Following in my love to drive a fancy, high stepping, eye catching equine. I have begun to raise modern type Shetlands and Show ponies for fine harness driving. Then in quest to find the best ponies the for modern type I found that the old style American Shetland was getting lost. So, being the historian that I am. I decided to try to keep a small pure band of Foundation Shetlands. Now don't think of them as your grandma's short legged, hairy, ornery, little ponies. On the contrary, these are still balanced, refined individuals they are just more muscled and wider than the fine harness type. Just compare them as the difference between a good working Quarter horse and then a light saddle breed like a Morgan, Thoroughbred or Saddlebred. You can see the contrast on my pony pages. AND, turns out the Foundation Shetlands make great crosses on Quarter horses to make Quarter ponies. Several of our stallions have been approved as outcross stallions for the IQPA International Quarter Pony Association. Look for IQPA approved on their section.

Ponies are a great way for kids to get into horses on a level that they can reach. Full size horses are most of the time to tall for young kids to saddle and unsaddle by themselves. Ponies are also great for those on smaller acreage and those with disabilities.
The Foundation Shetlands have a very similar temperament to that of a Quarter horse; calm, smart, and willing. The more Modern type Shetlands are more energetic and have more go; like an Appendix bred Quarter horse and sometimes like an Arabian. They also step much higher like a Hackney to varying degrees.




Ask about our “Owner Select Foal” option or OSF. An Owner Select Foal OSF is when a client selects one of our stallions and one of our mares and we do the breeding and care of the mare and foal until weaning when the foal is ready for the client to pick them up; when the foal is 4 or 5 months old. The Owner Select Foals are also eligible for the buckle incentive program.
For complete details please contact Michele.


For classifications of Shetlands go to ShetlandMiniature.com

Please view my Mentors page here and my reference ponies page here.

My love of ranch life and cowboy ways would lend me to raising cattle but with limited land and help I opted for a somewhat different approach; goat ranching. We have been breeding select meat goats for over 16 years. It is no accident that we have excellent animals. We do not take breeding lightly. Our goats are selected for size, correctness, muscle mass, longevity, and temperament.
It is common that we have does in our heard over 12 years old and still producing twins. I have been raising and improving my herd of commercial meat goats since 1995. By researching types of goats and efficiency I bought my first full blooded Boer goat in 1997. The rest is history.
I have developed my own type of meat goat that grows on forage and a few added supplements when range conditions get poor. I have shown my goats with success but showing is not the true measure of a goats ability to be a productive producer of meat on forage. I no longer show. I just enter performance tests when available.  Mission: Our horses may not be Heroes in the arena but heroes in their owner's heart.

We are horse people- you don't have to understand us!
We know that all external medicine is either waterproof, blue or yellow.
We have no problem eating a sandwich directly after mucking stalls.
We know, why a thermometer has to have a string attached to the end.
We are not welcome in Laundromats.
We don't think anything sexual if someone talks about chains, whips or leather.
We can raise our voice instantly by 5 octaves to shout at a horse pawing at the floor.
We would sooner quit a relationship than our hobby.
We talk to our car to make it up the hill.
We have better insurance for our horse than our car.
We know more about our horses diet than our own.
We buy grain and hay before buying our own food.
We have less to wear than our horse.
Its common to see us wearing barn clothes in public.
And we know that mucking a stable is the best cure for depression. 

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