Grooming Badge

The Grooming Badge requires our campers to:

  • Learn all the grooming kit names of brushes etc.
  • How to groom a pony.
  • What grooming is for.
  • Difference between grooming stable and grass kept pony.
  • Correct grooming technique.
  • Care / cleaning of the grooming kit.

Saddlery Badge

The Saddlery Badge requires our campers to:

  • Know the parts of the saddle and basic snaffle bridle.
  • How to tack up a pony using a simple snaffle bridle.
  • Recognize a martingale.
  • Recognize some basic bits.
  • Remove a saddle and bridle.
  • Tie up reins correctly and stand a saddle.
  • Correct tack cleaning.

Stable Care Badge

The Stable Care Badge requires our campers to understand:

  • Parts necessary in a stable.
  • Bucket v automatic drinkers.
  • Types of bedding.
  • Be able to muck out a stable and put in bedding.
  • Empty a wheelbarrow.
  • Sweep up yard.

Rug Badge

The Rug Badge requires our campers to:

  • Recognize different types of rugs
  • Understand reasons for rugging
  • Put on a rug correctly
  • Remove a rug
  • How to care for and store rug

Colours & Markings Badge

The Colours & Markings Badge requires our campers to:

  • Identify a wide variety of pony colours
  • To identify head and facial markings
  • To identify leg markings

Grass Kept Pony Badge

The Grass Kept Pony Badge requires our campers to understand:

  • Basic grassland care
  • Correct fencing
  • How to give water outdoors
  • Recognize poisonous plants
  • What to check for in a field
  • Understand the importance of shelter

Feeding Badge

The Feeding Badge requires our campers to understand:

  • How ponies feed and what they need
  • Getting the balance right with age temperament and workload
  • Feeding rules
  • Recognize common feeds
  • Making a feed chart
  • Rules of watering

First Aid Badge

The First Aid Badge requires our campers to recognize:

  • Signs of good health.
  • Signs of ill health.
  • Necessary items of a first aid kit and how to use them.
  • Four basic common illnesses of cold / colic / laminitis / mud fever.
  • How to recognize illnesses / cause / signs / what to do.

Bits Boots & Bandages Badge

The Bits Boots & Bandages Badge requires our campers to recognize:

  • Snaffle / Pelham / Gag
  • Reasons to use these particular bits
  • Common boots in use and why we use them
  • Fitting of boots
  • Put on a tail and stable bandage

Travelling Badge

The Travelling Badge requires our campers to understand:

  • Safety needed in loading a horse
  • Precautions and necessary checks needed
  • How to travel a horse correctly boots bandages etc
  • What to bring with you when travelling
  • Loading procedure
  • Unloading procedure
  • Tidy up of horsebox on return