised me to take them off alfaldfa & feed grass only. (yes I know now, how horrific that sounds). I assumed my vet knew best so I listened. 

 

ccarpe18 - 2018-03-01 12:42 PM The other ranch I checked out that has the hills (previously) is $275. Or I could pay $195 and provide my own hay. I just hate that they will be farther away. But at this point, I feel like I can trust the owner/manager way more than I can where I am at now. And especially after the price just shot up, definitely sounding like a winner. The owner seems to be way more into the horses vs giving lessons. & she will feed/clean/give grain/supplement. Anything I need. It's a smaller faciliy, But it's also 2 minutes from the beach where we can ride the horses & also about 5 minutes from a large park type area where we can take trail rides. The new barn also has trailer parking & tack rooms. She also has feed bins in the stalls & paddocks. The places where my horses are at now are fed on the dirt-and if it rains-in the mud. One of the pens has a cut down barrel, but they don't feed in it. 





 I had the filly up for sale, I had zero interest in her. I know I can sell her momma easier based off bloodlines, however she still needs to gain a little weight before I list her. She's already looking a TON better since being at my aunts. 



To add why the broodie was skinny to begin with-she's my first ever broodmare & foal experience. My vet said the foal was getting too big too fast at only 1 month old, and advised me to take them off alfaldfa & feed grass only. (yes I know now, how horrific that sounds). I assumed my vet knew best so I listened. 

 

BS Hauler - 2018-03-01 12:25 PM

Why on earth do you have 4 horses if you have to pay $ 450 a month. I would be down to 1 horse fast even if I had to give 3 of them away for free.  Each one of them is going to cost you $5,400 a year to board.   I am sorry your in this spot but lets look at pure economics here.  You could pay the payment on your own place for the $16,200 you would save on boarding costs.

Nita - 2018-03-01 9:40 PM If they went up on me that much, I’d assume they were trying to tell me to leave. It does happen when you’re not in the clique and they want your stalls for one of their friends.

BS Hauler - 2018-03-01 10:25 AM

Why on earth do you have 4 horses if you have to pay $ 450 a month. I would be down to 1 horse fast even if I had to give 3 of them away for free.  Each one of them is going to cost you $5,400 a year to board.   I am sorry your in this spot but lets look at pure economics here.  You could pay the payment on your own place for the $16,200 you would save on boarding costs.

ccarpe18 - 2018-03-02 10:02 AM


This is what I was afraid of as well. Most of the "boarders" out there are teenagers that take lessons with the manager. They lease her horses if they don't already own one. From what I've seen so far, there's not really many "outside" boarders. At least not that I've seen.

It's weird because they are posting on craigslist all the time about board, and in that sense tend to act like they are struggling to get boarders. 

Supposedly the paddocks were $450 the whole time, and they were "cutting me a deal" for $375. When I first brought my horses out-I was just told straight up that it was $375 & that's where they told me the horses would go  Had no idea I was getting some "special deal"