Jillaroo and Jackaroo

Programme at the Leconfield 5-day Jillaroo & Jackaroo School

Day 1:

• Pick up at 9.00 a.m. from Tamworth YHA in Tamworth
• A quick stop at a second hand store where you can buy cheap work
• clothes
• Introduction and a cup of tea on arrival at Leconfield
• A grooming and saddling up lesson
• Lunch
• A lesson on Natural Horsemanship riding followed by a 2.5 hour ride including bush survival and local bush tucker

Day 2:

• Catch and saddle the horses
• A two hour Natural Horsemanship lesson
• A horse shoeing lesson
• A whip cracking and lassoing lesson
• Lunch
• Before the ride we play some Natural Horsemanship games with our horse
• Mustering sheep on horseback
• Trotting & cantering in the arena
• A barrel race on horseback
• A talk on sheep health and husbandry
• A sheep shearing lesson
• For those interested we slaughter a sheep

Day 3:

• Butchering a sheep
• A two hour Natural Horsemanship lesson
• Pasture improvement
• Lunch
• Fencing or yard building (this often involves tree felling)

Day 4:

• Catch and saddle the horses
• We play some Natural Horsemanship games with our horse
• Mustering cattle on horseback
• Yarding and draughting cattle
• Lunch
• A talk on cattle breeds and husbandry
• A lassoing competition
• Wrestling, branding and marking calves
• A demonstration in using working dogs

Day 5:

• A lesson on maintaining saddlery
• Catch and saddle the horses
• We play some Natural Horsemanship games with our horse
• A ride to the swimming hole where we swim the horses (in the warmer months)
• Picnic-lunch at the creek
• Games on horseback
• A ride where we take the horses for a trot and a canter
• Return to Tamworth YHA around 6.30 p.m. for a big night out

All evenings are around the campfire with open-air camp oven cooked meals.

To book in, just send us an email with your name, level of riding
experience (beginner 0-10hrs/intermediate 10-100hrs/experienced 100+hrs)
and the date you are after, if there is space we write you in! Your
booking is confirmed once we receive your deposit.

The minimum age for participants on the School is 18years old, however
children 12 years and older can participate with a guardian. June & July
are the months we take participants under 18 years old.

Application & course dates for 2008

The School fee is inclusive of pick-up and drop-off from Tamworth YHA,
all food, accommodation and activities while at the farm.
A deposit is required by money-order within two weeks of you booking
and the rest is paid on arrival at the farm in cash (we have no card
facilities!).

To ensure your spot we require a non-refundable deposit to be paid within 2 weeks of you booking your School. Either by Personal
cheque or money order.
Go to a post-office and ask for a "money-order". The money-order & cheque
have to be made out to:
AA-Education


What to bring:

• a sleeping bag
• a towel
• your toiletries
• a hat or cap
• sunscreen & insect repellent in the warmer months
• swimmers
• a raincoat
• riding boots (optional)
• work clothes

If you don't have work clothes: we go to a second hand store on Monday morning.
At Leconfield you can borrow boots.