FAQ

Up to 4 litres per day for full board, comprised of any combination of the following feeds. The grain comes from the Purina/Clarence farm services line of feed.

• Equilibrium Trimax ABF
• CFS Elevate ABF
• Elolution Juvenile
• Evolution Senior ABF
• FS Hay Comp ABF
• Beet pulp (no molasses)
• Alfalfa Pellets

You can look at them here https://www.clarencefarmservices.ca/equine/

For horses that require more than 4 litres to reach or maintain a healthy weight, owners can choose to provide additional feed or preferably purchase additional feed through me at $35/month per additional litre a day. Arrangementscanalsobemadetohaveextrafeedingsifrequired.

Typically, yes, but depending on the weather and herd dynamics I might feed them outside while I am supervising to ensure they don't chase each other from their feed pans, I may leave 2 out and bring the slow eaters into their stalls.

Breakfast is fed between 7 am and 8:30 am. Supper is fed anytime 4 pm and 6pm.

Our hay is primarily timothy, with a bit of bromegrass, orchard grass and tall fescue mixed in. Horses have free choice access to round bales of hay in their paddocks, we use knotless slow feed nets to minimize hay waste. When horses are inside at night, they are provided with a minimum of 12-15 pounds of hay (depending on size and needs of the horse) in slow feed knotless nets.

A few of our older nets still have knots but all our new ones do not. Nets in stalls are hung low to simulate grazing. Horses most generally will eat hay from the bottom of their nets. Horses that are shod, have their nets hung higher to eliminate risk of getting caught.

We use Dr Damita Hansen from Cornwallis vets; she is a phenomenal vet/equine chiropractor, and she is also our neighbor! If you decide to use Dr Hansen I will look after scheduling routine visits (teeth and vaccines or chiro) and holding your horse for her if you cannot be present. For non-routine (non-emergency) scheduled vet visits or if you choose to use a different vet, if you are unable to be present for your vet I charge $10 with 24hrs notice to bring them in and hold them. Less than 24 hours’ notice I charge $20. Vets are not permitted to retrieve horses from paddocks or stalls without the owner or W&W staff present.

All horses must be up to date on vaccines (this means that horse MUST be vaccinated before arrival) and vaccines certificate must be provided (Flu, Tetenus, Rhino, EEE and WEE are required vaccines) before arriving on property. Owner is also to bring a tube of dewormer that is to be given on day of arrival by stable.

My farrier is Miles Joudrey from the south shore. Miles is in the area every 2 weeks, this allows us to accommodate horses on a 4, 6 or 8 week trim schedule however we recommend horses get trimmed every 6 weeks. If you decide to use MylesI will look after scheduling and having your horse in and clean for him. If you choose to use a different farrier, you need to be present to bring in and hold your horse for them.

Yes, each horse (except for pasture board horses) has their own stall. I have final say on who goes where, if I need to relocate a horse temporarily or permanently. Boarders are only permitted to use their assigned stalls. However, there are times when I may utilize that stall during the daytime (turn out hours) to house a horse that is waiting for the farrier, or vet. Having two barns it is easier for me to put all the horses in one barn rather than going back and forth between the two.

If you were going to a show or clinic and wanted to keep your horse in the night before to keep them clean you may do so provided, they are not going to stress and damage the stall or injure themselves. If your horse were lame and you wanted to give it some stall rest the policy is: I will clean the stall once a day, the owner is expected to clean them a 2nd time. After 3 days stall reset Owner must provide 2 supplementary bags of bedding per week of rest, after 5 days of stall rest a vet visit is required.

Important to note that in the summer months when horses are turned out 24/7 we do not bed the stalls because I don't want to encourage them to urinate when they are in for grain and waste bedding. I also do not keep water buckets in the stalls in the summer months unless the horse is in for an extended period, because it is a breeding ground for bugs, and bacteria.

Horses will be coming in at night when the temps drop to 0 or below at any point between 7 pm and 7 am.

When checking the weather remember that the temps in Sheffield Mills are likely to be different than they are on the mountains or in Berwick etc. Also, once it does reach below zero if the next day or week, we see warmer temps they will stay out. They will always be turned out in the day unless we have a wet freezing rain or a ridiculous snowstorm.

If you wish to have your horse brought in 365 nights of the year, I charge an additional fee averaged out over the year of $250 per month. This cost covers the additional bedding, cost of using square bales and labor. While we strongly feel horses do better outdoors as much as possible, I do agree that there is an exception to every rule, such as an elderly or ill horse or a horse that needs to acclimate to our weather, conditions or being turned out in general.

There is trail access just down the road, within riding distance. Our road is not very busy and just about everyone who lives on it is a horse person so riding down the shoulder of the road is not a problem.

Now we have 8 paddocks, combined they make up 10 acres. We have 11 acres of pasture that we utilize after the first cut of hay has been harvested. Ideally, we try and keep paddocks with 4- 6 horses in each with a gelding to mare ratio of 3:1. However I keep the owner's horses together unless there is a reason not to. Individual turn out or specific turn out arrangements can be discussed on a case by case basis.

Fly masks, tail bags and bell boots is they are owners’ responsibility, we will adjust them if we see an issue, or if I find them on the ground, we'll pick them up but if they fall off we will not go hunting for them. Regarding fly sheets, we don't get much for irritating insects here, thanks to the steady breeze, typically only an hour or so at dusk.

Rain sheets we will put on between the months of September and May, we will not put it on unless the forecasted low is less than 15 degrees. This is because the temps here fluctuate like crazy and more often than not it ends up being too hot for the rain sheet. We will of course make exceptions in the case that a horse is shivering, is suffering from rain rot etc.

Winter blankets and in season rain sheets we will change morning and night in accordance to boarders preferences, but we don't change them mid-day. (we may go out and haul them off though if it were to get too hot). All blankets are inspected before blanket season, to make sure they are safe and waterproof, because having no blanket is better than having a wet blanket.