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
• 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
• Before the ride we play some Natural Horsemanship games with our horse
• Mustering sheep on horseback
• 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
• 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 drafting cattle
• 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 6.00 p.m. for a big night out

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