Happy New Year to all

As the year comes to a close, Kay and I want to wish all a Happy New Year. To see a small year in review slideshow, click the image below:

Hickman Ranch 2006

Cathinka Birgitte Brechan born 04/12/06

Announcing the arrival of the newest member of the extended Hickman Ranch Family - Cathinka Birgitte Brechan born 4/12/06 to Helene (not pictured) and Jacob Brechan. The Brechan's horses Norwegian Cowboy and Norwegian Frost welcome Cathinka on her first visit to the ranch. While the posting of this announcement is a few (ok...several) month's over due, our heart-felt congratulations to all.

 

Winter has Arrived!!

While our winters are not as dramatic as is for the horses pictuced, it does get chilly as we have experienced the past couple of days. The blanketing of your horse is not covered in our basic stabling fee. We will provide this service for an additional charge of $25.00 per month where we will blanket automatically when the temperature warrant, or for a $2.00 fee per request. Please contact Kay for further details 

See what crept out Halloween night at the Ranch

Halloween at the Hickman Ranch

Halloween night saw the strangest mix of Princesses, Indians, and what-nots that some people lost their heads over it. Double-click on the picture above to view the album on -line. Use your back button to return here

Don't Let the Dog Days of Summer get you down...Watch here for the summer 2007 schedule camps

We will posting our 2007 Summer camp schedule after the holidays.

Last years camps were a success and we will be publishing our schedule once we get through the holidays, and determine the summer show and competition schedules. Below are some pictures from the Youth camp we had this past summer. Enjoy

Summer Camp

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Announcing our latest edition -

For those who have not been by the ranch for a while, I wanted to introduce you to the first of our 2006 foals. Clueless arrived early April. Her name is derived from the fact the Sire is a palamino and Dame is a paint...and she as can be seen is as sorrel as one can get therefor Clueless about color. 

Team Penning Results at Go-Texan

The Senior Go-Texans Team Penning team representing Fort Bend -Stafford at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo(Jim Howell, Shirley Foster and Jay Hickman)

The Junior Go-Texans Team penning team representing Fort Bend - Stafford at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo (Rachel Rhodes, Miles Hickman and Kelly Foster)

The ranch was well represented at the Go-Texan team penning held Saturday, 18 Feb,2006. The weather was cold and wet and the cattle totally uncooperative making it an extremely tough competition. The herds all seemed to have stampede on their mind and the most common words out of the announcer's mouth was "No Time! Too many cattle across the line." Jim Howell (one of the trainers located at the ranch) however lead the senior team to fifth place finish with two cows pinned in @ 60 seconds. Of the 72 teams in the senior division only 1 penned three with just 11 teams penning any at all. The junior division proved to be no less of a challenge. Under Jim's tutelage, the junior's plan of attack was sound but the cows hadn't read the script and stampeded on them. Just as a reminder, Team penning practice is held every Monday at 7:30 PM at the ranch.