Terms & Conditions

1. General

These terms apply to every service provided by Bjelland Stud Rehab Farm ("the Farm," "we," "us"). Boarding a horse with us, using our services, or entering the property means you accept them.

We reserve the right to refuse or discontinue service to anyone, at any time, for any lawful reason. You must be 18 or older to enter into a boarding or care agreement with us.

2. Care and Services

Services are described in your individual boarding or care agreement. That agreement, together with these terms, is the complete understanding between us. Anything not written into it is not included.

We provide daily care using reasonable judgment and ordinary industry practice. We do not guarantee any particular outcome, recovery, soundness, performance result, or breeding result. Horses are living animals and their response to care, rest, conditioning, or treatment varies for reasons outside anyone’s control.

3. Veterinary and Farrier Care

We are not veterinarians and we do not diagnose, prescribe, or practice veterinary medicine. Diagnosis and treatment decisions belong to your licensed veterinarian.

You authorize us to obtain emergency veterinary or farrier care for your horse when we cannot reach you and, in our judgment, waiting would risk the animal’s welfare. You are responsible for the cost of that care. Keep current contact information and your veterinarian’s details on file with us.

4. Owner Responsibilities

You represent that you own the horse or are authorized by the owner to place it in our care, and that you have disclosed to us every known health condition, injury, vice, behavioral issue, and history of aggression.

You are responsible for keeping vaccinations, Coggins testing, and deworming current per our intake requirements. We may refuse or remove a horse whose paperwork is not current.

Nondisclosure of a known dangerous behavior is a material breach and you are responsible for any resulting injury, loss, or damage.

5. Insurance

We do not insure your horse. Mortality, major medical, surgical, and loss-of-use coverage are yours to carry and yours to decide on. We strongly recommend you carry it.

Our care does not substitute for insurance and nothing in these terms should be read as us assuming the risk of loss of your animal.

6. Payment

Board and service fees are due on the schedule stated in your agreement. Accounts more than thirty days past due may result in suspension of non-essential services.

All fees for care already provided are earned when provided and are non-refundable. Prepaid board is not refunded on early departure. Where Texas law provides a stableman’s or agister’s lien for unpaid board and care, we reserve every right it gives us.

7. Assumption of Risk — Equine Activities

Equine activity is inherently dangerous. Under Chapter 87 of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code, an equine activity sponsor or professional is not liable for injury to or the death of a participant resulting from the inherent risks of equine activity.

You assume those risks for yourself and for anyone you bring onto the property, including minors in your care. Children must be supervised by an adult at all times. Enter stalls, paddocks, and turnout areas only with our permission.

You are responsible for your own personal property brought onto the farm. We are not responsible for tack, trailers, vehicles, or equipment that is lost, damaged, or stolen.

8. Limitation of Liability

Our services are provided on an as-is basis without warranty of any kind, express or implied. To the fullest extent Texas law allows, our total liability arising from or relating to our services is limited to the lesser of fifty dollars or the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose.

We are not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost breeding opportunity, or diminished value, under any theory.

Any claim must be brought within one year of the event giving rise to it or it is permanently barred. We are not liable for any failure or delay caused by events outside our reasonable control, including weather, flood, fire, disease outbreak, utility failure, or acts of government.

9. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Farm, its owner, and its personnel from any claim, loss, damage, liability, or expense, including reasonable attorney fees, arising from your horse, your conduct on the property, the conduct of anyone you bring, or your breach of these terms.

10. Photography and Likeness

We may photograph or record horses and activities on the property for our own records and promotion. By boarding with us or entering the property, you consent to that use without compensation. Tell us in writing if you would rather your horse or your likeness not be used and we will honor it going forward.

11. Intellectual Property

The content, photographs, and design of this website belong to Bjelland Stud Rehab Farm or are used with permission. Do not copy or republish them without written consent.

12. Privacy

We collect only what we need to serve you and communicate with you. We do not sell your information. We share it only with service providers who help us operate, or where required by law or to protect someone’s safety.

If you check the box asking us to text you, message and data rates may apply and you can reply STOP at any time to stop receiving texts.

13. Dispute Resolution

Texas law governs these terms. Before filing anything, contact us and give us a real chance to resolve the problem — most things get sorted with a phone call.

Any dispute that cannot be resolved that way will be settled by binding arbitration in Montgomery County, Texas, under the rules of the American Arbitration Association. You and we each waive the right to a jury trial and the right to participate in a class action. Either of us may still bring an individual claim in small claims court.

14. Miscellaneous

These terms together with your written agreement are the entire understanding between us and supersede anything said beforehand. If any provision is held unenforceable, the rest stays in force.

Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign your agreement without our written consent. Sections on payment, risk, liability, indemnification, and dispute resolution survive termination.

We may update these terms. The date below shows when they last changed.