Monday, May 3, 2010 by admin.

Last fall Tim and a friend (Don) made a quick trip to Austin Texas and picked up two stud colts. They wintered well and are now in training for their performance tests. They are the only foals out of an imported stallion that passed away unexpectedly. We hope they produce some beautiful foals in the future. Stay tuned for pictures of them driving as a team!

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Monday, May 3, 2010 by admin.

On April 27th @ 07:35 Netieva gave birth to Nicky. Jennifer has now witnessed 3 of the 4 foals born at Spur Acres. She still claims she doesn’t know nothin about birthin no babies! She has done a great job to this point. Go see pictures of Nicky at the New Kids page.

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Monday, May 3, 2010 by admin.

We are honored to have been elected to this position and hope to help promote the Oberlander Draft Horse in North America. If you are interested in becoming a breeder please contact us. Once you own one you will never go back to any other breed.

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Thursday, January 21, 2010 by admin.

We hope everyone had a successful 2009.  We have started out the new year with great fun playing with our German Draft Horses.  We went up to Brodhead Wisconsin to enjoy some great Bobsledding with TJ and BJ Mertens.  Met a lot of new friends and as a friend of ours said, “Had about as much fun as you can with our clothes on”!

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Tuesday, September 22, 2009 by admin.

You can feel the weather starting to change. The haying season is complete and we are looking to prepare for the quick approaching winter. Shannon should be coming next week to start building a fence around a pasture for our new additions - known as “the boys” right now. We do need to come up with our own names for the fellas.
I spoke to Hans Bokelmann last evening and got some bad news. His mare that was to foal died due to the foal coming backwards. It is so sad when you lose both the mare and the foal like that. Our hearts go out to them in their lose. That is a lose of three of the Oberlander breeding heard in the last year that I know about.
The corn crop is struggling to finish and we are praying for at least a couple more weeks without a frost and then a good fall drying season. Should be a good crop for which we are eternally grateful. Now if the Lord could do something about the price of corn that would help too! I guess you can’t have it all every year!

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Tuesday, September 8, 2009 by admin.

The summer has been full thus the web site has suffered.  Jen and I made it up to Canada to meet Hans and Heidelore Bokelmann and their beautiful Oberlanders.  Their hospitality was much appreciated.  The foals, Noz and Nadja are growing up fast and are weaned.  They enjoy hanging out with their sister Hilde now, who believes she is now in charge!  Just like our oldest daughter always was!

We just got back from Austin Texas where we picked up Saelic and Traugott, two stud colts.  We are hoping that they will be able to train and pass the performance tests, so they can improve our herd.  They are both modern type Oberlanders and it is an exciting time for Spur Acres.  We have a lot of work ahead of us, but we are hopeful.

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Thursday, April 9, 2009 by admin.

The Rogers brought over Abigail to see the new babies.  Notice the pink cowboy boots.  Abigail loves the horses, but I’m sure you can’t tell that!

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Wednesday, April 8, 2009 by admin.

Netieva blessed us with a foal Tuesday, April 7th, in the morning around 4 am. I noticed the night before that she had wax and knew that she would be foaling soon. When I got up in the morning I had a feeling that she had foaled. I had this feeling as we were planning to put a foal alert on her since this was her first. At about 4:30 - 4:45 I was headed out to the barn and as I got closer I heard the all to familiar sound of a mare squealing. Sure enough, there was a little filly chasing Netieva around the pen trying to eat. Netieva didn’t know what to think about this strange creature. We had to hold one leg up on Netieva to get her to allow the foal to eat. After a while Netieva figured it out and we were off to the races. So far so good.

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Wednesday, April 1, 2009 by admin.

After a rough winter we finally have some good news to report. Hazel had a nice little stud colt on March 23rd. We named him after his father, Necho. His name is Nosternecho – Our Necho. His barn name is Noz.

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Friday, January 9, 2009 by admin.

It is a new year and the media has us all afraid of our own shadows.  All you have to do is go out to the barn and you find that life is the same today as it was 6 months ago.  The horses still want fed every morning and night, and Penelope our dog and cats are waiting for attention as well.  It is a great feeling to go to the barn and see some things don’t change.  None of the animals are worried about tomorrow, just today and if you are going to do your duty and fill their feed buckets.

I’m off my soap box now and really just want to take this opportunity to tell all our friends that we appreciate them and wish all of you a prosperous 2009.

Let us pray that the spring arrives with the blessings of three healthy colts! 

We have not forgotten you Necho!  We found out recently that we have some frozen semen from Necho and are going to attempt to breed back all the mares with it.  We attempted to freeze his semen this past summer.  The quality wasn’t good enough for sale, but hopefully with a little luck and help from above we can get the ladies pregnant for another year.

Stay tuned; Hazel, Dirngrafin, and Netieva are starting to show and we are 4 months away from some new members of the family to arrive.  Penelope will be in heaven as she loves babies!

Happy New Year and May God Bless each of you.

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