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Overnight Horse Boarding

Posted on Monday, January 25, 2010 in Boarding

Overnight Horse Boarding
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Pet Daycare – Keep Your Pet Safe And Happy

The pet daycare is divided into two different categories: actual daycare and boarding services. Boarding services are open to animals from horses to hamsters. Usually, the pets whose owners are away for a long time are taken care of. The duration varies widely from even overnight to a period of six months or even more. Such daycares are approached if there is a lack of space at home for large animals like horses and others. They are provided with toys, feeding dishes and sleeping space.

Unlike this there are even pets that are left alone only during the working hours of the owner. For such cases there pet daycare centers that function for these kind of animals every day. The pets are left in these centers and are later picked up after their work. Usually they are mainly opened to small dogs and sometimes other animals. As usual feeding bowls, toys and bedding are provided by the organizers. At certain doggy daycares exclusively for dogs they are trained by staffs for better health management, safety and for good dog behavior.

Usually the puppies are taken care of separately away from the older ones. Puppies are given special attention providing them a separate area. They are given the basic training and are always kept active and playful. There is always time allotted for naps and play. Basically doggy daycare centers have many features and the best daycare suited to us can be chosen.

These days the current trend is daycare for pet spas. The focus is basically on smaller animals. Here they are exercised, pampered and groomed in the similar manner as done to humans when they visit a spa. Their hair, teeth, nails and ears are taken care of and they are massaged, walked and played with. They have trained staffs to take over these tasks. These services are exclusively for small animals like ferrets, guinea pigs, rabbits, dogs and cats. Even overnight stays are provided along with boarding facilities. There are do-it-yourself centers where the owners have to train and groom their own pets to increase the bond between them. The spa provides the necessary space and also shampoo, grooming equipments, wash basin and nail clippers. They can serve the best for such animals.

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What kind of arrangement is your horse in?

Just a random question. But what kind of arrangement is your horse kept in? Like a pasture, paddock, corral? Go into a stall? Outside 24/7? How many other horses are with them? Makeshift or natural shelters outside?

My horse is in a paddock during the day with 3 other horses. They all get along and got enough room to run around. The paddock has a pretty sandy base and is only mucky when it rains but still not too bad. Like at the old barn I was at, they would have their horses in knee deep mud. Well these guys don’t even really get it past their hooves. She also goes into a stall at night. We plan to keep them outside overnight though on nicer days this summer. It’s just over the winter that I like having her in a stall at night, I am in one of the coldest places in Canada lol!

Also, does your horse get fed square or round bales? Do they have access 24/7?(pasture even?). My horse just gets a square flake each night. I also board her so I don’t take care of all that.

I board my horse, depending on weather they can be outside 24/7, or during extreme heat/horse flies they are outside at night and in during the day, or during extreme cold they are outside during the day and inside at night. (we’re in New Brunswick, Canada)

Here’s a typical day:

8AM feed – grain only
8:30AM – outside in her 3 acre pasture, shared with 2 other mares, free choice round bales available in the pasture (along with grass)
5:00PM – inside for supper, grain and two flakes of hay.

The only shelter outside is some trees, so they are brought in during severe storms or crazy weather. There are 34 horses at the barn, no more than 4 in a pasture, smallest pasture is 1 acre for 2 weanlings.

If they are outside 24/7, they are fed in the pastures… each horse has individual temporary ’stalls’ made with some fence posts during feeding so they don’t eat each others suppers.

They stay outside mostly from May-November… then inside at night.

Pretty simple days :) I usually ride in early morning, or late evening.

Horse Boarding 1

Third Day Stables
Standing at stud at Third Day Stables is Rocky Mountain Stallion, Livin’ Legend , shown here being worked in the indoor arena. Third Day Stables is a new boarding and training facility in the mid-south.