Say hello to Beans, the newest puppy on Vaquera Ranch! Beans is a very pretty and talkative German shepherd. She has a silver belly and legs, and the rest of her body is black. The pink collar around her neck suits her nicely. It was hard thinking of a name for her. At first we just went with Blacky, but that seemed too dull for such a dog, so Beans it was. The 9 week old puppy fits into our dog pack well. Balto, the leader of the pack,...

Well, for starters, Happy Easter everyone! It certainly is being good to us. Lots of good food, candy, and also something good with one of our horses, Lena. Lena is a brown quarter horse who we recently got from a friend, and she was thought to be quite untrainable. She’s mean and bites and kicks and pins her ears back. But she has injuries on her hind-legs, which makes her bad-mooded and aggressive. We are now training the horse here,...

We once had 2 miniature horses. Now we have 6! We traded our 5 black Dexter cows for the 4 minis; One steer, and the other 4 are cows and heifers. We have been trying to sell them for a while now. We couldn’t do much with them; they ate and drank, and they weren’t producing milk. But instead of selling them we traded them for those 4. The Dexters now live on a big property, and they are needed to get rid of all the clover on their...

Finally, the day we’ve anticipated since we got her, has come. Poco the beautiful palomino gave birth! The seven year old mare has been swaying on her feet because of her previously enormous belly. We knew it would happen any day now, and late last night, or very early in the morning, out popped Twitch! His name is Twitch because when he was being imprinted he would be very peaceful, then, all of a sudden, his leg would kick up very fast....

Smokin’ Hot Chocolate arrived yesterday! The palomino, also known as Linus, came in a big trailer, pulled by a big truck. After a week of traveling, the horse haulers left quickly without much chitchat. It was dark, about 10:00 p.m., so we didn’t see much of him, but we could see he was beautiful. And very tall! He is doing great here. Lot’s of energy, and a large space to run. He shares his pasture with the 5 cows, who are...