Our FACILITY

We have finally moved to a flat, irrigated property.  Our old facility wasn't able to handle too many horses.  It was only five acres, mostly steep hills, and not irrigated.  We made it work the best we could for 8 years,  but I am glad to be here at our new place.  Escrow closed 03-30-07 and it has been a lot of work since then.  We have almost 20 acres here and are in the process of cross fencing pastures for the stallions, mares, and foals.  We hope to be putting in a new mare barn in the fall of 2008.  We have 3 stalls with paddocks for mares now, or they can stay in separate pastures, depending on what the mare owner prefers.  Below is a little tour of our new place.  As we fix it up, we will add more photos of the improvements.

The above photo is from the south east corner of the property looking diagonally across it. 

This is a photo from the other side of the above pond.  Look at all that clover.
These fields are the ones that are being cross fenced for the mares.

This photo is from the east fence line (the pond is to the left) and is where I eventually want to build another house.  Our current one would be for a live in farm manager.  But that is a ways down the line.


This is the current house on the property.  It is so nice to have all those trees when it is over 100 degrees in the summer.  Unfortunately we lost the big tree in the front yard during our recent hurricane force winds, which Northern California isn't used to getting.

These are the corner posts for the stallion pastures.  The stallions are on the west side (behind the house) of the property, away from the mares in for breeding.  We left aisle ways between the stallion pens to keep them separated, and easy access for us to reach the irrigation risers.  We don't even need to go through gates now to change the sprinkler heads.  The stallion pens are now done and all the boys now have lots of room to run around.  They are approximately 75 x 160 feet.

Above is our collection area.  The stallion paddocks are to the right and has an aisle way to bring them to the breeding area.   By spring of 2009 I hope to have this area covered.  We usually have good weather here, so we can make do outside.  The phantom is covered to protect it from our harsh summer heat.  I love my mare chute, I can put her in it to tease the stallion.  If I need a little more stimulation for the stallion to mount the phantom I can tie her on the side closest to the phantom.  And the side nearest us, is for cross tying the mare if we need to live cover her, or collect off of a mare.  Our breeding phantom is from www.smsbreedingphantoms.com .



This is our grooming area.   We have a palpation chute for doing our AI and veterinary work inside the barn.  The chute we use for AI has a solid door on the back and a foal chute along side to keep the foal from running around.  I will add a photo of that area soon.

Watching the young horses playing from our front porch, after a fall rain.

The mares in the back eastern fields after the same rain.

Sunrise from the living room window.

Yes we do have snow sometimes, but not very often.


One of our cats posing for the camera.

This is Jackie one of our Australian Shepherds. 
You can see more of our dogs at our website:  www.cmaaussies.com