Howdy! We would like to welcome you to McKuster Ranch, LLC (dba. McKuster Ranch). If your horse brought you here, we hope you will consider pasturing your horse(s) at our ranch, on the beautiful upper Walla Walla River. Our feeling is; horses should live a life untethered in open pastures being part of a herd. Here we handle horses mild mannerly, train most of them to come when called for feeding, or saddle-up to ride, or hitch-up to cart.
The photograph above will show you the results of our irrigated pasture management system. McKuster Ranch pastures are always green, which makes our 16 acres of pastures very different from most other horse pastures in our area from mid-June through October. Our pastures are double fenced. The interior pasture fencing being a bottom strand of electric poly-rope, four-strand electric 12-gauge smooth wire with 1½-inch electric Hot Tape and Equi Braid rope for top strand visibility at 4½-foot above the ground. The exterior/ boundary fence is six to eight strands smooth wire - electrified. Horses at McKuster Ranch do not drink river irrigation or ice water from their troughs. We refresh our 40-60 gallon water troughs every other day if not more often with our home well water. During winter, water troughs are maintained at 40º to 45º, not iced over.
The photographs below will give you an idea of how McKuster Ranch's horse pastures and cattle range are divided as...
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McKuster Ranch is divided by the mainstem of Oregon's upper Walla Walla River. On the south side of the river we have 18 acres of which 16 acres are in green horse pastures, and 2 acres of managed riverside wildlife habitat. The north side of the river we have 55+ acres of cattle range behind our 500' river bluff.
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Most weekends we try to ride around our ranch neighborhood in northeast Oregon... spring, summer, fall and winter. Will you join us?
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McKuster Ranch hitching rails offer a starting point for more than 50 miles of back country trails and unpaved - rarely traveled harvest roads to enjoy on horseback. Most of our neighborhood trail rides are 2 - 4 hours long.
One ride that we enjoy from our front gate, heads straight up Lincton
Mountain Road which offers lunch and relaxation at The Tollgate Chalet.
This ride is most of a day in the saddle, climbing Lincton Mtn. and then
riding through the mountain timber at a cool 4000'-5000'
elevation.
What a treat, riding into the nearby mountains from McKuster Ranch using
one horsepower.
We regularly trailer our horses up to the So. Fork Walla Walla River BLM trailhead in summer and fall, which is 8 miles from the ranch. This is a beautiful ride in the cool Walla Walla River Canyon fording the river over two dozen times in our 6 to 8+ mile back country river trek.
McKuster Ranch offers our pasture boarders the opportunity to work and play with their equestrians in our sanded 58 foot round-pen and riverside 100'x 220' riding arena. Summer daylight riding time with full light is from 5 a.m. until 9 p.m. ~ sunrise is 5:45 ~ sunset is 8:30. Plenty of time to enjoy your horse, in equine training or trail riding from McKuster Ranch hitching rails.
The current McKuster Ranch herd includes ten equines of Kittee and Dale's and we pasture board up to ten guest horses during the months of mid-April through October. We do keep some boarder on a year round basis, limited by our current barn facility. Our 2008 pasture boarding rates are sixty-five dollars ($65 USD) per month May through October and one hundred twenty-five dollars ($125 USD) per month November through April.
You might wish to email
us while you are sitting here if you think you would be interested in
boarding your horse(s) with us this season. We operate on a first come/
first serve basis to eligible horses and close our gates to intake, with
twenty horses grazing in our pastures. We are currently taking applications
for the 2008 grazing season with pasture entry on or before May 1, depending
on spring grass growth.
Please read our Pasture Rental/ Boarding Agreement, included within our
website.
You will find that our website has quite a few pictures, so it may load slowly depending on your server. Our equine activity videos are best viewed using MS Media Player v.11, we hope you enjoy.
2007 we began our equine breeding program. We began with breeding SF SHAIELA (reg. AHA) daughter of AHA World Champion SIMEON SHAI, with EagleFromTheLight (reg. AHA) of South Fork Horse Ranch. We should see their foal in April 2008. We now have standing as our ranch stallion AHA Purebred - ADRENALINE RUSH get of Tiffany Ranch's and Scottsdale AHA Champion FIRE AN ICE. With our combination of breeding stallion(s), including AHA Purebred - EAGLEFROMTHELIGHT(standing at South Fork Horse Ranch); and McKuster Ranch mares we hope to offer very soon some beautiful, good minded, kind hearted, sound, endurance and western pleasure riding horses to our Pacific Northwest equestrian community and the rest of the world. Please follow the links below for more details.
We're glad you came to visit, and would like for you to know that
at McKuster Ranch we love horses! The next time you drop by, bring your
horse.
Please follow the entrance link below if you are interested in learning
more about McKuster Ranch, LLC and our boarding/breeding facility.
Notice: McKuster Ranch, LLC is
an equine facility.
The Oregon Equine Inherent Risk Law ~ORS
30.687-30.697~ applies to our facility.
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