JK Ranch Performance Horses

28/10/2023

16/09/2023

🤩 🤩 Gun-Raffle tickets up for sale!!! 🤩 🤩
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10/09/2023

Alright y’all!
If you see this truck, this kid right here is gonna go far! If you know me, I don’t get impressed easily. I tolerate and deal with it if I have to but I don’t get impressed. Well, today I was very much impressed. Surprisingly impressed!
This guy right here trimmed all my mares today and done an exceptional job. If you in the MID to NE Alabama area and wanna give him a try, you definitely should.
Once he ads hot shoeing he will be unstoppable, guaranteed!!!
Call Daniel Crawford 256-452-9865

28/07/2023

Big Shout-out to Daniel Crawford on completing Ferrier school!! Congratulations!!
Now let’s get him some business folks!
☎️ Call Daniel Crawford 256-452-9865

20/03/2023

For sale This 2700 square foot single family home has 4 bedrooms and 3.0 bathrooms. It is located at 8331 Highway 179 Boaz, Alabama.

13/03/2023

We’re not meant to be something we’re not, Cowgirl. We’re not meant for cubicles and configured confines. We’re not meant to leave our authentic selves to become someone the world thinks we should be. We’re not made for pretending and staying places that don’t have horses and wide open skies. We’re not made to always be wives, mothers, lovers or even the best friend. Maybe a white picket fence is good for others, but barbed wire and sagebrush corrals are more your style. If red paintbrush and purple lupine suit you better than a dozen roses, I hope your horizon is full of them. Maybe your granddaddy’s rig, heeler pup, range c**t, and Mama’s well-worn Bible are your prized possessions. Maybe you’ve tried, really gave the “real” world some hell, but it just wasn’t a fit. Whatever trails call to you, Cowgirl, I hope you never leave yourself again. Because you can’t ignore what pulls at your heart; you’ll never be better being someone else other than who you really are right now. You’re too good at being beautiful just the way you are- a little wild, a little gypsy, and a whole lot of amazing. You don’t deserve the tattered remnants of a life not of your choosing; you deserve a fulfilling one made up of your God given gifts, misgivings, and triumphs. So, don’t leave yourself, Cowgirl. You, and this ol’ world deserve your truth❤️

Happy Trails, Always ~

Heather

07/03/2023

16/02/2023

For sale This 3143 square foot single family home has 4 bedrooms and 3.0 bathrooms. It is located at 19137 County Road 64 Loxley, Alabama.

10/12/2022

Horse Folks, look at this one!!

Grand custom home with barns, pond, and pastures in a wide valley of north Georgia, with mountain views

01/12/2022

01/06/2022

16/04/2022

I am not an Appaloosa person but this is magnificent!! ♥️

02/01/2022

As breeders , horse owners , and farmers . We don’t normally talk about the hard things in life. We normally won’t share how it feels to pull a mare through cancer , finally get one in foal , have one abort or when one colics. We don’t talk about getting ready for something important and dropping everything to assist our animals.

We don’t share the hard parts where a mare looks to be having a miscarriage. But also colicing , and we have to decide to walk the mare to save her life . Knowing full well it could terminate the pregnancy. But saving that mares life is more important than the baby you spent years and thousands of dollars to see on the screen is now less important.

We don’t talk about emergencies that only seem to happen on holidays and middle of the nights. When we know vets are with their family’s or asleep. And the return call will come long after you’ve exhausted everything.

So when you see cute baby pictures in the spring , foals frolicking in the pastures. Just know there’s a lot that we don’t talk about that happened long before we could share those happy moments with you….

15/12/2021

Best I’ve heard in a long time. 100% agree!

Apparently my "come to Jesus meeting" method of raising well-behaved foals has caused someone to have wadded up panties. But, I will explain it one more time. #1 - this is MY method, it does not have to be yours, but you go ahead and let that 200 pound donkey/mule/horse baby nip, kick and push you around and you will rue the day when it is a 1,200 - 1,600 pound animal - and let's add intact stud to that too. #2 - how do animals communicate non-verbally? Body language, and quick and decisive reaction to an unwanted action by another of their own.

I am the alpha bitch here. Period. I am the head of the hierarchy. Period. As such, it is my job to teach the babies boundaries. I do not carry around a whip. I do not carry around a crop. I do not carry around a 2 X 4. Nope, it is the animals and me, and the only thing I have to use to reprimand the babies is my hands, feet and voice. IF I have a feed bucket or grooming tool in my hand, that will be used too. I have been in mid-sentence with a visitor when a baby will sneak up behind me and nip at my back, my reaction is swift and short - it HAS to be. Whipping around and using my hand to smack the dog snot out of them on the closest body part - which usually is the nose and going after them for about ten feet yelling "No, no..and NO!" stops that behavior in its tracks. The baby usually stands there looking all bewildered, but then they think - you can see it happening, if you are astute enough to know it when you see it. They have a choice to stand there, turn and go to their Mama for comfort or come back to me like a polite baby, and all is forgiven, and forgotten, for that transgression. It does not mean that the same will not be repeated when necessary. THIS is the action that they would receive from another herdmate for their obnoxious behavior, so why would I not behave the same way as another equine? I am just built different than an equine. I am NOT going to hurt that baby - ha, I am an old lady, I am the one more likely to get hurt. That baby is not going to be "hand-shy", anymore than a puppy you catch crapping on your rug that you smack and throw outside would be - they are immediately chastised, and forgiven after the lesson is taught.

Baby Jubilee was the first baby (horse/mule/donkey) to ever kick me at a day old. I was stunned, and whacked the closest thing I could immediately get my hands on, which happened to be her butt. Later that day she got a butt rub - all had been forgiven and forgotten. Has she ever kicked again? No. Do I think that she, as a one day old, actually learned anything from that little interaction? I can't tell you, but they do learn from the minute they are born, so maybe she did. The bottom line is that having a physical reaction to misbehavior by animals is not a bad thing. In many cases it is absolutely necessary - and the only way to get the point across. Their herdmates are not going to tolerate inappropriate behavior and they need to know that humans won't either.

~Deb Collins Kidwell~