Rafter Diamond K Livestock - Home of Red E Impression & Deceived
Mission
For
the good of the horse. Striving to create quality equine partnerships
by promoting trust and respect between horses and their owners.
Description
Producing quality horses with quality minds, Rafter Diamond K Livestock is a small equine facility that puts the horse first. Many people who have been here have two comments, "That makes so much sense. How come nobody ever told me that before?" and "My horse is so much calmer here than he was at ....."
Our program is founded primarily on the teachings of Bill and Tom Dorrance, Ray Hunt and Buck Brannaman, but we do not limit ourselves and have also studied the works of many other teachers from many disciplines.
We also have quality horses for sale and continually strive for improvement in our herd. Both our stallions and mares come from proven bloodlines and their offspring are excelling in an amazing variety of disciplines including Western and English pleasure, hunters, barrel racers, reiners, cattle penners and working ranch horses to name a few.
Services We Offer:
- Horse boarding, short or long term.
- Horse training, colt starting.
- Problem horse assistance, remedial re-training.
- Coaching, lessons.
- Stallion management, breeding services, foaling out.
- Horses for sale.
- Horsemanship clinics, trailer loading clinics.
- Rope Halters and leads, mecrate reins and slobber straps, etc.
- Horse hauling, trailer loading assistance.
- Pre-purchase assistance.
- 4H - Rafter Ruff Ryderz.
- Horse handling for non-riders, volunteer assistance program.
- Show experience.
Contact Information
Rafter Diamond K
https://www.facebook.com/RafterDiamondK
Ken and Kerri-Lee Schmuland
780-449-0749
50541 RR 225
Leduc County, Alberta
horses@rafterdiamondk.com
I was at a ground training clinic there a few weekends ago with my 15 year old boy. Ken and Kerri-Lee are fantastic!
ReplyDeleteKen explains the conformation reasoning for everything and mentioned things that I have never heard before, but seem so 'common sense'. He also encourages questions, gives you hints to answer them yourself, then fully explains it so you understand it. And trust me, no question is too dumb to ask him, cause I asked some really stupid ones.
I will be going back for any clinic that they offer. Their combined knowledge is crazy amazing. Kerri-Lee came out to help me with my 'ehhh' loader (not really hard, just annoying to get into the trailer). Five minutes later, he self loaded. At home, I tried it a few more times over the following week and achieved the same results in (starting at 20 minutes to) immediately walking from pasture into the trailer, self loading.
I am kicking myself for not approaching Ken earlier.
I LOVE how his wife's horses go at shows. She is a really nice lady, rides lovely, and is compassionate to her horses. Even though she isn't the trainer, I think the way she treats her horses must reflect their overall opinions on horsemanship.
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