Horse Boarding Contract

The cost of boarding averages $400 to $500 per month but can go as high as $1,200 to $2,500 in metropolitan areas. Services such as mucking out stalls, feeding and turning out your horse to pasture may not be included in the price. For those lucky enough to own sufficient land, there are still costs to consider.

AS an instructor, you obviously need insurance cover to protect you in the course of your commercial activities. Anyone involved in business-related equestrian activities should have public liability insurance.

How much notice is required for a boarding stable to evict a boarder? Unless the boarding contract says the boarding stable must give X days advance notice to the boarder, the boarding stable can terminate the boarding relationship without giving any advance notice.

If you have the space and facility to keep your equines at home, it's more cost effective and offers a number of advantages that boarding does not.Keeping a horse on full board offers owners virtually hassle-free maintenance. Full board includes, at the very least, feeding, stall cleaning and turnout.

Numbers Game. The reality is that boarding facilities operate on slim profit margins. By the time costs are considered for hay, grain, bedding, labor for feeding, cleaning stalls, doing turnout, etc., the board fees typically do not leave a lot left over, Sherrick-von Schiller said.Labor costs are also significant.

Equine/Stable Liability will be required; Care, Custody, Control to provide coverage for the non-owned boarded horses; General Liability and Property insurance.

Monthly Board (per horse) $250 to $275 per month. Horses for lease $350 per month. This includes use of tack and grooming equipment.

Scope out legalities. Consider zoning, business permits and your state's lien laws. Evaluate your facilities. Investigate the cost of liability insurance. Research your market. Crunch the numbers. Draw up a legal boarding contract.

Full board will include all the necessities for the horse, plus a stall with full turn out to pasture. Full board does not require owners to visit their horses every day; instead, staff at the barn clean the stall, feed the horse, and bring him in/out of the pasture.