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| Horse Farm Volunteers |
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| Volunteer opportunities are available at Silver Creek Stables if you are at least 16 years old or older. As you might imagine, a lot of work goes into running a horse farm. There's always plenty of work to be done, so we can always use extra help. It's hard work, but it's enjoyable and rewarding |
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| What are Volunteers asked to do? |
| The types of things you'll be asked to do include: grooming the horses, tacking up, clearing trails, helping to maintain the pastures, oiling tack, de-worming, feeding and watering the horses, giving baths, and cleaning up horse manure from the tacking area. If you don't know how to do these things (and most of our new volunteers don't), we'll teach you. That's the huge benefit of being a volunteer. You'll learn more by volunteering than we would teach you even if you were paying for lessons, because in our lessons, we only teach you to ride - not how to de-worm a horse and how often; give necessary vaccinations; what to feed, how much, and how often; recognize when they're sick; know what to do in a situation where a horse is colicing or injured; and when to call the vet. |
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| Benefits of Volunteering |
If you work full days, you'll get to ride for at least one hour each time you volunteer. However, if you choose to work half days, you will be allowed to ride at least one hour every other time you volunteer. After you've become an experienced rider through the free riding privileges that you earn as a volunteer, help ride back up on some of the trail rides. The better rider you become, the more you'll be asked to ride since you'll be capable of helping us ensure that our customers have a safe and enjoyable ride.
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| Our Expectations |
| We are looking for people who plan to volunteer on a regular basis. We don't accept volunteers on a casual basis because it doesn't allow time for you to learn our horses' names and dispositions, which pasture each horse belongs in, our trails, how to properly groom a horse, how to ride well enough to assist our customers on the trails when needed, and how we operate. We ask that our volunteers commit to a minimum of two full days a week. If this sounds like a program you'd be interested in, we accept inquiries by phone and email.
You will need to pack your own lunch and bring plenty of water to drink each day. You'll need waterproof boots for cleaning stalls, and you'll need to bring your cowboy boots for riding. You can wear your cowboy boots for cleaning stalls if you desire. |
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| Email me (Sandy), and let me know when you'd like to begin. The first time you volunteer you'll need to sign a Liability Release Form so that you can work with the horses and ride. If you'd like to visit our farm first to meet us and see our farm, you're welcome to.
Please call and schedule a time. |
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