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We are looking for a German speaking female ( my daughter is half German and loves practicing the language) who wants to spend time on a stud farm, helping us tame the young horses and cook 2 days a week for our family of 4 and yourself. You will have your own spacious bedroom and a bathroom and livingroom to share with our rider. We are very family orientated and whileas we love eating with you in th e evenings 4 days a week, we also need our own time. You can ride 5 days a week in your free time and we will give you lessons on our old well behaved Connemara pony. We have youngstock and stallions and can only have people who have horse handling experience and respect how we treat them. They can be dangerous if you treat them the wrong way. We don't need anyone who has a problem with authority or knows everything better. But someone who feels they will benefit from learning from us how to tame a horse that has been brought up naturally in a herd and is being tamed in order to be a riding horse. You only are helping us with the groundwork.We have a professional rider to back them. Every second weekend you have to help mucking out stables and you will be paid for that.
PLEASE DO NOT APPLY IF YOU DO NOT MEET THE CRITERIAS:
You need to be:
- female
- German speaking
- have a lot of horse handling experience
- friendly and sociable
- independent worker
- responsible and understand that orders must be followed around the horses
- aged 28 plus, in order to be put onto our driving licence
- Minimum stay is 3 month.
- Maximum weight 70kg because of the pony you will be riding
- We are not vegetarians, so if you are, you would have to cook for yourself most evenings.
To be paid for helping in the stables for a total of 15 hours per week over 5 days.
Please don't apply if you have no experience with horses or stable management. You need to be experienced in handling young horses and we also have stallions, so it is important that you understand horses as well as ride well.
You will have plenty of free time to go walking or riding on our beautiful farm. We have internet and you have your own room to work in, if you are working online during the hours you are not working with the the horses.
We are a family of 4 ( Parents and a 14 year old daughter plus our rider) and live on a farm with ponies, dogs, ducks, cattle, chicken goats and a donkey.
I am a socially engaged artist and also teach environmental and socially engaged art and landscape architecture at different universities in Dublin.
If you want to ride, there is an old Connemara Pony that is very safe , if you are a very good rider ( send a video), you can ride my daughters and my ponies with us but you need to be at intermediate level as our other horses are all competition horses and are not all safe for beginners or people who have only ridden in riding schools. And it is important to us that the horses level of ride- ability stays at the standard it is at
You can eat with us on 4 evenings a week. And you can cook for yourself in your own kitchen, where you can make your own breakfast and lunch there as well.
We explicitly looking for someone who is happy to spend peaceful time in the countryside and can do without going Clubbing and meeting lots of other people for a few month. Our place is about enjoying our animals and being with the people who live and work here. The whole house is heated with wood-burning stoves, so you will have to keep the stove in your living room going by refilling logs twice a day.
5 days a week :
09.00- 12.00: tame horses
13.30-15.00: ride in your free time
15.00- 16.00: tame horses
17.30- 18.30: evening feed and turn the horses out
Every second weekend:
8-10.00: skip out, get horses in, feed
17.30- 18.30: feed, turn horses out
This schedule may alter
We offer:
- your own apartment with your own double bedroom, kitchen and bathroom and a living room with a wood burning stove
- bring you food shopping with us
- use of our car when we do not need it
Minimum stay 3 month, longer possible- shorter sadly not
Looking forward to hearing from you, Sophie
Tipos de ayuda y oportunidades de aprendizaje
Cuidado de animales
Intereses
Cuidado de plantas
Mascotas
Objetivos de sostenibilidad de las NU que intenta conseguir este anfitrión
Intercambio cultural y oportunidades de aprendizaje
Irish Countryside, Irish horse skills and speaking English
We offer plenty opportunity to ride: Dressage, jumping and cross country jumping.
And you can improve your English while you are here.
It is a fantastic chance to live on an Irish organic horse stud. You can learn a lot about how horses behave as the animal they truly should be. They are brought up in herds on large fields. In the spring we ride out to see if a new foal has been born every day. Later on in the year, the stallions get turned out with the mares: A unique chance to understand how horses can live a horse life, as opposed to being brought up in a confined area.
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Ayuda
a typical day:
8.00-9.00: Muck out, Get horses in & feed
12.00-13.30: feed hay, tidy the yard, lunge and groom horses
16.30- 17.00: evening feed and turn the horses out
This schedule may alter
We offer:
- minimum wage
- your own apartment with your own double bedroom, kitchen and bathroom and a living room with a wood burning stove
- bring you food shopping
- free evening meals cooked by us, 43days a week. You will have to help clean up the kitchen, when we eat together though.
- lifts to Mullingar, from where you can take the bus to anywhere in Ireland on your days off
Minimum stay 3 month, longer possible- shorter sadly not
Looking forward to hearing from you, Sophie
Idiomas
Idiomas hablados
Alemán: Fluido
Inglés: Fluido
Francés: IntermedioEste anfitrión ofrece intercambio de idiomas
We like German speakers to chat to my daughter in German.
Alojamiento
Own double bedroom, shared living room/ kitchen and bathroom with our
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This is a beautiful farm in very remote rural settings, 20 km from Mullingar or Athlone, 80 km from Dublin or Galway
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Acceso a Internet
Acceso a Internet limitado
Tenemos animales
Somos fumadores
Puede alojar familias
Puede acoger a nómadas digitales
Our internet is ok, for example: I can do zoom lectures.
Podría aceptar mascotas
no
¿Cuántos voluntarios puedes hospedar?
Uno
Mis animales / mascotas
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Sophie, Kieran and Cecily are incredibly friendly and make you feel included in their day-to-day life.
I shared my time there with another Workaway girl from Italy. We each had our own room but shared meals and often… read more
Please come back soon.
Not only are you extremely able at EVERYTHING but also so hardworking and FUN company.
I cannot recall you making any minor mistakes at all, or ever loosing your good humour. You have an amazing memory and are so quick to grasp to see what is needed to be done and react accordingly. And… read more
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Sophie, Kieran and Cecily are incredibly friendly and make you feel included in their day-to-day life.
I shared my time there with another Workaway girl from Italy. We each had our own room but shared meals and often… read more
Please come back soon.
Not only are you extremely able at EVERYTHING but also so hardworking and FUN company.
I cannot recall you making any minor mistakes at all, or ever loosing your good humour. You have an amazing memory and are so quick to grasp to see what is needed to be done and react accordingly. And… read more
We miss you- our daughter says she does not want to wear her flower shirt anymore- as it reminds her of Ida, who always told our daughter how much she liked that shirt.
Ida was an excellent helper around our farm, with the horses, chicken and sheep.
She is a very good patient rider- well able to bring on young horses and ponies!
Her… read more
...badly
Such an amazing, cheerful, optimistic, natural, easy- going, super- efficient, - can-do-anything- Human!
the really challenging question is: what does she not excel at ?
hmmmm...actually EVERYTHING we asked her to do she did amazingly perfectly well...
Vanessa is super at:
- teaching children
- running a household
-… read more
She only left us 2 days ago and we so hope she will come back and visit some day SOON.
Julia is a very conscious, diligent and skilled person, who never forgets anything you ask her to do.
She is also very able to see and do work that needs to be done.
She is has a wonderful gentle calm and positive aura- always smiling... No… read more
Charlotte is a hard worker, reliable and conscious with a lot of energy- she would help us and then spend a lot of time diligently studying for her university too, admirable discipline!
Charlotte is also a very good rider excelling at flatwork as well as over poles. She rode many of our young horses and… read more
The area is lovely with plenty of places to go on ride and see the surrounding region.
All the work was horse-related, mostly cleaning up the stables/feeding in the morning and evening, and training/playing with the horses and riding in… read more
During the cold winter she reliably mucked out, fed and also rode our horses 5 days a week- always with a smile on her face. She came on a lot of cross country rides with us- teaching the young horses how to go cross country and jump fixed fences as well as poles. She has got great "stickability", balance and foresight-… read more
She is well able to carry responsibility. She… read more
If you like to work among horses in beautiful landscapes with wonderful people this place is made for you!
The accomodations are very nice and you've… read more
Kieran is just a perfect man, he is very very nice. Cecily is so funny and passionate by everything, so cute. Thanks Sophie for everything!
Friend of them are just super cool and chill.
We shared lunch, it is very good. I stayed there with… read more
Full of enthusiasm and professional workmanship? Evelyn is your woman
Expert around the yard and house ? Evelyn is your woman
She also brought on our young horses beautifully: handling, lunging and brushing them
Actually she is the one if you are looking to leave your place… read more
Die Farm ist in der Mitte von Irland sodass ich, mit anderen… read more
