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Established in 1914 and now consisting of
approx 2500 acres of
farm ground and
approx.1000 acres of range. We are located 2 miles South of
Lexington, Oregon in the foothills of the beautiful Blue Mountains
of Eastern Oregon. We are only 45 minutes away from Interstate 84
and Hermiston, Oregon. Munkers Farms is
owned & operated by Barry and Mary
Ann Munkers.
We maintain approximately 20 head of horses on the ranch consisting
of stallions, broodmares, colts of various ages and our finished
horses. We also book breedings to outside mares and offer an excellent
equine facilities for their care during the duration of their stay
at Munkers Farms. We also run a small herd of
cows for beef & horse training.
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UP ON THE FARM: Our horses
live in approx 250 acre fields with all types of terrain ranging
from steep bluffs and creek beds to irrigated pasture. This
teaches the babies how to handle their feet
& also they are
in a natural, healthy, happy environment. The whole herd
will run off those bluffs at full speed & never miss a step.
Sometimes I just have to close my Eyes!! This is such an advantage
their futurity year as they can handle all types of arena footing!
They truly love people. All you have to do is call them and
the whole herd comes running to you! By running in herds, they
also learn how to get along with other horses. All my stallions,
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Our horses all have a tremendous amount of speed, but
also the desire to turn on their own "Honor". They can run fast
and think at the same time…. excellent minds!!"
They are also born with
excellent bone and hoof structure. "I like to see a lot of bone
and good round black hooves w/lots of heel in my horses. Their
injury or hoof disease risk drops to nearly nothing with these
excellent conformation traits."
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OUR GOAL:
To breed and produce the "ULTIMATE BARREL
HORSE", combining
PROVEN NFR & WORLD CHAMPION BLOODLINES of both the mares and
stallions. Bloodlines that our farm is maintaining are
Dash Ta Fame, Bully Bullion, Firewater
Flit, Jet of Honor, Beda Cheng, Lady Bugs Moon, Flaming Jet, Special Feature,
Joes Genuine Doc, Doc Bar, Dash for Cash, Jet Deck, Easy
Jet & Streakin Six. Our broodmares are equally as excellent as the
stallions. "I believe that you have to have a top level mare
as well as a top level stallion to get the best offspring. We
have achieved this with our broodmare band and our stallions.
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TRAINING
PROGRAM: We wean our foals between 5 and 6 months of age at
which time they are halter broke, sacked out, taught to load
and back out of a trailer and stand to trim their feet. We
keep 2 or 3 foals out of each crop for ourselves to train
and compete on in Barrel futurities. The rest of the weanling
crop is offered for sale each year on our Web Site. As yearlings
we periodically continue their ground training and handling,
but the majority of the time they run with the broodmare band
in the canyons and creeks of the ranch. We spend a lot of
time training these colts before they ever see a barrel. I
always tell people that you could take any of my barrel horses
and enter an English class or Western Reining Class and
place very well. A good training foundation is vital to a
great barrel horse. You can put any part of my barrel horse's
body anywhere you want at any speed...immediately. This is
how well they are trained! Our training program includes lots
of outside riding as well as arena work, all the while applying
low mental pressure techniques. I produce quiet, relaxed,
happy horses that love what they do and want to please! With
our training program, my horses just continue to get better
and better, rather than develop problems when you start applying
speed. Our buyers continued satisfaction and success is very
important to our program and to us.
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