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Newsletter | February, 2015
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Around the Ranch
Our Breeding Academy offers a week long program with the small breeder ~ stallion owner and/or mare owner in mind. The program is designed as a hands on approach in our day to day operations, including managing mares, foals and stallions. Participants spend 3 full days from 8:00 AM to 5:00+ PM and 2 ½ days from 8:00 AM – 1:00 PM. We begin each day with foal checks (learn all about how to care for newborn and older foals), mare teasing and palpations with ultrasounds follow (strategies for breeding mares when, why and how). Stallion collections begin once all the mare work is complete for the morning~ semen collection and evaluation is then completed. Each course is targeted upon the students’ primary interest and goals. We teach the students to read uterine ultrasounds, how to prepare and collect stallions (if desired) and how to inseminate semen. All of our past students have left the farm with a lot of knowledge gained in a short period of time~ many of them still call for consults on problems they might encounter. We Are Now Taking Reservations for 2015 For more information about our hands-on traning programs or to schedule your personal training email Sue at: sue@charolotranch.com "Let Us Take the hassle out of mare management"
Char-O-Lot Ranch offers full ship-in-semen services for all breeds as well as foaling-out services- For a information, questions or a breeding contract please contact Sue Schembri @ 941-915-5998 or via email at sue@charolotranch.com --------------------- Congratulations to our Recent Purchasers! ---------------------
Off The Farm Photos Here are a few of the photos we have received from our Appaloosa breeders in 2015!  The Secret x Always A Cool Doll owned by Hank and Brigitte Mentz, Covington, Louisiana  Illegal Secret x Lins Lookin Impressive Owned by John & Glenda Lee Lovelace, Alva, Florida  Secret Colors x Touchdown Sirprize Owned by John and Barbara Proctor, Anthony, Florida  Secret Colors x Sheza Feature Dream Owned by Ed and Nancy Wellham, Powder Springs, Georgia |
The Most Exciting Time of the Year on a Breeding Farm! Foaling Time!
To re-breed or not to re-breed? This is the age old question. If you are wanting to go on and improve your show string year after year by all means go ahead and breed again. Staying stagnant in the horse show world does not behoove winners or buyers. It is expensive? Yes, to most breeders the expenses of breeding your mare is high, but consider it your savings account toward that next great show horse or sale. Once your mare is bred she cost the same to keep and maintain (with a few extra vaccinations) and before you know it – she will be foaling. Then you have two! Be prepared to do something with the foal, if it is a halter horse prospect/project get out there and show him. Find local shows, we will start showing foals when they are about 6 months of age. If you attend your local show and there are no other foals, people are drawn to foals (they love them), you might then consider and ask your fellow competitors why they are not showing their foals and see if you can get a min-futurity started in your area. We started the Weanling Free-For-All held in November each year with donations from fellow exhibitors and some local businesses.
If you have bred a rider type foal, many of those also go out and compete in the halter futurities as well, however you can also handle the foal, work with it basic baby training and then mostly wait until it is of riding age to start. We turn our rider foals out each season to grow up in the fields and then bring them in as mid-late yearlings and start training them to lunge and get ready to saddle etc. Learn more about competing in the lunge line classes- make that your goal with your yearling prospect.
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Char-O-Lot Ranch | 941-322-1882 |
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