Cook Creek Ranch - Private with Riverfield

[veralynn]

Cook Creek Ranch in the Texas Panhandle, has produced some of the best angus cattle for close to fifty years now along with ranch-bred stock horses. Though about twenty years ago they got into quarter horse breeding and quickly excelled in the stock type QH. Shortly after starting they opened up a private barn for clients and for hosting shows. Just recently though they have opened their barn to borders and lesson students of western or rodeo based disciplines. There is an unspoken preference for quarter horses and other stock type breeds though all are welcome.


Buildings
Main barn - has stalls for 40 horses with cross ties available in the aisle every other stall. Walking inside there are thirty stalls to the left and twenty to the right, straight ahead is the indoor arena.
Stalls - each stall has a space for horses to stick their head out into the aisle, though if need be a grate can be put in for less friendly horses.
Wash Stalls - the three stalls are right of the entrance, on the same side as the main doors.
Tack Room / Observation room - to the right of the entrance and across from the wash stalls, its next to the arena entrance
Indoor arena - straight ahead when going through the main barn doors. It is big enough that with cattle panels it can be split into two arenas, though it is typically only set up like that when someone is working cattle inside. It does have a large sliding door on the left wall to get said cattle in and out.

Outdoors
Outdoor arenas - two outside arenas, one with a small stand
Round pens - 4 round pens, used for training
Paddocks - Dry lots, somewhat on the small side and meant for 2-3 horses. They are meant for either short term turn out or for horses who cannot be on grass.
Pastures - A mix of grass and shrub land for horses to be turned out on, depending on the condition of the grass can hold between 5-10 horses. Mares & geldings are turned out in groups typically consisting of one gender. Stallions can be turned out with other geldings but if they need solo turn out they may be restricted to the paddocks depending on space.
Cattle Pens - keeps some of the cattle up for practice & used to help train horses
Trails - go around the ranch, kept clear of fallen debris and wide enough for two horses to walk side by side.

Other
Ranch House - Home of the Cook family and one of the oldest buildings on the ranch. The palour has now been turned into the main office and has a seperate entrance for those to come in to discuss business.
Guest Housing - The two small houses are set up a little bit away from the main barn. They are there for staff members to stay overnight if needed and host the occasional judge or competitor when they have shows on the property.
Equine Range land - The Cook’s ranch horses are kept here, it is 5+ acres with two shelters.
Range Land - makes up the rest of the ranch’s x acres. Split up into sections to rotate cattle grazing.


Cook Creek Roster
Family
Thomas Cook - 82/M - One of the two owners of the ranch, he really avoids the barn and instead focuses on the cattle.
Janie Cook - 83/F - One of the other owners of the ranch, she is in charge of the business aspect and helps coordinate the various areas of the ranch.
Marcus Cook - 51/M - The son of Thomas and Janie, he is the day to day manager of the herds and can at times been seen around the barn.
Tara Jacobs-Cook - 45/F - The second wife of Marcus she doesn't do much with the actual ranch though helps out where she can. She is also the riding instructor for trick riding if borders are interested as she is a well known trick rider in rodeo circuits.
Nathaniel Cook - 22/M - The son of Marcus and Góyąń, he is the unoffical barn manager at the moment.
Summer Jacobs - 20/F - daughter of Tara, she followed her mother into rodeo though she is a bull rider. Really is interested in the cattle side of the ranch so she isn't around the barn too much.
Addison Jacobs - 20/F - daughter of Tara, she is a trick rider like her mother. She can be found around the barn though she doesn't really ride any traditional western disciplines.

Staff
Leo Smyth - 38/M - western instructor, he teaches lessons upon request to those who ride western disciplines
Rachel Owen - 29/F - rodeo instructor, she teaches lessons upon request for those who ride rodeo disciplines
Jay Jacobs - 40/M - horse trainer, he is the one who gets horses started under saddle and teaches the basics

Boarders
Kendra Koltroz - 20/F [riverfield]

Horses
tba(along with photo links for everyone else)

[riverfields]

Kendra drove up the gravel driving heading towards the barn her horses have arrived the day before so they would be used to the new environment soon. It took her horses around 1-2 weeks to get used to new places like new barns they would be boarded at but for competitions it was very different it only took her horses 24 hours to get used to a show environment she did not know why it took her horses longer to get used to new barns where she would board them. She parked her lifted truck away from a few others before hopping out and heading towards the barn.

[veralynn]

(Sorry I couldn't come up with a good post I liked, so you get whatever this is instead.)

Nate released the last of the horses out into their pastures. Most of the horses at the barn had some sort of turn out schedule set up, there were only a few currently spend 24/7 inside. The boarders at the barn all seemed pretty okay with the Cook's way of doing things, only one boarder seemed like they could become an issue down the line. Heading back towards the barn he saw a lifted truck pull in. Nate didn't understand lifted trucks as in many cases it meant they were worse to off-road with, then again most people were typically only driving on paved or dirt roads. Not everyone needed to take a truck into the back of a 50 acre pasture to check out calves. Likely just someone who needed a truck to pull a trailer and not much more; which was half the reason trucks were the main car around the area.

So he decided to head back over to the barn to help out those who hadn't remembered the layout from when their horses got dropped off.

[riverfields]

(it's fine it took me a while to come up with something)

Kendra walked into the barn she remembered what stalls her horses were in and when they would be in turnout/pasture. She only had two horses though but many people she knew from rodeos had 3-4 horses as they would have backup horses in case one got injured. Kendra only needed her two horses lavender haze (lavender) a blue roan who was very pretty but typically liked to be working she also had a gelding named Takin' yo Cash (Cash) he was a palomino with a black mane and tail. Kendra headed over to lavenders stall first and was really happy to see her she wouldn't work with her horses today as she typically gave them 2 days to get used to a new barn before working with them but sometimes she would work with them to.

[veralynn]

(A little confused what you mean by palomino with black mane/tail. I'm assuming you mean buckskin?)

Nate spotted a boarder standing outside what was presumably her horses stalls. "Good morning, I'm Nate. I'm currently the barn manager." He held out his hand after introducing himself. He was trying to meet everyone so they would at least know who he was; Nate would be the first person they would go to if they had issues. He looked over her two horses, a pretty blue roan and a buckskin gelding. Both nice looking if not a bit tall. He would say they likely had more thoroughbred in them, probably bred for sport. Most ranch horses Nate knew were were stocky, actually most quarter horses outside of hunter under saddle tended to be under 16 hands. Nothing wrong with them, he just liked a bigger hind end and a little lower to the ground to help with sharp turns.

[riverfields]

(Yeah lol my computer was being stupid and just autocorrected it for some reason it hates when I try and type things my computer is just special and hates everything)

"Hi I am Kendra, and morning too I guess," Kendra said before shaking his hand. She didn't meet many new people as she typically focused more on her riding and horses. She watched as he looked at her to horses. Cash and lavender were not what other riders liked as they looked a bit like thoroughbreds which was quite said but she didn't care what people said about her horses they were perfect in her eyes.