Nilson Farms

24/10/2024

Yep Brad Nilson

11/10/2024

Trusting your horse takes a lot of courage, but not as much courage as your horse trusting you

I say this all the time “Trust your horse”

But think about this…your horse is a flight animal by nature. They are not predatory. They are prey.
And people, are arguably the top predators in the entire world.
Every time we ask something of our horse, their response is either out of fear or out of trust.
And this is where your bond, your relationship, the countless hours spent at home on the ground and in the saddle, your daily interactions, those small considerations for their well-being, those pauses and quiet moments, prior to hitting the trail, are so important. They all add up! Once you’re in the backcountry you’re asking your horse to set aside his instincts, put away the flight response & trust your decision making ability.
So the next time you find yourself doubting your horse, think about how much trust he’s putting in you…

📸 Danelle Kilbourn

06/10/2024

Are you looking for a SUPER flashy ⚡️ head turning, talented, well bred c**t with a puppy dog 🐶 personality who will do anything for you & grow to be an AMAZING versatile boy who’ll be capable of going any direction you’d like? “Briggs” is your boy! This stunning 😍 Champagne 🥂 Tobiano c**t is out of our granddaughter of GUNNER and by our upcoming stallion ON A KIZZIN STREKE (Bucolena Chex/A Tru Rolex) Reining, Working Cow Horse, Ranch Rodeo/Roping bred c**t will mature to a good sized horse at about 15.1-15.2HH with smooth, athletic movement suited for any discipline! Briggs is vaccinated 💉 with 5-way, wormed a couple times so far, halter broke, weaned & eating rolled oats/mare/foal ration, free feed alfalfa mix hay, Mad Barn loose minerals, salt & fresh water 💦 we include delivery to almost anywhere within BC or AB and can quickly arrange for Coggins & health certificate to cross the border! We’re located just southeast of Fort St John, BC

05/10/2024

“I was scared today.

I was scared to get on, scared to walk out the yard because I had a bad ride the day before. One bad ride, and it made me scared.

I didn’t know why. I’ve had 1000 bad rides. I’ve had 1000 falls. I’ve broken bones and bruised my pride on countless occasions, but today I was scared.

Why? Because confidence is fragile. It takes months and years to build and seconds to lose and yet we are so careless with it.

When we get on a horse, we wear a hat to protect our head. We wear body protectors, gloves, boots...

We pay so much attention to protecting ourselves physically, we forget that our minds are not invincible, and our confidence certainly is not.

Your bank of confidence needs regular deposits, not just from others... but from you. Self confidence is the most valuable currency in life.

When you go to get on, and you hesitate, you falter and you start to ask yourself “can I do this?”, chances are, your account is almost empty.

Every time you laugh and say “oh no, I’m no good” or “so and so is 10x better than me”, you make a withdrawal from that account, and before you know it, your account is empty and you’re scared to get on.

But every time you say “I’m really pleased with how that went” or “I think I rode that really well”, your balance increases.

We need to learn to give ourselves a break, pat ourselves on the back and allow ourselves to feel proud of where we are - after all, most of the time we’ve worked bloody hard to get there!

Recognising your strengths is just as important as recognising your weaknesses. Never allow yourself or anyone else to empty that account.

Confidence is valuable, don’t bankrupt yourself.”

Author- cromwellandlucy

24/09/2024

Check out this gorgeous blue eyed handsome Hesa Hot Gunner c**t out of my granddaughter of Peptoboonsmal! He’s got the looks, plenty of flash ⚡️ a super sweet personality & a pedigree that’ll take you places! He’s eligible for NRHA, NARS, All Stars, RAPP, SRHA, ASHA ( Alberta Stock Horse Association) formerly Northern Alberta Reined Cow Horse, so send me a PM and find out how this handsome 😍 fella can come home to you! He’s halter broke, vaccinated 💉 with 5-way, he’s been wormed a couple times so far, he’s weaned and eating rolled oats & mare/foal ration along with free feed alfalfa mix hay, Mad Barn loose minerals, salt & fresh water 💦 We include 🚚 almost anywhere within BC or AB, and we can easily/quickly arrange for Coggins & a health certificate to cross the border! We’re located just southeast of Fort St John, BC

26/08/2024

For your respectful consideration…

I understand that many people will be downloading the COVID19 app. However, if I am one of your "contacts" and you intend on installing the app, "Healthy Together"-- "Trace Together" -- or any similar tracing app, I am respectfully asking you to DELETE ME from your phone contact list, Facebook and Instagram pages PRIOR to installing the app on your Smartphone! The app WILL ask for permission to access your contact list, But NO ONE has my consent to use my name, phone number or any other identifying contact info in connection with these tracking apps which will identify me and locate me without my knowledge or permission. I resist this tracking.
THIS IS A PRIVACY ISSUE NOT A VIRUS ISSUE. THANK YOU.
Copied and you should too.

26/08/2024

I’ve got 3 beautiful 😍 saddles, all 16” seats with 7” gullets, all in excellent condition & stored in a saddle bag, which comes with each saddle! One Billy Cook Pro Reiner, one Billy Cook Maker, and one Silver Supreme

All 3 saddles are practically new, the suede seats have zero wear, these are really nice saddles - I’m the only one who rides & I’ve got 6 saddles, so these saddles are just taking up space in my trailer & need to be put to better use! Asking $1750 each located in Fort St John, BC but could deliver to Prince George, Grande Prairie, or possibly Drayton Valley area

20/07/2024

We’re making a haul from Fort St John, BC to Homer, Alaska at the end of August early September with room both ways, msg me if you’re interested in having a horse, donkey or pony hauled north or south!

28/06/2024

Are you looking for your next heart 💜 horse? We have 5 exceptional 2024 c**ts available for new pastures 🏡 in September, they are all SUPER friendly, quiet, NICE boys with superb conformation, pretty heads, big hips, beautiful colour/markings & a pedigree you can brag about! All these boys will be halter broke & given a trailer loading lesson or two, they’ll be wormed & vaccinated & we include delivery almost anywhere within BC or AB, so please inquire, as that’s a HUGE savings with the cost of transport & fuel ⛽️ these days! We have something for everyone, a champagne 🥂 splash, a red dun tobiano, a bay splash with two blue eyes 👀, a sorrel & a deep red chestnut c**t for your choosing! We are located in Fort St John, BC

26/06/2024

I hit a milestone yesterday & thought I’d share just a wee bit of my storey for these past 3 years, as there’s been so many rumours floating around because folks jump to conclusions & make assumptions so quickly these days, without any concept of compassion or empathy. I’m hoping my sharing will help someone else, and/or make people more aware of their own actions or reactions & always, always have compassion for others, because we can’t possibly know what’s going on in someone else’s world 🙏🏻

I went to the hairdresser yesterday and got my hair coloured & cut for the first time in 3 years without pain! It’s the first time in over 3 years that I could actually sit at the sink chair & get my hair washed, without excruciating pain - it doesn’t sound like a milestone for many, but that was a significant milestone for me! Why? Because I haven’t been able to style my own hair for over 3 years, I’ve been suffering from chronic pain which started with frozen shoulder that was misdiagnosed and wrongly treated, causing frozen shoulder in both my shoulders! I suffered with both shoulders frozen for 2 years due to misdiagnosis and wrongful treatment - in the midst of dealing with that, I got appendicitis and required emergency surgery! I was just starting to “thaw” my shoulders & get my life back on track when I severed the main tendon in my right hand (yes, I’m right handed) .

Remember, this is a fragment of my past 3 years, there’s so many other things that occurred within this time frame, but that would be a novel, or perhaps a series of novels! I’m writing this tidbit only in hopes to soften people, get back to being more human(humane) and treat each other with more dignity and respect, we can all do better ♥️

Unfortunately the surgeon I was referred to, was clearly over worked & exhausted from the fragment of a health care system we have right now & performed two surgeries that were completely wrong (another context for a novel) long storey short, over the past year I’ve been dealing with chronic nerve pain due to the damage to my nerves from the botched surgeries which resulted in me having a finger and partial hand amputation 😳 that surgery was January 31, 2024 and May of this year is the first month where I started feeling the effects of the medications to dull my chronic nerve pain.

For the first time in 3 years, I can finally feel myself coming back to “me” which I didn’t realize how “gone” I was, until the pain was lifted & I could function without just focusing on getting through each day!

In a nutshell, I’m not quitting my real estate career, I love what I do & I apologize for not being able to answer my phone, texts, or emails as quickly as some people feel necessary; sometimes it may have taken me a day or two, maybe more - certainly not good for business, but the best I could do at the time 😞

I’m a very private person normally, so most folks have no idea 🤷‍♀️ this is what my life has been these past few years, which again, is why I’m writing this now - we aren’t privy to what’s going on in other peoples lives, whether it’s the cashier at the grocery store, the nurse at the hospital, the surgeon performing your surgery, and so on - please, please have more compassion for others, the way you would hope others will have compassion for you 🙏🏻

I’m happy to report that so far, so good & I’m looking forward to start living my life as I used to, by doing my own hair, working my business & acting on behalf of my clients the best way possible, and also enjoying my private life with my husband, family & enjoying our beautiful farm life that we’ve worked SO hard to achieve!

God bless all of you for reading my thread this morning, I’m wishing you all the very best in everything you set out to do & a better world 🌎 going forward into these unchartered waters for every one of us 🙏🏻♥️

Have an amazing ☀️day!

17/06/2024

Going ONLINE tomorrow with Canadian Horses To Move

BEAUTIFUL 😍 blue roan dual registered AQHA FQHA appendix mare with proven old time working ranch & cow horse lineage! “Grizz” literally checks ✅ all the boxes, she’s got the sweetest temperament & personality, she LOVES attention, is the first one to greet you in the pasture & will follow you around like a puppy dog 🐶

Grizz has over 6 months of professional training & is nicely broke with some buttons. She was nicely started as a 3yr old, then got some time off to raise an outstanding 🥰 bay roan filly in 2023, which we are keeping (a true testament of not only what this mare is, but also that she passes her exceptional qualities onto her offspring.) She caught with the first breeding, carried her foal with ease, and foaled out without issue; she is an excellent momma, produces good milk & is a pleasure to handle any minute, hour, or day regardless of the situation - Grizz is an absolute gem 💎 to be around 24/7!

She just came home from her refresher at the trainers yesterday, which is when these photos were taken (in the barn) and videos are all from June 16, 2024. Grizz is fit and ready to go absolutely any direction you’d like to take her! This mare will literally track anything from cattle, the dogs, and us in the side by side 😂 if you’re looking for a fantastic ranch prospect who’ll put you on the cow, or a roping, penning, sorting kinda mare - she’s your gal! With her height of 15.2HH, breeding and athletic ability, she’d make a great barrel prospect too - this mare MOVES OUT without effort & seems to float on air! Which also makes me think she’d cross over to the English disciplines with ease, her floaty movement & stride could take her into the dressage ring, or over jumps - or ALL of the ABOVE 👆🏻

Grizz rides beautifully under saddle, ba****ck, inside & out, she’s great out on the trail, and has pony’d c**ts! Her ground manners are impeccable, she leads, ties, trailer loads, handles for the vet (ultrasounds), farrier & visitors with the utmost respect!

She’s definitely a mare you can take and ride all day long, and breed her in a few years too! She’s 6 Panel N/N and proven as a riding horse & broodmare, combine her outstanding qualities with her flashy ⚡️ colour, superb conformation, excellent feet/bone, a pretty head & big hip, with a pedigree to back her up - she should become your next lifetime partner, heart ♥️ horse!

NO VICES, NO ISSUES, NO INJURIES, 100% SOUND - GUARANTEED

She’s utd on vaccines 💉 worming, and farrier every 8 weeks, always kept and rode barefoot without issue.

GST will be added to the purchase price.

We’re located in Fort St John, BC and could help with transport 🛻 either all or part way depending, text me for more details at 250-793-4270

17/06/2024