Your farm or ranch name

[Julie/Azariah]

Well, our farm name has been Meadowind since our beginning on the "farm". There are meadows all around and it is ALWAYS windy here. Everyone says it is more windy than where ever they just came from. So "Meadowind Farm" it was. We bred and raised large horses, QH and paints at first, then Warmbloods.

I took a break from breeding large horses but was still actively helping others foal out their mares. I was called to assist in a miniature foaling......and walaaaaa, I was in love. They are like my little Barbie Dolls!

I still have some large horses, my beloved Friesian

: and my huge breeding stock paint mare

: and boarders with horses, but I thoroughly enjoy my minis.

When choosing a prefix for my miniature horses, since there was already a "Meadowind" in the miniature horse circles, I decided I needed to choose a different name for the miniature "business". Through the years.......there have been quite a few trials and tests, and I feel the horses have been sent to me to be a comfort and "therapy". So when choosing this name, Azariah seemed appropriate. It means whom the Lord helps. And without the Lord's help I couldn't be doing what I am doing today.

So....Azariah Miniatures at Meadowind Farm is what we came up with.

We are just building a website www.azariahminiatures.com. Check us out!!!

Julie

 

[RedWagon]

My in laws live on our property and one Saturday afternoon, my husband and his mother went to a local livestock auction. Next thing I know, they're coming home with a Hereford calf! (I know nothing about cattle) I told them "This is your little red wagon, you pull it' meaning it was their job to do all the cow related things. Of course, when I started buying minis, my husband said it back to me! When I wanted to name our little farm, Red Wagon Farm seemed perfect.

 

[Miniv]

Our name is -- Miniature Ventures

Twenty years ago we had 3 acres and wanted to get some "small livestock" for it..... We started out with pygmy goats, which were alot of fun. A year later we stumbled on miniature horses at the state fair, and a year after that (after some learning about them) we bought our first mini -- who we still own and adore.

It was at that point we knew that we were hooked on "minis", no matter if they were goats or horses, or ??? And we were in it for the long-haul........ so, Miniature Ventures was born.

We now own 43 acres and over 65 minis and ponies......only one goat, though. :bgrin

MA

 

[spellcasterminis]

We came up with our farm name and moto soon after we got our first mini, Lady. Our moto "Beware...They'll cast a spell on your heart!" because you can't own just one LOl. Went right along with our farm name Spellcaster Miniatures.

We almost decided to call our farm Hot Dam Miniatures, which would have been funny. Because a few years later we moved on to Dam Rd. LOL.

 

[Sarah's Little Blessings]

Named mine Sarah's Little Blessings,because no matter how little they are we should all count our blessings, and while I can only have a few minis at this time, they are mine beautiful little blessings, different I know,just something I came up with-Sarah

 

[~Karen~]

Awesome name's. I am thourghly enjoying reading the history behind your farm/ranch names! Some are tear jerkers, what wonderful tributes.

I am clueless at this time for a name. Maybe "Jumpin' the Gun Farm" since we don't even know if we will have the property for sure yet or not. Ha-ha. I don't really have a tribute, so it is really open at this point, and I don't think my husband has given a thought at this time either. All the names and history's that have been shared is crankin' my little creative thought wheels! :~)

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"Hoot -N- Holler Farm" crossed my mind when I read "Fox Holler"... you came up with a really cute name for your farm ;~) Shucks, they are alllll really good!

I would love to read more if anyone else would like to share!

~Karen

 

[maplegum]

I came up with our 'farm' name by being creative with using the fact that my husband is Canadian and I'm Australian.

I wanted something that signified both.

MAPLEGUM.

MAPLE for maple trees (obviously the Canadian part) and GUM for gum trees (the Australian connection).

I don't have a farm sign, but have been pestering hubby to make one.

 

[buckonranch]

HM??? Whats in a NAME???

We didnt choose our farm name, someone else chose if for us. When Gary and I drove into our new place there was a ranch gate with HOOFBEAT ACRES written acrossed it.. so we just adopted it.... Then when BOB came along..we prefixed all the Bob foals with the BUCK ON prefix, I have always beleived in promoting a pedigree, not a farm.. I could give a hoot less if anyone remembers my farm name...or me.. its what I leave behind that is valuable to me... You may hear us use the BUCK ON RANCH.. where the Buck Ons are born.....people recognize us because of what BOB has accomplished.. and that was our goal...The foals from our other stallions all carry their sires names to establish their pedigree..not our farm name.. so if anyone wonders why we dont use the Hoofbeat Acres anymore.. I am trying to put the emphasis on the bloodlines we are developing.

Angie/buckonranch

 

[CheyAut]

My first horse (whom I have still) is my horsey soul mate. He's a thoroughbred named Cheynne Autumn. So, CheyAut Ranch (for CHEYenne AUTumn).

Yes, I"m happy with it... I did have another name that would be nice, Kokopelli Ranch, after a mini I had only briefly (lost her to a mtn lion) that was named Kokopelli, but I was already CheyAut by then, so...

Jessi

 

[dreamlandnh]

Our little place is fairly new and my daughter came up with the name. Our horses were up at my mother's place and it was our dream some day have them at our house. Then my father was asked by his company to go to England for about a year to work. In doing so my mother went with him for 6 month's also, thus all the animals needed a loving place to go. My parents and my husband's father helped with the $$ for building and my brother designed our barn and built it along with my husband. When it was done we said our dream had come true and my daughter named is Dreamland Miniatures.

We love the name and the first foal born here was named after it...sadly he did not make it.

Karen

 

[minimomNC]

We had no plans to buy our first mini, it just happened. My daughter was 16 and decided that horses weren't in her future anymore, so I leased out her QH mare and started looking for something for mom. The sale we went to was just a way to get my husband out of the house because we were having a surprise birthday party for him, his first ever birthday party. So my job was to take him somewhere, well we ended up at one of Ronnie's sales in Winston and by the time it was over we owned our first miniature stallion. Thirteen months old and 27" tall and I loved him. Needless to say we were late for the party while trying to get this little guy home. Had to go get the trailer and everything. As we started accumulating more minis and selling the big horses, we acquired a wonderful show gelding and all of a sudden my daughter got horse fever again. What started out just for mom had brought our family all together again so we had to have a name for the entire family. AKS Miniatures was what we all agreed on. A is for Audie who is waiting for me in heaven now, K is for Karen, thats me and S is for Samantha. Samantha and I continue with what Audie gave us and now with the new farm we are truly going to live his dream. AND I still have the little guy that started it all, Ghost is now 6 years old, 28.5" and a gelding but I still love him very much and he will always have a place here, after all, its his fault we had to name the farm in the first place.

 

[LaVern]

I choose our name because my husband's name is Hart and he feels he is so lucky to have me and all these horses. I agree with Angie about what is important is the pedigree in the horses name.

However, I do feel that if a person is showing and trying to establish them self, that a farm name can be important. My advise in picking a name, is to pick one that is easy for an announcer to say. One that is short and harsh sounding. Back when the kids were showing and we would bring twenty horses and almost that many kids to a show, all you would hear was Lucky Hart. Half the time the announcer was just calling it for something we did wrong, but the whole fair ground heard it, as it came through the speaker so well. A sixth place ribbon sounded louder that a first place soft cute name.

 

[Tony]

We have had several names through our many years of horses. I was born into a horse loving family and grew up on "Greaves Pony Farm". When the Quarter Horse Association started my dad started breeding them, but didn't get "big" into QH until I was in college when he decided to go into the racehorse business. By this time he had sold most of the Shetlands and started running horses. He named his operation "Flight 8 Farms" after his main stallion. When Carol and I decided to leave New York, where we were acting and singing, we came back to Texas to build a big stallion facility which I was to manage just north of the Dallas/Ft Worth area. I still had the first miniature sized pony, Big Un, that had been born while I was in high school. We decided to find some mares to go with him about the time that AMHA was started and found one of my dad's friends, Jno W Norman, who happened to own a young refined miniature called Rowdy. I talked Mr. Norman into selling me six mares, all of them bred to Rowdy.

Our first ads in the Miniature Horse World used the name of the farm that we were running, Flight 8 Farms. Our first horses were a variety of prefixes and suffixes, none of which pleased us. Greaves Big Un was the first to register with AMHA and we used TWG, my initials, at the end of a couple of horses, but still not pleased.

When my dad got sick and we had to sell the farm that we had built, Carol said that we needed our own name and came up with Little America. We had met many years before at Fred Waring's Music Workshop in PA and I later toured with the Pennsylvanians and were noted for our patriotic music. Carol thought that we could use the map of the US and flags in our advertising, so we dropped Flight 8 and became Little America. We liked it. It stuck. It's still here twenty five years later! (More than you EVER wanted to know!)

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[Cherokee Rose]

This is a fun thread !! Part of my heritage goes back to the Cherokee infact it's the only part of me that I can really trace way back and also I love to garden and the Rose is my very favorite flower....so Cherokee Rose was born................

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[shoeboxstables]

ShoeBox Stables is our name- and I LOVE it.

First because everything is so small on our farm that it could fit in a shoebox (Mini Horses, Dwarf goat, Alpacas [like small llamas], etc.), but the second reason is the most important to me.

When I was really young- I was totally horse crazy, and had tons and tons of model horses- like 30! I loved them all, and played with them more than anything. As my horse numbers grew, I discovered that I really needed a barn for them all- but I couldn't find one that was cheap and would house all my "babies"! So the natural solution- Shoe boxes!! I'd line up about 20 old shoe boxes in various patterns to make 'barns'! They worked perfectly- all the big horses got their own shoe box stall, and the little ones shared. My mom would laugh every night that she came in and my bed was surrounded by shoe boxes filled with horses. She joked that if we ever had a farm- it would be called "ShoeBox Stables". Little did she know that we eventually would! When we got Annie- our first mini- we put up a shed for her in the backyard, and called it 'shoebox shed'. Funnily enough, a lot of our horsey items in it where held in those old shoebox stalls from before. When we moved to our current property with 25 acres and five old barns- there was only one name for us- ShoeBox Stables.

I hope that you can find a name that's as special to you as ours is to us.

 

[horsehug]

When I decided I wanted to raise miniature horses and we sold our riding horses 19 years ago in 1988, I was with my 3 younger kids going on our first mini "shopping" trip 400 miles north of us. We had been discussing what we would call our farm, and my youngest son Jordan, who was 7 at the time was just absentmindedly coming up with names in the back seat of our Aerostar, and I heard him say "Horses to Hug".

I just instantly knew that was it!! That is still what they are to me.

We live on a high plains area in Wyoming called the Hilliard Flats, so we decided to add Hilliard to "Horses to Hug" and call it Hilliard Horses to Hug". And my reserved prefix is HHH.

Susan O.

 

[Tapestry Minis]

Tapestry

I went through a few before I decided on Tapestry. I have an Irish/English heritage and my husband is from Scottish heritage. I also love tapestries for their artistic nature and the history behind them. They are a blend of so many rich colors as I hope our horses are. So it all kind of melded together....the history, elegance, color. It was also the shortest name I like so that when I'm naming our babies I have lots of room to work with

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[KayJay Farm]

Our name is based on our children's names. Kay for Kalisa who is five and the reason we bought our first mini and Jay is for Jaegon who will soon be two. KayJay Farm was born. Our logo also contains sketch of horse's face which is from picture of Belle, one of our first minis and my daughter's pet.

 

[Minimor]

My mom grew up on a farm near Arden Manitoba. The shortest route into Neepawa (nearest bigger town) was through a neighbor's big pasture (several sections)--and everyone knew that pasture area as "Cedar Plains". When Mom & I moved back to Neepawa in 1975 we would go riding in that pasture. When we finally decided to register a prefix for our Morgans, we chose Cedar Plains. We've since moved away from that area, but Cedar Plains still works for us here--we're still on the plains, and in this general area there is a lot of creeping cedar...none in our yard, because I have ruthlessly destroyed the few plants that have started growning in the yard! It makes for a nice farm name, but I don't want it growing on the property--once it gets a hold that stuff takes over.

When we switched over to Minis we just kept the same prefix.

 

[tnovak]

Indian Echo...when the winds blow (and they seem to always be!) if you listen, you can hear the sounds of the previous residents of the valley.

It's not official, it's not registered anywhere, I just like it. I'll make a barn sign this month for my new barn.