Susan Rottman and Jeff Powell are New Mexico transplants from Wyoming as of 2003. (We got tired of chopping ice for the horses.) Susan started riding and showing quarter horses when she was a wee girl. Blaze was Susan's first show horse and was Ember's (shown to the right) mother. Sparkie, the Wonder Horse, is shown with Ember and is always in trouble. Other than training and showing horses, Susan's experience includes Home Ec Extension Educator, college/online nutrition instructor, grant-writer, ranch recreation consultant, and international marketeer and farmer-to-farmer volunteer.
     Jeff is a Professor Emeritus of Range Management, certified range management consultant, builder of straw bale houses, irrigator, and corral dung engineer. As a kid he milked cows by hand and showed them at 4-H shows. That convinced him to switch to sheep, beef cattle, and a few old horses that didn't throw him - too often.  He says everything worthwhile he knows about horses, he learned from Susan. All his misconceptions and bad habits, he learned on his own.
    Our horses graze out on the range in the summer and on the irrigated hay meadows during the winter. After learning to be 4-L, 2-T horses, they go to our trainer's place for professional training and finishing for 30 to 60 days. At both places they learn about gates, stalls, stanchions, feed & water troughs, hay bunks, and round corrals.
    We have other horses Not For Sale - too old (Ember and Ria), holding for brood mares (Josie and Sparkie), or they have not passed their basic training exams (Tawny's little friends).  Josie is Ria's miracle baby because Ria is one of the few pregnant mares with the West Nile to deliver a healthy foal. Call us and we will tell that saga.
  One of our trainer's specialties is teaching horses to lounge without a halter or lounge rope. He says they pay closer attention to you when they learn to respond to voice commands. He says he is not a horse whisperer, but he trains each horse accordingly to its individual temperment and they do listen to him.
    We enjoy working with horses and take on only as many as we can personally train when not irrigating hay fields and building our new straw bale house. If you like what you see on our web site, contact us via telephone or email and let's talk about horses.