Painted M
Ranch is situated on 70 acres. We have twenty five stalls ranging in size
from 12' x 12' to 12' x 20' and space in the pasture for up to 14 horses.
We
have three residences on the property. We have done this to ensure the
safety of the horses in our safekeeping.
For the stalled
horses we have private runs connected to all exterior facing stalls.
We also have
three small pastures of approximately 4 1⁄2 acres each as well as
three drylots.
We
provide turnout, weather permitting, seven days a week, at our customers
direction in either on one of the drylots or pastures.
For
the pastured horses, we have two pastures, one of which is 16 acres (north
pasture) and the other is 24 acres (south pasture). We rotate the horses
from north to south pastures and back again to allow the unused pasture
to rejuvenate itself.
We have a
heated indoor riding arena – 180 x 80. It is lit with halogen lights
which provide a uniform lighting .
Our
arena flooring is a mixture of “Surefoot” and clean sand.Surefoot
is an unique rubber granule made from 100% scrap tires. Utilization of
Surefoot provides safe, resilient, dust free footing.
In the horse
barn we have two heated wash bays with warm water, three tack up stalls,
and private tack lockers.
Wide spacious
isles, unencumbered site lines from stall to stall, drop down gates with
each stall allowing each of the horses to participate in barn activities,
automatic fly spraying, overhead fans, and rubber mats in each stall make
for a truly comfortable home for the horses.
We
have an indoor lounge for our customers to enjoy a cup of coffee and watch
the riders in the arena from the viewing windows. The lounge includes
a full kitchen. We have an outdoor patio with fireplace and grill for
get togethers. We have three restrooms on the property – a mens
and ladies in the lounge/office area and a unisex restroom in the barn.
The parking
lot is designed to accommodate trucks and SUVs. Stalls are wider and deeper
than usually available for public parking. We have a large parking lot
for trailers. Design of the lot is to accommodate diagonal parking, similar
to truck stops on interstates, for ease of ingress and egress.
In
addition to the indoor arena, we have two outdoor arenas – a western/roping
arena that is 250 x 175 and a show arena that is 200 x 100.
Additionally,
we have three round pens. They are 100, 70 and 60 foot in diameter
respectively. The 100 foot diameter round pen is located in a small
pasture of approximately two acres adjacent to our largest outdoor
arena. The large round pen is used for cutting and team sorting and
the large arena is used for roping. We keep our our cattle for cutting,
team sorting and roping in this small pasture.
