As mentioned in a previous blog, one of our horses is in training at Craig Johnson’s ranch, all the way in Gainesville. But not anymore. She’s coming home today. She is in fact on her way right now. Early in the morning, at about 5:30, everyone had to wake up and change to get ready for the long drive ahead of them. They eventually got ready to leave after a lot of stumbling and half closed eyes. While they were driving 5 hours to...

Our quarter horse foals Twitch, Kix, and Stumbles are now all 4 months old and older. Time for them to be weaned. The first foals of our ranch are turning into fine little boys. So away from there mothers they went, into the neighboring pasture, along with the small yearling Bambi and Kitty, another foal we bought recently. They’ll be there for a couple months, till they are ready to mingle with their old friends again and once their...

Our beautiful gray quarter horse mare Mia has had a pretty hard life until she came here. She lived on a pasture with no food except what little she could forage for on the ground. She was pregnant, and had an big foal by her side. Then we bought her and put her with the other pregnant mares. When we woke up one morning it wasn’t too hard to see to who the dead, premature foal on the ground belonged to. That was a sad thing to see, and Mia...

It seems like just yesterday that our foals were squealing for their mommies. The foal care course doesn’t seem such a long time ago, either. The 3 boys have really changed over the months. They have gotten quite the handsome boys and they all like to stay away from Mom for a while! Of course, our protective mare Selena exhausts herself by chasing after little Stumbles all day! Born in February, March, and April, Twitch, Kix, and Stumbles...

Wanda, owner of Vaquera Ranch, has been smitten with horses ever since she can remember. Anyone who see’s her work with them recognizes her passion for her long-legged friends. But how did it all begin? What horse changed her life? The answer to that is Macho Man, a buckskin quarter horse. We lived in Miami, on a one acre property, with 3 stables on it. So what other thing to do than get some horses for those stables? We now had 2 horses,...