The Cowboy Perserverance Ranch

Babies in the Barn

by Rob and Tanya Corzatt

Ilook forward to the spring and early summer every year. It’s a time of renewal and birth. Cold sloppy sacrifice lots become slightly green and warm sloppy lots. Eventually, the ground firms up enough that we can turn the horses out without fear of excessive damage to the pastures. We can also get away with just wearing our cowboy boots or work shoes instead of hot sweaty muck boots, except for after those summer downpours. Unlike during the fall and winter months, though, the lots and pastures dry up in a day or so instead of a week or two. And what a special sight it is to see the horses grazing in the pastures after a long wet winter.

We only built 16 permanent stalls in our barn. As I write this, we currently have 22 horses. Our biggest sacrifice lot has been partitioned into three lots to accommodate several of the horses. I know you all understand herd dynamics and that some horses just don’t get along with one another. We have played musical horses and musical lots to determine the best fit for all horses. Then we do it all over again when one horse leaves to go back to its owners and is replaced with another new horse. With that many horses it was necessary to do a lot of rearranging of our feed and hay storage areas. Keep in mind, this barn isn’t even two years old yet and we are already remodeling! It was a lot of work, but we needed to do it in order to make some room for a highly anticipated arrival at the barn.

If you follow our kids on Facebook, you have undoubtedly seen a lot of photos of a little filly with the barn name Boni. She was born back in April at a friend’s farm. Her sire is a gentle blue roan and her dam is an equally gentle bay roan. Boni looks like she is going to be a bay roan. She belongs to our son, Camdon, and our daughterin-law, Kaila. She is a sweet little thing and quite the looker. I guess they are all cute at that age. She and her mom came to the CP Ranch over the July 4th weekend. The kids are going to be working with Opal, the dam, over the summer, while weaning Boni. Both the mare and the baby are very personable and Opal is very willing to let you love on Boni as long as she gets a little loving also. We converted a couple of single stalls into a double wide to accommodate them. That means there are two stall doors to remember to latch. This very morning as I wrote this, I went out into the barn to feed this morning only to find the pair in another one of the horse’s stalls munching on the grain we had set the night before! Fortunately, it looks like they had just escaped and that was the only feed that was missing. Got lucky there! Boni walked right out of the stall and over to me to say good morning! Then she and mom let T and I lead them back to their own stalls with no fuss whatsoever. I have to admit that if it had been another one of the other horses here, I might not have been so ‘understanding’ with their little walkabout. Babies do that to us.

There is going to be another baby in the CP Ranch family this November, except it won’t have four hooves! I believe I mentioned in an earlier article that T and I are going to be first time grandparents in November. Our oldest son and his wife are expecting a little girl. I told the kids and everyone else that asked that I didn’t care if it was a boy or girl and that I was just praying for a healthy baby. That was a lie! I made it very clear to T that I was praying for a little red headed girl that would grow up to be grandpa’s little girl! We just had boys, so we never got a little girl to spoil rotten! I can’t put into written words how excited we are. I also can’t wait to learn what they plan to name her.

These babies, both equine and human, come with immense responsibilities. As their owners, or their parents and grandparents, it is up to us to make sure they have a great foundation. Cam’s dream is for Boni to become his future ranch roping horse. She isn’t going to become one without a good foundation and lots of training over the next few years. As Christians, T and I are praying that our granddaughter will grow up to become a kind and loving child and servant of Christ. She is going to need some great role models in her life to get there. I am confident that our son and daughter-in-law will provide that for her and Grandma T (not sure that is what she wants to be called) and I will be there to back them up.

The Bible includes lots of scripture referencing children. Not just the children of God, but actual young children. Psalm 127:3 in the NKJ version reads “Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD,

The fruit of the womb is a reward.” Jesus loved the little children as shown in Matthew 19:13-15 “Then little children were brought

The Corzatt’ s

Cowboy P anchR erseverance

“CPR for the soul” Tanya and Rob

Camdon Tanya and Rob Corzatt

Tanya Corzatt

(614) 519-1042 Marengo, OH cwbypranch@gmail.com

The Corzatt’s (Rob, Tanya and their son Camdon) own and operate the Cowboy Perseverance Ranch (CPR) in Marengo, Ohio. CPR is a faith based operation and our mission is to build a strong foundation and relationship with our training horses and students. We are blessed to be able to provide western horsemanship lessons infused with biblical scripture to students of all ages. One student has described her time here as “CPR for the soul!” Visit our website at www. cpranch.wixsite.com/home or follow us on Facebook.