5-DAY/ 5-NIGHT
RANCH PROGRAM
OUTBACK RANCH TRAINING
5-DAY/5-NIGHT |
RANCH TRAININGOUTBACK RANCH TRAINING |
DEPARTS | AUD |
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SYDNEY | $849 |
5-DAY/5-NIGHT |
RANCH TRAININGOUTBACK RANCH TRAINING |
DEPARTS | AUD |
---|---|
SYDNEY | $849 |
Our Outback Ranch Training Program includes 5 days of fun horseback riding, sheep shearing, cattle mustering and whip cracking in the NSW Outback! You will gain the basic skills needed to work on a farm or cattle station in Australia whilst having the time of your life!
You will gain the basic skills needed to work on a farm or cattle station in Australia whilst having the time of your life!
Travel to the Ranch
We’ll arrange your train journey from Sydney to Tamworth, NSW where you’ll spend a night before starting your Ranch Course. Get to meet others in your group. Your accommodation is pre-arranged. The following morning, our rep will meet you at reception and take you to the farm.
Horse Riding & Handling
Learn how to ride on horseback, and gain knowledge and skills needed for general horse handling and care. Be introduced to the way of Natural Horsemanship, learn how horses think and communicate with them. Take the horses for a swim in a local swimming hole (in the warmer months).
Lassoing
The lasso is used today in rodeos as part of the competitive events, such as calf roping and team roping. It is also still used on working ranches to capture cattle or other livestock when necessary. You will learn to catch cattle with a lasso and have competitions with your fellow students.
Cattle Mustering
We’ll muster cattle from the paddocks to the yard. Assist with stock work such as drenching and tagging. A muster is the process of gathering livestock and usually involve cattle, sheep or horses, but may also include goats, camels, buffalo or other animals.
Fencing
Fencing is one of the most important pieces of farm infrastructure and our instructors will show you how to install and maintain fences. A properly installed fence will keep livestock/pets safe and secured and will keep any unwanted visitors outside the property.
Sheep Shearing
On Aussie farms, shearing is generally carried out in the spring, so sheep don’t become overheated in the summer. A long fleece is likely to become dirty and drag along the ground, decreasing the mobility of sheep. During your course, you will shear a sheep and learn about sheep health and husbandry.
Meals & Accommodation
On the Ranch you will receive 5-days/4-nights accommodation and all meals. All evenings are spent around the campfire with open-air camp oven cooked meals. 1 night is spent in Tamworth, NSW. 4 nights are spent on sight on the Ranch (5 nights total). Accommodation is shared in 6-10 bed dorms.
Job Contacts
Upon successful completion of the program you will be granted access to a list of available job contacts so you can source a farm job somewhere in Australia that suits your skills and ability. Most jobs include meals and accommodation and you can expect to earn $200 – $500p/w after tax and accommodation. Please be aware, a job offer is not guaranteed.
IMPORTANT: On Day 2, you will pass a local second had store on to assist with purchasing any of the above items that you cannot bring with you.
Additional money: An optional USB is available to purchase at the end of the week that has photos of the school week. The cost is $25AUD.
We recommend an additional spending money of $20 per day for any additional extra snacks, such as chocolates/drinks/icy poles.
DAY 1
Your Ranch Course starts on Monday at 9.00 a.m. with a pick up from Tamworth. There will be a quick stop at a second hand store where you can buy cheap work clothes. Introduction about our farm training and a grooming and saddling up lesson will follow. A lesson on Natural Horsemanship riding followed by a ride including bush survival and local bush tucker will finish your first day.
DAY 2
On your second course day you will learn how to catch and saddle the horses. For this you will get a Natural Horsemanship lesson, a barefoot trimming lesson and a whip cracking and lassoing lesson. Before the ride you will play some natural Horsemanship games with your horse and the rest of your Ranch Course group. After that you will muster sheep on horseback. Then you will attend a demonstration in using working dogs just before trotting & cantering in the arena. For the end of the day you will have a talk on sheep health and husbandry and after that a sheep shearing lesson.
DAY 3
Your first activity of this third day is a Natural Horsemanship lesson. Then you will have a pasture improvement lesson before lunch. And then you will do fencing or yard building.
DAY 4
You will start the day by catch and saddle the horses and playing some Natural Horsemanship games with your horse. Then you will muster cattle on horseback, yarding and drafting cattle. It’s time to eat, let’s have a lunch.
You will have a talk on cattle breeds and husbandry just before an exciting lassoing competition. To finish this day, your last activity is wrestling, branding and marking calves.
DAY 5
To finish you exciting week you will have a lesson on maintaining saddlery. Then you will catch and saddle the horses in order to swim with them (in the warmer months). Then we will play some Natural Horsemanship games with our horses and gaming on horseback. We will get a ride where we take the horses for a trot and a canter. As an ending with ranch animals, we will muster cattle in for cow working in the arena. Just before you leave, let’s meet to the local pub for dinner around 6pm. We will get back Tamworth around 9pm.
TOUR INFORMATION
Departs: Sunday mornings. Train departure times vary. Confirm departure at time of booking.
Returns: Fridays at 6.00pm to YHA Tamworth NSW. (Friday night accommodation is not included. Additional nights can be pre-booked during the booking process.
HOW TO BOOK
To book, select your chosen departure date and any optional extras you would like to book. We'll send you a booking confirmation as well as important information about your tour.
Additional pre-tour and post-tour nights in Sydney can be booked via the checkout.
FLIGHTS, INSURANCE & VISA INFO
Flights to Sydney are not included. Compare flight prices here.
We recommend booking your flights to arrive into Sydney before the train journey on Sunday. Most customers will arrive in the week prior or on Saturday and pre-book an additional nights accommodation.
Travel insurance is not included. Get a quote from our recommended travel insurance partners here.
Our Outback Ranch Training Program includes 5 days of fun horseback riding, sheep shearing, cattle mustering and whip cracking in the NSW Outback! You will gain the basic skills needed to work on a farm or cattle station in Australia whilst having the time of your life!
You will gain the basic skills needed to work on a farm or cattle station in Australia whilst having the time of your life!
Travel to the Ranch
We’ll arrange your train journey from Sydney to Tamworth, NSW where you’ll spend a night before starting your Ranch Course. Get to meet others in your group. Your accommodation is pre-arranged. The following morning, our rep will meet you at reception and take you to the farm.
Horse Riding & Handling
Learn how to ride on horseback, and gain knowledge and skills needed for general horse handling and care. Be introduced to the way of Natural Horsemanship, learn how horses think and communicate with them. Take the horses for a swim in a local swimming hole (in the warmer months).
Lassoing
The lasso is used today in rodeos as part of the competitive events, such as calf roping and team roping. It is also still used on working ranches to capture cattle or other livestock when necessary. You will learn to catch cattle with a lasso and have competitions with your fellow students.
Cattle Mustering
We’ll muster cattle from the paddocks to the yard. Assist with stock work such as drenching and tagging. A muster is the process of gathering livestock and usually involve cattle, sheep or horses, but may also include goats, camels, buffalo or other animals.
Fencing
Fencing is one of the most important pieces of farm infrastructure and our instructors will show you how to install and maintain fences. A properly installed fence will keep livestock/pets safe and secured and will keep any unwanted visitors outside the property.
Sheep Shearing
On Aussie farms, shearing is generally carried out in the spring, so sheep don’t become overheated in the summer. A long fleece is likely to become dirty and drag along the ground, decreasing the mobility of sheep. During your course, you will shear a sheep and learn about sheep health and husbandry.
Meals & Accommodation
On the Ranch you will receive 5-days/4-nights accommodation and all meals. All evenings are spent around the campfire with open-air camp oven cooked meals. 1 night is spent in Tamworth, NSW. 4 nights are spent on sight on the Ranch (5 nights total). Accommodation is shared in 6-10 bed dorms.
Job Contacts
Upon successful completion of the program you will be granted access to a list of available job contacts so you can source a farm job somewhere in Australia that suits your skills and ability. Most jobs include meals and accommodation and you can expect to earn $200 – $500p/w after tax and accommodation. Please be aware, a job offer is not guaranteed.
IMPORTANT: On Day 2, you will pass a local second had store on to assist with purchasing any of the above items that you cannot bring with you.
Additional money: An optional USB is available to purchase at the end of the week that has photos of the school week. The cost is $25AUD.
We recommend an additional spending money of $20 per day for any additional extra snacks, such as chocolates/drinks/icy poles.
DAY 1
Your Ranch Course starts on Monday at 9.00 a.m. with a pick up from Tamworth. There will be a quick stop at a second hand store where you can buy cheap work clothes. Introduction about our farm training and a grooming and saddling up lesson will follow. A lesson on Natural Horsemanship riding followed by a ride including bush survival and local bush tucker will finish your first day.
DAY 2
On your second course day you will learn how to catch and saddle the horses. For this you will get a Natural Horsemanship lesson, a barefoot trimming lesson and a whip cracking and lassoing lesson. Before the ride you will play some natural Horsemanship games with your horse and the rest of your Ranch Course group. After that you will muster sheep on horseback. Then you will attend a demonstration in using working dogs just before trotting & cantering in the arena. For the end of the day you will have a talk on sheep health and husbandry and after that a sheep shearing lesson.
DAY 3
Your first activity of this third day is a Natural Horsemanship lesson. Then you will have a pasture improvement lesson before lunch. And then you will do fencing or yard building.
DAY 4
You will start the day by catch and saddle the horses and playing some Natural Horsemanship games with your horse. Then you will muster cattle on horseback, yarding and drafting cattle. It’s time to eat, let’s have a lunch.
You will have a talk on cattle breeds and husbandry just before an exciting lassoing competition. To finish this day, your last activity is wrestling, branding and marking calves.
DAY 5
To finish you exciting week you will have a lesson on maintaining saddlery. Then you will catch and saddle the horses in order to swim with them (in the warmer months). Then we will play some Natural Horsemanship games with our horses and gaming on horseback. We will get a ride where we take the horses for a trot and a canter. As an ending with ranch animals, we will muster cattle in for cow working in the arena. Just before you leave, let’s meet to the local pub for dinner around 6pm. We will get back Tamworth around 9pm.
TOUR INFORMATION
Departs: Sunday mornings. Train departure times vary. Confirm departure at time of booking.
Returns: Fridays at 6.00pm to YHA Tamworth NSW. (Friday night accommodation is not included. Additional nights can be pre-booked during the booking process.
HOW TO BOOK
To book, select your chosen departure date and any optional extras you would like to book. We'll send you a booking confirmation as well as important information about your tour.
Additional pre-tour and post-tour nights in Sydney can be booked via the checkout.
FLIGHTS, INSURANCE & VISA INFO
Flights to Sydney are not included. Compare flight prices here.
We recommend booking your flights to arrive into Sydney before the train journey on Sunday. Most customers will arrive in the week prior or on Saturday and pre-book an additional nights accommodation.
Travel insurance is not included. Get a quote from our recommended travel insurance partners here.
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