Barn Member Responsibilities
Barn
Member Responsibilities
The UVM Horse Barn is a cooperative
barn for
UVM students. The barn consists of 18 stalls, a heated tack-room
with
built in tack boxes, a supply room for extra equipment, a washstall
with
hot and cold water, a fenced indoor riding arena approximately 72' x
168'
sand footing, a fenced 100' x 200' outdoor sand riding ring, and
white-tape electric fence turnout paddocks for turnout.
The UVM Horse Barn, CREAM Barn and the
UVM
Barns all embody the UVM Farm. Some Animal Science classes and
labs are held in the classroom at the barn. Everyone will be
expected to behave in an appropriate manner consistent with an
educational facility. Please note that the UVM Farm is open to
the public 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
daily.
Members of the UVM Horse Barn are
expected
to do the following:
- Take complete care of their horses
(i.e. muck out stalls, set up grain, and clean and refill water
buckets) daily, or find a responsible person to do it when they are
unable to come to the barn. (Morning feeder is provided.)
- Do general barn chores, which are
shared on a rotating basis. These chores include turning out the
horses,
sweeping the aisles, throwing hay, cleaning the tack room and bathroom,
and bringing in the horses.
- Sign up for horsewatch (people
must
be present and on the farm when horses are out). The number of
hours
per week will be decided at the first barn meeting, which is usually
three
hours per week.
- Attend all barn meetings.
This
is a must. Usually held biweekly.
- Come to "workdays" when general
maintenance is done at the barn. There are usually one or two
workdays per semester, and they are almost always on the weekends.
- Sign up for "night check" every
week with a partner.
- Sign up for “weekend watches”
throughout the semester. Usually three per semester, weekend
watches consist
of four hour blocks of horsewatch on either Saturday or Sunday.
- Sign up to cover horsewatch over
Thanksgiving, Christmas, and spring breaks.
- Sign up for ASCI 298, “Horse Barn
Co-operative”
for each semester in the barn.
- Have fun and enjoy your fellow
barn
members and horses!
Last modified May 10 2005 12:50 PM
