BOARDING

Hickory Ridge has someone on the premises most of the time. Our home is on the property and looks out to all the paddocks. Joel’s business office is also on the farm and has someone in the office M-F during business hours. Nightly checks are conducted each evening when horses are in stalls to simply make sure each horse looks healthy and happy. 

RATES
Self-Care - $225 monthly
Includes a stall and turnout paddock
Use of tack room, hay storage, facility use.

Partial Care - $225 + (depends on additional care required)

EXTRA CHARGES
$10/month – for stall fans in the summer to defray increased electric costs
$6.00 – bags of sawdust

HORSE CARE
TURN OUT - boarders are assigned a paddock and usually work with other owners in a co-op to care for their horses

HAY – boarders are responsible for the purchase of their own hay. Boarders have their own designated areas for storage of hay. Barn usually orders hay as a group and has it delivered.

GRAIN –Delivered to the barn every other Thursday. 

HEALTH PROGRAM:
Veterinarian Care
Easton Veterinary Hospital provides care to most Hickory Ridge horses. They have provided excellent service to us for many years and the practice has a good emergency system. 

Preventive Vaccine and Worming Schedule
Horses at Hickory Ridge are wormed every two months. Stool samples are taken periodically to check the efficiency of our worming program. 

Vaccines are administered annually for rabies, strangles, and tetanus, and twice annually for Eastern and Western encephalitis, Potomac Horse Fever and West Nile viruses. We will be happy to provide the exact worming and vaccination schedule upon request. We also require you to vaccinate against strangles.

FARRIER
You may use any farrier you choose. We have several farriers who come to Hickory Ridge.. Boarders are responsible for holding their own horse or making arrangements for someone else to assist.