Serving Southern and Southwestern United States
Equine Retirement Program Overview
Personalized and Individualized Equine Care!
Cottonwood Stables is a leading care facility cum stable for horses that need retirement. If you have equines that you can't take care of anymore and want to see wander around peacefully among lush green meadows, call us today! Your horse will be taken good care of at our facility.
For a full, downloadable pdf version of our program, please click here.
Horse Requirements on Arrival
- Current negative Coggins
- Proof of vaccinations
- Waterproof turnout blanket and sheet
- Stable blanket, if available
- List of special needs and/or medications
- 3-day supply of current grain for changeover
- Vet records and X-Rays, if available
Our Equine Retirement Program
- Quality senior grain 2-3 times a day, plus our "extras"
- Horses are carefully matched up for turn out groups, with maximum number of horses in a group limited to 4
- Horses are always separated as needed for feeding to ensure that everyone gets what they are supposed to
- Supplements or medications as provided by owner
- Free choice of coastal Bermuda hay
- Soaked alfalfa cubes and beet pulp
- Mineral blocks and salt in each pasture
- All horses paste wormed based on fecals every 8-12 weeks
- All horses trimmed by farrier every 6 weeks
- All horses groomed throughout the week at feeding time
- Summer only, horses are bathed every 2-3 days as needed
- All pastures and paddocks fertilized annually
- Run-in sheds in all pastures, shade trees in all pastures
- Horses are stalled when the weather is extreme — hot or cold, fans in the summer, blankets in the winter
- We don't stall horses for long periods of time for any reason except for bad weather, medical injury, or owner request
- All stalls bedded in heavy pine shavings, mats in most stalls
- All horses fly sprayed as needed
- Annual vaccinations are given by farm to save money but vaccines are purchased from the vet to ensure quality
- Vet on premises annually for dental work and sheath cleaning
- Quarterly photos and emails to update you on your horse
- Owners are always welcome to come for a visit
Special Needs
We have the flexibility to deal effectively with a wide range of special needs. Cushing’s Syndrome, Anhidrosis, Asthma, Lameness, Arthritis, Uveitis, EPM, DSLD, EOTRH and general surgery recoveries are a few of the conditions we have successfully managed over the years.
When vet comes for our annual dental work, they always remark on the appearance and condition of our horses, especially when they find out that many of our horses are 20+ years old.
The only “extra” costs you will incur are any vet bills, annual vaccinations, dental float, and sheath cleaning. Blanketing, bathing, fly-spraying, grooming, worming, farrier trims, and basic first aid are all included in our monthly fee for base board.
We can control costs better (without short-changing our residents in any way) since we are in a rural area where our taxes and general services are less costly than they are in metropolitan areas. We have great references, of course, including not 1 but 3 of the local vets in our area.
See our Facebook page for more photos of current residents.
Trailering / Pick-up:
This service is provided at the cost of gas plus $100, up to 150 miles.
As of March, 2024, our inclusive monthly board for retirees is $850.