Lessons

This summer, we will be offering a morning conditioning program to help keep our school horses and your horses fit. Sessions will take place once a week on a Monday or Wednesday morning based on weather and footing conditions. We will be starting with basic walk/trot sets and progress as the horses’ fitness improves. These sort of sessions are a great way for riders to stay fit too!

Cost is $30 to Waredaca per ride. Sign up by emailing Katherine at [email protected] by each Saturday at noon. Schedule and horse assignments will be emailed Sunday morning to those who sign up.
First date will be Wednesday June 23 at 8:30am. RSVP to Katherine by Saturday, June 19 if you would like to join us on your horse or one of our school horses.
A great opportunity in your own backyard!!! With proper supervision, education for you and your horse, and FUN!  Don’t miss out on a good idea!!

WHILE IMPLEMENTING CURRENT CDC GUIDELINES AND NOT BEING CERTAIN OF WHO HAS BEEN FULLY VACCINATED, THE CURRENT WAREDACA FARM POLICY REGARDING WEARING MASKS IS AS FOLLOWS:

IF YOU ARE NOT FULLY VACCINATED, WEAR A MASK AT ALL TIMES YOU ARE ON THE PROPERTY

IF YOU ARE FULLY VACCINATED:

WEARING MASKS WHILE OUTSIDE MAY BE OPTIONAL UNLESS YOU ARE:

Have You Been Fully Vaccinated? People are considered fully vaccinated:

• 2 weeks after their second dose in a 2-dose series, such as the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, or
• 2 weeks after a single-dose vaccine, such as Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen vaccine

If you don’t meet these requirements, you are NOT fully vaccinated. Keep taking all precautions until you are fully vaccinated.

It’s important to keep in mind that if you’ve been partially or fully vaccinated, that doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re off the hook when it comes to quarantining after being exposed to the virus.

If you’ve been fully vaccinated:

What You Should Keep Doing

For now, if you’ve been fully vaccinated:

• You should still take steps to protect yourself and others in many situations, like wearing a mask when indoors, staying at least 6 feet apart from others who are not family members or have not been vaccinated, and avoiding crowds and poorly ventilated spaces. Take these precautions whenever you are:
  • In public
  • Gathering with unvaccinated people from more than one other household
  • Visiting with an unvaccinated person who is at increased risk of severe illness or death from COVID-19 or who lives with a person at increased risk
• You should still watch out for symptoms of COVID-19, especially if you’ve been around someone who is sick. If you have symptoms of COVID-19, you should get tested and stay home and away from others.
• You will still need to follow guidance at the farm for interacting with people who have yet to be vaccinated.

IF YOU have not been vaccinated.., it’s best for you quarantine for at least 10 days without testing or seven days if you’ve tested negative for COVID. If you want to take extra precautions, you can quarantine for 14 days.

• Get tested with a viral test 3-5 days after travel AND stay home and self-quarantine for a full 7 days after travel.
  • Even if you test negative, stay home and self-quarantine for the full 7 days.
  • If your test is positive, isolate yourself to protect others from getting infected.
• If you don’t get tested, stay home and self-quarantine for 10 days after travel.
• Avoid being around people who are at increased risk for severe illness for 14 days, whether you get tested or not.

What you choose to do when you leave the farm is your business but indirectly becomes ours as well.  There is clearly a ‘trust’ factor associated with our guidelines as well as our hope that everyone remain responsible and accountable for what happens when here.  Thank you for looking out for our Waredaca family of boarders, pony clubbers, lesson students and staff.

Gretchen, Robert, Steph, Rob, Gayle, Travis, Colleen and Melanie

If you have an enthusiastic 5-7 year old that wants to ride, check out our popular Pony Kids Program here!

The Maryland Equine Transition Service (METS) is a statewide equine safety net initiative of the Maryland Horse Council that provides safe alternatives for horses needing homes by helping owners identify and select the best transition options for their horses. METS is a mobile service, meaning we don’t have a farm facility and we never take ownership of the horses we assist. Horses in need of transition come in every shape, size, breed, color, age, training level, and temperament. METS provides individualized services for these horses, including equine assessment, marketing assistance, end-of-life support, and facilitating the transition of horses to new homes. The program is unique because it works with a wide network of industry organizations and professionals to source the best options – from retraining to retirement – for these horses because no horse in Maryland should ever be at-risk of entering the slaughter pipeline. Many obstacles to placing horses in new homes can be removed when the industry works together to create a network of options for horses, to educate owners about these options, to assist owners when needed, and to select options that are based on the horse’s individual needs. With new national initiatives such as The Right Horse Initiative, the effort to provide options for “horses in transition” is on the rise. Maryland has taken the step to create and share resources to help both owners and horses as they transition into different stages of life.