Deepwater Ranch

07/06/2024

Loving the new brand of our little ranch.

07/06/2024

Got our new logo!

04/01/2024

It's gardening season! Are you looking for horse manure to use in your garden? We've got it for you! And it's free! I'll even load it for you! Just DM us and we'll arrange for a time to load you up!

03/14/2024

Well today is an end of one era and a beginning of another. If you've been out to our little ranch in the last 3 years, well then you couldn't have missed our Ranch Hand, Jonathan Rouleau. Jon showed up with skills, experience, a friendly handshake, a ferret and a ukulele and not only quickly became an asset to the ranch and the Birch family, but he quickly became part of our family as well. Today we don't say goodbye, but we do say good luck and see ya down the road a bit as Jon heads south to take his services and his horses on a new adventure down near Lewiston Idaho.

I can't tell you how much Jon, or as we call him "That's Our Jon!", has done for our family and our ranch. I honestly think it would take all day for me to list the things. But I'mma gonna try. Jon taught our kids how to ride dirt bikes, how to fix those dirt bikes. He taught them how to move dirt with a tractor and so much more.

We put 70,000 miles on our two rigs and two trailers last year alone going to barrel races from Tenino Washington to Las Vegas Nevada, AQHA shows from Corvallis Montana to Eugene Oregon and trail shows from Nampa Idaho to Cle Elum, Goldendale Washington and more. Every single trip Jon made sure our family was ready, our rigs were safe and our horses taken care of. I don't know how we would have done it without him.

Jon helped us install lights in our outdoor, build an entire apartment, finish a tack room, build fence, buck hay, drink wine, take care of the horses, picked up kids from school or wherever, heck he even watched them for a week while we were gone. He rebuilt my old .22 rifle, worked on every single rig we own, helped us pick out new ones, drove equipment to get serviced, plowed all our roads, raked all our arenas, fixed water lines, organized our shop and so much more. Seriously, it was tremendous.

Jon was always just a call away. Whether I was broken down with a flat tire on our LQ and couldn't figure out how to get it off, or my wife was broken down with horses in Spokane. Jon was right there. Literally - drove an hour to take care of her, our daughter and our horses.

Jon came in with a job to do, but he leaves as a brother, an uncle and well, family. We will sure miss seeing him out there making sure we can pursue all the things we want to achieve and to know that everything is taken care of at home.

We'll miss having someone so handy around, his "Very Special" wine or whatever that was, our random Tuesday drinks on the porch during the summer, or rowdy conversations over a glass of wine in the kitchen, and so much more. But time moves on and we all get to pursue our dreams, even our Jon.

Thank you Jon for doing so much for our family. The next ranch is so luck to have you, they probably don't even know how much. Looking forward to seeing you down the road brother.

If you met Jon, drop him a note to congratulate him on his next adventure!

05/17/2022

Our first clinic with Brock was amazing! These guys did great. So glad to have Brock back teaching the Method at our ranch!

05/10/2022

We may have one spot in the Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Clinton Anderson clinic with Ambassador Brock! If you would like to have this spot, please comment below and if it does open up we'll let you know. We have a participant whose daughter is having surgery today, so not she is not sure if she can join the clinic this time. She will be making a final decision later this week.

04/30/2022

Good morning North Idaho! We are getting the grounds ready for our Supercharge Performance Horses Barrel Clinic today! If you haven't paid your arena fee, please bring $10. We'll have you sing your waiver when you get here. Please keep your speed to 10MPH on your way down our road. When entering the property take the the paved driveway but stay to the right of the pool once you enter and follow the lines on our map here to park your trailer. Thank you and see you soon!

Oh we have a few spots for today's afternoon's sessions if you still want to get in on it!

04/18/2022

UPDATE: THIS HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO THE FALL. WE WILL UPDATE YOU HERE WHEN WE HAVE A DATE.

Our Bit Seminar is this coming Sunday. You will need to register by Thursday to secure your spot. Please register by emailing [email protected]! Oh and bring a chair!

04/11/2022

We have a bunch of clinic spots open for the Jennifer Ballard clinic! If you were waiting to sign up for a spot don't hesitate!

03/25/2022

Hi everyone! It sure feels like spring has sprung! Our outdoor arena is free of snow and our Ranch Hand Jon has done a crazy good job of getting it ready to ride.

We had to change the date of our Bit Seminar with Bradley A Whalen to the 24th of April. This is going to be a great way to start your riding season with a more thorough understanding of bits, all the different types, why, when and how to use them. Start your season off with this great 2 hour seminar! It's great for young riders and old!

We'll be serving lunch as well and for the first ten riders that confirm, we'll be riding our horses afterwards in the arenas here!

02/20/2022

We have a barrel saddle for sale! https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10159067002126501&id=666086500&sfnsn=mo

02/12/2022

It sure feels like spring is around the corner! We have so many exciting things planned this year! We have a bit clinic with Precision Performance Horses and Bradley A Whalen in April, a DownUnderHorsemanShip clinic, two actually, with Brock Nelsen- Clinton Anderson Method Ambassador, some Barrel Racing private lessons with Supercharge Performance Horses and Jennifer Ballard, some open arena nights, a private game night, men's only barrels and beers night and a boys night for young men under 18. It's gonna be a great year. Stay tuned for updated in the next week or so and share with your friends!

02/08/2022

Our awesome ranch hand got some outdoor lights and stall lights installed today! Much safer and we no longer need to turn on all the lights to feed! Thanks John!

12/05/2021

We love the cold winter mornings like these on the ranch.

11/11/2021

We couldn't let today pass without thanking our friend and ranch hand Jonathan Rouleau for his service. And we thank all of our Vets today!

10/28/2021

10/18/2021

Bit Seminar this weekend is cancelled. We are so sorry to have to cancel this event. COVID-19 has been wreaking havoc on our team at the Birch Ranch and also Alex is also found himself sick. Due to several of us being sick, we just haven't been able to keep up on chores and prepare for this event. So we are cancelling and will be rescheduling once we are all well enough to find a date. If you already paid, we will be issuing refunds by Thursday of this week. Sorry for any inconvenience.

10/11/2021

If you contacted us about our bit clinic, we have contracted covid and will get back to you this week. The clinic is still on for the 23rd!

10/08/2021

When the days get shorter and you still want to ride, well you light it up! New lights installed, only needed two! Huge thanks to our amazing ranch hand Rouleau! Almost lights up the entire outdoor arena!

09/20/2021

We have something cooking at the ranch! Save the date! October 23rd, 10am-12 we are having Alex Whalen from Precision Performance Horses give us a 2 hour seminar on bits! Learn everything you ever wanted to know about bits from a world class trainer! We'll have more information coming. But we'll have a catered lunch as well!

09/06/2021

The sun is getting shorter now but the work still needs to get done. Pepper and Jamie putting some groundwork (the method) on two mares that needed to learn a bit of respect this weekend. Excited to get our arena lights up this week possibly.

09/03/2021

Spent 15 minutes getting rocks out of the arena. Wow!

08/28/2021

Double rainbow night!

08/24/2021

All ready for some afternoon obstacle and desensitizing practice. 2pm -445 today.

08/23/2021

Hi all! We are going to be practicing obstacles in our arena and desensitizing exercises in our arena starting at 2pm tomorrow. If you'd like to practice come on over. It is a practice at your own pace as we won't have a coach there. We'll have a big ball, logs, barrels, poles etc. We'll probably go to 530.

08/22/2021

Thank you Supercharge Performance Horses and Jennifer Ballard for two days of awesome group barrel lessons here at the ranch! All the students learned so much and you could see each one improve greatly by the end!

08/17/2021

New ranch hand and new and improved dummy, roping dummy that is lol

08/17/2021

We love our ranch hand Jon! He improved our dummy! His skills and enginuity knows no bounds!

08/13/2021

Got two more inches of sand in our indoor today! Jon did a great job spreading and leveling it for us. Can't wait to ride in this, it's all ready for winter!

08/13/2021

One of our great joys is seeing others able to use our facilities that we worked so hard to build. Here is our friend and ranch hand training his new horse after a day of sand spreading.