Dead Broke Ranch

03/03/2026

Just thankful to call this place home. 🤎🏡🐴

01/10/2026

Charlie's work ethic is strong. His nap game is even stronger 😴

01/01/2026

Ringing in the New Year with our favorite feral littles 🖤🫶🏻🥂

12/30/2025

The last ride of 2025 🥂

Looking forward to what 2026 has in store for us and celebrating the year of the horse! 🐎🥳 Here’s to health, happiness, and lots of great time in the saddle! 🩵

12/26/2025

We hope all of our family and friends had the best Christmas and enjoyed the holiday break! We’re looking forward to some more rain and welcoming in the New Year with our family in town. 🎉🥳

Keep swiping for the cutest reindeer you’ve EVER seen. 🫎🦌🐎

12/17/2025

Love this! 🫶🏻 we owe it to our seniors to take the absolute best care of them.

This is what many people don’t want to deal with: aging, the slowing down and the extra steps it takes each day to keep an older horse going. It’s sitting in the barn long after the rest of the chores are done, waiting patiently while they work through their warm mash, knowing their teeth aren’t what they used to be and their body needs more time than it once did. It’s listening to the steady sound of them chewing while the world slows down around you. It’s realizing that what used to take minutes now takes patience.

It’s watching joints stiffen on cold mornings and standing there longer than planned, giving them time to loosen up before asking anything of them. It’s layering blankets just right, checking weather reports more closely than ever, adjusting and readjusting because comfort matters now more than convenience. It’s scooping supplements, soaking feed, scheduling farrier visits more carefully, and noticing every small change, because the small things matter most.

It isn’t always easy. Some days it’s exhausting. Some days it hurts to see the years written so clearly on a body that once felt unstoppable. But they gave you everything they had. They gave you their best year, their strength, their soundness, their heart. They carried you when they didn’t have to. They trusted you without hesitation. They showed up on days when you didn’t deserve it and forgave you when you made mistakes. They taught you patience, courage, and humility long before they ever needed it in return. They gave without question or complaint.

So when their steps slow and their needs grow, this is where we show who we really are. This is where love looks like time, like consistency, like choosing them even when it’s inconvenient. Love looks like staying late, spending more, doing more, and asking for nothing back.

The least we can do is give them patience, kindness, and dignity in their twilight years. To make sure they are warm, comfortable and safe. To let them age without fear or neglect, surrounded by the same care they gave us so freely.

Because they carried us.
Because they earned It
Because they deserve nothing less.

12/11/2025

Happy Thursday friends! 🦄

We sure do enjoy our quiet evenings around here. Nothing better at the end of a work day than turning the horses out to play in the arena and enjoying the sunset. (Even if its at 5pm 🥲)

12/02/2025

November photo dump on the ranch 🫶🏻🤎

Grateful to call this place home. 🏡🐓🐴

11/29/2025

Our niece, Slater, put in some serious work this week with the horses while visiting. 🐴 She’s always so excited and eager to help feed, clean stalls and brush the horses down after every ride - making sure they get a peppermint too. We’ve got an excellent horse woman in the making here!

Hope everyone had a fantastic Thanksgiving 🧡

11/21/2025

The manure in our stall runs is officially floating - this isn’t fun anymore California! 🤣

At least its Friday! 🥳