New Moon Ranch

1498 dugway rd, Richmond VT

Description

Evening Stable Hand New Moon Ranch Newmoonranchvt.com Richmond, VT New Moon Ranch (NMR) is a Western Pleasure riding school situated above the Huntington River Gorge in Richmond, Vermont. NMR offers individual and group lessons with an emphasis on non-competitive, casual riding at a walk, trot, canter or gallop pace. Guiding Principle New Moon Ranch was founded in 2002 by Lotta Rosen on the principles of connection and contact. NMR focuses on the unison of horse and rider. Our guiding principle is to combine horse, heart & healing. The methods employed by New Moon Ranch have been developed by Lotta over 30 years of riding and teaching. Experienced in both English and Western equitation, it was her belief that she could build on the model of natural horsemanship to realize the New Moon Ranch guiding principle. Our teaching is based on understanding the physiology of an equine and learning horse/rider communication through both body and heart. Our horses are always communicating; Lotta teaches riders to engage in the equine conversation. We are looking for a fun, reliable, kind-hearted individual looking to join a family run western pleasure ranch. Every horse is treated like they are one of our own with the same love and attention to needs as any other in the barn. Our ranch help is kind, caring, and enjoys each horses own personality. We like to take the horses swimming, play music and sometimes dance with them, have conversations and in general enjoy their company. While at NMR, no horse has been hit, whipped, scared, not fed, left without clean water nor kept in a dirty stall for long periods of time. If this sounds like a place you would like to work, please see the below and assess if it is a good fit. We currently have openings for either: - Work for board option - Part-time evening chores This position is for Monday-Friday 4:00 pm (or 4:30)-7:30 pm. Pay rate: 15$ hr or free board for 1 horse The Evening Stable Hand will be expected to work within a team however, work independently to accomplish tasks. They will report to Lotta, the ranch owner. Owners wishing to work for board will be required to do a 1 week probation period in which we will work with you to assess if it is a mutually good fit. Responsibilities: - Feed horses as specified for each and be comfortable with handling supplements - Bring horses into stalls for evening feed and then out to paddock afterwards - Clean stalls and add saw dust shavings nightly - Clean and fill water bucks in stalls and water troughs outside - Put out soaked hay to one of the pastures via UTV - Make morning grain for each horse and accurately dispense supplements where needed - Hand walk horses to different paddocks - Thoroughly clean the hallways every night i.e. sweep and use leaf blower - Fill trough with hay for soaking in the morning - Follow scheduled cleaning routine for our lean-to - Feed the ducks Requirements: - Must be 18 years or older - Reliable transportation - Ability to lift 45 lbs, walk with water buckets, and pull/coil long hoses - Ability to walk up and down hills, stand, and intermittently bend over for the duration of the shift - Past experience with horses and barn responsibilities - Possess good communication skills and have the ability to accept constructive criticism - Have not and do not believe in: yelling, yanking, hitting, scaring, insulting, whipping, or neglecting of any animal - Experience with nonviolent and natural horsemanship - Comfort with horses of all sizes and ages, dogs, cats and ducks - Comfortable engaging with family members of New Moon Ranch, riders, and owners of boarding horses Please submit your resume, including references from barns you have ridden, board, or worked at to: