Slovakia (Slovak Republic)
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After 2 years break in hosting, we are ready to welcome you volunteers in our farm again !
Our horse clinic is situated in White Carpathians mountains, in a small village on the hill. We create a retirement home for old sport horses, for horses that need special care after injury or disease, for horses in recovery or reconvalescence . In our clinic we use alternative treatments methods like homeopathy, Bach flower essences.. Horses live in open stabling. We have 3 horses, 3 ponies to look after, 4 goats, two dogs, cats and only 25 chickens.
We are a non profit organisation.
Last minute volunteers: we need help in march.
Gardening
DIY and building projects
General Maintenance
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Farmstay help
Animal Care
Language practice
You can visit beautiful places in nature all around us, old castle ruins and more.
And of course you can learn lot of things about horses, training horses with positive reinforcement or you can just BE with horses and animals. You can learn lot of interesting things about chickens, gardening .....
We need help in many ways throughout the year. General maintenance work, building fences, building new stable for hay, gardening, stable work, cleaning paddocks, painting chickens houses, making hay, work around house and animals. And preparing wood for winter.
Volunteer shoud be used to be responsible, standalone and like to help with animals specially with horses, goats and chickens. You do not need to be extra strong but fit and you need to enjoy working outside in all weathers. We prefer volunteers older than 20years old.
Volunteer do not need experiences with horses, you only need to be not afraid of horses and want to learn more about them. Also we are not riding school.
In our farm you can learn how to milk a goat, how to make a goat cheese, some build work with wood, and how to ride quad bike ATV, to learn more about R+ (positive and negative reinforcement, calming signals, stress level ....)
In march we need help with animals, feeding, cleaning stables...... (because iam pregnant and iam like a snail. :-)) )
English: Fluent
Hungarian: Fluent
Slovak: Fluent
In main house , one double bedroom, own bathroom and shared kitchen. House and volunteers room is clean, comfortable and heated in winter and full furnitured.
You make your own breakfast (we provide bread, marmalade, ham, eggs, milk, yogurt, tea, etc. etc.) :) We share lunch and dinner and we all cook in turns or a volunteer cooks as part as their 'job'. Time of lunch/dinner is on the agreement. We do the shopping for the meals. Personal expenses are on your own account. During the week, we can always give you a ride to the nearest village.
If volunteers wants, they can use their own tent and sleep in the garden.
The region offer various activity: not far from us there are two good ski resorts,bike park, beautiful walking routes, cycling, swimming, close to us are beautiful castles and ruins: Beckov, Tematin, Čachtice
You can find here the highest peak Velka Javorina of the White Carpathians mountains. It is also nature reserve. And neverending green grass fields.
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Two
Maximum 4-5 hours, 6 days a week
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