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Rehabilitation

Download Rehabilitation Agistment Agreement

There are six levels of intensive care at our centre.  Horses are either in the rehab shed (large open plan stable), ¼ minus large covered yards, rubber laneways, loop paddocks or small paddocks.

Fees are calculated on an estimated labour cost per hour and the cost of grass hay fed.  Full details contained in the Rehabilitation Agistment Agreement.

Labour includes:

  • Individual diet management and ration formulation
  • Monitoring of the patient
  • Daily boot management and bandage change
  • Paddock/lodgings maintenance
  • Poo pick up twice a day
  • Feeding the patient as needed
  • Rugging the patient if needed
  • Homecare notes and coaching
  • Liaison with owner and specialists
  • Record keeping and photography
  • Hoof examination and treatment as needed

Option 1: intensive care no boots no hard feeding

Horse/pony is examined twice daily, fed hay  2-3 times daily, rugged and given medication if needed. Hooves are trimmed weekly at a minimum. Care, salt, Mag chloride water and grass hay is included.

Option 2: Intensive care with boots (owner supplied) no hard feeding

Same as option one but including daily management of boots that are supplied by owner.

Option 3: Intensive care with boots, plus boot hire no hard feeding

Same as option one but with our boots and includes the boot hire fee.

Option 4: Intensive care with hard feeding

Same as option one but including hard feeding (feed charged to owner at cost price). Feed billing spreadsheet will be provided to owner.

Option 5: Intensive care with hard feeding and boot management   

Same as option one but including daily boot management  (boots either purchased off us or supplied by owner), hard feeding (feed charged to owner at cost price).  Feed billing spreadsheet will be provided to owner.

Option 6: Intensive care with hard feed, boots and boot hire

Same as option one but including daily boot management and boot hire ($25 per week), hard feeding (feed charged to owner at cost price). Feed billing spreadsheet will be provided to owner.

(*In times of drought or hay shortage if we have to buy in hay, there will be an extra charge per week of about $10.)

For full list of fees, services and treatments, please download our comprehensive Rehabilitation Agistment Agreement

Holiday Agistment – standard agistment in paddock

Download Holiday Agistment Agreement

Included:

  • paddock rent/management incl fencing, water trough maintenance.
  • provision of a salt mineral lick.
  • feeding out hay in a normal year including the cost of the hay.
  • horse management incl health checks and weight or BCS monitoring.
  • rugging with a supplied (owner supplies this) rug for the winter if needed
  • AM feed out of hard feed/medication (owner supplied)

Fees starting at –

Minis – 12 hh
$ 55 per week
Ponies – Galloways 12.1. hh – 14.3 hh
$ 65 per week
Horses 15-16.2 hh
$ 80 per week

For a comprehensive list of services and fees, please download and read the Holiday Agistment Agreement.   It contains additional information regarding extra feeds, any extra care that is required and the complete list of services provided.

Owner requested additional services:

  • Transport within Victoria $250 – $450 depending on distance and if time permits
  • Body Therapist (as charged)
  • Clipping (as charged)
  • Veterinarian/Dentist (as charged)
  • Owner requested Lunging/exercise $25 / session
  • Owner requested Groom and Shampoo $25 /session
  • Special medication or treatments (at cost)
  • Dietary supplements and other feeds are charged at cost or can be supplied by owner.
  • Trimming $50 per trim

Retirement Agistment

Download Retirement Agistment Agreement

Hardly a week goes by when we don’t hear of another outer suburban paddock lost to development.  We can’t stop progress, but where do all the horses go?

At Mayfield we have been offering retirement agistment for several years now.  We have quite a number of retirees amongst the various mobs.

Why choose Mayfield for your horse?

  • Company of the mob.
  • The freedom to run when they want to.
  • A temperate environment that is mitigated in the summer by huge shady gums and valley breezes and the winter is short with few bleak days and there is plenty of shelter.
  • Large paddocks that vary from flat to undulating with solid and safe fences.
  • We specialise in rehabilitating horses with chronic lameness.
  • No ticks, no fruit bats, no midgeys and no Patersons’s Curse.

There is a professional, well trained team experienced in equine aged care; everything from diet to hooves.  We even have our own resident veterinary nurse.

Mayfield is a kind climate for old bones and peaceful surrounds for old minds.  And you will always be welcome to visit your old friends.

For a comprehensive list of fees and services, please download the Retirement Agistment Agreement

From ponies to Clydies
starting at $54 per week

Please add a one-off fee of WEIGHING AND DRENCHING ON ARRIVAL of $25 to the first payment OR arrive with an Equest Plus gel drench that the Agistor can administer on arrival.

Horse/pony will be kept in a herd ranging from 2-8 horses in an appropriate paddock to maintain body condition from pasture intake in a normal seasonal year. Hay is normally fed out over the summer and the winter.

Retirement agistment includes:

  • paddock rent/management including fencing, water trough maintenance.
  • provision of a salt mineral lick.
  • feeding out hay in a normal year including the cost of the hay.
  • horse management including health checks and weight or BCS monitoring.
  • rugging with an owner supplied rug for the winter if needed.
  • monthly hoof maintenance.
  • seasonal drenching.

Extra charges for Retirement Agistees

If we need to charge you any extra, you will be notified in advance (if possible) and invoiced as the charges are incurred. You can also request additional services.

Pellets:

Some of the older horses that have trouble holding condition or have teeth that are failing, may need to be fed pellets or some may have issues with incisors and have trouble grazing and may need extra hay. For example, the cost for this is $15 per week for 1 feed of pellets per day and $15 per week for one biscuit of extra hay. If it is needed in the afternoon there will be a labour charge. There is a full description of how we calculate extra charges in the Retirement Agistment Agreement. Your standard monthly charge includes checking in the morning and feeding 2-3 biscuits of grass hay each daily.

Drought fodder:

In times of drought when we need to buy in hay and are feeding out more than one biscuit of hay per day, there will be a charge of approximately $15/square bale for hay. Prices for this may vary according to the severity of the drought and supply and demand for hay.

Dental:

Annual dental checks by our horse veterinarian and dentist will be charged at cost and the dental bills will be forwarded to you to pay.

Extra care:

If your horse requires any extra care you will be charged for the time spent and for any materials used.   

Owner requested additional services:

  • Transport within Victoria if time permits $150-$350 depending on distance.
  • Massage Therapist (as charged)
  • Special medication or treatments (at cost)
  • Euthanasia and burial on farm $250 if resources are available