Dec. 12. Red Cloud, the Longhorns and the Rocky Mountains !

Our horse "Red Cloud" is named after the chief Red Cloud of the Lakota Sioux of the mid-nineteenth century. Our Red Cloud was born at the ranch 14 year ago. Although his Paint mom and Paint dad showed white coloring, he is an all straight bay horse. Beautiful tall and elegant, strong in his chest and well muscled. In this photo he is trotting back to the field with more grass to paw for from the corral, where he had a drink of water and licking on the salt block. He is in quite a round shape from all the fall grass, which is good, it helps to keep him warm during the chillier nights. Our Alberta snow is dry and light, the horses can easily paw for grass and love to do it. It sure is in their nature and an adult horse can usually easily do without hay, if the field is big enough. Of course, they still love their grain ever so often, which also gives them the extra nutrition and minerals.