Byrd Horseback Riding Program

09/01/2024

Congratulations to these two on winning some ribbons today in some tough competition great job everyone! 🐴

09/01/2024

Some of our students having fun at the Penn Valley Rodeo Association Gymkhana! 🛢️🐎

08/30/2024

Hi Stampede Kids!

Today is the last day to grab a copy of the 2024 Marysville Stampede Coloring Contest page from today's Appeal-Democrat (8/27) newspaper and start coloring. Art must be completed on the newsprint version and is due, to Grange Co-Op, noon on Friday, August 30.

Visit us online for details - MarysvilleStampede.com/coloring-contest 🐂🖍🏆

See y'all at the rodeo - September 14 & 15, 2024!

08/23/2024

Happy Friday! 🎉

It's a fact! 😉😁😁

08/16/2024

🎊 𝟏 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 🎊

We are excited to celebrate our 1 year anniversary of changing Byrd Horseback Riding from a small part-time lesson program to full time!

Thank you for everyone’s continued support! We are excited to see what this next year brings!

08/14/2024

Hello Everyone!

With fall creeping up on us and back into a routine from summer I have had a lot of inquiries for lessons. So I wanted to re-introduce myself and my lesson program!

Please feel free to reach out with any questions!

08/14/2024

🍎𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸🍎

With many going back to school soon, here are some fun horse facts!

Hope you all have a great first day! The horses will be waiting for when you get out📚

08/13/2024

CJ loves his new fly sheet cover for his stroller when he’s hanging out at lessons or helping do ranch chores ♥️

08/11/2024

It was a gorgeous morning for a trail ride! Diesel, Rowdy and Roany got to enjoy some fun outside the arena 🌲

08/05/2024

♥️ Horses are definitely a magical thing!

08/01/2024

When riding horses you have 2 primary riding disciplines- Western(left) and English(right)

Within these 2 primary disciplines they have other types of riding, such as for

English- dressage, hunter jumper, eventing etc.

Western- reining, cutting, sorting, rodeo and more

It is important to know your equipment, how to properly use it, put together and even knowing the names of all its parts

07/31/2024

Which is your favorite horse breed? 🐴

07/30/2024

We can’t wait for the local Marysville Stampede 🎉

Time to secure your RODEO TICKETS! 🎟✔

07/30/2024

🌄 Sunset evening ride and cooler temperatures are exactly what we needed!

07/29/2024

Skip is happy to say Hi! And curious what treats I may have for him 🥕

Excited for cooler weather recently! With that limited lesson time slots are available to keep both riders and horses comfortable while we deal with the heat waves.

Time slots will open up as fall approaches and it cools down, with back to school and routines going back to normal afternoon slots do fill up the quickest. If planning to start lessons or return back with the school year please reach out ahead of time to reserve.

Thank you! ♥️

07/29/2024

A fun local horse show coming up!

07/09/2024

We got some fun visitors last week! My nephews took a family road trip to come visit and hangout with the horses!

They loved it!

07/04/2024

𝐂𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐝:

Remaining lessons for the rest of the week will be canceled. Due to the heat wave and smoke. Hoping to resume back Monday. Again, please remember limited hours to beat the heat for both the students and horses so if you don’t have your time slot reserved already please do so. Thank you all in advance.

And a huge thank you to our first responders fighting these fires in this heat, we appreciate you! ♥️

Happy 4th of July 🇺🇸

06/27/2024

The daily life of having a ranch 😅

06/27/2024

We would like to congratulate one of our students Kyla on her new horse, Potato that we had the pleasure in helping her find! We are so excited for your future together and to be apart of it!

Also, happy early birthday 🥳

06/20/2024

Sometimes the horses like to feel pretty also after a great ride! 💁🏼‍♀️

We like to give Lena the nickname of the “Barbie Horse”

06/16/2024

We had a fun first Saturday Day Summer Camp! Thank you to all who joined us! Next one is July 20th 🎉

06/13/2024

Miss Kate had a great lesson! We are excited to have the opportunity to use her as a lesson horse.

Her previous job was being a pick up horse at rodeos helping cowboys get off bucking horses to safety and also helping other kids compete in rodeo events ♥️🐴

06/07/2024

Facebook vs Reality 😂

Trying to get horses to pose for a photo is a lot more work than you think

𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲!

06/07/2024

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Things your riding instructor wants you to know:
1. This sport is hard. You don't get to bypass the hard…..every good rider has gone through it. You make progress, then you don't, and then you make progress again. Your riding instructor can coach you through it, but they cannot make it easy.

2. You're going to ride horses you don't want to ride. If you're teachable, you will learn from every horse you ride. Each horse in the barn can teach you if you let them. IF YOU LET THEM. Which leads me to…

3. You MUST be teachable to succeed in this sport. You must be teachable to succeed at anything, but that is another conversation. Being teachable often means going back to basics time and time and time again. If you find basics boring, then your not looking at them as an opportunity to learn. Which brings me to…..

4. This sport is a COMMITMENT. Read that, then read it again. Every sport is a commitment, but in this sport your teammate weighs 1200 lbs and speaks a different language. Good riders don't get good by riding every once in awhile….they improve because they make riding a priority and give themsevles opportunity to practice.

5. EVERY RIDE IS AN OPPORTUNITY. Even the walk ones. Even the hard ones. Every. Single. Ride. Remember when you just wished someone would lead you around on a horse? Find the happiness in just being able to RIDE. If you make every ride about what your AREN'T doing, you take the fun out of the experience for yourself, your horse, and your instructor. Just enjoy the process. Which brings me to...

6. Riding should be fun. It is work. and work isn't always fun.....but if you (or your rider) are consistently choosing other activities or find yourself not looking forward to lessons, it's time to take a break. The horses already know you don't want to be here, and you set yourself up for failure if you are already dreading the lesson before you get here.

7. You'll learn more about horses from the ground than you ever will while riding. That's why ground lessons are important, too. If you're skipping ground lessons (or the part of your lesson that takes place on the ground), you're missing out on the most important parts of the lesson. You spend far more time on the ground with horses than you do in the saddle.

8. Ask questions and communicate. If you're wondering why your coach is having you ride a particular horse or do an exercise, ask them. Then listen to their answer and refer to #3 above.

9. We are human beings. We make decisions (some of them life and death ones) every day. We balance learning for students with workloads for horses and carry the bulk of this business on our shoulders. A little courtesy goes a long way.

Of all the sports your child will try through their school years, riding is one of 3 that they may continue regularly as adults (golf and skiing are the others). People who coach riding spend the better part of their free time and much of their disposable income trying to improve their own riding and caring for the horses who help teach your child. They love this sport and teaching others…..but they all have their limits. Not all good riders are good coaches, but all good coaches will tell you that the process to get good is not an easy one.

*thank you to whoever wrote this! Not my words, but certainly a shared sentiment!

06/06/2024

𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 :

Hot off the press! 📩 We are excited to announce some big changes happening over the next few weeks at Byrd Horseback Riding Program. Over the month we will be posting about these new changes, add ons and opportunities!

With that being said here is our first!

𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒉𝒍𝒚 𝑵𝒆𝒘𝒔𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓!

Every month we will be posting and emailing our monthly news letter. This will cover things that happened last month and new coming up the current month!

If you would like to sign up for our news letter you or your child must be currently enrolled in lessons. Please send us a message with your name and email to be added on. You can also sign up at our new bulletin board posted on the tack room starting 6/9.

Thank you! ♥️

06/02/2024

How cool! One of our students decided to paint a picture of our lesson horse, Diesel.

Great job 🎨🐴