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Killian Ranch Australian Shepherds, 24307 South Lindsay Road, Chandler, AZ (2024)

03/14/2024

Killian's Perfection needs a wonderful home. Look at her face. She is calling your name. She will look just like her mother Thornapple Arizona Merry Christmas.
Perfection will be 8 weeks old on the 23rd of March. She will have had two 10 way shots and wormed 4 times. This is a great cross between the Killian's Ted line and the Thornapple Line.

03/04/2024

Three Awesome ASCA Australian Shepherd female pups. 8 weeks old on the 23rd of March. Sire is a grandson of the Famous Killian's Ted E. Bear and the dam is an own daughter of Thornapple Just-chillin. This is a great cross between two great lines of Aussies. These pups will very calm and willing to please. Both sire ( Red Merle) and dam (Black Tri) are very calm and gentle Aussies. Please text me at 480-250-8410 or email me at [email protected]

02/28/2024

Farm Barn in Mesa Arizona for sale. 50' x 100' pole barn built by Billy Winset of Oklahoma in 2004. This barn is awesome, all metal skin, Post and beam on the inside with insulated storage room. Great opportunity for a reconstruction project. Please call Mark Killian at 480-250-8410 in you are interested. Includes the roll up doors. Need to have moved by May 1st 2024.

02/23/2024

Two really nice AQHA Stud Colts born in May and June of last year. Sired by Diamond Bonanaz Blue (Rock) and out of two Killian Ranch Brood Mares. Speedy II, Freckles Pl***oy, Driftwood, Three Bars, Skip Bar Three, Barjo, Doc Tari, Passing Legacy...The list goes on and on. If your looking for the perfect ranch horse, Roping horse, performance horse don't over look these two colts. If your interested text or call Me 480-250-8410 Mark Killian

02/22/2024

An AQHA coming Yearling Buckskin Filly sired by Diamond Bonanza Blue (Rock) and out of a Killian Ranch mare Killiansdudegirl. Great foundation lines in this filly. Speedy II, Three Bars, Skip Cancel, Mr San Peppy. She is and stout and will make a great rope or ranch horse.
If you are interested text or call me at 480-250-8410. See papers of Sire and Dam.

02/02/2024

Jumbo Cornish Cross Meat Birds are awesome. I want to thank the Gilbert High School Students and their instructor Casey Farnsworth for processing my meat chickens. They did a wonderful Job. These birds are awesome to east. Just check them out. We will be doing more in the next few months. From start to finish it took about 7 weeks for these birds to grow from baby chicks to 5 to 7 pound birds. Better than you can buy at Costco.....

02/01/2024

This is the litter I have been waiting and hoping would happen. Killian's Cinnimon Bear and Thornapple Christmas. 8 puppies, 7 females and 1 male (Reserved). 5 blue merle females, one black tri female and one red tri female. Bear is one of the kindest dogs I have ever raised. He is a grandson of Killian's Ted E. Bear. Thornapple Arizona Christmas is a classic Aussie. Black Tri with very copper trim. She is kind and gentle. I have combined really good working line on a very good show line. Thornapple Aussies have been raising champions for years. A dream come true for me and the breeding program I have been working on.
These pups were born on January 27th, 2024. Dews and tails done. They will be ready to go to their new homes 23rd of March. If you are interested please text me at 480-250-8410, be sure to leave your name and email address and indicate which pup you are interested in by the name on the picture. Don't miss out on these great pups. For Price information please text me.

01/28/2024

SUNDAY THOUGHT----

Last evening when the day was done and we have moved the cattle, fed the animals collected the eggs, picked from the winter garden I couldn't help but have a sense of gratitude for the many blessings that God has so willingly and abundantly give me and my family.

Have we struggled in life, oh yes, have we been tried and tested, Oh yes, have we had health issues, oh yes, have we lost loved ones, oh yes, have we lost jobs, friends, animals, wealth, oh yes, but in the end the greatest blessing of all is the life we have lived.
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What greater time could there be in the history of the world than when we are living right now. Is the world perfect? NO! but in that imperfection there is moments of perfection and blessing.

I cannot control the world, but I can control how I react to the problems and challenges that surround me. I have found the best way to deal with the challenges of life is to reflect on the good things in life. I have come to the conclusion that the sun does come up every single day and I can either complain about the clouds covering the sun or I can wait eagerly for the sun to shine through give me a glimpse of hope.

Amid the counting of blessing let us always remember to thank God for the blessings. He does hear and answer our prayers, he is as close as we let him be in our lives.

So as we survey the people in our lives may we always look over the faults and failings of others, reflect on the faults we have and thank God for his Grace that in spite of our imperfections the blessings still come.

One of the greatest gifts and blessings my Grand Father Ray Killian gave me was his ability to not be critical of others. When one would approach him and engage in a negative conversation about a third party, grand father only answer was this: "Oh so and so is an interesting person." He wold not engage in the demeaning of others nor the negativity of critical comments. That is a blessing I will count over and over again and at the same time give thanks to my Heavenly Father to bless my life with such a wonderful grand father.
Here is the words to one of my favorite church Hymns:

When upon life's billows you are tempest tossed,
When you are discouraged, thinking all is lost,
Count your many blessings, name them one by one,
And it will surprise you what the Lord hath done.
Are you ever burdened with a load of care?

Does the cross seem heavy you are called to bear?
Count your many blessings, ev'ry doubt will fly,
And you will be singing as the days go by

When you look at others with their lands and gold,
Think that Christ has promised you His wealth untold;
Count your many blessings, money cannot buy
Your reward in heaven, nor your home on high.

So, amid the conflict, whether great or small,
Do not be discouraged, God is over all;
Count your many blessings, angels will attend,
Help and comfort give you to your journey's end.

Have a wonderful Sunday, may the Lord bless you and keep you in his arms of love. Thank you for all my wonderful Friends on Facebook, you are a continual inspiration to me in my life. God bless all of you.

01/26/2024

Brown Bear will always put a smile on your face. Don't miss out on this fantastic pup. His pedigree is full of great Aussie lines. Killian, Boyd Ranch, Fairoaks, Rock N D. He will be the best ever. 9 weeks old. Call or Text me...Mark W. Killian 480-250-8410

01/26/2024

In this great water debate in Arizona right now there are those who care less about agriculture. What they don't know is the 24 billion dollar impact Agriculture has on Arizona. The Yuma leafy Greens are a minimum of 2 billion dollar impact for Arizona.
Arizona has the best growing season of any state in the Union, please don't let the policy makers ruin Arizona Agriculture because of there ignorance. Why would we give up our ability to feed our people, our nation and the world. Are the policy makers in Arizona saying that the growing food is less of importance than building chips, phones and computers...? When was the last time you could eat a computer chip, phone or computer.
Preserving our Agriculture is a moral imperative. We can manage our water in a way that keeps agriculture in business and still allows for growth.
When the cities take on water conservation in a serious way then we can talk about agriculture use of water in Arizona. Lakes, Pools, pounds, grass lawns, all kinds of water intensive plants, trees ....
Last but not least is the Harquahala valley on the West side of Phoenix. There are 3 let me repeat 3 lake Meads worth of water under that land. Enough water to help solve central Arizona water needs for the next 400 years. That water was specifically exempt from the Water Transfer law in the 1980 ground water act. We don't need to import water from Mexico, we just need to drill deeper in Harquahala and you will have all the water you need. Oh by the way the CAP canal goes right through the Harquahala valley on the north end. Water can be conveyed into the CAP canal and delivered any where along the system.
Last but not least the farming community has been doing all kinds of things to reduce the consumption of water. Our best hope is that the new agriculture technology will lead us further down this path.
So do you want to depend on China, Brazil, Europe, Mexico, for your food supply??? I don't think so.

01/24/2024

Red Tri Male. Sire is Killian's Cinnamon Bear and the dam is Killian's Fairoaks Lass. This is a great cross. The Killian line on the Fairoaks and Boyd line are awesome dogs. This pup is ready to go. He is 9 weeks old, had his first shot. He is a ball of love. We call him Brown Bear. Mark W. Killian 480-250-8410
Don't miss out on acquiring the best Aussie you have ever owned in your life!!!!

01/22/2024

Well the wolves surely have arrived in the Pinedale /Claysprings area. Folks have been seeing them for the last few years. Two were seen walking across my pasture in Pinedale this last week. A number of my neighbors have seen them in the area and have heard them.
So the wolves have spread way out of the original wolf recovery area to the west, south, North and East. Just what the wolf recovery folks wanted. They are pushing to have over 750 wolves from Western Arizona to Eastern New Mexico.

In the mean time the financial losses to ranchers and farmers are mounting, thank goodness for the compensation board in Arizona, but that still does not cover the complete cost of the wolf program for those affected by their presence.

It is nice to think about the wolves running wild and free through the forest but if you are a hunter, rancher or citizen living around the wolves it is not fun nor is it good for the environment.

The impacts are real and devastating.

Here is a picture of one of the wolves eating a dead cow elk on the side of the road just 4 miles west of Pinedale road on the 260.

So be ready a wolf is coming to your area in the near future. Understand you cannot harm or disturb the wolves at any time for any reason because it is against the law. So we are left to figure out how to distract them from our herds, use range riders or in come cases Livestock guardian Dogs will keep the wolves away.

AGAIN I WANT TO STRESS YOU CANNOT HARM THESE WOLVES IT IS AGAINST THE LAW.

If you are concerned for your safety and the safety of your animals contact the Arizona Department of Agriculture, the Arizona Game and Fish Department and they can give you helpful hints on what to do and how to live in wolf country.

Welcome to the new rural America where APEX Predators take precedent over human beings and their way of life. Just ask the farmers in California about the Spike Dace fish, the Ranchers in Northern Colorado about the wolf program (These are timber wolves they are introducing to Colorado), Ranchers and farmers in Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Washington, Oregon about the Wolves, Grizzly Bears... Oh by the way if you have not heard the radical Environmentalist want to re-introduce the Grizzly Bear to the White Mountains in the Mt. Baldy wilderness area.......

Have a great day America. I hope that common sense will be the future of our country, if not agriculture as we know it will cease to exist in America, the greatest food producing place in the world. I believe that producing food in a sustainable way is very important to the survival of the human species.

There has got to be a way to protect and preserve our ability to grow food in a cost effective way and at the same time protect endangered species, right now we are headed for a train wreck and I hope people of good will can find a way to make this work. It is in everyone's best interest to make this happen. The technology and science of agriculture is awesome, so let's hope the Universities and Land Grant Schools can help us solve this problem.

01/05/2024

There is nothing better than American Beef. Don't give in to Bill Gates who wants you to eat bugs. Don't give in to the radical environmentalist who want to shut down American Agriculture. We feed the world, we feed Americans and we do it better than any country in the world.

Just look at this picture of good old American Beef. Thank you 44 farms in Texas for sharing your quality beef with the world.

Beef is what is for dinner tonight. Filet on the grill with green beans...can't beat it any where...

12/30/2023

Your new years resolution is to acquire some Killian Happy Hen Farm pullets. What a great gift for your family, your very own live egg machine. Protein on demand. Don't miss out on this great food machine for your family and friend.
We have White Leghorn pullets, ISA Brown pullets that are 3 months old and will start laying the 1st of March. Don't miss out on these awesome pullets. Text me at 480-250-8410, send me a message on FB or email me at [email protected].

12/27/2023

The Arizona National Livestock Show has a commercial Heifer and Bull sale this coming Friday the 29th of December. Lot's of good cattle to buy.
We have 4 Hereford heifers bred to a High Marbling low birth weight Gardiner Angus bull. These heifers are Arizona bred and raised. We acquired them for this purpose of breeding them to one of the best Angus bulls around to market to commercial cattleman. Don't miss out on these good heifers. They are 30 to 90 days bred and vet checked.
Those black Baldy calves they will have will be great for any purpose.

12/25/2023

Merry Christmas from the Killian's to all our friends and loved ones.
May God Bless you and bring Peace and Love into your homes this wonderful day and for the rest of this year and New Year to come.

12/21/2023

I know you think Santa's favorite animals are the reindeer. But I would suggest otherwise when you look at these recent pictures taken of Santa Claus, why it is clear that a beautiful laying hen is what he likes the most. Can't dispute a picture....
Now all of you need to follow Santa's example and have a few laying hens in your back yard. I am an official Contractor for Santa Claus and have some of the best young laying hens that you can find in Arizona. I know that is what is on top of your Santa's wish list. So give me a call or text before Christmas so you can surprise your family with your own egg laying machine in your back yard. And if you are stretched for time we have an after Christmas lay-a-way program that will meet your needs. 480-250-8410
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE.

12/20/2023

Here we go again another attack on Agriculture. Where do these climate alarmist think we are going to get our food. I for one will not eat bugs or become a vegan. So many rural communities depend on the Beef industry and to put it out of business will harm so many people in so many ways. Enough of this foolishness

12/19/2023

A great cookie recipe from the pages of Progressive Farmer.

12/18/2023

Are you still struggling to find that special gift, let's say a practical gift that will help your family in these hard economic times. A gift that will provide food for your family every day of the year. That's right every family should have a few hens in the back yard. Join Santa Claus and give the gift of a beautiful hen or hens for Christmas for you and your family. Call me today so you can have the best hens in Arizona. 480-250-8410 Young ISA Brown, California Whites and White Leghorn pullets. What a great stocking stuffer....

12/13/2023

In the 1920's and 1930's the USDA encouraged folks to have hens in their back yards and farms. Eggs are a great source of protein. Most folks do not want the hassle of raising baby chicks so they want started pullets that are fully feathered and ready to go. Killian Happy Hen Farm has started (2 and 1/2 Month old) pullets for sale now. They will start laying the end of February and the 1st of March. Get prepared for the Spring with your own high quality pullets that will put awesome eggs on your table for you and your family. We have ISA Browns (Lay over 300 brown eggs a year), White Leghorns(Best all time layer of large White eggs), California Whites and the Killian Specials. Please text me at 480-250-8410. Surprise your family for Christmas and become a local egg farmer. Great way to teach your children responsibility in feeding and care of Poultry. Don't miss out on these great pullets (Pullets are hens that have not started laying yet).

12/10/2023

Every family needs a great source of protein in their diets. Having a few laying hens in your back yard is a way to do that. Eggs are a complete source of great energy and food for your family. Killian's Happy Hen Farm has started pullets ready to go. They are 3 months old and ready for you to raise without the hassle of dealing with day old chicks. We have ISA Browns, California Whites, White Leghorns. These all came from one of the best Hatcheries in the USA. Don't miss out on getting ready for your Spring layers. Owning a few hens will help make your family food secure and teach your children and grandchildren how to work and take care of animals. Most cities now allow you to have a few hens in your back yard. Call me 480-250-8410

12/07/2023

The reality of Biden's Economic policies are on full display every time I go to purchase some product or service. The inflation in now baked into all products and services. Even if inflation does come down the prices of goods and services most likely will not retreat. Yesterday Nancy and I were reminded in stark reality of just how much things cost.
As a child an ice cream cone at DQ would cost 10 cents, maybe 25 cents but yesterday when we (Broke my Diet) and went to DQ and purchased one small dipped cone (Chocolate) and one small plain cone (Vanilla) it was over $8.00 dollars. We looked at each other in disbelief. Eight bucks for two small ice cream cones...This is not a complaint against DQ, but a generalized complaint on where consumer prices have gone in the last 3 years.
As one can tell in this Christmas season, the prices of everything are way up. No wonder why young American families are struggling....The wage increases of the last few years are not keeping pace with the rising prices at the stores.

So what are the solutions to this problem.

1. Reduce taxes on everyone at all levels. Federal, State, county, School Districts, Cities. Add up all your taxes and it will take your breath away.
2. Reduce government spending on non-essential things
3. Reduce government regulation that adds to the cost of capital being put to work in the private sector
4. Reduce interest rates by the FED. It has never made any sense to me that to bring inflation under control you need to put people and businesses out of work and business by increasing costs of borrowing capital.
5 Give tax breaks to all levels of folks for saving.
6. Cap interest rates that Credit Card companies can charge on accounts.
7. Encourage the use of fossil fuels, we should also start a major effort to build nuclear power plants all over America.
This is not all the things we can do, but for a start this is what I would do....

Last but not least our country is being invaded by illegal aliens and they will break our economy. We are assuming the burdens of people who have come to this country illegally. They should be sent right back to where they came from. There is a process for folks to come into this country, you should not be able to just hop the fence and present yourself to be assimilated into our country. This Biden policy of open borders is a disaster.

If we do not change our economic policies the impact on most Americans will be negative and irreversible. I worry that my grand children will face an almost impossible dream of owning a home.

We need policies that accelerate deflation, encourage growth, savings and investment. I know we can't go back to a .10 cent ice cream cone, but really $8.00 for two small cones...

12/03/2023

This cotton Picker today costs 1.2 million dollars. This is why farmers are having such a hard time these days....Cotton Average Price in 1976 was .71 cents a pound with the high at .92 cents a pound. On December the 2nd 2023 the Ave price of cotton on the board in Chicago was .78 Cents a pound. Tell me any other product that we produce in America that sells for the same price it did in the 1970's. Price a pickup lately? Priced Tractor lately? People want to know what is happening to the family farmers, why are so many going out of business...The difference between the price at the farm and what you pay at the retail level is a gap that if it is not corrected will spell the doom of family farms, or American Agriculture. Our freedom and security depend on our ability to feed ourselves...We lose that ability we lose our freedom.

11/07/2023

Puppy time at Killian Ranch Australian Shepherds. Two outstanding pups from the Freestyle Arizona Blazin Sun x Killian's Crimson Clover. Absolutely beautiful pups. Red Tri Male and a Red Merle Female. They are 8 weeks old have had two 5 way shots, wormed 4 times with Nemex II. They both have sky blue eyes. Don't miss out on getting the best pup you will ever have in your entire life. Just looking at these pups...your mind and heart say's yes...Contact me at [email protected] or text at 480-250-8410- Full DNA panel completed on both pups and sire and dam. These pups are grand children of the famous Killian's Ted E. Bear.