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What are the requirements to work at a horse ranch?

I am applying for a job at a horse stable and was wondering if any previous experience is needed? Would I just muck out stalls and brush down the horses or could I do more. Would they let me hack if I hadn’t ever had riding lessons but can ride well?

First you mention stable, then you mention ‘ranch’. The definition is vastly different.

If you’re talking about a working ranch, you’d better be prepared for HARD work. Long hours in the saddle each day, herding cattle & horses to new grazing pasture, Roping, doctoring and branding young stock (and by stock I mean COWS). Helping with births, by getting on your knees and pulling stuck cows.. You’ll have to care for your horse and tack, sleep outside in a camp most nights and eat by a campfire. Sounds like fun, but if you have to do it for months on end, year after year, for very little pay, it *might* get old.

However, if your’e talking about a stable, where people have horses in confined areas and ride recreationally, it’s a different ball of wax. Horses will need to be turned out/ in daily, groomed & tacked up. Feed will need to be made up and given out. Blanket changes, stall mucking, bucket cleaning and doctoring of legs (cold hosing, poulticing, wrapping, etc.) will all be expected. If your’e not hired to ride to exercise horses, don’t expect to be allowed to, unless you’ve made that expectation during your initial interview. Bosses get annoyed when the ‘help’ that’s there to work suddenly wants to ride all the time… Unless it’s part of your job description, don’t count on it.

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