Red Iron Ranch

Red Iron Ranch is a boarding facility that is commited to offering quality, honest horse care and training according to each animal's individual needs.

Red Iron Ranch accepts horses of all breeds and disciplines. Located 15 minutes North West of Thorsby, half hour South of Stony Plain, and half hour West of Leduc; the ranch offers 80 acres located on a quiet dead end road, ½ mile South of the North Saskatchewan River. It is 15 minutes from the Thorsby Haymaker Centre, a public riding arena, where many where many equine events take place on a regular basis.

We have six pastures that are rotated regularly during the grazing season. We can also offer smaller pens and restricted grazing for those that require it. During the winter months, straw is put out regularly in the shelters to give the horses a warm, dry place to lay down. Horses are all on a routine parasite program and vaccination schedule, and are kept in small groups where they fit in and get along with others.

Red Iron Ranch offers:
- Brand new 130' x 230' professionally built outdoor sand arena
- 100' x 100 dirt riding pen
- Use of barrels, poles, small jumps
- Large round pen
- Access to large crop field
- Miles of quiet gravel roads to ride on
- Safe place to keep your tack
- Two 12' x 12' box stalls
- Security cameras on at all times, driveway and tack area are locked at night.

*Basic Pasture Board –includes pasture or pen with shelter, clean water troughs or waterers, grass or hay provided in slow feeder bags, salt & mineral blocks, All horses are fed a small amount, (1 /2 cup maximum), of complete, controlled starch pellets, along with Hoffman's minerals & loose salt. Senior horses can be fed a senior formula and youngsters can be fed a growth formula. Straw bedding is provided in the winter. Horses are checked at least 3 times daily. $225 /month

*Occasional Blanketing Board - includes same as basic, but horses are blanketed in cold rainy, and -20 or below weather. Option to have beet pulp added to morning feed. $250 /month

*Added Pasture Board – includes same as basic plus full blanketing as needed and grain and /or soaked beet pulp and /or alfalfa pellets twice a day, (supplements, other than Hoffman's minerals, are supplied by you at your cost). $275 /month

*Senior Board – includes same as basic plus full blanketing as needed grain and /or soaked beet pulp and /or soaked alfalfa pellets twice a day. These horses can be free fed hay, along with a slow feeder bag in the winter. Option for senior horses to go in smaller groups. $275 /month

* Hard Keepers - includes a large amount of grain (over 8 cups a day), and soaked beet pulp and /or soaked alfalfa pellets. Full blanketing is provided and horse can be kept in a pen or pasture. $350-$400 month

*Medical Board- includes a private pen and whatever care the horse needs(leg wraps, wound cleaning, medications, ect). Blanketing and grain and or soaked beet pulp and /or soaked alfalfa pellets are available. Individual pricing is worked out for each individual's needs.

*Wound cleaning, leg wrapping, cold hosing, and any other special care needed is $20 per hour, charged out in 15 minute increments.

* Blankets can be put on and off on an occasional basis for $5 each time.

Western horse trainer on site 80% of the time with over 20 years of experience in the industry and close to 10 years of experience in the field of vet medicine. There are many opportunities to have someone to ride with. Rehab horses and seniors welcome. Multi horse discount offered on 3 or more horses.

*Red Iron Ranch feeds most of our horses in slow feeder hay bags when they are not grazing in the summer and fall seasons. "Slow-feeding is definitely the best solution for feeding grazing animals, kept in captivity. How does it work? Well it allows only small amounts of hay to be pulled out while feeding, slowing down the consumption and allowing the digestion to work the way it is designed to. Slow-feeding best imitates the grazing action for the digestive system. " (Information provided by www. slowfeeder.com). So far we are pleased with the results. Our horses are happy, and are never waiting for their next meal.