Essner Ranch

Boutique, Full-Service Retirement Boarding in Lake Stevens, Snohomish County Washington

Currently full, but please contact me for wait-list

We are shifting our focus to what we believe we can do really well. Have a horse ready to step down and enjoy time out of her stall? After his career would you like to see him live out his life in a more natural environment than the show barn of his earlier years? We can offer both private and group options for your friend’s later years.... (read more)

Includes:
• 20 lbs timothy per day, in two daily feedings
• Seasonal grass turnout, as growing conditions permit
• Feeding of your grain and supplements and administration of am/pm meds, including pickup of feed.
• Daily cleaning of all paddock and shelter areas
• Maintenance of water tanks
• Fly parasite program on property
• Weekly grooming
• Coordination and handling for vet and farrier appointments & administration of wormer
• Fly masks, grazing muzzle, fly spray, and blanketing as discussed
• Updates per your desires

A La Carte services
• Additional grooming
• Bedding pellets
• Other hay requirements
• Pelleted hay only diets
• Specific needs, please ask!

Plans to begin working on a small track system/Paddock Paradise for daytime hours with nighttime private small paddock and shelter for those desiring herd living for their horses. Horse in this setting must be barefoot in hinds.

Large matted run-in shelters with large private paddocks, 24/7 in and out access. Owner has camera surveillance of shelters.

Outdoor all-weather sand arena with gravel base, 75x120. Retirement horses are considered to be no longer in consistent work, but owners may avail themselves of our arena when visiting.

Tack storage and in-barn cross-tie area available.

Crushed rock in majority of paddock areas. We do our best to mud-manage here in Western WA.

Plumbed restroom available.

Just over a mile haul to the Centennial Trail. A few small hacking trails on adjacent 5 acres can be accessed. Less than two miles from highway 9. We are north of Snohomish and just on the south edge of Arlington.

Knowledgeable lifetime horse owner lives on site and provides care. Max 4 boarded horses. Owner is experienced with compassionately and discreetly coordinating difficult end of life decisions.

We seek to have as little horse drama as possible.

$550/mo