ABOUT US

HIGH DESERT STABLES has seen several iterations since opening at the beginning of 2000. With two young sons who were into riding, came a 4-H group. There was a barn full of young people. It was a wonderful experience for learning and an introduction to the world of competition.  As the kids got older, their interest expanded to Eventing. This was an exciting and challenging time as they learned skills in dressage, stadium and cross country jumping and also financing their interest in this sport. We always worked hard to get to the best training we could. Advancing our education with the horses was always paramount. Loren and Brian home schooled in this period, becoming my partners in the boarding business. There were up to 60 head and all their owners to manage. Loren became our vet Dusti's first tech in her new mobile veterinary practice. Brian learned to trim and then shoe horses. They had project horses and gave lessons too. In the blink of an eye they were off to college! In the next stretch of time the fates presented me with two beautiful Welsh Cob brood mares and a handsome Welsh Cob stallion. From 2011-2018 we had between one and three babies each spring. Through those babies I learned how much more there was to learn! In 2017 Loren graduated from Washington State as a DVM and Brian from UofA with a degree in Agricultural Engineering. And off they both moved to Idaho to work at jobs in their field. This left me to my own devices and a wonderful adventure in learning all the possibilities horses really do offer us.

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                              BOARDING OPPORTUNITIES           
                            FRIENDS~FORAGE~FREEDOM 
Moving into 2024, we are once more navigating a new direction as the horsemanship journey continues.  We have added pasture tracks as a way to interest our horses in optimal movement. They are barefoot, outdoors and enriched full time by an environment complete with all that the high desert grasslands has to offer. Creating the "stations" for feeding, rolling, scratching and maneuvering are limited only by THEIR imagination to use what's available and ours to think of and recreate! 

High Desert Stables is a boarding answer for folks looking for the same for their best friend. We invite all horses; those in active work to those fully retired. Our goal is to continue to build a community of like-minded involved caretakers, looking to expand their involvement with their horse and glean from our 20+ years of experience with 100's of horses.

Full care board is $450 a month.
A work exchange is possible...Let's talk!  

Check out Cindy Normandeau on FaceBook for the latest in our Pasture Track  experiences and adventures!

 

                                          SUPPORT TEAM

* Hoof care provided by stockman now a competing distance runner, Michael Pilz
*Local veterinarian Lance Parker DM
*Masterson Method Advanced Instructor and equine osteopath
Vanessa Helvey

*Annual dental care and over-all evaluation provided by
Tomas Teskey DVM
*Annual horsemanship clinics with Harry Whitney
*Annual Camp, by our favorite guides and students of the horse
Sarah Baron from Prince Edward Island Canada and 
Melissa Hansen from Minneapolis, MN


I had better throw in a heartfelt Thank You, to my ever suffering but oh so supportive, husband of 30+ years, Andy.
Couldn't have done it with out you!

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