A young horse needs to move around more than being kept in a small pen.  Period.  Don't board a horse if you aren't able/willing to do it right, and young horses are ALWAYS getting into something.  If the owner expects you to be the one who takes care of whatever problem comes up, well, you are pretty much responsible for getting it done just right. 

Will you be providing the feed for this horse as well? How many times a day? How much does the feed cost in your area? These are just a few things to consider. You WILL be required to maintain all your fencing as well right? Watering: who will be doing that?

Assuming you are charging for full board and are an experienced hand, here are some prices from the mid atlantic. At one barn in our area, I can pay $450 per month, that covers feeding 2 x per day, normal shots twice a year, daily dewormer, blanket service, turn out service, stall lights on timers for hair coat and access to a 100 x 200' full size indoor. For $300 at same barn, I could get pasture boarding with a nice run in shelter and the shots, and still access to the indoor, but no blanket service.  Then at another barn, I could pay $350 and have full stall care with turn out, no medical or blanket service included, but full size outdoor pen and adjacent indoor arena. Hope that helps!

If I didn't all ready have a barn in my back yard, i would board my single horse at either place. It's much cheaper!

Horses need to have consistant feeding schedules.  It would not be good horse care to put horse on grass 2 or 3 days per week.  This could founder a horse here in my state.  We have to introduce grazing slowly, for short periods of time due to lush grass.   Perhaps Texas pasture is different because of the climate?

Lush grass?  Not in MY part of Texas!!!!!!!

LUSH GRASS...isn't that an oxymoron in Texas???...

Lush Grass....let me wipe the tears from my eyes...how about:

Lush red ant nests?

Lush Gas Drilling Rigs?

Lush Electricity Bills?

lol.  Texas is great but the grass is not!

YEP!!

We do have to feed hay all year!!  And I picked up at the grower yesterday 20 bales,( 110 lb bales), of 4-way grain hay, and 20 bales of # 1 alfalfa, (90 lb bales), they were $14.50 a bale for 4-way, and $12.50 for alfalfa.  Yep....beautiful hay, but with diesel at over $5.00 a gallon, they growers are being squeezed right out of business. Not to mention, we have to irrigate all year to get two or three cuttings of hay!!!  Soooooo... that means the diesel powered pumps have to be used all year too, to raise the water from the wells!!!

Yep....tough times ahead for horse owners and dairy folks too!  ( I'm going fishing for some food. It's all I can afford now. Teee Heeee, Like I'm gonna hate to go fishin....)

Steve

C'mon...you CAN BE MORE POSITIVE THAN THAT...

Yep, the weather in Texas is tricky.  Last year, we had so much rain that the farmers couldn't get the hay cut, much less baled, and the hay that did get baled was not so great for most of the summer.  This year, we can't get the rain!  Most of my suppliers got first, and some second cuttings, but now it looks like everything is going to dry up and blow away.  Here in Central Texas, we have broken several 80+ year old records for heat and number of days over 100 degrees so far, and it's just JUNE!

You gotta love the Texas weather.....

Lush Rigs! That my pet peeve right now we sit right in the middle of the Barnett Shale!

You gotta add those huge cracks in the great black clay!

Last year I was complaining aout all the rain, and I knew better, the feed bill was so low last year. I just hope hay prices don't reach what they were year before last.....