King Horse
Equine Care & Stewardship
SERVICES OFFERED
Basic Horse Care and Horse Handling: feeding, leading and turnout, basic health check, grooming; feed prep, water top up, safety check, blanket cleaning
Horse Health and Wellness Care: hand walking, lunging, free lunging, round pen work, ground work, stretches, basic acupressure, basic massage, quality time/ company keeping
Additional Care: Animal Communication, energy work, “Conscious Grooming”
Barn and Property Maintenance: mucking, barn cleaning, arena harrowing, tack maintenance
AREA OF SERVICE
Qualicum Beach
Parksville
Coombs & Errington
Nanoose Bay
Lantzville
Jingle Pot
Cedar &Yellowpoint
Ladysmith
My horsemanship approach:
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Compassionate and intuitive mindset.
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Emphasis on partnership and mutually beneficial collaboration.
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Treating horses as sentient beings and my equals.
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Paying attention and tuning into a horse’s perspective.
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Working with body, mind, emotion, and spirit.
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Being open to different kinds of communication.
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Utilizing experience and knowledge gained from working with herds in natural environments as well as working in traditional stables.
Services not offered:
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Riding your horse or performance training your horse. That is out of my scope of practice as I am not a professional horse rider or trainer, and have no certification in those fields.
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Medical services beyond First Aid 1 and Basic Equine Emergency First Aid as I am not a licensed medical professional.
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Residential cleaning.
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Dog walking.
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House sitting. I am a permanent caretaker at a horse farm in Cedar, and prefer to stay there at night. (Rare exceptions can be made as a "last resort" type thing if your arrangements fall through.)
RATES
1-3 HORSES
$25/h, minimum of 2 hours per visit + mileage (between $0.25 and $0.40/km depending on current gas prices)
$170/day for full day visit (up to 8 hours) + mileage (between $0.25 and $0.40/km depending on current gas prices)
3 hrs chores, 2 hrs feedings, 3 hrs horse care (grooming, exercising, stretching, TLC, communication)
4-5 HORSES
$30/hr, minimum of 2.5 hours per visit + mileage (between $0.25 and $0.40/km depending on current gas prices)
$200/day for full day visit (up to 8 hours) + mileage (between $0.25 and $0.40/km depending on current gas prices)
3 hrs chores, 2 hrs feedings, 3 hrs horse care (grooming, exercising, stretching, TLC, communication)
If a split day (two separate visits) is preferred instead of 8 hours, an additional return trip mileage applies.
$300/day for overnight stay (up to 8 hrs of active work + nighttime check in) + mileage ($.30/km) (This rate reflects my preference to NOT overnight on site. I only provide this service in rare exceptions.)
EQUINE PHOTOGRAPHY
$200/90min session + up to 10 finished photographs.
EXPERIENCE
Barn Manager - Cowichan Therapeutic Riding Association, Duncan (2022)
A position responsible for the barn operations and property maintenance at a high paced non-profit facility. Example of duties:
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Leading a team of barn staff and volunteers, ensuring proper care of 15 therapy horses
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Maintaining databases of horse health records, tack and equipment, and barn projects
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Coordinating the preparation of horses for their respective lessons - grooming, tacking, turning out etc.
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Creating and monitoring feeding schedules and turn out
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Scheduling and supervising vet and farrier visits, supply and feed deliveries, light and heavy duty equipment maintenance
Assistant Property Manager - Of The Sun Sanctuary, Cedar (2019 - present)
A live-on-site arrangement with a private owner of a 23 acre nature sanctuary and a horse farm.
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Looking after, training and working with three horses; riding, ground work, therapy sessions
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Providing light duty maintenance of the land and structures: manure pickup, harrowing, trail and forest maintenance, firewood, keeping the barn and stalls in order, barn chores, tack maintenance, etc.
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Facilitating volunteer opportunities, work exchanges and farm visits
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Bringing and working with clients for Medicine Horse sessions
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Documenting the life at the farm in photographs. See The Valley of Miracles
Horse Handler - Chiron Holistics, Coombs (2015 - present)
Volunteering at an Equine Assisted Healing facility which includes a large property and a herd of Medicine Horses
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Property maintenance and herd care (feeding, grooming, mucking)
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Working with each of the six horses individually to practice Equine Facilitated Healing (both alone and with volunteer clients)
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Providing assistance during events and workshops (horse handling, horse safety instructions, tending to visitors' questions, groundwork demonstration etc.)
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Holding educational and creative workshops of my own
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Documenting the life on the farm in a body of work titled Wounded Healers, Human Whisperers
CERTIFICATIONS
OFA Level 1
Basic Equine Health and Emergency First Aid
Tractor Safety Training