Boy Scout Programs
Chaparral Ranch has teamed up with the Boy Scouts of America to offer Scouts the opportunity to obtain their Horsemanship Merit Badge!
Programs are offered to troops throughout the year and starts with the desire of your scouts to learn more about horses.
Each day Scouts practice the skills covered in the Horsemanship Merit Badge Handbook, including: grooming, saddling, riding, and over-all care. Other topics covered in this exclusive program include anatomy, nutrition, different breeds, tack, safety around horses, and different breeds. They will also learn about hoof care, horse health issues and will have the opportunity to demonstrate the riding skills they learn. Daily rides focus on obtaining the mounted skills required for the Horsemanship Merit Badge. Mounted skills learned include walking, trotting, turning, stopping, and backing.
The Horsemanship Merit Badge at Chaparral Ranch is arguably one of the more exciting, challenging, and rewarding merit badges that your Scout will obtain.
Just a preview of topics the scouts will go over
$80.00 per participant per lesson
Each lesson is ONE HOUR long.
If you have any questions, feel free to reach us at (408) 726-8453 or reservations@chaparralcorporation.com
Each day Scouts practice the skills covered in the Horsemanship Merit Badge Handbook, including: grooming, saddling, riding, and over-all care. Other topics covered in this exclusive program include anatomy, nutrition, different breeds, tack, safety around horses, and different breeds. They will also learn about hoof care, horse health issues and will have the opportunity to demonstrate the riding skills they learn. Daily rides focus on obtaining the mounted skills required for the Horsemanship Merit Badge. Mounted skills learned include walking, trotting, turning, stopping, and backing.
The Horsemanship Merit Badge at Chaparral Ranch is arguably one of the more exciting, challenging, and rewarding merit badges that your Scout will obtain.
Just a preview of topics the scouts will go over
- You will learn the following: Safety precautions you should take when handling and caring for a horse. How to approach and lead a horse safely from its paddock to the tie rack where you'll secure it safely.
- Name 15 parts of a horse.
- Name four popular breeds of horses. Explain the special features for which each breed is known.
- Show how to care for a Western and English saddle and bridle. Name 10 parts of the saddle and bridle that you will use.
- Show how to groom, clean hooves, prepare a horse for a ride, and care for a horse after a ride.
- Describe the symptoms of colic. Describe four other horse health problems.
- Name three main conformation faults of the feet and legs, and explain how to detect them. Explain the difference between lameness and unsoundness.
- Explain how to trim and shoe a horse's hoof and how to make adjustments according to its conformation, the season, and riding conditions.
- Demonstrate the right way to feed a horse. Explain how you determine what and how much to feed the horse and why the amount and kind of feed will be changed according to activity level and the kind of horse it is.
- Show how to saddle and bridle a horse.
- On level ground, continuously do the following movements. Do them correctly, at ease, and in harmony with the horse: Mount the horse, walk the horse in a straight line for 60 feet, make a half circle of not more than 16 feet in radius, trot or jog in a straight line for at least 60 feet, make a half circle of not more than 30 feet in radius at a jog or trot, halt straight, back up straight four paces, halt and dismount.
$80.00 per participant per lesson
Each lesson is ONE HOUR long.
If you have any questions, feel free to reach us at (408) 726-8453 or reservations@chaparralcorporation.com