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(9)Rolling Hills Stables is a full-service boarding facility located in Poway, California. They offer well-maintained facilities with stalls cleaned six days a week. The farm offers pipe corrals, small pastures, and a mare motel. Extra services include blanketing, emergency care, and supplement feeding. They accommodate a range of disciplines, including hunter jumper, dressage, and western pleasure.
(13)Concord Equestrian Center is an equestrian facility operating in the Del Mar Horse Park in San Diego, California. They offer horse sales, training, boarding, and lessons with a focus on classical horsemanship for hunter/jumpers. The farm was founded by the experienced equestrian and Grand Prix jumper, Mark Conley. He has more than three decades of experience in natural horse training methods, hunt seat equitation, and classical English lessons. Concord Equestrian Center has a 4.7-star rating on Facebook. Clients speak well of the knowledgeable and professional instructors.
(11)(2)Cheyenne Arabians & Miniatures is family owned and operated farm located in Ramona, California. They specialize in pony birthday parties, pony rides, and riding lessons. They offer a variety of disciplines, including western, pleasure, English, and dressage. The facility also offers pasture and corral boarding based on availability.
Sycamore Canyon Stables is an equestrian center located in Poway, California. They offer boarding and riding lessons. Their boarding services include feeding, blanketing, turnout, exercise, and bed checks. The farm is equipped with three arenas, a round pen, two barns, and sheltered pipe pens, and automatic waterers.
Windfall Ranch is an equine boarding and training center serving the San Diego area. They specialize in accommodating riders focused on endurance riding and other competitive riding sports. Boarders can choose from large covered corrals or 80’ x 100’ paddocks. They also offer a community tack room and a limited number of private tack rooms. Horses are fed twice a day and stalls are cleaned once a day. Windfall Ranch has a 4.5-star rating on Facebook.
(13)Hazy Meadow Ranch & Carriage Co. is Lakeside, California farm that was established in 1986. They specialize in providing country weddings and themed events. They also offer horse boarding and training with a focus on pleasure riding and driving disciplines. They have a range of amenities, including a fully lighted sand jumping arena, an FEI dressage court, a hot walker, grass turn-out, a premium feed, and miles of trails.
(2)Willow Creek Stables is a multi-purpose equine facility located in Rancho Santa Fe, California. They offer riding lessons, guided trail rides, boarding, and camps. Their facilities include two large rings with art silica sand and felt footing, a covered riding arena, a variety of jumps, five wash bays, a covered exerciser, more than twenty-five crossties, and large turnouts. They also have a large recreational room equipped with a kitchen and television.
(6)(5)DVG Show Stables is a full-service equine boarding facility located in Escondido, California. They specialize in accommodating hunter, jumper, and equitation riders who focus on showing. Their services include training, showing, riding lessons, summer camps, lesson horses, and boarding. Boarding with DVG includes morning and evening hay, daily stall cleaning, daily turnout, and a variety of stall sizes to choose from.
(6)(4)Salisbury Farms is Lakeside equestrian facility that focuses on classical horsemanship. Their services include riding lessons, horse training, boarding, and horse-assisted psychotherapy. They are CPR certified and registered members of PATH and the California School of Professional Psychology. The farm was founded by Dr. Amy Jane Oleson, a licensed clinical psychologist and experienced equestrian. Salisbury Farms has a five-star rating on Facebook. Customers speak highly of the friendly atmosphere, knowledgeable staff, and excellent facility upkeep.
(21)(7)Rancho El Camino Equestrian is a San Diego ranch that has served the area for more than two decades. They specialize in horse boarding, lessons, and training. Their boarding includes a variety of stall sizes to choose from, individual paddocks, a mare motel, generous shavings, and full-service care for the horses. Their facilities include a 90’ x 160’ sand arena for jumping, a 60’ x 80’ all-purpose arena, a 40’ x 160’ dressage arena, a riding school arena, trails, five cross ties, four wash racks, tack rooms, and two round pens. They have a 4.7-star rating on Facebook.
Horse boarding is when a horse farm provides a place for a horse to stay and manages its daily care in exchange for a fee. Some boarding facilities also provide medical care for horses. Boarding provides a way to be a responsible horse owner for someone who doesn’t have a safe place to keep a horse.
Horse owners can choose from two main types of boarding. The types are pasture boarding and stall boarding.
Boarding a horse is usually chosen to enhance its well-being. Horses need room to run and play as well as a safe place to sleep. Additionally, horses need care, such as grooming and training, that take time. Horse owners who aren’t able to provide those things can choose to board horses at places that offer those things.
To find a place to board a horse, check online listings to understand what you can expect from each facility. Additionally, consider checking classified ads online or in print to find boarding facilities. Choose one that’s conveniently located so you can visit your horse frequently.
A horse boarding stable is a place that rents out stable space and room for horses to run. It’s a service for people who don’t have room to care for their horses. It can also be used by people who aren’t able to give horses the care needed to be healthy and happy.
Boarding a horse usually always includes a safe place for a horse to sleep and a pasture area where it can exercise and eat grass. Some boarding facilities offer full-care packages while others offer partial packages that let owners choose the level of service they want.
