Fancy Broke Ranch

05/28/2024

Started working on the horses today for lots of summer riding ☀️

03/09/2024

Snow days at the ranch ☀️

03/08/2024

Beautiful sunset 🌅 at the ranch tonight. I’ve learned not to take things for granted, and our sunsets here are one of them. Most nights I can be found outside watching the sun go down.

10/24/2023

They make me proud everyday 🥰

10/15/2023

Livin our dream on the ranch 🌅🏡🐴

10/13/2023

Mindy enjoying the last of the nice weather in the good grass 🙂 🐴

02/02/2022

"We don't expect the child to write his name the first day or two in school. As soon as he learns to sit down in class and listen to the teacher, he is not immediately expected to write his name.....but we expect immediate learning from a horse. We expect the horse to go from kindergarten to the eighth grade, to high school, to college without enough time, preparation, or consideration for his thoughts and feelings. We often don't even get him into a learning frame-of-mind before we begin to train him. We don't even have him relaxed and confident, where he can sit down in class and just listen. We skip all that preparation because we are so superior, or neglectful, or lazy. Because we haven't prepared ourselves to recognize the horse's feelings." - Ray Hunt

Photo of Ray by Eclectic Horseman Magazine.

09/12/2021

Handsome man 🥃

08/17/2021

I just don’t think it can get any better. These are the moments that make everything in life worthwhile. ✝️🎠

08/05/2021

My girls 😍

07/17/2021

Hot summer days ☀️ and a good mare grazing in the grass, can’t get any better. 😍

06/17/2021

My sweet boy 🐴

06/14/2021

Do you see these 3 fillies?

They’re standing there tied patiently to the tie rack. They’re not kicking each other nor are they being ignorant and pawing. Why is that?

They’ve been turned out together the minute I got them in training. They’ve had to sort out their differences between themselves. They’ve had to establish a pecking order. They’ve had to learn how to be nice to each other, cause being kicked or bit hurts.

They’ve spent hours tied up to the fence. They’ve had to learn patience. They’ve had to figure out that it takes a lot more energy to throw a fit than it does to stand there quietly.

Now I can saddle all of them up together without incident. I can haul them in my stock trailer without worrying about one getting kicked or kicking another horse. I can take them to the show and ride them without having to worry about them setting back or kicking at other horses.

We’ve forgotten how to let horses be horses. We keep them in stalls, ride them for minimal amounts of time, and treat them like they’re a glass case of emotion. Then we wonder why we have issues with our horses.

LET YOUR HORSE BE A HORSE. They’re a lot tougher than you think they are. I promise you’ll have a lot less problems with them when you do

06/11/2021

06/01/2021

Love my little red mare!

05/01/2021

Mindy girl is at the vet, hopefully making a baby!! 🐴☀️

04/26/2021

Whiskey 🥃 horse 🐴

04/25/2021

It’s been a long road with this boy, but he’s comin around 🐴☀️

04/12/2021

Hugs from the little red mare 🐴🤍

04/03/2021

70 degrees out. ☀️ Lord knows I was gonna take full advantage. 🤩🐴

03/31/2021

03/30/2021

Just a couple girls doing girl things 🐴😎🤩

03/22/2021

Baby steps... just one step at a time to build some confidence. 🐴😍

03/09/2021

Turned an old belt into a headstall, and it’s Whiskey 🥃 approved ✅

03/08/2021

Nothing better than a little red mare 🔥

03/02/2021

Makin memories ☀️