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Husband and wife team Tim and Stacey Hennen. Being nestled in the Birch Coulee valley allows us to give our training horses all the natural outdoor exposures necessary when starting horses. With exposure to trail riding, water crossings, logs, rocks, hills, nature and cattle gives the horses an all around great opportunity to develop into quite a well rounded enjoyable horse to ride. We start all the horses that come to us for training in our round pen. This allows us to form a bond with the horse and determine what areas the horse needs work on first. Once the horse is comfortable being saddled and rode in the round pen we advance to our large outdoor arena or our indoor arena where we continue to work on resistance free training. After the horse has had two weeks of training we do an evaluation with the person who is going to ride the horse and determine together the next goal to achieve with the horse. We provide advance training in starting horses on cattle for Ranch Rodeo events -Horse Shows Events - Western Pleasure - Trail - English - Games - Halter and exposure to a wide variety of riding experiences. Together we enjoy the versatility each horse and owner brings to us. At our Birch Coulee Ranch we enjoy putting a touch of the old west in our horse training program. We ride the horses checking pasture fences, counting the new calves, and roping to doctor cows/calves. We cross over creeks, ride up hills, around rocks and pick our way through the pine trees, we ride by the river picking our way over logs while listening to the ducks and geese greet us announcing the hatching of their little ones. This experience for horses and people is priceless. It gives the spooky colts a chance to get their mind on being a horse and it gives an arena horse a new refreshed outlook. Tim and Stacey along with friends, spend countless hours enjoying this time remembering what riding horse is all about! Being able to go places where a rabbit wouldn’t go, laughing over the challenges of a colt’s first creek crossing, seeing whose horse, or rider, has the biggest eyes when you strap a rope on a 1000 lb cow! If all that’s not fun enough we hold a branding in late spring. Putting the horses to work gathering, sorting and dragging calves to the fire. |
