Horses
Working with horses is the centerpiece of our treatment model. In the beginning, our residents learn basic horsemanship skills and develop advanced skills through program participation. Those residents who make the investment can learn to train horses from basic gentling to advanced cuing. Our residents work with horses every day of their stay at Equine Journeys, in one form or another.
Training Horses
Our residents will not only develop horsemanship skills but will also participate in the process of training horses. They will learn patience, consistency, resiliency, leadership, and perseverance as they strive to teach horses necessary skills. Additionally, they will experience the pride which comes with accomplishment of a difficult task over an extended period of time.
Ranching and Ranch Chores
Our students learn the value or hard work and the feeling that comes from honest achievement. The students take care of the horses, cattle and other ranch animals. We frequently ride our winter and summer grazing ranges to ensure our cattle are healthy and doing well and also assist local ranchers with their cattle. In March we move cattle from their winter grazing range and in October we move them from the summer range. These ranges are remote, rugged, and often breathtakingly beautiful and our work there requires many days of camping, riding, searching, gathering, and driving cattle along trails and roads to holding pens where they are loaded onto trucks and transported to market or to holding corrals for sorting, branding, vaccinating, breeding, weaning, dehorning, and other necessary cattle management tasks.
Driving cattle from winter grazing range near Lake Powell
