Many horse owners are faced with the difficult decision of where to find a good facility for their retired horse. Whether your horse is retired due to old age, lameness, or special medical needs, it is important to find the right facility.

We provide affordable, safe and happy retirement options with all the comfort and dignity a retired horse needs and deserves.

The ranch offers access to grazing, water, shade and shelter for all horses without crowding. Our emphasis is on restoring the natural spirit of your horse.

Benefits from natural pasture:
• Low stress
• Restoration of ‘herd spirit’
• Harmony with nature and other horses
• Freedom to roam and graze
• Lots of exercise
• Fewer health and hoof problems
• Socialization with other horses

Your horse deserves to be allowed to live
out its remaining years in the company of
other horses in an environment that has
been the ancestral home for horses for
hundreds of years.

The Outermost House

"We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein do we err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth."

— Henry Beston,
The Outermost House

RATES AND FEES

Board: (paddock/pasture) $325.00 per mo.
(Sorry no stallions)

Feeding: 2-3 times a day as we determine.
( Our pasture grass is in late March to early/mid June)
Limited stalls and paddock available at no extra charge.
Straw bedding cleaned daily. Access to water in clean
trough, salt licks.

Feed: High quality alfalfa, (Horse Hay) and high
quality Orchard grass hay or Oat Hay.
No more than 25 horses at a time.

Stalls and paddock available for lay ups.
Straw bedding cleaned daily. Access to water in clean
trough, salt licks.

Worming: $20.00 every 2 months, this is required
and part of the contract.

Vet: Dr. Jim Williams (billing is separate) Mandatory Vaccinations: The following vaccinations are required on a yearly basis: Rabies, Tetanus toxoid, Eastern Equine Encephalomyelitis, Western Equine Encephalomyelitis. Semi-Annual vaccines required are: Influenza, Rhinopneumonitis, and West Nile Virus. Geldings will have sheath cleaned at least once a year. Emergency calls as needed and at our discretion. Fees will be billed.

Dentistry is performed on an as needed basis. As horses age the amount of reserve crown of the teeth becomes less and less. When all the reserve crown of a tooth is used up the term to describe the tooth is “expired.” When in older horses teeth are “expired” it means that the root is very short and these teeth may become loose in the socket, develop infection of the dental ligament and need to be extracted so that the horse may comfortably eat.

Farrier: Tonda Husty services our trimming and shoeing on an as-needed basis. 1/2 ( front) shoes are $90.00, Trims are $55.00, billed separately. No back shoes allowed in herd horses.

Available for your horse ( *optional services)

* Blanketing services: $45.00 per month. You supply blanket. Service provider will bill repairs and cleaning. This is coastal weather. Temperatures may drop to 40 degrees and the wind and rain may be a factor to blanket horses. There is barn shelter/stalls for horses to get out of the weather.

• Fly Spray: $20.00 per month applied every other day ( required in the summer months during fly season.) Please supply a fly mask for your horse.
  
• Grooming: $10.00 per grooming includes brushing hoof, care mane and tail maintenance.Baths determined by conditions and need.

Additional Supplements: Varies as needed. We bill accordingly.

Trailer Expenses: Billed by service provider/owners.

Trailering in and out for other than medical purpose is discouraged.

Law for horses transported across state lines requires proof of negative Coggins.

You are welcome to visit your horse anytime Saturday-Sunday from 10AM-5:00PM. Other visitation arrangement is by individual need and written permission only.

This is a retirement facility for your horse, not a boarding facility. As such, horses are not to be ridden on the ranch property.

Medicine Horse Ranch
Alyssa Aubrey
1589 Cerini Road
P.O. Box 224
Tomales, CA 94971

707-878-2440 PH
707-878-2441 FAX

alyssa@medicinehorseranch.org