Help with animals and learn about horse therapy in Grund, Austria

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We are looking for YOU - flexible young people wanted to live and work with horses and other animals!

We offer you - Living in harmony with horses and nature. We are an association and our work focuses on horse riding assisted education and in the field of therapeutic riding. We have about 3 ha of pasture available, on which all of our 4-legged friends can be found. From our goats we get milk and other goat products. Our new members in the stable are 3 donkeys to use for therpautic riding lessons. You can learn horse therapy, participate in training the horses, do horsebackriding by yourself or learn to ride, milk the goats, mow the meadow and make hay, muck out the barn and restore our historic courtyard.
We are located approx. 60 km from Vienna and are surrounded by fields and wine hills.
You can visit the cultural scene from Vienna or visit several Events in Vienna. Also you can go for sightseeing historical places, old castles or a lot of typical winhills around of our farm.
For you accomodation are Single and multi-bed rooms available in our 400 years old historical lodge.
We would be very happy if you are our guests for 2-3 weeks or 2- 3 months.
We would like to show you our beautiful home and look forward to meeting you!

Wir suchen DICH - flexible junge Leute, die gerne mit Pferden und anderen Tieren leben und arbeiten möchten!

Wir bieten dir - ein Leben in Harmonie mit den Pferden und der Natur. Wir sind ein Verein und unsere Themenschwerpunkte liegen in der pferdegestützten Reitpädagogik und im Bereich des Therapiereitens, aber auch der Reitsport kommt nicht zu kurz. Wir haben ca. 3 ha Weiden zur Verfügung, auf denen es sich alle unsere 4Beiner gut gehen lassen. Von unseren Ziegen gewinnen wir Ziegenmilch und daraus die verschiendensten Ziegenprodukte. Zu unseren neuen Stallmitgliedern gehören 3 Esel, die wir für unsere Therapie einsetzen. Ihr könnt bei uns die Therapie mit dem Pferd näher kennen lernen, beim Training der Pferde mitwirken, reiten oder auch reiten lernen, Ziegen melken, Wiesen mähen und Heu machen, Stall ausmisten, Koppeln reparieren, sowie unseren historischen alten Hof mit restaurieren.
Wir sind ca. 60 km von Wien entfernt und liegen inmitten von Weinbergen und Feldern.
In Wien könnt ihr die historischen Plätze besuchen, Museen besichtigen oder zahlreiche Events besuchen. Ebenso gibt es in unserer Umgebung sehr viele historische Plätze, Burgen und Schlösser zu besichtigen, oder ihr könnt durch die wunderschönen Weinberge wandern.
Als Unterkunft stehen euch Ein-/Mehrbettzimmer in einem 400 Jahre alten Gut zur Vefügung.
Wir würden uns freuen, wenn ihr auf längere Zeit mind. 2-3 Wochen bis 2- 3 Monate unsere Gäste sein würdet.
Wir zeigen euch gerne unsere schöne Heimat und freuen uns auf euch !
Types of help and learning opportunities
Farmstay help
Animal Care
Language practice
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
We are located approx. 60 km from Vienna and are surrounded by fields and wine hills.
You can visit the cultural scene from Vienna or visit several Events in Vienna. Also you can go for sightseeing historical places, old castles or a lot of typical winhills around of our farm.
Most of our visiting peoples first want to learn around horses and are interested in living and handling with animals, specially with our horses, donkeys, goats and our other animals.
Help
Help in the barn, with horse care, and with animal-assisted therapies

Mithilfe im Stall, bei der Pferdepflege, bei den tiergestützten Therapien
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
Accommodation
Single / multi-bed room
Food for free (breakfast, lunch and dinner)

Ein-/Mehrbettzimmer
Freie Verpflegung (Frühstück, Mittagessen und Abendessen)
What else ...
We are located approximately 60 km from Vienna and are surrounded by fields. You can reach Vienna within one hour by train. The train station is nearby our farm only 10 minutes to go.

Wir sind ca. 60 km von Wien entfernt und liegen inmitten von Weinbegen und Feldern. Ihr könnt Wien mittels S-Bahn innerhalb 1 Stunde erreichen. Die S-Bahn-Station ist zu Fuß von unserer Farm in 10 Minuten zu erreichen.

Please note: we have no free WLAN, but a good internet connection.

Bitte beachte: Wir haben eine gute Internet Vebindung, jedoch kein freies WLAN.
A little more information
- Internet access
- Limited internet access
- We have pets
- We are smokers
- Can host families
How many Workawayers can stay?
Two
Hours expected
Maximum 5 hours a day till midday, 5 days a week, if you are interested in helping and learning around hrses you are really welcome also in the afternoon

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06/10/2020

Left by Workawayer (Franziska) for host

I spent 10 days on the horsefarm of Ingrid and Marion. When i arrived i had to pay a deposit of 50€ for inventory and in case iff i leave earlier than agreed. I was mucking out the stables with Elfi for 5h per day. It is physicl hard work. The thing i liked the most was milking the goats. One goat tried to lick my ears while i was milking her. The… read more

(Good )

02/07/2020

Left by host for Workawayer (Klara)

Klara was volunteering at our farm unfortunately for a short time, but she was very interested in all thing. She was helpfull in every skills and situations. She learned very fast - with our horses, donkeys and goats. And she loved all the products form our goats. We are very happy to could meet and host Klara. And we hope she will come back soon.… read more

(Excellent )

02/07/2020

Left by host for Workawayer (Gregorio)

Gregorio was volunteering at our farm first for 2 months - depending of Corona situation he was there in summary for nearly 5 months - everyday with him was a really funny day !! Gegrorio is a very enthusiastic, very sportive boy - has always helpfull hands and ideas. He is really open minded for everthing and learned a lot of work with horses and… read more

(Excellent )

09/03/2020

Left by Workawayer (Gregorio) for host

Ahh... I spent there almost 2 months, I think it took some time, but then we all fell in love each other!!
I’m gonna miss them all!

I’ve never worked with horses before, what an awesome animal, I think that this is the perfect place to have your first experience with horse care! Marion Ingrid and Elfi will explain you everything a thousand time,… read more

(Excellent )

03/03/2020

Left by Workawayer (Luise) for host

i spent one months on this project and it was really a great time. I had absolutely no experience with horses, but I have learned so much in this time. The people there, Marion, Ingrid and Elfie, try to explain as much as possible, so I could acquire new skills. They are, when you get to know them better, really friendly and open and I'm gonna… read more

(Excellent )

29/02/2020

Left by host for Workawayer (Luise)

Liebe Luise, du warst in den letzten Wochen eine wunderbare Ergänzung auf unserem Pferdehof und bei den Tieren, obwohl du das erstemal so hautnah und intensiv mit Pferden und Ziegen und Eseln zu tun hattest, hattet ihr sofort einen guten Draht zueinander. Ebenso bist du wirklich sehr talentiert beim Reiten, die Fortschritte waren gewaltig ! Ich… read more

(Excellent )

18/09/2019

Left by host for Workawayer (Mari)

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(Good )

12/09/2019

Left by Workawayer (Mari) for host

I stayed here for 19 days in end of August to September. It was my first time taking care of animals, and nice to know horses, donkeys and goats.

I was not sure about a day of life in horse farm/riding school before I worked here, time and week schedule, what to do, and what should not do. There are lots of do's and don'ts otherwise hurt horses… read more or horses hurt themselves and all those dos and don’ts have reasons. Horses are very sensitive but lovely animal that is the lesson from here and keeping animals are harder than I thought.
People who have no experience of horses like me don't know anything so here is an idea for you who haven't worked at stable farm or don't know much about a day of life working for animals;
Your day start from 7 or 8 am to feed horses(it’s more complicated than I thought and each individual horse have different meal order or medications), also feed donkeys and goats. It takes half an hour, then having quick breakfast, then main job starts from 9am to 1pm/1:30pm (4 to 4,5 hours
); horses out from stables to paddocks (beautiful moment in a day that horses are exciting to go outside), cleaning poops from stables, take poops to compost by wheelbarrow, and spread straw for 17 horse boxes/stables/stalls and 3 donkeys’ stables.
4 to 7pm: if there is extra work, another 2 to 3 hours of work e.g. cleaning poops from training fields/tracks and paddocks or grooming horses. If they let you to take lessons, you can take riding lessons! I could go riding twice while I was staying here. I am first timer, never ridden horse before, and really enjoyed riding horse. They taught me how to ride safely from very basics and start “trot”! It was exciting moment to ride horses and know each horse.
7pm to 8pm feeding horses and donkeys. (If you want to try milking goats, you can try it. It's more difficult than it looks until you find how it works. Unfortunately, Goats were playing around you and if you don’t milking good, they’re running away.)
Therefore, sum up all working hours, it's at least 5 to 8 hours of work every day and 6 days a week from Sunday to Friday. You can have a day off on Saturdays. When they were busy, I had to work 8 days in a row even I asked to have a day off after working 5 days but couldn’t, so you have to be prepared. Those works are all physically demanding, manual labor work, and tough. In summer, it's hot, and in winter it's very cold for sure but I learnt that this is how hard to have cute four legs friends.

Meals are basically defrosting from freezer or cooking pasta and jar sauce so you can choose whatever you want to eat from freezer, then cook or microwave your own food. You can find typical Austrian foods from freezer; kaisersmann, cnudel, sausages with cheese inside, steamed bun with jam, topfen strudel, of course chips and snitzel.
I'm impressed Vanessa and Naomi that those teenage girls are loving animals soooo much and show their love to animals. Their dedication is not only riding horses, they actually love them to being friend, and they know everything about horses and goats.

There is NO wifi that this profile shows “there is an internet” so you need to be prepared to get enough data on your phone. Otherwise it's middle of nowhere and no cafe to use the internet around.

I know I was a bit weird, don’t know what’s going on around because never lived with animals, also only one don’t speak German and it was hard for me to integrate people and girls but horses, donkeys and goats always heal you.
Thank you for having me and it was nice to know horses, donkeys and goats.

(Good )

27/08/2019

Left by Workawayer (Celeste & Matteo) for host

It was my and my partner first Workaway experience and we really loved it. We stayed there for 3 weeks and learnt a lot about animals (horses, donkeys, goats) and country life. Ingrid, Marion and Elfi are lovely people, always ready to help you; we also met other volunteers from very different parts of the world. We hadn't any experience with… read more

(Excellent )

04/07/2019

Left by Workawayer (Magdalena) for host

I stayed at the farm for 3 weeks and enjoyed it soooo much. First of all, i am grateful that all 3 of the wonderful ladies were so welcoming and patient with me. I didnt have much experience with horses and farm life in general but Elfie especially taught me plenty. I would recommend to stay longer than 2 weeks cause it takes time to get to know… read more

(Excellent )

11/05/2019

Left by Workawayer (Hilda) for host

Ich arbeitete im April 5 Tage am mit Elfi, Ingrid und Marion. 3 Tage davon war auch meine 6-jährige Tochter dabei, und sie war begeistert von den Tieren am Hof.

Ich mistete gemeinsam mit Elfi die Pferdeboxen aus und half am späten Nachmittag beim Ziegen melken. Elfi war sehr geduldig und gelassen mit mir, und obwohl die körperliche Arbeit doch… read more

(Good )

20/06/2018

Left by host for Workawayer (Lea)

Liebe Lea, du gehst uns sehr ab und wir vermissen dich, du bist ein sehr einfühlsamer Mensch, immer hilfsbereit, sehr lernfreudig, kannst gut mit Tieren umgehen, auch reittechnisch hast du enorme Fortschritte gemacht ! Vorallem warst du immer gut gelaunt !! Wir danken dir dafür, du hast uns so manchen Tag mit deiner guten Laune und ruhigen Art… read more

(Excellent )

12/05/2018

Left by Workawayer (Lea) for host

I stayed here for 3 weeks and really wish I could've stayed longer. It was such an amazing experience and I am thankful for the time I got to spend here. I enjoyed working with the horses and cuddeling the cats and dogs (though I stil don't trust the goats but I have been told they are harmless) and being back in the saddle after so many years… read more

(Excellent )

29/04/2018

Left by host for Workawayer (Savannah)

Hallo Savannah,
you was really a pretty girl - you always had a smile on your face and you always was helpfull. Especially you was interested to train your riding style which was really succesfull. We hope you have a very nice time whereever you are and we hope to see you again !
Lovely greetings from Ingridand Team and all Animals

(Excellent )

29/04/2018

Left by host for Workawayer (leeloo)

Dear Leeloo,
it was a very happiness time with you - you always went through the stable with a smile on your face and sing a song - Your always was a helpfull girl - you could very well communicate with our horses and all other animals such as Lucy and Simba, Emily like your lovely kind to touch her and all our cats were beside you. We miss you… read more

(Excellent )

10/04/2018

Left by Workawayer (leeloo) for host

I had a great experience with Ingrid, Marion and Elfi ! I stayed there for 6 weeks and loved it ! All the animals were adorable and I was able to ride often.
They really helped me to learn deutsch which I originally didn’t speak at all and I also had a lot of time to discover all the pretty cities around.
Thank you Ingrid for being so welcoming… read more

(Excellent )

09/02/2018

Left by host for Workawayer (Nick)

Hallo Nick and Renz, we also missing you - we hope you have a wonderful in Salzburg and after them in your new home -
and we whope we see you again - you were wonderful helpers at our farm - you were always interested in all things with our horses, goats and all other animals - and there are really a lot of them ! Hope you can use the experiance… read more

(Excellent )

09/02/2018

Left by Workawayer (Nick) for host

We stayed with Ingrid and Marion here in March and loved it so much we returned again in May. We were really made to feel like one of the family and loved working with the horses and goats. This is only a 15 min walk to the station where you can catch regular trains to Vienna on your days off. Asides from helping with the animals there are lots of… read more

(Excellent )

09/02/2018

Left by host for Workawayer (Dawid)

Hallo Dawid, you was a really nice and helpful boy, your good feeling to the animals - horses, cats an d dogs - and don't forget our goats - all this made us very happy - you always was interested in the several works what we do with the horses and you was always friendly to help us - so we could bear your drummertime .... we wish you a very nice… read more

(Excellent )

25/09/2017

Left by host for Workawayer (Jana)

Liebe Jana, du gehst uns sehr ab - du warst einfach unser TOP JOKER - wir danken dir hier auf diesem Weg nochmals für deine Hilfe, Ausdauer und Geduld mit uns, unseren Pferden und unseren Reiter Kids und hoffen wir sehen uns wieder !!

(Excellent )

25/09/2017

Left by Workawayer (Jana) for host

I spent two wonderful months here. The people are very friendly and you can learn a lot even if you don't have any experience with horses. A stay here is perfect for workawayer who love animals and other people and who are open to learn a lot of things :)

(Excellent )

29/03/2017

Left by Workawayer (Blanca & Rodrigo) for host

Esta granja ofrece la posibilidad de vivir la vida en el campo, al ritmo que impone la vida con los caballos y los animales.
Muy recomendable para las personas que busquen contacto con la naturaleza y a las que le encanten los animales, puesto que hay un contacto permanente con ellos.
La familia muy acogedora, nos han tratado muy bien y ayudado en… read more

(Excellent )

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