This may be the beginning of a new era for Werner Nokota Horses as Elvis, one of the Zeigler’s stallions will be staying here for some time.
Hopefully a new generation of nokota horses will be born at our farm next summer.
The Wild Bunch
We are Nokota horses. On hot summer days we graze out in the field all day, but when the bugs gets too annoying we take a siesta and hang out by the front porch at our barn, away from the sun, away from the bugs. We accumulate a lot of raw energy from all that resting and grazing. Late in the evening when the sun gets below the tree tops, or on any cloudy day like yesterday, we turn up the heat and show our real colors.
This is five year old Bluebell Star, a full-blooded Traditional Nokota© Horse and she runs this outfit. Her first three years of her life she spent in North Dakota at the Kunz family ranches, where she learned a lot from her mother Black Spotted Socks and all the other Nokota horses. She is a proud blue roan and perfectly aware of her beauty.
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Indian Summer
Happy New Year!
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Summer days
Nokota horses just walkin’ and talkin’.
Summer Haiku
Neath cornflowered skies
Veiled clouds merely passing;
My friend is smiling
Every horse is everything
A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.- Leo Buscaglia
