Shively Horsemanship & Services LLC

04/13/2025

💕💕💕SOLD💕💕💕

Who needs a lovely red headed best friend??

✨MARE FOR SALE✨
✨✨Located in Durhamville NY✨✨

Roxy is a 8 year old TB mare looking for a new home!

Roxy is finishing up 60 days restart training with us and is currently for sale by owner.

🔅Owner has jockey club papers in hand. Roxy did not race and was allowed years to grow. Clean legs.
🔅Up to date on chiro, dental, shots and feet.
🔅W/T with continued work on canter (proper carriage)
🔅Has popped over low fences.
🔅15h

Roxy is being sold as a project type mare due to her canter not being finished. She will continue to be worked in the program until sold.

Pricing in lower/mid ###X. Pricing negotiable to a good home.

Feel free to PM or set up an appointment to come see her today! 💕

03/20/2025

✨✨POSITION FILLED✨✨

‼️Hiring‼️

We will be losing our amazing farm hand next month due to moving out of state- so we are posting now for a next month hire!

This position is an AM position with the hours of 8am-11am (with variation of course). Duties include:

- Stall Cleaning and Rebedding
- Watering (interior and pastures)
- Haying/Preparation of Hay nets
- Turnout and Retrieval of horses from pasture
- Off hand things like moving hay, sweeping barn, cobweb sweeping, picking out turnouts, etc.

Would *potentially* consider a board stall in trade for the RIGHT person and with a working contract.

Location- Durhamville NY. Feel free to share!

03/10/2025

Such a pleasure to have these two black beauties join us this weekend for some training time over the next few months!

Last horse arrived today- we are officially in full swing for March and full!

💕

03/02/2025

In late 2022, I started Shively Horsemanship after leaving a decade in the hospitality industry. While working with horses my whole life, it was never something I considered a career path due to life circumstances. But then the time for a change was needed, the right people supported and pushed, and Shively Horsemanship was born.

Last night as I finished up evening check, I had to take a deep breath and just appreciate how far this has come. This business started out as traveling throughout upper New York with the capabilities to only take two horses at a time at the old house. It blossomed to the point of purchasing a new facility and farm with far more space in late August of last year.. just 6 months ago.

In 2022, I never dreamed of having a barn full of 13 horses, months booked out into July, and a lengthy waitlist. I never dreamed of having the amazing, supportive clients that I do and the opportunity to work with such incredible horses that flow through.

I continue to educate and be educated every day. The real gift has been to continue to learn and grow in a career Im passionate in- and share it with everyone who becomes a client.

Another professional really summed it up earlier this week.. “Wow, your dream really came true!”.

Yes, yes it did. And there’s never a night that I forget how thankful I am. And let it be a reminder- it’s never too late.

💕

02/24/2025

🚩**Small Announcement for 2025**🚩

We hope everyone is enjoying the crazy weather over the last month here in Upstate NY.

We have stayed busy all winter and are so thankful for all of our clients keeping us booked up. We haven't posted much content-but boy have we been busy!

We wanted to announce some pricing changes moving further into 2025. With our new facility, more amenities to offer our clients, and always, continuing to develop our education to share with our clients-we are moving our monthly pricing to $1100 a month for full training. **Please note that any previously committed horses for this year are being held to their previously contracted cost**.

As always, our goal has always been to bring education and help to the equine community at a cost that is reasonable and affordable to as many clients as possible. Our next available openings are looking to be around late July/Early August. Waiting list clients are always on priority for next opened slots should they become available. At this time our wait list is tentatively rolling around 9 horses. Should anyone wish to be added, please reach out!

We appreciate every single one of our clients-past, present and future.

Happy Trails Everyone!❣️

12/09/2024

*POSITION FILLED*

Looking for potential barn help a few hours a day! Typical things like stalls, water, hay nets, turn out, etc. Would be paid.

While I can do it by myself- it does get a little tiring plus working the horses!

Would *potentially* consider a board stall in trade OR lessons in partial trade as well.

Location- Durhamville NY. Feel free to share!

11/11/2024

📣We have one spot for November through December became available last minute due to a cancellation! If you’re interested- feel free to message us as otherwise we are booked through February!📣

*Those on waitlist have been contacted*
** Located in Durhamville NY**

At Shively Horsemanship we prioritize your horses mental well-being WHILE putting in the saddle time so that your horses are more rounded individuals. Our program is not just w/t/c- but focus on proper body usage and self carriage throughout the entire process for physical and mental health. Our client base covers a variety of disciplines and breeds. Each client has a specialized approach- as no mold fits all. We utilize a combination of R+, R- and even liberty work as needed.

We offer a variety of services:

🧲 C**t Starting
🧲 Trail/Obstacle Training
🧲 Confidence Building
🧲 Trauma Rehabilitation
🧲 Problem Solving
🧲 Horsemanship Lessons
🧲 “Problem” Horses such as rearing, biting, kicking, bucking, not trailering, etc.
🧲 Groundwork for ANY age
🧲 Conditioning and addition of “miles”

And more..

Our facility is an 18 stall facility with a large 72x160 indoor- so we work year round. We have plenty of references available, or feel free to dig through our page 😊 our care is exceptional- with choice of first and second cutting and tribute feed program.

11/09/2024

Over the past few days we’ve said goodbye to WHR Costello, Gracie and Dreamer! It’s always awesome to see our client horses head home with new skills.

Already we have had new arrivals- and more to come in the upcoming days.

Happy Saturday everyone! 💕

10/29/2024

As October closes up, we find ourselves still as busy going into November! And while we haven’t been keeping up to date on posting our in house horses- it’s because we’ve been awful busy!

This month we’ve had the pleasure of working through young horses with some worrisome foundational behaviors, rehabbing some horses both mentally and physically, working with horses who needed refreshers, c**t starting, and more. We even went out to help evaluate a few horses in need of some major help.

Thank you to all of our clients- past, current and future. We’ve been getting a lot of referrals, mentions, and sharing of our business. To all of you- we can’t thank you enough. Small horse business thrive on word of mouth- and you don’t know how much it affects us.

✨Keep in touch for openings! We are currently booked until February even with cancellations- but we are happy to update anyone should we have an opening. So don’t be shy to jump on the waiting list. March through May already has horses on the books!✨

Thank you everyone 💕

10/13/2024

Please bear with us on responding late to messages everyone from the last few days. Working through them now.

We are currently working through severe Bronchitis and being under the weather. On the bright side- our arena is almost all done with new footing. 💕

We hope everyone’s staying warm in this nasty weather.

10/06/2024

And just like that- October is taking off!

We are fully booked all the way through winter. We have a stall available in January and only 2-3 left in February and forward in 2025.

Thankful everyday for all of our clients 💕

09/29/2024

This wide load can make anyone look small 😅

Geri Lordi 💕

09/26/2024

Boy these guys look a lot alike!!

Boomer and Cypress are two of the warm bloods currently in our barn. Add them to the standardbred, paints (3 👀) and Gypsy and we’ve got quite a variety here currently 💕

October and November are completely booked.. with only one stall left in December and January! We are so thankful for our clientele following us to our new farm and loving all the new clients heading our way!

Thankful for it everyday ❤️

09/09/2024

Something we discuss with clients all the time!

Never underestimate the value of proper leading. It’s the basis and foundation for your horses mannerisms. You would not believe the amount of issues that are just “symptoms” of improper ground manners.

Having rules and boundaries with your horse does not mean you do not value or care for them. It’s how you address those boundaries that shows the level of horsemanship you are at. And you show more respect for your equine partners by ensuring they are able to succeed in the world of being domesticated.

“Manners”

You can tell much about the level of someone’s basic horsemanship by the way their horses lead.

A horse should stay next to you, not pull you or be dragged by you. A horse should respect your space, and not crowd against you, maybe step on your feet.

This is known as “having manners.” A horse that won’t lead is like a dog that jumps up onto furniture, it hasn’t been taught right from wrong.

I recently read something by a well respected western clinician. He said, “People want their horses to love them so much that they think they are being mean if they create boundaries.”

Horses weigh half a ton. They can easily hurt a puny human if they lack manners and boundaries, Heck, they can easily hurt us if they DO have manners.

People who treat horses as though they were some sort of fuzzy pets can create animals that can do a lot of damage. Creating boundaries doesn’t mean whipping and beating, but it does require that when you say “no” you mean “no.”

Standing at the mounting block, standing for the farrier, picking up its hooves, letting itself get bridled, so many basics that make the difference between a mannerly horse and one that shoves you around.

As the clinician said, “letting a horse walk all over you won’t make him love you more.”

09/02/2024

Steele says Happy Labor Day to all our friends and clients!

Have a wonderful holiday! 🇺🇸

09/01/2024

Always nice to be on an 18h horse who makes me look smaller 😌

Boomers time is almost up here! It’s been such a pleasure restarting him helping him learn to relax again.

09/01/2024

We have very limited openings over winter! Looking to keep your horses worked, yearlings consistent, your horse ready for spring riding, or something else? Check us out!

At Shively Horsemanship we prioritize your horses mental well being WHILE putting in the saddle time so that your horses are more rounded individuals. Our program is not just w/t/c- but focus on proper body usage and self carriage throughout the entire process for physical and mental health. Our client base covers a variety of disciplines and breeds. Each client has a specialized approach- as no mold fits all. We utilize a combination of R+, R- and even liberty work as needed.

We offer a variety of services:

🧲 C**t Starting
🧲 Trail/Obstacle Training
🧲 Confidence Building
🧲 Trauma Rehabilitation
🧲 Problem Solving
🧲 Horsemanship Lessons
🧲 “Problem” Horses such as rearing, biting, kicking, bucking, not trailering, etc.
🧲 Groundwork for ANY age
🧲 Conditioning and addition of “miles”

And more..

Our facility is an 18 stall facility with a large 72x160 indoor- so we work year round. We have plenty of references available, or feel free to dig through our page 😊 our care is exceptional- with choice of first and second cutting and tribute feed program.

Curious about our methods or our program? Feel free to message us! ❤️

08/30/2024

Another day, another ride. We love having repeat clients for tuneups.

Over a year and a half ago we broke Glory out. She has barely been ridden and her owner decided to send her in for a quick tune up. We know we did our job well when she’s gone back at it with minimal questions.

Nothing better than that 👍