Branscomb Farm's primary mission is breeding, raising, training, and competing exceptional USA-bred warmblood horses for a variety of owner/clients around the country. However, due to our extensive staff and facility capacity, and in response to request from many of our breeding clients, we offer some following boarding services to our clients. We offer four types of boarding options tailored to meet the needs of you and your equine partner of almost any age, experience, or goals.

Stall boarding with turnout and daily grooming along with our professional training program ( minimum four training rides and/or teaching lessons per week). Horses and riders in this program should look forward to excellent care for their equine partner with feed (hay and/or grain) offered normally four times per day, scheduled turnout and/or Eurocizer exercise, grooming, blanketing, basic front end tack care and access to the facilities of the farm (covered and uncovered rings, trails, grass and/or sand paddocks). Open for riding/lessons Tuesday-Sunday.

Veterinary care and farrier services may be coordinated through the farm or you may bring your own on a scheduled basis. Lessons are generally private or semi private and rarely larger than four persons in the same group. We have five full time professional rider/trainers, three of whom double as riding instructors as well as a dedicated amateur-friendly instructor for after hours and certain weekend days.

Clients in this program may have access to additional instruction offered on a periodic basis through clinics hosted by the Farm or regular visits by Rudi Leone, Jill Humphrey, or other visiting clinicians on an additional paid basis.

This program is for horses that are not being ridden (too young, retired, taking a break). Horses are assigned to a socially compatible small group (usually 4-5 to a field) usually on a same sex/age basis. They have regular, mid-day access to a multi-acre field with or without grass (depending on weight and weather) and are brought nightly into sheltered containment paddocks of approximately 150x100 where they are fed twice daily and subject to daily inspection, and given medications or supplemental feed as needed.

Young horses generally benefit from a gradual transition from field herd life to experiences of learning to enjoy being ridden, working with trainers under saddle, and venturing into new circumstances on and off the farm as training progresses. To accommodate a seamless experience and to address some of the economic concerns of young horse investors, we have developed a hybrid option where horses in our young horse training program, can remain living in a small herd grouping "outside" but be brought in for riding and/or ground work 3-4 times a week (depending on fitness, season, and stage of development) to receive grooming and age-appropriate professional training. This option is specifically for youngsters (3-5 generally) and involves starting under saddle through basic foundation dressage and or jumping aptitude development. Horses in this program may be included in "kindergarden field trips" or other off-farm show experiences but it is expected that once a horse is competition ready they would graduate to a normal stabled accommodation and full training. Not suitable for stallions.

Heavy mares are accommodated as field boarders until they transition to a foaling stall with associated foaling paddock which are located near the employee housing. Mares must come into a foaling stall/and or paddock situation no later than 10 days before their expected foaling date so the Foal Alert system tranceiver can be implanted and they can be monitored closely. Large bedded foaling stalls and daily turnout when appropriate are charged on daily basis consistent with our normal large stall board and grooming rates.

Mare owner should expect a minimum of one week before and one week after foaling for use of a foaling stall but depending on the mare or foal use of these stalls could be up to a month or more. Mares and foals generally transition to a private paddock or small group field board with other compatible mares with foals at side. There is a small additional charge to our standard field board rate for the use of private paddocks and the addition of a foal at side in field boarding.