 The Eagles Ranch
Welcome to The Eagles Ranch website. The Eagles Ranch
is central on the island Texel,
one of the beautiful West Frisian Islands, in the north of the
Netherlands, bordering the North Sea.
The ranch is in Waal en
Burg, an astonishing nature reserve peopled with lots of meadow
birds.
 American Painthorses
At our ranch American
Paint Horses are bred with our own breeding stallions that cover all of our breeding mares in their natural environments in the pasture.
The stallions
The ranch breeds with its own black / tobiano paint stallion
Dakotas
Royal Raven .
<< Expected offspring Dakotas Royal Raven in 2008 >>
Bears Q Ton Poco was born in Belgium and he is meant
to cover our own breeding mares as soon as 2008.
The mares
 18 Paint foals (by our paint breeding
mares) most ofthem sired by either Dakotas
Royal Raven or Eagles MR Colonel and are
expected in 2008.
Bears Q Ton Poco is meant
to cover our own breeding mares in 2008.
The first foals are expected as early as February each year, but most of them are born in March or April.
Foals on show
On 25 May 2008 we will put them on show to the public.
Foals at the Eagles Ranch
At our ranch American Paint Horses are bred with our own breeding stallions that cover all of our breeding mares in their natural environments in the pasture.
The foals and mares go outside in the great pastures so they can move around and exercise freely, they can play with their peers and can also find a quiet spot to sleep. The mares as joint guardians protect the little ones
Horses for sale
These foals and some of the mares are for
sale.
Eagles Summer Event
You will be
able to see some of them in their stables at the the
Eagles Summer Event on Sunday 3 Augustus 2008.
Paints and Pinto's
Haflinger mare Amber with her Pinto foal Eagles MR Zero.
Each paint foal born at the Eagles Ranch every year is entered into the United States www.apha.com pedigree and are for sale for real paint horse fanciers.
However, one or two foals are offspring of one of the Paint stallions, but do not have a full breed Paint dam. Therefore they are called Pinto. For example, in the photograph above you can find Haflinger mare Amber with her Pinto foal Eagles MR Zero.
Foal
rearing
It is possible to have your foals reared in
our foal
rearing.
At the moment we rear foals of different races
and from all over the country in the rearing boxes. You can
make a reservation for
either your foals or yearling or older horse now.
Foals stay in herds with their peers and in winter
at night they are kept in the foal rearing boxes. We have 3
of those boxes.
Stallions are welcome until the winter when they are two years
old. It is possible to stay in rearing after that, but from that
age on they remain outside in the meadow with their peers day and
night.
News
At the MSN
Newssite you may find:
- Tips and news of the Eagles Ranch
- Photographs of the foal rearing in progress
- Lots of photographs of Paint Horses at the Eagles
Ranch
Camping
You can also come camping at our ranch,
whether it is with or without your horse. In 2003 the mini-camping situated
at the ranch was completely rebuilt at the back of the ranch:
a toilet block with 3 new showers and 3 spacious toilets,
a washingmachine and a separate laundry room in the recration
room. It is possible to make a reservation now.
History
You can find a lot of this family farm's
history in the History of the
Eagles Ranch / de Arend farm.
 Milking goats and Genuine Texel Goatcheese at the Eagles Ranch 
Texel Goatcheese, made from Eagles Ranch Goat's milk, is for sale in various shops and on the Texel market.
There are about 50 hotels and restaurants have that have this goat cheese on their menu.
 Texel sheep
Some 180 Texel sheep are
kept for breeding - the lambing season starts in February.
Small cattle rearing
The
ranch is surrounded by meadows for small farmanimals which may
be stroked and cuddled: mini pigs, dwarf goats, rabbits, ducks,
turkeys and chickens.
See you soon on Texel.
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