The Benefit of Family Raised Ranch Horses

There is not a lot of places left in Manitoba where thecomes round up, a time every cowboy and cowgirl
range runs far and wide, so for a lot of Manitobalooks forward to.
Cowboys Community pastures provide a place to rideAlot of people raise their own horses but I don't think
and use their cowboy skills. Approximately 3,100there are a lot of them that can actually put them to
producers use the pastures each summer, grazingwork and find out what kind of horse they have bred.
about 220,000 head of livestock and utilizing over 3,000There's alot to training a good ranch horse and it takes
bulls in the pasture breeding program. In my opinion thistime, which alot of us don't have. It's not something one
is one of the best places to be able to train your horsecan just do here and there. I think being able to raise
for ranch work. They are handled and used daily in ayour own horses and work them as a family is a
variety of jobs.great benefit. Not only do you get to work together as
In the spring the cowboy's are busy branding, givinga family but the horses are well cared for and
inoculations, de-horning and castration. During thebecause they know their horses so well, they know
summer they check the cattle everyday, on the lookwhere their horses abilities lay.
out for pink eye, hoof rot and other injuries. In the fall