Boarding
Our management team has a combined experience of over 65 years. Our facility, combined with the dedication and ability of our staff, creates an ideal environment for your horse’s well-being. In addition to quality hay, top of the line grain is fed that includes any needed vitamins and minerals. Additional supplements are available if required or can be supplied by the owner.
WynOaks Farm offers:
- Foaling services
- Mares under lights
- Breeding management
- Stallion services
- Layups
- Youngstock care and more
Mares are checked daily for overall healt h and groomed regularly. Mares and youngstock have daily access to turnout. Depending on the season, mares are out during the day, and are brought into stalls at night or vice versa in the heat of summer. If applicable, they are turned out full-time with sheds.
MARE CARE – LONG TERM & SHORT TERM
Spaces are available for year-round broodmare care. We work with an equine nutritionist to ensure that nutritional needs are being met during pregnancy and post foaling. With highly skilled equine veterinarians, we offer a variety of breeding options for your mare.
We offer a short-term mare care option for clients wanting to have their breeding work done at WynOaks Farm. Once domicile requirements have been met, owners can then take their mare home. A longer stay may be arranged if space is available.
We request that foaling mares arrive at least 30 days prior to foaling for observation and acclamation. They are fed grain twice daily and given free choice quality hay. A full time broodmare manager is on hand to oversee feeding, grooming, foaling, minor medical care and good record keeping.
Successful foaling requires diligence and proper planning. We accept a limited number of mares for foaling. By keeping the mares in residence to a limited number, it ensures individual, hands on care. We specialize in offering full mare care and foaling for participation in the Pennsylvania Breeding Fund Program. WynOaks Farm features modern foaling stalls equipped with cameras monitored around the clock by experience and qualified foaling attendants. Our staff follows a strict pre-foaling and foaling protocol and conducts a check including dates of vaccinations, wax monitoring, time of foaling, placental expulsion and details of the foal.
As the mare nears her foaling date, she is moved into the foaling barn where she will be monitored 24 hours a day. The condition of the mare is observed and noted accordingly by the foaling manager. In addition, each of the foaling stalls is covered by our modern camera system that allows the attendant to watch all foaling stalls on color monitors with night vision.
We offer foaling services for mares managed under our long-term care program and short term care with advanced notice. Our experienced staff attends foalings, and mares are assisted during delivery if needed. The foal’s umbilical cord is treated after foaling, and then three times daily, or as long as needed. An enema is given to the foal to decrease the risk of meconium impaction. At 12 hours of age, a blood sample is taken from the foal and tested for IgG antibody level. A vet will administer plasma to aid in improvement of health and prevent disease. Clients will need to sign waiver to decline.
Mares are dewormed within 24 hours of foaling to limit the foal’s risk of parasite infection. Foals are handled daily from birth. Haltering, leading, grooming and picking hooves are skills the foal will learn during its first few days of life. The mare and foal are kept in a small turnout area for a few days before graduating to a larger individual paddock for some exercise and brought back to their stall for the night. When the time is right, mares and foals will go out in groups based on compatibility.
FOALING FACILITIES
During foaling season, mares are booked on a first come, first serve basis and on our ability to schedule them into the foaling calendar. For this reason we recommend booking as early as possible.
In most cases, pregnant mares should arrive on the farm a minimum of 30-45 days prior to foaling so the mare can form important anti-bodies prior to delivery. Generally, mares stay at the farm for 10-14 days following the birth of their foals and then are shipped out for breeding or return to their home farms. Permanent year-round board for your mare and foal is also available.
WynOaks Farm offers the following services and amenities:
- 35 stalls
- all necessary paperwork
- turnout
- large, clean stalls with outside screened doors
- careful attention to changes in nutritional needs
- daily grooming & handling
- 12 x 24 foaling stalls
- straw bedding
- 24 hr. monitoring w/ in-stall cameras
- experienced foaling attendants
- routine newborn care (including plasma transfusions)
- critical care of newborns with special needs
- on-call emergency veterinary service as needed
- newborn foal pictures
- pasture or paddock turnout for mares & foals
- vanning services arranged for offsite breeding facilities, in and out of state
Our entire barn is completely stripped, power-washed and disinfected prior to each foaling season and stalls are disinfected each time a new mare is brought in for foaling. Every precaution is taken to insure a clean, dry, safe and healthy environment for the birth of each foal.
Please contact us if you are interested in boarding with us.
WynOaks Farm provides boarding for broodmares, foals, weanling, yearling, sales oriented and racing layup for clients. All horses are cared for by our professional staff and given the highest quality of care specific to the need.
* We have limited openings for this service, but will take outside horses if space is available
Weanlings are divided into compatible groups and allowed to grow up in a herd pasture environment with safe fencing. Still coming into barn stalls regularly out of the strong sunshine or inclement weather. Turnout is equipped with large run-in sheds stocked with hay. They continue to receive routine health care and farrier work. This living arrangement is continued through the yearling and two-year-old years. In the summer of their yearling-year sales prep begins and as two-year olds training can begins with light groundwork and starting under saddle.
BARNS
WynOaks Farm barns are of new construction. All are center aisle design with sliding doors at each end providing excellent cross ventilation.
STALLS
Front and rear doors and fans in each stall provide maximum ventilation for the horses. All stalls are designed with the highest level of safety and health for your horse.
FENCING
Fences are built of oak; four-board and solid treated post construction. Corners are rounded for safety. All pasture gates on the farm are kept chain locked for additional safety.
RUN-IN SHEDS
The run-in sheds located in the pastures are 32′ x 64′ concrete block construction; cool in the summer and warm in winter months. The run-in sheds are bedded with straw and are stocked with free choice hay and salt blocks.
PASTURES AND PADDOCKS
There are large, grassy turnout pastures for horses of all ages, stages, and needs. We offer large turnout paddocks, each equipped with automatic watering systems, smaller group paddocks, single horse paddocks and multiple round pens.
Pastures are of bluegrass, timothy, clover. The pastures are mowed, fertilized and limed on a regular schedule.
HEALTH CARE
At WynOaks Farm, we inspect every horse several times daily. Any issue–whether it’s nutrition, breeding, shoeing, disease prevention, or just the emotional well-being of the animal—receives the immediate attention of our managers and staff.
COGGINS TEST
A negative Coggins Test for Equine Infectious Anemia, EIA within twelve months is required before arrival.
DENTIST
An Equine Dentist checks the horses at least once a year. WynOaks Farm will schedule dental services for our clients.
DEWORMING AND MEDICATION
Mares are dewormed every eight weeks. Foals are dewormed monthly. Daily medications that can be administered by knowledgeable staff will be given at no charge.
Owners are responsible for the cost of medications and veterinary services.
BLACKSMITH/FARRIER SERVICES
Trimming is scheduled every six to eight weeks or as necessary.
VACCINATIONS
Vaccinations required before arrival and boostered yearly or every 6 months as necessary include:
- Pneamabort K
- Rotavirus
- Botulism
- Rabies
- Potomac Horse Fever
- Lawsonia
- Flu
- Rhino
- Tetanus
- EEE/WEE
- West Nile
PLASMA
A vet administers plasma to each new foal.
VETERINARIAN SERVICES
Quality veterinary service is always available with our main vet practice employing five qualifies veterinarians.
Emergency and surgical facilities within a short distance of the farm include:
- Mannor Equine Hospital
- Unionville Equine Hospital
- New Bolton Center
All boarded horses are placed on our veterinary maintenance plan that ensures routine medical needs – shots, worming, tooth care – are all automatically scheduled and addressed.
