July 1, 2015
Jolyn Young
If you want to be Cavvy Savvy, you gotta savvy how to wrangle the cavvy. Heh heh heh. Anyway, back to business. Bringing in the saddle horses is a daily chore on a working cattle ranch, as it’s healthier for the horses and more efficient for the management to turn the whole bunch out into […]
June 30, 2015
Rachel Larsen
My husband and I are homebodies, as a result our horses are too. However, I am never uncomfortable with taking one of our ranch horses to “town.” Our older horses have a solid foundation of long slow range miles. When starting colts we head outside the corrals and put cattle in front of them, as soon […]
June 29, 2015
Jenn Zeller
We got our mare bunch in the other day to sort some colts and do some other miscellaneous things with them. I snuck out before the horses arrived, tucked myself in the cattle loading chute, and snapped a few photos. I thought you might want to see how pretty our horse herd here at the […]
June 26, 2015
Jan Swan Wood
The ownership of a stallion is more than just owning a horse. There are risks and responsibilities involved with stallion ownership that most people never think about. Most people are also not capable and/or willing to do what it takes to manage a stallion safely. The decision to have a stallion on one’s property should […]
June 22, 2015
Jenn Zeller
In the first part of my series about my clinic time with Buck this year, we discussed how to properly ride and teach progressions to your horse. We will continue on in the discussion today. As a short review, here are the principles discussed at this clinic. Have a purpose. Be precise. Be consistent. Be […]
June 19, 2015
Wendel Elliott
My parents and I took a trip to Pueblo, Colorado in the summer of 1988. I had just graduated high school at the end of May. We found ourselves pulling up to the NHSRA finals in a 1976 Chevy pickup and a 16 foot bumper pull trailer. I was there to compete in the boys […]
June 18, 2015
Jolyn Young
While in high school and on breaks from college, I started colts for a handy lady named Laurie Robustellini in northern California. She started backyard horses, performance colts, racing mules, re-started older problem horses, and tuned up horses for her clients. If it had hair and would fit under a saddle, Laurie would mess around […]
June 17, 2015
Jenn Zeller
Branding season is in full swing, here in Armstrong County, SD. If you’re up for a bit of history lesson, Armstrong County really isn’t a county at all, anymore. It’s now part of Dewey County, but the folks here still refer to it as Armstrong. It’s about 800,000 acres give or take, and has […]
June 16, 2015
Jan Swan Wood
Buddy was a big, stout, good looking four year old gelding. He was bred to run and looked it, yet was one of the laziest individuals I had ever ridden. I was certain that if I’d lost a spur I would have known immediately because he would have just walked in a circle. On the […]
June 11, 2015
Tayler Teichert
I’ve heard the word Yahtzee yelled across many branding traps the past few months, it’s the interjection of choice for this branding season I guess. I never played Yahtzee as a kid so I decided to google the rules and I discovered that you yell yahtzee when you roll all the same number on the […]