OUR STORY
FROM TECH TO TENDER OF LIVESTOCK
We are a private Equine Educational Facility, Guest Ranch, carriage driving school, and agricultural business.
We have Wide Open Spaces and a backdrop of beautiful mountains
Driven by passion to live The Cowboy Way of life
with the Need to be creative
to Work with their hands
Use the gifts that God had blessed us with
Serve others
Invest & Teach the Generations
Preserve history for the next generation with our carriage driving and ranch horses
Innovate and work smarter, not harder
Invest in future generations
Tend & Care to the Animals
Live Simply, Want less
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The Owners are still plugged into the tech community as they work full time professional positions, yet desire a work/life balance
They are right where we should be
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What the Ranch IS NOT
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not a horse rescue Sorry, they do not take in private owner horses, and are not a rescue or sanctuary. Please see your state livestock board for registered and licensed rescues if you wish to find a home for your horse.
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SaddleHawk works with nonprofit Equine Safe Haven to provide education using horses purchased from a sale barn (slang- "kill pen") where they would have otherwise been sent to slaughter. See website: www.equinesafehaven.com
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not a trail riding/or riding for hire stable - no horses for rent
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not a boarding stable - no horse boarding.
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not a contracted training facility - No horse training. They do not train your horse for you or contract to train horses for private owners
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not a training facility for your horse They do not train your horse to drive. The Ranch uses only their own horses and those of the nonprofit, Equine Safe Haven, to teach.
ABOUT SADDLEHAWK RANCH
We have:
Carriage Driving Experiences
Discovery Drives
Parade Experiences
Driving Clinics
Hay for Sale
Drinking Post Automatic Waterers for Sale
Ranch stays via Airbnb
RV stays via:
Harvest Hosts, BoonDocker's Welcome, Hip Camp, The Dyrt & RV Overnighters
We teach:
Horsemanship & Driving
Leadership & Life-skills clinics
Corporate Team Building Events
Home to AQHA Performance Horses
We have:
Beekeeping, Pollination Services
Honey Products
Friendly animals including horses, mules, donkeys, goats
Chickens & Eggs
Soap Making with natural based ingredients
Natural fertilizers
Handmade Crafts
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Licensed in State of New Mexico #6723985
Reg #778 Luna County New Mexico
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We are
100% ORGANIC, FREE RANGE & GMO FREE
We have over 75 animals here at the Ranch which include two gentled Mustangs, 3 friendly goats and 11 adorable donkeys too.
We will introduce you to our organically grown produce, collected honey, free ranging chickens that produce amazingly tasty and vitamin packed eggs!
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Along with our 11 adorable donkeys, we have a variety of other Equines - over 22, including mules!
We have Carriage driving & Ranch horses here, roping horses, sorting horses, trail horses, reining horses, dressage horses, Horses in training! Many compete and perform. These are not rescues, but pedigreed and money earners.
Our focus is with carriage driving and helping the nonprofit, Equine Safe Haven. Equine Safe Haven helps support 7 Standardbreds and 1 Draft horse that reside on the Ranch. These have been trained to drive...and have driven all their lives (some are United States Trotting Association Registered- and originally raced). They are from the Amish areas of our Country, like Ohio, Iowa, New York, Kentucky, Pennsylvania etc.
The horses in the driving programs, were purchased from Bowie Texas Livestock Sale Barn. SaddleHawk Ranch worked with Border Horse Slaughter Rescue to get them saved from going to slaughter in Mexico. Equine Safe Haven helped rehabilitate them here at the Ranch.
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At SaddleHawk Ranch they rehab; Get medical attention, vaccinations, good food, love, and then are enjoyed by all. The Standardbreds especially are so well behaved that they are in parades, driving on the roads, teaching all ages, and novice horsepersons. It is sheer joy and a blessing to us.
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Follow us as we continue our journey with horses here at SaddleHawk Ranch. Also check out Equine Safe Haven, the 501(c)3 nonprofit charitable organization, that offers programs using these horses for the economically and physically disadvantaged - for free
