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Spend time on your Australian gap year as a real-life Jackaroo. You’ll be trained to be an Australian cowboy or cowgirl on this program. You’ll be shown how to farm using well established Jackaroo techniques, nearly all from horseback.
You have the choice of a five-day course or an eleven-day course. The eleven-day course will teach you the finer details of the Jackeroo trade, where the five-day course will be a more “fun” course.
It doesn’t matter if you’ve never got on a horse before, or you’ve been riding all your life, every level of experience is welcome and will be accommodated through the course.
You can choose between either the 5 day school, or the 11 day.
You will learn the same skills on both courses, but more time will be taken on the 11-day school to familiarise and train you with the details of the Jackaroo profession, whereas the 5 day school is more of a ‘fun’ course!
All levels of rider are welcome, from complete beginner to advanced – your skills will be taken into account throughout the course.
The Jackaroo Jillaroo SchoolThe sorts of things you can expect to learn and take part in during your experience are:
- Grooming and saddling up
- Natural / Outback horsemanship riding
- Horse shoeing
- Whip cracking and lassoing
- Mustering on horseback
- Sheep shearing
- Pasture improvement
- Fencing or yard building (this often involves tree felling)
- Yarding and drafting cattle
- A talk on cattle breeds and husbandry
- Wrestling, branding and marking calves
- A lesson on maintaining saddlery
- A ride to the swimming hole to swim with the horses
Programme Location The Jackaroo program is based at the Leconsfield Estate close to Tamworth, at New South Wales. Every year a well-known music festival is held, and is a big attraction in the local area.
Accommodation and Meals5-day school
You’ll stay in bunkhouses on the estate. You’ll spend evenings around campfires enjoying meals cooked on open-air fires.
11-day school
Female quarters are based at the homestead, with male accommodation in the estate cottage one hundred meters distance from the estate’s main headquarters. You’ll be fed three meals a day in the headquarters’ diner, with meals prepared by the homestead’s cook.
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Programme Overview
Durations & Prices: 5 days - $649/€449, 11 days - $929/€699
How to book & pay:
Pay $339/€259 deposit to book. Balance due 10 weeks prior to departure.
What is included?
4-10 nts accom on training ranch (depending on programme choice)All tuition and skills lessons
All meals
Tamworth pick-up and drop-off
24-hour emergency contact number |
What is not included?
Flights
Transport to Tamworth
Extra activities not on itinerary
Travel insurance
Visa |
Programme Summary:
On this program you’ll live an authentic Oz cowboy life for five or eleven days. You’ll be shearing sheep, mustering cattle and learning to lasso. Every level of riding skill can be accommodated.
Arrival dates:
Various start dates, see the further infomation for this programme or contact us for details. |
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