4 Locos Ranch with Horses for Heros

02/18/2025

Happy Taco Tuesday! 🌮 🌯 🌮 🌯

02/14/2025

02/11/2025

🐓Post meal dust bath 🛁 🤣

02/03/2025

Peach is loving her new hay bale and indoor eating area with Blackie. Starting to prep for foaling, she's getting big!

02/02/2025

We got your fertilizer, and we've got tons of it.

New to well aged

Free to self load

If we load,
$10 for pick-ups
$20 to load a trailer

Come get some 💩💩💩

02/01/2025

Don’t trade your authenticity for approval!

01/31/2025

Clinical research has shown the benefits of interacting with horses when you're feeling down or depressed.

01/30/2025

Beautiful sunrise 🌅 this morning! 🌞

01/26/2025

Go for it.
Whether it ends good or bad, it was an experience.

01/24/2025

What no one tells you about owning a horse boarding facility….

•It’s loving someone else’s animal so much it hurts at times.
•It’s noticing and addressing the slightest change in a horse’s behavior, eating, or drinking habits.
•It’s staying up all night to monitor someone else’s horse when they aren’t feeling well.
•It’s an overwhelming feeling of guilt when a horse gets hurt or sick; even though there was nothing you could have done differently to prevent it.
•It’s facility overhead. There’s ALWAYS something that needs fixed or updated.
•It’s having a camera roll full of cute, silly pictures of horses you don’t own.
•It’s eating Taco Bell 3 nights in a row because it’s the only place still open when you finish chores at 11pm and you’re starving.
•It’s unplugging/plugging in water tank heaters several times throughout the day/night to try and keep the electric bill from quadrupling.
•It’s an overwhelming feeling of anguish for weeks on end when you have to tell boarders that the cost of board must go up.
•It’s working on every holiday, birthday, anniversary, and sick day.
•It’s a constant feeling of guilt for not spending enough time with your own animals.
•It’s wondering if you pay your wonderful help enough, even though they make more per hour than you do most days.
•It’s getting to know horses even better than their owners do, in some ways.
•It’s rearranging family, work, and personal commitments to take care of horses.
•It’s dreaming about that bathroom remodel you’ve always wanted, but getting new fencing installed instead.

Boarding horses is so much more than feeding, watering, and cleaning stalls. It isn’t for the faint of heart and it surely isn’t for anyone looking to get rich. It takes a village of people with a special place in their hearts for equines. To anyone that can relate, just know that you ARE APPRECIATED! 🐴❤️

01/23/2025

Big thanks to Kady James CF and Sara for taking over chores this week, while I've been down and the temps have been brutal! Amazing barn help!

01/10/2025

Keeping the kiddos warm with more hay out today!

01/10/2025

Always something with someone!

01/06/2025

They like snow better than mud! ❄️

01/06/2025

We will be closed today for those that do not board with us. Stay home, enjoy the snow and stay warm and safe today.

01/02/2025

Peach apparently didn't want her feed pan anymore. Lol 🤷‍♀️ 🤣🤦‍♀️