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A special thank you to Erin Burnside of Elkins High
School and all the riders that came to the benefit trail ride for SWAP. As her
Senior project Erin raised over $400. for SWAP. Kudos Erin. If we had 100 kids
do this as their senior project or even just as a fund raiser, they could pay to
feed all our horses for a year!! Please consider us kids when you are doing your
volunteer projects for school or if you want to do a fund raiser this summer.
One kid with the desire to help can make a huge difference, just like Erin did.
Bravo for a job well done!!
Congratulations
to our Executor for her selection and award for the International Who's Who of
Professional and Business Women for 2006/2007. Kudos!!
Yehaa, Kudos again to our Executor for her selection to
receive the National Leadership Award by the Republican Party.
Click here to put
a horse into our adoption program
Click here to
see what we have learned over the years and with thousands of horses.
If you can't adopt, think about a gift to one or
all of our horses: supplies, tack, dewormers, a donation, fly spray, or a new
halter. Click here to be a sponsor to
one of our horses
Great Goals for 2008:
1. Spend
an hour a day with your horses, not just feeding, training and turning out, but
real quality time doing something that is enjoyable for the both of you.
Grooming or hand walking is a great way to bond with your horse and good for
both you and the horse.
2. Get
your loved ones more involved in your horses. Divorce is the biggest reason we
see horses coming back to us. Don't just share the work, share the fun too and find
something they really enjoy doing with horses.
3. Learn
a new discipline, go to a clinic, a horse show, or equine affaire. Come to one
of our clinics or watch a training video. If you are an adopter you can check
out books and video's from SWAP's Library for just shipping costs. Take a lesson at least once a month or Bring your adoption horse
here and we will help you. The better you are, the more fun you will have.
4. Make a
plan for your horse after you are gone or if you have a major injury, let your
will executor know your plans. Make a plan for emergencies or financial bumps
along the way for your horse. Have a plan if you or your horse gets injured,
even for the tough times of year like winter (or summer down south). Ask friends, family and neighbors
to be part of your plan. Most people can not resist someone when they are asking
for help for the welfare of an innocent animal.
5. Get yourself healthy and in better shape to
prevent injury, to live a long life and to more enjoy your horses. Eat 1-1-1
(one ounce of dark chocolate, one ounce of fresh walnuts, one glass of red wine
daily) and 2-2-2 (2 servings of fresh vegis, 2 of fresh fruit and get 2 sources
of fat free calcium). Drink 100 ounces of spring water a day, get a whole
house water filter. Change over to Sea-salt. Take one teaspoon of apple cider
vinegar every morning to keep your body alkaline (cancer and disease can not
grow in an alkaline body). Eat more fish and chicken and less red meat. Get a
good air cleaner and do daily deep breathing exercises, get outside in the fresh
air and sunshine for at least 1/2 hour every day. Get away from high fat food,
processed foods, fast food, can or boxed food, sugar or artificial sweeteners,
soda and don't eat anything if you can't read all the ingredients and know
exactly what is in it. Clean all vegis and fruits thoroughly, buy organic, buy
ocean caught fish, not farm raised, buy fresh meat and raw milk, not packed or
processed. Eat only natural carbs (potatoes, rice, oats) bake/broil or steam
everything. Use your microwave for only heating water, it kills the nutrition
value in food. Get 8 hours of sleep, reduce stress/risk (reduce commuting by car
pooling, tight schedules, cell phone use in the car, watch or read the news only
once a day or better yet once a week, stay clear of
negative people
and those very negative chat rooms and bulletin boards). Stop Complaining and be
Thankful for what we each have. Do one hour of walking, yoga or weight
training every day and it will make you strong, lean, look great and you'll get
wonderful complements from friends, coworkers and loved ones and the horse work
will be easier and more enjoyable.
6. Read
at least one book on training your horse and one on care each year, if for nothing
else but just inspiration. SWAP has a great
library of books/videos that adopters can check out for just the cost of mailing
it. Click here to
see our Library
7. Get
carrots/apples every time you go to the store, your horses will love you for it and
always come running when you call. Don't feed candy or anything sweeter. Carrots
are sweet enough. Get rid of the sweet feeds and you'll get rid of the hot horse
once and for all.
8.
Realize that if you are having a problem with your horse, more likely than not,
the problem is you. Learn more, practice more, ask in a different way, be
patient, change their environment or daily schedule to better suit them. Taking
better care of a horse always brings out the best in that horse. Good
feed/hay, time to rest in a quiet stall out of the elements, lots of fresh water, time to be with you and time to
just be a horse, time with their buddies, farrier and vet care always done is a
good start. The biggest part of this relationship puzzle is you, not the horse.
If you are struggling, then you need to learn more and get better.
9. Ride
at least once a week, regardless of weather. Use this time as your down time for
healing, your therapy, your time to relieve stress and the pressures of daily
life. Even if you don't ride, go sit and read a book in the pasture with the
horses or sit in the barn and listen to them munch on dinner, away from the
crowd and noise of your day. Enjoy the peace and quiet, enjoy hearing happy
horses eating dinner or grass in the pasture.
10. Spend
time leisurely grooming your horse once a week. Rubber curries are shine makers.
You will have a beautiful horse and a very loyal friend who will do anything for
you.
11. Come and spend a week at SWAP HQ,
volunteering and focusing on helping a horse and giving will change your life
plus it will be the best vacation you ever had. Help
an animal in need, whether fostering, being one of our state reps that goes out
to check on our horses in their homes or helps us approve adopters in their
area. Find horses in need and help us find them homes. Buy a horse at a slaughter
auction, get it fat and trained and we'll help you place it into a good home. Foster and
volunteer for your local small animal adoption program. I promise, the good
things you do will come back to you a hundred times over. Every person has a
talent they can offer and if you help one horse or one dog or cat find a good
home, you have changed their life forever.
12.
Know that every goal is obtainable and it starts with a single step.
Take that first step today!! No matter what it is or how big, YOU CAN DO IT!!
Every goal that is written down will come true (really!). Every famous person,
every great or notable scientist, author, trainer/rider, parent or friend
started out as just a thought, just a goal. Remember to take one step today to
reach your goals.
13. Start
every day with thinking about, what is the most important thing I can do
today to change my life and make it better. Do that one thing and in 30 days
your life will be totally different. Can you imagine what your life would be
like if you did that for 60, 90 or even 365 days a year. The opportunities are
endless.
14. Want to keep your horse sound for life? (That should be every horse owners
number one goal) do a
long slow warm up (cold muscle is easy to injure, a warm one is nearly
impossible to injure). The very best cool down is hand walking your horse for 1 hour after every work out.
Yes, get off the horse and walk with it. Its great exercise for you and a good
time for you to bond. Stop riding your horse during cool downs and stop using a
hot walker, do something good for you and the horse, hand walking. Its also the
best rehab for over work and injuries, the only thing better is hydro therapy
and swimming your horse. Allow soft tissue and hard tissue to
become more conditioned before going into any training program... that usually
means 3 months of at least 3 days a week for soft tissues and 10 months of work for bones to become strong
enough to jump or do any strenuous training program. Don't start any upper level
work, jumping or extensive training until the horse is fit and at least between
age 4 and 6 and has been conditioned for at least 10 months (especially if the
horse has never been jumped/worked or not been jumped or worked in the last
year).
15. Appreciate what you have and be thankful.
Instead of looking at what you don't have, look at what you do. Thank those
people who have helped you and supported you. The more you give, the more that
will come back to you. When you give something away or give something to
someone/something in need, you make space in your life for something good to
come to you. We are all very blessed, if we just take a moment to look
around and enjoy those things.
16. Get used to using favorite mantra's and visualizations
every day, simple ones that are easy to remember, like 'I can do this, I will do
this', 'this isn't going to get the best of me' or even, 'I deserve the best' or
'the gift of love, caring, and support always comes back' and take two minutes
every morning as you wake and at night as you go to sleep to visualize the life
you want, the you you want to be, Our thoughts become things, what you see
is what you get, if you expect the best, the best will happen, change your
self-talk from negative to positive and I promise your life will change for the
better..
17. Each person is put on this earth for a reason, each of
us has a mission. What is yours? Seek and you shall find, finding is a journey
... in the journey and the search you'll find your life purpose. If you died in
your sleep tonight is there something you haven't done that you need to do or
want to do? Someone you need to mend fences with, burnt bridges to fix? People
you need to tell them how much you love them? Have you fulfilled your purpose in
your life? Ask yourself, Why am I here? How can I make this better? Who do
I want to be? Who am I suppose to be? What reason was I put on this earth? What
is my purpose?
18. Be an inspiration to your family, co workers and
friends. We all fall on our face, we all make mistakes, we all get discouraged,
most times we all get up and try again.... sometimes we need a nudge. Instead of
being negative or doing negative things, be their inspiration. You do believe
they can do it, so why not tell them. If their self talk is negative, then you
be their positive self talk.... eventually they will start to say it and believe
it too. Life is self fulfilling, failure feeds on itself or causes more failure,
achieving does as well. So if you or your love ones are in a negative cycle,
break the cycle by changing your thoughts, your self talk, achieve something
small to get yourself and your family back into the cycle of achievement.
19. We all file a flight plan every single day for our
life. Where is your flight going today? Just like a pilot flying, the winds, the
gravitational pull will change your flight plan and take you off course, so you
must make small corrections along the way to make sure you make your
destination. Have you selected your destination? Have you picked the steps in
your flight plan to get there? Every goal is really that easy, pick the goal and
figure out how to get there. The easiest way to pick your flight path/plan is
find someone who has done it before you, then do what they did. Its all baby
steps you know. Just keep an eye on that destination and keep saying...."here is
my destination, this is where I'm going, this is where I am now, this is how I'm
going to get there.... I will arrive at this time on this day. You can do
it..... its just like getting in your car to go to the store, its just deciding
where you want to go and how to get there, then take that first step. You can do
it!! No matter how big or how outlandish you may think your dream to be...
it is obtainable.
20. Laugh every day and try (as hard as it is sometimes)
to find the positive and the humor in each situation (and have at least one bite
of a truly decadent desert once a week). Life is just too short to not enjoy it
thoroughly.
21. We learn the most and do our best work when we have
fallen on our face, when we are struggling, when we are worried, scared or
frustrated, when we anguishing over something or troubled by it. It is then that
you have true motivation, when you think clearer. The most brilliant ideas come
to people when they feel lost, frustrated, or at the bottom, helpless or
hopeless. Cherish these times because its when you can come up with your best
ideas to your biggest problems and challenges. You see, there is a reason for
the rainy days.
22. You can't make everyone happy, its useless to try and
wasted energy to think you can. 50% of all people will not agree with you at any
given time, don't worry about it and don't let it stop you. 50% becomes a lot of
people when you are in the public eye. As long as you are not hurting anyone and
you believe you are doing the right thing, then go ahead and do it. If you are
wondering what is the right thing to do, its usually the harder thing to do, the
toughest path to take. The easy way out is rarely the right thing to do.
Instead of worrying over what someone thinks of you or says about you, do
something amazing and outstanding to inspire them or at least have them sitting
on the side lines being jealous, secretly saying, "wow, she has guts". One
person with purpose becomes the majority, one way or another.
This should
probably be taped to your bathroom mirror where one could read it every day.
1. There
are at least two people in this world that you would die for.
2. At least
15 people in this world love you in some way.
3. The only
reason anyone would ever hate you is because they want to be just like you
4. A smile
from you can bring happiness to anyone, even if they don't like you.
5. Every
night, SOMEONE thinks about you before they go to sleep.
6. You mean
the world to someone.
7. You are
special and unique.
8. Someone
that you don't even know exists loves you.
9. When you
make the biggest mistake ever, something good comes from it.
10 When you
think the world has turned its back on you take another look.
11 Always
remember the compliments you received. Forget about the rude remarks.
Good
friends are like stars.......
You don't
always see them, But you know they are always there.
"Whenever
God Closes One Door He Always Opens Another,
I would
rather have one rose and a kind word from a friend while I'm here than a whole
truck load when I'm gone.
Always in hope and admiration, Celeita
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SWAP Services to Horse Owners
SWAP
Boarding,Training, Spa and Rehabilitation
Services at SWAP HQ
SWAP Boarding:
$250. field boarding (for a healthy sound horse) with run ins in each
paddock, morning and evening feedings of grain and hay, *coordinating deworming/stable farrier/vet,
natural contained springs supplemented with filled troughs, use of all
facilities (wash stalls, arena, round pen, trails).
$300. full board (for a healthy sound horse) with 10 x 10, 12 x 12 or 12
x 16 stalls cleaned 5 days a week, free sawdust bedding, clean bedding 3 days a week,
daily turn out dependent upon weather, grain and hay
twice daily, *coordinating deworming/stable farrier/vet, use of all facilities (wash stalls,
arena, round pen, trails).
*The actual cost of the dewormer, the
cost paid to the farrier and vet is separate and paid by the boarder/owner at
time of service. Farm call costs will be shared when farrier and vet is coming
to do several horses.
Additional services are available on an
ala cart basis are as follows:
- grooming daily $5. per day, $10.00
on weekends
- grooming weekly 10% off for 5 days
per week, 5% off for weekend grooming
- grooming monthly 15% off for 5 days
per week for a month, 10% off to include weekend grooming (7 days per week)
- Cleaning stalls on weekends $20 per weekend
- Additional days of clean bedding $10. per day
- Providing a deeply bedded stall $10. per day
- Providing dewormers and giving them $15. each deworming
- Providing more than 10 lbs a day per horse (
- emergency support between the hours of 8pm and 8am $100. per session
- transport/emergency transport $1.00 a mile
- meeting the vet during off hours (5pm to 8am weekdays and weekends)
$25.
- training $20. per session, $500. for
a month of training
- wrapping legs $5.00 per wrapping,
$10. per wrapping if we provide the clean wraps and all materials
- **blanketing/sheeting/rugging during inclement weather, fly sheets/masks
in summer $2.50 per day per horse
- dressing injuries, $10. per dressing
- rehab (see below but each injury and
illness needs to be addressed separately with the facility)
- 12 x 16 stall for an oversized horse or mare and foal or special turn
out schedule/location: $5.00 per day
- foaling through first feeding, breeding assistance $50. per session
- stallion/colt boarding $500. per month
- young horse training (2 and under), $10. per session or $500. per
month
- Mare care during pregnancy, foaling, lactation $5.00 per day
- Imprinting a foal $300. (3 days of sessions that covers the entire
foal)
- hand walking $5.00 per 1/2 hour walk
- exercise riding $10.00 per ride
- bathing $10.00
- Clipping (bridle path and face) $10.00
- Body clip $100.00
- ***giving supplements/special feeds
or meds daily, $5.00 daily (not counting cost of meds/supplements/special
feeds
- cleaning and care for tack $20. per
cleaning
- washing and care of
blankets/rugs/sheets and fly masks, $100. monthly
- lessons for the boarder/owner $35.
per lesson
- Equine Sports Massage Therapy by a certified ESMT ($45.00 on
location, $100. off location plus mileage)
- tacking up, untacking and cooling
out $20.
**The cost of the rug/sheet/blanket and
fly sheets/ fly masks are paid for by the boarder/owner, the cost of cleaning
and repairing these items are also the expense of the boarder/owner.
Additionally the horse must be trained to accept blankets/sheets/rugs/fly
sheets/fly masks by the owner. The costs of meds/special feeds and supplements
are provided by the owner/boarder.
SWAP Training:
$500. includes full board (above) Training can be in nearly any
discipline, basic training, starting under saddle, ground training or driving,
also includes 4 days of working with the owner each month
The SWAP
Spa Level 1: Full Board for
the sound horse or a horse with no special care regardless of soundness
(includes 12 x 12 or 12 x 16 stall with shavings cleaned daily, 100 gallons
of fresh water available in stall and 200 gallons in pasture, daily turn
out on 30 acres (dependent upon weather) blanketing and the horse is
provided a water proof rug for winter below 40 degrees, grooming at least
once a week and every time they get wet outside, farrier trims and deworming
every 60 days) and one Equine Sports Massage Therapy session.
$400. a month. (3 months for $1100.,
6 months for $2000.)
The SWAP
Spa Conditioning Option, Level II:
Includes everything in SWAP Spa above plus grooming and hand walking 5 days
a week can be added for $100. more a month.
$500. total each month
(including all services above under SWAP Spa as well)
The SWAP
Spa Recovery Option Level III: For horses that are thin,
starved, neglected, abused physically or mentally.
$600. a month, this is our
specialty, getting weight up, fixing feet, getting the horse to body
condition level 5 (Heinachy scale), including everything we do for horses
except unsaddle training (blanketing/sheeting, grooming, feet, getting
horses fat, working on trust and basic handling). Horse must be healthy
enough to travel here.
The SWAP
Spa Training and Fitness Option Level IV:
Training and fitness of the sound horse (includes SWAP Spa Conditioning
above and training 5 days a week, this can be natural training, problem
solving, ground or under saddle training focused on general training and
riding or a specific discipline or serious problem solving. Training
techniques lean toward PNH, Monty Roberts, John Lyons, Buck Brannaman and
Ray Hunt depending on the horse and problem. We never hit a horse and we
don't force things like head set, bending, bitting and collection. We do
have several local trainers that will work with a horse in a particular
discipline and we are lucky to have trainers available that specialize in
particular breeds, showing, competing, teaching the horse to drive or any
specialty skill. We can not do less than 3 months of training for any
youngsters, horses exhibiting problems or specialty training such as driving
or teaching a discipline, tune ups can be done with 30 to 60 days and All
horse training must end with the owner spending at least a weekend
(but preferably a week, more if the problem is more the owner and not the
horse) at SWAP HQ to receive training (room is included) and to work with
the horse, monthly updates back to the owner are included.
$700. a month ($2000. for 3 months,
$3700. for 6 months)
exercising becomes almost impossible except for regular turn out and hand
walking during the months of January and February because we have only have
a very small indoor).
SWAP Spa
and Rehab Deluxe: This
is truly our specialty, even with the horse that many vets are saying to put
the horse down or that the horse will never be sound... these horses are
sound today.. This is our normal services for horses donated but we now
offer them to all owners for a fee. This now gives the busy horse owner a
chance to totally rehab a horse from injury or neglect with the people who
have done this very thing for years with adoption horses. All these services
are rarely offered by any stable for one flat fee.
The executor can discuss your
horses injury and let you know her estimate on rehab time up front.
Includes SWAP SPA Fitness Option with Rehabilitation, this includes
everything above plus anything that is required to get the horse sound (such
as packing feet, bringing back up to body weight and condition, bringing
back a rescue (abuse or neglect case), recovering from bowed tendons, all
soft tissue and hard tissue rehab, castration and its rehab, wrapping legs,
poultices, liniments, hand walking, daily feet soaking, turn out, natural
trimming, soaking and hand walking/soaking for navicular and foundered horse rehab
and riding or driving for the EPM horse or other horses needing
to slowly increase their endurance, immune system and work level, weekly
equine sports massage therapy, daily vitamins and supplements by smart pak
equine, grooming and hand walking 5 days a week or as can handle it, monthly
updates and pictures back to the owner via email and general veterinary
check up at the completion of their stay.
$1000. a month ($2800. for 3 months,
$5500. for 6 months). This does not
include supplying epm drugs like Marquis or any injections needed by the
horse, except for things like penicillin, bute, SMZ's, tri-hist, Tribrissen
or banamine. We will administer Marquis to the horse if the owner will
purchase it. All funds go to the horses care and then to SWAP to help other
horses in need, if there is any funds left. (we can only take a maximum of 5
of these horses at any one time because of he intensive care level, so get
your reservation in today).
Additional
fees: All
fees in this area are much more reasonable than other parts of the country,
we could not do what we do for horses anywhere else because of the costs,
including special shoeing, vet and dental care.
-Special shoeing is paid directly
to the farrier (Pat McCartney or Tom Powers) if the horse requires something extra.
-All Veterinary care is paid
directly to the stable vet, Dr. Mike McDonald (Good Hope Animal Hospital),
Audubon Animal Hospital or Dr. Winney Maset (WV Equine).
-All Dental care is paid directly
to the stable dentist, Dr. Winnie Maset, he has power floats and does the
best job on teeth, can also handle special dental problems.
Training can be done by the session (with the owner or alone) or monthly
(with so many days with the owner being involved and trained). Training can be
done in the following areas, All training is all natural, (no forcing or hitting
is ever used in training):
-Imprinting at our location at yours (this is 3 days of training that covers
all body areas of the foal)
-basic training for babies (age 2 and under) that includes haltering,
leading, lunging, back and moving away to the touch, being respectful of their
handler, picking up feet, backing up, moving laterally and unlocking
hindquarters, building confidence and respect, bathing, clipping, loading, tying, cross
tying (tying
and cross tying with horses under 4 is always done on a safety knot to prevent
a crash and possible serious injury to the youngster), ground driving, bitting,
lateral control, inflection, voice commands and commands by position and energy
level.
-under saddle training and breaking horses between the age of 2 and 4 (this
is only done after the horses knees have been closed and confirmed by a vet
x-ray
and we do not canter any horse under saddle until age 4)
-Driving, ground driving and driving with a cart
-Under saddle training in the following areas:
- general training, team building, confidence and
respect
- working in a ring and working on a trail
- mounting, dismounting, backing, tacking up
- leads, balancing and transitions
- brakes and gas pedal work
- defining and working on gaits for gaited horses
- transitioning for the race horse (TB, STB, Arab and
QH)
- Transitional training from one job to another
- tempo and lateral work for upper level horses
- lower level dressage, hunter/jumper, hunt seat on the
flat, western and english pleasure
- Training rehab for a older horse, spoiled horse or a
horse with training issues, despooking.
- Pat Parelli 7 games
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SWAP Services to Horse Owners
SWAP
Boarding,Training, Spa and Rehabilitation
Services at SWAP HQ
SWAP Boarding:
$250. field boarding (for a healthy sound horse) with run ins in each
paddock, morning and evening feedings of grain and hay, *coordinating deworming/stable farrier/vet,
natural contained springs supplemented with filled troughs, use of all
facilities (wash stalls, arena, round pen, trails).
$300. full board (for a healthy sound horse) with 10 x 10, 12 x 12 or 12
x 16 stalls cleaned 5 days a week, free sawdust bedding, clean bedding 3 days a week,
daily turn out dependent upon weather, grain and hay
twice daily, *coordinating deworming/stable farrier/vet, use of all facilities (wash stalls,
arena, round pen, trails).
*The actual cost of the dewormer, the
cost paid to the farrier and vet is separate and paid by the boarder/owner at
time of service. Farm call costs will be shared when farrier and vet is coming
to do several horses.
Additional services are available on an
ala cart basis are as follows:
- grooming daily $5. per day, $10.00
on weekends
- grooming weekly 10% off for 5 days
per week, 5% off for weekend grooming
- grooming monthly 15% off for 5 days
per week for a month, 10% off to include weekend grooming (7 days per week)
- Cleaning stalls on weekends $20 per weekend
- Additional days of clean bedding $10. per day
- Providing a deeply bedded stall $10. per day
- Providing dewormers and giving them $15. each deworming
- Providing more than 10 lbs a day per horse (
- emergency support between the hours of 8pm and 8am $100. per session
- transport/emergency transport $1.00 a mile
- meeting the vet during off hours (5pm to 8am weekdays and weekends)
$25.
- training $20. per session, $500. for
a month of training
- wrapping legs $5.00 per wrapping,
$10. per wrapping if we provide the clean wraps and all materials
- **blanketing/sheeting/rugging during inclement weather, fly sheets/masks
in summer $2.50 per day per horse
- dressing injuries, $10. per dressing
- rehab (see below but each injury and
illness needs to be addressed separately with the facility)
- 12 x 16 stall for an oversized horse or mare and foal or special turn
out schedule/location: $5.00 per day
- foaling through first feeding, breeding assistance $50. per session
- stallion/colt boarding $500. per month
- young horse training (2 and under), $10. per session or $500. per
month
- Mare care during pregnancy, foaling, lactation $5.00 per day
- Imprinting a foal $300. (3 days of sessions that covers the entire
foal)
- hand walking $5.00 per 1/2 hour walk
- exercise riding $10.00 per ride
- bathing $10.00
- Clipping (bridle path and face) $10.00
- Body clip $100.00
- ***giving supplements/special feeds
or meds daily, $5.00 daily (not counting cost of meds/supplements/special
feeds
- cleaning and care for tack $20. per
cleaning
- washing and care of
blankets/rugs/sheets and fly masks, $100. monthly
- lessons for the boarder/owner $35.
per lesson
- Equine Sports Massage Therapy by a certified ESMT ($45.00 on
location, $100. off location plus mileage)
- tacking up, untacking and cooling
out $20.
**The cost of the rug/sheet/blanket and
fly sheets/ fly masks are paid for by the boarder/owner, the cost of cleaning
and repairing these items are also the expense of the boarder/owner.
Additionally the horse must be trained to accept blankets/sheets/rugs/fly
sheets/fly masks by the owner. The costs of meds/special feeds and supplements
are provided by the owner/boarder.
SWAP Training:
$500. includes full board (above) Training can be in nearly any
discipline, basic training, starting under saddle, ground training or driving,
also includes 4 days of working with the owner each month
The SWAP
Spa Level 1: Full Board for
the sound horse or a horse with no special care regardless of soundness
(includes 12 x 12 or 12 x 16 stall with shavings cleaned daily, 100 gallons
of fresh water available in stall and 200 gallons in pasture, daily turn
out on 30 acres (dependent upon weather) blanketing and the horse is
provided a water proof rug for winter below 40 degrees, grooming at least
once a week and every time they get wet outside, farrier trims and deworming
every 60 days) and one Equine Sports Massage Therapy session.
$400. a month. (3 months for $1100.,
6 months for $2000.)
The SWAP
Spa Conditioning Option, Level II:
Includes everything in SWAP Spa above plus grooming and hand walking 5 days
a week can be added for $100. more a month.
$500. total each month
(including all services above under SWAP Spa as well)
The SWAP
Spa Recovery Option Level III: For horses that are thin,
starved, neglected, abused physically or mentally.
$600. a month, this is our
specialty, getting weight up, fixing feet, getting the horse to body
condition level 5 (Heinachy scale), including everything we do for horses
except unsaddle training (blanketing/sheeting, grooming, feet, getting
horses fat, working on trust and basic handling). Horse must be healthy
enough to travel here.
The SWAP
Spa Training and Fitness Option Level IV:
Training and fitness of the sound horse (includes SWAP Spa Conditioning
above and training 5 days a week, this can be natural training, problem
solving, ground or under saddle training focused on general training and
riding or a specific discipline or serious problem solving. Training
techniques lean toward PNH, Monty Roberts, John Lyons, Buck Brannaman and
Ray Hunt depending on the horse and problem. We never hit a horse and we
don't force things like head set, bending, bitting and collection. We do
have several local trainers that will work with a horse in a particular
discipline and we are lucky to have trainers available that specialize in
particular breeds, showing, competing, teaching the horse to drive or any
specialty skill. We can not do less than 3 months of training for any
youngsters, horses exhibiting problems or specialty training such as driving
or teaching a discipline, tune ups can be done with 30 to 60 days and All
horse training must end with the owner spending at least a weekend
(but preferably a week, more if the problem is more the owner and not the
horse) at SWAP HQ to receive training (room is included) and to work with
the horse, monthly updates back to the owner are included.
$700. a month ($2000. for 3 months,
$3700. for 6 months)
exercising becomes almost impossible except for regular turn out and hand
walking during the months of January and February because we have only have
a very small indoor).
SWAP Spa
and Rehab Deluxe: This
is truly our specialty, even with the horse that many vets are saying to put
the horse down or that the horse will never be sound... these horses are
sound today.. This is our normal services for horses donated but we now
offer them to all owners for a fee. This now gives the busy horse owner a
chance to totally rehab a horse from injury or neglect with the people who
have done this very thing for years with adoption horses. All these services
are rarely offered by any stable for one flat fee.
The executor can discuss your
horses injury and let you know her estimate on rehab time up front.
Includes SWAP SPA Fitness Option with Rehabilitation, this includes
everything above plus anything that is required to get the horse sound (such
as packing feet, bringing back up to body weight and condition, bringing
back a rescue (abuse or neglect case), recovering from bowed tendons, all
soft tissue and hard tissue rehab, castration and its rehab, wrapping legs,
poultices, liniments, hand walking, daily feet soaking, turn out, natural
trimming, soaking and hand walking/soaking for navicular and foundered horse rehab
and riding or driving for the EPM horse or other horses needing
to slowly increase their endurance, immune system and work level, weekly
equine sports massage therapy, daily vitamins and supplements by smart pak
equine, grooming and hand walking 5 days a week or as can handle it, monthly
updates and pictures back to the owner via email and general veterinary
check up at the completion of their stay.
$1000. a month ($2800. for 3 months,
$5500. for 6 months). This does not
include supplying epm drugs like Marquis or any injections needed by the
horse, except for things like penicillin, bute, SMZ's, tri-hist, Tribrissen
or banamine. We will administer Marquis to the horse if the owner will
purchase it. All funds go to the horses care and then to SWAP to help other
horses in need, if there is any funds left. (we can only take a maximum of 5
of these horses at any one time because of he intensive care level, so get
your reservation in today).
Additional
fees: All
fees in this area are much more reasonable than other parts of the country,
we could not do what we do for horses anywhere else because of the costs,
including special shoeing, vet and dental care.
-Special shoeing is paid directly
to the farrier (Pat McCartney or Tom Powers) if the horse requires something extra.
-All Veterinary care is paid
directly to the stable vet, Dr. Mike McDonald (Good Hope Animal Hospital),
Audubon Animal Hospital or Dr. Winney Maset (WV Equine).
-All Dental care is paid directly
to the stable dentist, Dr. Winnie Maset, he has power floats and does the
best job on teeth, can also handle special dental problems.
Training can be done by the session (with the owner or alone) or monthly
(with so many days with the owner being involved and trained). Training can be
done in the following areas, All training is all natural, (no forcing or hitting
is ever used in training):
-Imprinting at our location at yours (this is 3 days of training that covers
all body areas of the foal)
-basic training for babies (age 2 and under) that includes haltering,
leading, lunging, back and moving away to the touch, being respectful of their
handler, picking up feet, backing up, moving laterally and unlocking
hindquarters, building confidence and respect, bathing, clipping, loading, tying, cross
tying (tying
and cross tying with horses under 4 is always done on a safety knot to prevent
a crash and possible serious injury to the youngster), ground driving, bitting,
lateral control, inflection, voice commands and commands by position and energy
level.
-under saddle training and breaking horses between the age of 2 and 4 (this
is only done after the horses knees have been closed and confirmed by a vet
x-ray
and we do not canter any horse under saddle until age 4)
-Driving, ground driving and driving with a cart
-Under saddle training in the following areas:
- general training, team building, confidence and
respect
- working in a ring and working on a trail
- mounting, dismounting, backing, tacking up
- leads, balancing and transitions
- brakes and gas pedal work
- defining and working on gaits for gaited horses
- transitioning for the race horse (TB, STB, Arab and
QH)
- Transitional training from one job to another
- tempo and lateral work for upper level horses
- lower level dressage, hunter/jumper, hunt seat on the
flat, western and english pleasure
- Training rehab for a older horse, spoiled horse or a
horse with training issues, despooking.
- Pat Parelli 7 games
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