Red Our Wild Bronc

This is a picture of Red our 2 year old gelding. We bought him a year ago and have recently started working with him. We bought him because his blood lines (he is out of the Playgun stud) produce horses that are smart, cowy and most importantly really gentle and calm. Well that proves to be true because the first time we really worked with him and put a saddle on him the man who is helping me break him got on him and he never even tried to buck or jump around or anything. We were pretty amazed at that, but then he just got even more amazing! On Saturday afternoon after a morning of moving cows, my fiance and I took Red down to our friends place who is amazing with horses and who is helping us break him. We lunged him around the round pen and ponied him down to the arena. At the arena I got on him while our friend ponied us around. We had a great day getting Red use to the saddle and getting on and off him. When we were all done for the day we unsaddled him and then my fiance tried getting on him bareback and it worked! Our little 2 year old who has only been saddled 2 other times in his life just stood there as Cyle climbed on and went for a little walk around the yard. We are super excited for Red to get big enough to go to work because we think we have found ourselves a really great horse! 

4H is where it’s at!

I pledge:
My Head to clearer thinking,
My Heart to greater loyalty,
My Hands to larger service,
My Health to better living,
For my club, my community and my country.

For three years now, our family has been involved in a spectacular club called 4H. After going to college with people who had been in 4H for years, I began to see that it was an awesome program and that I had missed out on, but someday wanted to be involved in! My husband had gone through the program during his youth, so after having children, we decided 4H was something we’d like to offer to them. When our oldest was 9, we, along with our neighbor-friends, took over the Beef club in our area, making it a multi-club: adding Ranch Horse and Clothing.
This is a picture here of our Ranch Horse club on our summer camp-out. We were on our range moving cows from one pasture to another. As you can see we had climbed up a ways and had a beautiful view.

4H gives youth skills in responsibility (they have to care for an animal), life skills (learn to do by doing), confidence (they have to do a speech/demo), friendships (not only in their club but other clubs as well). There is no end to the learning that takes place in 4H. AND it is so much FUN!
I love the program and can’t say enough good about it! If you are interested in what it has to offer, look into it @ http://www.4-h-canada.ca/core/

~Erika Fossen~