Daisy's 3rd litter puppies ready for homes

Kitty, Coach, Captain, Dezi, Crystal, Diesel

We are sure going to miss these adorable puppies in our home. They have been so fun with such different personalities. We are happy to announce they have all found their forever homes. We have only had such positive things said about our puppies. We have had families that have never owned dogs until our puppies tempted to come back for a 2nd because they love our puppies so much. These puppies have found their homes in West Jordan, Blair WA, Draper, Highland, Alpine, and Draper

Labradoodle Puppy Time

Daisy had a litter of 6 healthy adorable silver and black F1B labradoodles. She had 3 girls and 3 boys who are all just as cute as can be. They will be ready for their forever homes in just 7 more weeks so we have to get all our puppy loving in by then. We absolutely adore our labradoodles, I mostly appreciate how easy they are to train, how loving they are to everyone, and especially how they don't shed.

Shadow's Bunnies

Well Blizzard did it again he snuck into the goat pen and paid a visit to Shadow and 7 weeks later Matia got a glimpse of Shadows baby bunnies we rescued them out of the burrow and away from the cats. So now we have 7 baby bunnies looking for a new home. To bad it is not Easter time. Blizzard has been caught so we don't expect anymore surprise bunny litters anytime soon. Matia is selling them for only $5.00 each to help pay her rodeo fees if your interested please let her know. They will be ready for their new homes in 2 weeks.

Taffy formerly known as Bermuda

Taffy is an 11 year old quarter horse that we bought from a girl in Cedar City. Taffy formerly named Bermuda papered as Continky Skip had a colt in late April and as she was pregnant and nursing was malnourished causing her to be extremely skinny and sunken in. She was also kept in a very small enclosure with 3 other horses so she got pretty cut up from the other horses. When we went to ride her we noticed how willing she is to please and how fast she is to learn. She has the perfect lesson horse demeanor and loves all kinds of people. I believe with all of our love and patience she will make a great horse. When you come to visit please make sure to give her lots of love and attention. I am excited to see her put on weight and heal her wounds.

Fall Classes Start

Fall lessons are now in session. Here is the schedule for the next 3 months :) I hope this schedule is working for everyone and everyone is loving their horses.

Monday 3:00 - Breann, Ella, Mckayla, Brianna, 

Monday 4:00 - Brynli, Larissa, Justin, Malory

Monday 5:00 Anna, Taryn, Ella, Marin

Monday 6:00 Tayler, Tonya, Emele, Ben

Tuesday 4:00 Celia, Tessa, Jana, Jacie

Tuesday 5:00 Eliza, Tyla, Kelci, Emelie

Tuesday 6:00 - Eliza, Tyla, Hayley, Charity

Tuesday 7:00 - Lily, Kathryn, Madi, Ellie

Wednesday 4:00 - Celia, Olivia, Addison, Sydni, Kate

Wednesday 5:00 - Piper, Lillie, Carston, Eva, Lucy

Wednesday 6:00 - Jennie, John, Mikayla, Kathryn

Wednesday 7:00 - Belle, Ashley, Margy, Allie

Summer Show

I just wanted to thank everyone that participated in the summer riding program and all the support we had for the end of summer horse show. We sold all the baby rabbits, sold food at the concessions and everyone passed their level they were working on. Thank you for coming and being a part of our fun at the ranch. Here are a few photos from the show.

Cookies Baby Bunnies

Cookie was hiding a nice surprise from us down in her burrow for a couple of weeks without us even knowing. Then one night Terry spied her surprise and we were on a mission to save them from the cats. We saved 8 baby bunnies and now we are looking for a new home them. They are medium sized rex bunnies.

Molly B Speedy

Matia has made the big decision to take her riding to the next level of Jr. High Rodeo. She will begin competing in a couple weeks. She had the opportunity to purchase a very competitive horse named Speedy from a family in Texas. She will still be riding Missy Lou for her other events and perfecting Missy's barrels and poles.

Buddy found a new home

We finally made the decision to find Buddy a new home. We noticed he was just getting bored with the new riders and was becoming a little stubborn with them showing us he wasn't happy. So we found him a sweet family to live with in Lehi by the cemetary. Now he gets to chase cows around, go on long trail rides and is loved by Alyson. We will miss him but could not be happier with his new home!

Krazy Creek Riding Lessons Information

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Goats Milk now for Sale

Here is a little business advertising for Matia's fast growing pure goat milk business. She is now selling her amazingly yummy and healthy raw goat milk for $4/ half gallon. (This price is also about 1/2 the price of most Raw Goats Milk out there.) I know it seem pricey compared to the gallon of cows milk at the store but read just a little about the benefits and you may want to give it a try. Also remember we usually have fresh farm eggs on hand for $3/dozen if you are interested in them as well.

Recently, Dr. Oz was featured on Oprah. Among the many helpful tips he gave he had this to say about goat milk.

“Many Sardinians also drink goat’s milk, which is high in calcium and good for your heart. “Plus, researchers believe it could protect against Alzheimer’s and heart disease,”

“Not only is goat’s milk healthy, it’s easier for your stomach to digest and is also good for people who are lactose intolerant. “It has tryptophan, that same sort of mellowing agent that turkey has,” Dr. Oz says. “The fat particles in goat milk are much smaller than in cow milk, so you don’t have to mix it up. (homogenize the milk) And when you mix up fat globules, (as in cow milk) in some people it makes enzymes that irritate your stomach.”

It looks like Dr. Oz is agreeing with what we have been telling people for years. Goat milk is key to our health!

While cow’s milk remains one of America’s most common daily drinks, it is interesting to note that it may also be the reason why many Americans experience gas, bloating and other forms of indigestion.

When the average cow is given growth hormones, antibiotics, GMO feed, vaccinations and exposed to toxic conditions, it is no wonder that many humans experience negative effects from consuming pasteurized cow milk
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Goat’s milk is a much healthier alternative, especially when it is raw and organic. Here is a link with more information about the benefits of goats milk if your interested

New Name Spelling

I just wanted to let everyone know we have changed the spelling of our business. It is now Krazy Creek Ranch rather then Crazy Creek Ranch. We felt like this fit our personality a little better and it is my (Kristi's) initials before I got married. So when you search for anything remember the spelling change. Love you all

Summer Registration Begins

So here we go getting ready for summer! I can't believe there are only 5 more weeks of school, oh how the time goes fast!!! So we will begin registration today for current riders and their families only, then on May 4th we will open registration to past riders then finally new riders after that. I will again be teaching lessons along with Matia during June, July and August. We hope to have another fun quarter of riding horses and hope you all feel like you are learning something new.

Please take note I have had to increase my prices to $80/month with a small discount to families taking more then two lessons.

Candy the Alpine with babies Captain & Carlee

Finally Spring Break is here and dad agreed to drive us up to Tremonton to buy and pick up Matia's new business investment and friend Candy who is a purebred Alpine Goat with her two babies Captain and Carlee. Captain and Carlee have both been nursing on Mom in the pasture for the last 3 weeks so they are quite skiddish at the moment. But they will warm up quickly and we will dedicate ourselves to finding them a great home. We plan to keep Candy she is 3 years old this being her 2nd year milking and she has had 2 sets of twins. So welcome to Krazy Creek Ranch Candy we are excited to have you here.

Casper our baby Snubian!

We welcomed Casper to this wonderful world on March 12th at 4:30 right during one of my classes. This whole time we have had this ranch I have wanted so badly for my children to witness a birth of a baby goat. Bowdee left early in the morning for an FFA convention so he was gone. I was getting ready for classes when I heard Crystal Bell bellowing in pain I gave her my immediate attention and could tell she was going to have this baby really soon. I called for Matia and Treg to come an watch her while I was teaching lessons. Sure enough it was time and 1/2 hour after she started labor this sweet baby boy was born. Just as healthy and cute as can be! Thank you for sharing that miracle with us Crystal your amazing!

Floating Teeth Day

So I decided it was time to float the horses teeth and rather then hauling all of them in to the vet I paid a little extra and had the vet come to us and he checked all horses and floated 5 of the 7. Yes, that was quite the bill but worth it to know they don't have sharp edges on their teeth causing them pain. Thank you Rocky Mountain Vet. I have never watched floating of the teeth so it was quite interesting and funny to watch some of my horses under the influence of sedation. The light weights were nearly falling over and stumbling.

Charity baby of Charm and Charming

Oh how we love the spring time on the ranch. Sweet baby Charity was born March 4th around 1:30pm. Matia was so very excited to have a baby girl since she just sold Cinderella and Callie. We are thinking of keeping her around for a while what a darling perfect baby!

Spring Lessons Begin :)

This quarter Matia and I will be the instructors along with Sally, Buddy, Breezy, Kiwi, Lizzy and Sunny. We are hoping to continue teaching horse riding with a positive, fun, safe environment. This quarter will run March, April and May taking off spring break week. We will miss those not continuing but we are excited for a few new students!

Thank you Kailey!

Due to financial reasons we have decided to let Kailey go. I will now be teaching the lessons full time with Matia's assistance. We have appreciated Kailey and her wonderful dependability and knowledge of horses. She helped us develop a wonderful program here at Krazy Creek. Thank you Kailey for being so wonderful. We wish you the best of luck in all your endeavors.

Fun Horse Facts

• Male horses have 40 teeth and and females have 36. Horses' teeth grow throughout their lifetime, making it possible to judge their age by looking at their teeth.
• A horse's stomach holds between eight and seventeen quarts. This is not very big considering their size and shows that they are meant to graze, taking in small meals and move around freely 24 hours a day.
• Horses can't throw up. Once food is swallowed, the valve between the throat and stomach is so strong it doesn't allow food to come back up. 
• A horse's shedding in the spring is triggered by longer daylight hours, not the temperature outside. 
• Research has shown that horses' favorite flavors are Fenugreek, banana, and cherry, in that order.
• The United States has (feral) wild horses, found mostly in the western states. They are managed by the BLM, or Bureau of Land Management and are offered to the public for adoption. 
• Horses are measured from the ground to the tallest point of the withers in "hands or hh". A hand was estimated as the width of a man's hand, but is now equal to 4". 
• The largest horse recorded stood at 21 hands, and was a Percheron, which is a draft breed. (This horse was boarded at Crazy Creek many years ago)
• Ponies are up to 14.2hh (hands), with horses being any animal over 14.2hh.
• Horses have four gaits; walk, trot, canter, and gallop. There are gaited breeds that have have additional special gaits.
• Horses are prey animals. They run to survive, and only fight if they have to. 
• A mare's gestation period is 11 months, making them slow reproducers.
• When a foal is born, it stands almost immediately and can run.
• Their brain is about the size of a walnut, but they are definitely intelligent!
• The lifespan for our equine friends is about 25 years, but the oldest horse recorded was 62 years old!
• Przewalski's Horse is the only horse whose lineage can be traced back to prehistoric times. This breed is native to the Southwest Mongolia.
• You must "cool out" a horse after exercise. You can't put them right into their stall when they are all hot and sweaty or they can become sick. They must be walked until their respiration rate is normal.
• The hoof of the modern horse is his third toe. The chesnuts on his legs are remnants of another toe. 
• The mane and tail are for protection from insects. Whiskers around the muzzle are for feeling things.

Kiwi joins our force

Well it is official Kiwi is officially teaching lessons at Crazy Creek Ranch. She is a 20 year old Appaloosa Mare. She has spent the last 2 years doing 4-H with my now 12 year old niece. She has been nothing but sweet to her. The one down fall on Kiwi is that she will test her riders to see if they will let her do what she wants or if the rider will make them do what they are asking. I don't mind this as a teacher because it teaches my riders to be assertive and follow through with their decisions. Everyone that has ridden Kiwi has loved her so I have bought her and she will be staying around.

Horseback riding tips

Here are just a few tips I found on the internet. It helps you to understand why we do some of the things we do. Go ahead and take a good read.

Horseback Riding Tips #1
Don’t ever be too proud to get off. Some accidents are unavoidable. The horse trips and you are thrown off balance enough to come off, or he departs a bit quicker into the canter than you were expecting him to. No one can predict when something like that is going to happen. Other times when you get thrown there were red warning flags out long before you got pitched. It’s in your gut, you know the feeling. The “uh-oh I am not so sure I want to keep riding this horse while it is doing that” feeling.  This is one of the best horseback riding tips that people ignore:  Go with your instincts and get off the horse. Try and regroup on the ground and if that doesn’t work, be done and start again another day. That way you will leave your confidence in tact, and possibly avoid escalating an already dangerous situation with your horse.

Horseback Riding Tips #2
Don’t believe that you must always get back on right after a fall  “Get back up on that horse so he doesn’t think he’s won” is a common phrase touted by instructors across the nation when a rider falls off when both horse and rider are seemingly un-hurt enough to continue.   This is outdated and ridiculous advice.     If you are scared, the horse will be scared by you being scared! If you get back on when you don’t feel like you should, no matter what your instructor or friends say, you are just setting yourself up to blow what little confidence you do have left. By all means if you feel fine and WANT to get back on, do so if it is not going to be dangerous for you or the horse.          The horse is not going to think he’s “won” because horses don’t think like that. Horses run on instinct. For instance when bucking there could be many reasons why. His saddle might be pinching, you may have changed tack and he doesn’t like the feel of it. He could have a back problem. He didn’t want to move forward when you asked and so started bucking instead. Especially if the behavior was unusual for that horse try and figure out what triggered it. Then and go back and fix it through quality ground training and/or a veterinary diagnosis first before returning to riding.

Horseback Riding Tips #3

You are the leader but not the dictator For a moment put yourself in your horses’ hooves. It’s 100 degrees outside, you’re hot, sweaty and itchy from a soaked saddle pad and heavy saddle and your rider is making you practice spins each direction 1000 times. If you don’t, your rider insists not so kindly with his spurs and whip that you do it again. Doesn’t sound like much fun does it?        While riders should be natural leaders for their horses and direct and ask things of them, they shouldn’t be drill sergeants or dictators. Horses learn 8 times faster than people do. They do learn by repetition, but also need variety. Keeping your horses’ feelings and limits in mind will make for a happier horse who will perform better each time for you. This is much better than one that eventually won’t come to the gate to greet you because he’s tired of your “training.”

Horseback Riding Tips #4
Keep your heels slightly downContrary to popular riding belief you do not have to have a deep heels down posture to stay safe in the saddle. The reason instructors teach this is to keep your foot from sliding through and getting caught up in the stirrup which is dangerous. Having your heels way down is also believed to give you a firmer foundation. A firmer foundation should come from the way your behind sits in the saddle and how well you move with your horse, not how low your heel is.              Balance and the ability to flow with your horse is much more important than having your heels down. An artificially deep heel, especially in a beginner rider, will cause tension in the ankle, knee, hips, and up to the lower back. Riders will often get pain in one of these areas from straining too much to keep the heels way down. It almost always causes you to brace through your lower back as well. Keeping the heels slightly lowered will keep your foundation strong, your foot from sliding through the stirrup but not cause you any additional problems with bracing, pain and stiffness.

Horseback Riding Tips #5
Keep your head up!Our heads weight something like twenty pounds! Now that probably doesn’t seem like too much in comparison to the rest of our bodies, but our horse should be following our focus whether that is over the next jump or somewhere down the trail. If you are looking nowhere (down) you are going to throw your balance too far forward, putting you at risk for falling forward should your horse stop suddenly. You could wind up on your horses’ neck! Keep your eyes and head up, and remember you should always look first to where you want to steer your horse. If you are looking nowhere, your horse should be going nowhere.

Winter Riding Schedule for Jan & Feb

Mondays
3:00 - Emilie, Breann Ashby, Liberty, Ella H.
4:00 - Shayla, Preston, and Lexi
5:00 - Emelee, Ben, Cameron, Mia, Emmye
6:00 - Ella, Anna, Marin, Taryn
Tuesdays
4:00 - Celia, Margy, Makenzie, Breanna
5:00 - Sydni, Piper, Contessa, Alecia, and Justin
6:00 - Jadelyn, Kendria, Colton, Kaleb, Kayden
Wednesdays
4:00 - Celia, Addison, Jacie, Tayler, Jana
5:00 - McKayla, Brianna, Amanda, Jenny, Devyn
6:00 - Tiffany, Lucy, Carston, Lily and Jaylee

Labradoodle Puppies find forever homes over Holiday Break

Rascal, Aladin, Mufasa, Mack, Mickey, Minnie, Cinderella

So we are happy to announce all 7 puppies found their forever homes over the holidays! We had fun while they were here but happy they all found such great loving homes. They found homes in Draper, Eagle Mountain, Provo, Lehi, South Jordan, Salt Lake City. They have all reported they are loved and super happy.