To secure a ranch management position in a beautiful part of the country.

Throughout our adult life we have lived primarily in the country, operated ranches, and raised and trained quarter & paint horses for ranch work, roping and other performance events. 

Our horse experience ranges from breeding and foaling to weaning, starting, riding and finishing out horses. 

We have extensive experience in the care and raising of most cattle breeds including Black Angus, Longhorn/Corriente, and Scottish Highlands.

Accomplished in all phases of irrigation: Pivot, Flood, and Gated Pipe.

Operators of most haying equipment: Tractors, Swathers, Rakes, Balers, and Stack Wagons.

Can also operate Loaders, Backhoes, Bush Hogs, and other heavy equipment.

Ranch managing is not a “job” to us, but a lifestyle we relish. 

We love what we do and are always thankful for the opportunity.

Raised in Bronte, Texas - north of San Angelo, Texas.

All around athlete - football, basketball, baseball.

Summers spent baling and hauling hay, breaking horses, dayworking cattle for neighboring ranches.

Attended college at Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas

During college years, worked for Green Valley Feedlot and Ranches outside of San Marcos, TX.

Duties included: daily cattle inspection, doctoring, branding, feed mixing, pasture roping, planting feed crops, haying, irrigation, etc.

Also managed to rodeo professionally during these years working both steer wrestling and team roping events.

Graduated SWTSU with B.S. degree in Agriculture in 1981.

Attended Kearney State College focusing on Art/photography.

She is very experienced with all phases of horse breeding and training and worked as a Vet Tech during her college years.

Very knowledgeable with haying and irrigation practices, calving and foaling.

She is my right hand and best hand when it comes to pasture gathering, roping, sorting and branding.

Very creative and computer savvy. Has designed websites and newsletters. Taken the pictures, composed the stories and arranged the layouts.

She has been instrumental in the design and remodeling of the houses and barns using her unique western flair.

There are 3 homes on the ranch, a horse barn with various paddocks, calving barn, hay barn, shop/equipment shed and several out buildings.

We maintain all of these facilities in –house. 

We have managed 5 to 10 ranch hands depending on the season.

These consist of Black Angus and Scottish highland cattle with a dozen head of correnties thrown in for roping. 

We also run 600+ head of grass - lease yearlings during the spring / summer months.

 There are 30+ horses on the ranch including draft horses, quarters and paints.

 We are currently breeding and training replacement horses for ranch use.

We have built many retention dams along creeks and rivers to establish new ecosystems. 

We have worked through the NRCS to establish many miles of cross fencing, building new water wells, as well as developing new and innovative grazing programs.

We have designed and built entrances, planted many decorative trees, dredged existing ponds, and completed other large projects using heavy equipment. 

We have been responsible for our own budgets, bookkeeping and payroll.

We bred, raised, and trained both Cutting Horses as well as Roping Horses. Janie and I organized the breeding program using both A.I. as well as Natural Cover Techniques. 

In addition to the horse programs, I continuously backgrounded 50 to 100 calves in our on-site Feedlot using Feed Trucks, Loaders and other Mixing equipment.

We also maintained a small herd of Bison on the ranch that we sometimes utilized in the training program.

My annual yield was about 15,000 to 18,000 small bales per year. 

I personally cut, raked, baled, and stacked this hay and irrigated the fields between cuttings. 

We used most of this good hay to feed our own horses and sell a portion to the public.

Livestock included: 1100 pairs, 20 brood mares, and 2 stallions.

There were 5 pivots over alfalfa; we put up 5000 round bales and 2000 small squares of meadow hay and alfalfa. 

Janie started a horse management program soon after moving there; she calmed and halter broke 14 weanlings. 

We both groomed, clipped, trimmed, and prepared said colts for that years Pitzer Ranch Production sale.  

I have been involved with all aspects of haying and performed equipment maintenance on tractors, balers and swathers. 

I am experienced with plumbing, electrical repairs, welding, fence construction and repair, riding and roping, backgrounding, calving, doctoring and vaccinating. 

This ranch relied on 4-wheelers as well as ranch horses. I am experienced with both, however, I prefer to be horseback.

Divorced in 1995 and re-married a wonderful woman in 1999 - Janie Lyn of Nebraska. 

During our marriage we maintained our own modest acreage while both working outside the ranch.

We put up hay to feed our own horses and cattle and made improvements when needed.

Married in early 1989 and had to leave the ranch to live in town.

We take care of ourselves and are in excellent health.

We do not smoke or use any tobacco.

Keith Wooley          (Land surveyor)                                  303-501-3542

Ron Van Pelt           (Cattle broker)                                    303-877-7866

Larry Itzen              (Structural Engineer)                           303-332-8976

Brian Seck                (Equipment contractor)                     303-884-4241

Mark Trivisonno       ( Water Commissioner)                     303-489-3003