Our Mission Statement ~~~ We care for horses and cater to equestrians who want the best in secured MIG pastures with concerned daily care for their equine in a natural manner, in a natural setting. We will provide a place for equestrians to enjoy their horse, inside gated/enclosed training facilities and a place for riding through the scenic wide-open-spaces of our northeast corner of Oregon.

This is our business, home of our equines, and we wish to share our horse ranch with those that can appreciate our efforts to make a safe place for all to enjoy.

You can follow this link to find our credentials for trusting your horse with us.

We are most concerned for the safety and well being of all horses, and particularly those pasturing at McKuster Ranch -ours and yours- and we hope you will share in this concern whether you consider boarding, or not to board your horse at McKuster Ranch, LLC.

Our Equine Veterinary Health Standards ~~~ We offer horse pasture boarding on a month-to-month or short term monthly basis. Because we are most concerned for the safety and well being of all horses pasture boarding at McKuster Ranch -yours and ours- we ask if you wish to pasture board your horse here that you provide us with a copy of your most current veterinary records of good health and specific vaccinations (equine influenza, EHV-4, west nile) and a negative Coggins Test results, within the past 6 months. The vaccinations listed above should have been given between 21 days to 8 months prior to entering our pastures. Along with your most recent annual vet records, we ask for a record (sales receipts) of your routine equine worming program, before entering our pastures. In our effort to prevent colic (intussusception/ impaction/ spasmodic), at McKuster Ranch we ask if your horse has not been wormed in the past 60 days, this should be done 48-36 hours prior to entering our pastures.

We feel from the pharmaceutical formulas there are three very good worm programs that fulfill all our needs, for spring and summer worming we use 1) Pfizer or Merial products; 2) for November 1st worming treatment we use only Pfizer's Equimax on all horses, and 3) winter worming we dose our equines with the easy-to-use dry Farnam product. Because we live in a rather lush environment next to the Walla Walla River only the best parasite protection will suffice when it comes to the welfare of our beloved equines.
We will be happy to share with our pasture boarders a CD video of the Parasite Puzzle produced by Pfizer - Animal Health, at the time you bring you horse to McKuster Ranch pastures.

Our Pasture Rental Agreement has used parts of three other Pasture Rental Agreements (one from Massachusetts, one from California, one from our equine law attorney in the state of Oregon) to help us in composing McKuster Ranch LLC Pasture Rental Agreement. We do our best to run an equine business that takes care of our horses, our boarding horses and maintain a safe place for all to enjoy equine sports, on and off McKuster Ranch, LLC property.

Our Pasture Boarding Application ~~~ If you wish to make application for pasture boarding at McKuster Ranch please see our Pastures Boarding Application -- provided here in MS Word and also available in PDF format.
Please email or call us if there is something you would like to discuss concerning your horse, our boarding application or agreement.

Please make copy of above Application and US Mail to: McKuster Ranch, LLC PO Box 674 Milton-Freewater, OR 97862-0674.
After we have discussed your horse's application with our herd we will notify you by email, telephone, or US Mail of acceptance of application, depending on availability of pasture space --- first come, first served.

Our Pasture Rental Agreement ~~~ Upon our herd's acceptance of your horses' application we will send you a copy of our PASTURE RENTAL - HORSE BOARDING AGREEMENT to read carefully, for your approval and return to us upon your arrival at McKuster Ranch pastures.

Email us or call (541) 938-3303 if you have any questions concerning pasture boarding your horse at McKuster Ranch in 2010.

We hope you will enjoy your stay at McKuster Ranch, and we have had vets to say that they wish they could stay here if they were a horse. August 1, 2007 Fugly Horse of the Day recognized and recommended our horse pastures and pasture management system, so we feel we are doing things right in the care of horses.

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