How do you start a Horse Boarding Business?

Answer 1

Think twice about it, it will be 30 times the labor that you think, your insurance will go through the roof and by law you need to have bathrooms, handicap available in most states, people stiff you for board and if you get a load of bad hay, you don't want to go there.
It is a great and noble idea, just know the laws in your state and district and know that your life as you know it will forever be changed.

Answer 2

Horse Boarding Business

Answer 3

There are just four easy steps to get your buisnness up and running.

1. First, you should get some expierence with horses if you dont have any already. I would say to look more into horses and gather your supplies and structures yo will need. You will need to know all there is to know about horses first. I recomend looking them up in a horse book or on the internet, or getting an instructor or an accomplished horse lover to help you.

2. After this, you should decide how you will run your buisness. How much will your surviceses cost? How much will you do for your customers? will you do full boarding or just keep the horses at your stable? will you just provide a paddock and no stabling? Will you have any staff? How many horses will you be able to keep at a time?

3. After you have all your supplies and structures, you should start to advirtise your buisness. Print out some flyers and hang them up at the local tack store, school, or library. Wherever people populate frequently. You also should send an add to verious horse magazines and a newspaper or to. Then, you should spred the word. Tell your friends and tell them to tell their friends. I think theese are the best ways to get a buisness running.

4. After you have done these three things, you should just wait for a call, an e-mail, or a letter. Someone is sure to need somewhere to keep there horse while they are on vacation somewhere, or if they just dont have a stable built yet. The biggest thing at this step is to be patient and not give up hope. Even if it seems to take forever to get that very important first call, its on somebodys to do list!

GOOD LUCK!!!!!!

Answer 4

Before you do anything, call your local building & zoning departments to find out if you CAN do this legally on the property you have OR will be getting. Then call your Business licensing department & find out what type of a license you will need. Then call your agriculture & health department, because they will need to approve your entire place becfor you can have ONE horse that does not belong to you on your land. It can get conplicated. That's why most people do it illegally & end up in a mess. If you finally do start boarding horses, know that it is NOT the easiest business to run because many well meaning owners will ask for a reduced rate & tell you that they want to bring their own feed & take care of their own animal. Don't fall for this because it is a receipe for trouble. Be specific in your wording of the contracts & have a trailer to transport a horse in case of an emergency. Make the owners carry their own insurance & get the original documents to show ownership of the animal as being the person who is boarding with you. Always make a copy of the originals & also a copy of the photo ID of the boarder & a copy of their social security card to keep in your files. Make it clear that their animal will be sold at auction for unpaid bills after the legally specified time (90days, depending of your laws), or have them know the animal will be seized or tutned over to the local humane society & the owner will have to pay all fines for abandonement of the animal they are boarding. Be firm & fair & let the boarders know you aren't fooling around with the welfare of the animal. Let them know that you mean business & you will seize their animal if they cannot honor the contract as stated & signed by all parties. Beware of people who cannot produce an original bill of sale for an animal. You could end up in a legal battle that will leave you penniless. Many horse thieves like to use new boarding businesses because they are sure the new owners have no idea about this type of thievery. Many of them are race track trainers & pony riders who have been given money to "hide" a horse off the track until someone at the track pays them their money. If that horse is found in your possession, you could be in serious trouble. Hopefully, you already know these things. Just try to learn from other peoples mistakes & avoid repeating them. Good luck!

Answer 5

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How do you start a Horse Boarding Business?

Answer 6

It can be as simple as advertising at the local feed or tack shop that you take boarders.

Some advice before you get started: decide in advance what your rates will be and what services you will provide, and how much you will charge for those services. Will you provide turn-outs for clients' horses? If so, how much will you charge? Will you charge for being present at vet visits and shoer visits if the client can't be there? What vet care will you require? What forms of payment will you take? Do you allow the client to feed their own horse, or do you provide all feed and feeding services?

Are there certain kinds of horses you won't accept (e.g., no stallions or pregnant mares, no foals, etc.)? Under what circumstances will you evict a boarder? What facilities are they allowed to use?

FWIW, I have a couple of friends who have boarded horses, and there are some real horror stories they have told me about boarders. One started out allowing the boarders to do their own feeding, but had to end that when one client was providing inadequate feed for her horse and the poor animal was starving to death. The client argued that the horse had kidney problems and that was the reason it wouldn't hold weight, not the obviously inadequate amount of food she was giving it.

You also have to be prepared for the client who just quits paying board and leaves no forwarding address. Or the client who doesn't pay the vet or the shoer, who then turns to you for payment.

And you have to have liability insurance in case the client gets hurt on your property and sues you, or the horse gets hurt on your property and you get sued for that.

Most people who board horses don't make much, if any, money from boarding. And a lot of people I know of who have tried boarding other people's horses as a way of defraying costs for their own horses have concluded that it isn't worth the trouble it causes for them.

Good luck.

Answer 7

With lots and lots of money!
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Good trainers and a good website helped my operation get off.