New for 2022: Bed & Breakfast/Adventure Holidays in the Chilcotin
We are extremely excited that starting in May of 2022, we will be adding overnight guest hosting to the many services we offer at Bar 2A Ranch!....and as you can expect from us, this will not be your average bed and breakfast or vacation home!!
Click HERE for more info!
Your Equi-Health Canada Certified Equine First Aid Instructor
As of fall 2021, Irinel is now certified to instruct Equi-Health Canada approved Equine First Aid Courses.
Be it the Equine Emergency First Aid, the Equine Advanced and Wilderness First Aid, the Equine First Aid Fundamentals or the I CAN HELP! Horse First Aid for kids ages 5 to 10, Irinel can help you to get a thorough and life-saving understanding of Equine First Aid!
Taught at our ranch or at a location of your choice, please click HERE for upcoming courses and more details!
Your Canadian Haflinger Association's Provincial Rep for Western Canada
Juri has taken on the role as the representative of the Canadian Haflinger Association for the Western Provinces.
Please don't hesitate to contact us for any questions regarding the Haflinger or the Association. If we don't have the answers right away, we know where to find them and will get back to as soon as possible.
We're looking forward to hear from you! :)
The 2021 Foal Crop
We have a stunning line-up of foals this year!
Hard to pick a favourite, but each one standing out by itself for various reasons.
Are you looking for a future athlete, a trail horse, a driving horse or a new family horse? Our various mare/stallion combinations leave no options open and will ensure we'll find the right prospect for you whatever your goals may be.
After spending their first months of their life within the herd on vast pastures, they now entered our kindergarden, meaning they are now handled daily and getting used to the work with humans. This enables us to get to know their character, aptitude and willingness to work and helps us to identify their strengths and focus on improvements where needed.
More than half of our crop is already pre-sold, but we have a few gems yet looking for a home after weaning and kindergarden.
Call Irinel or click here for more info.
Your Licensed Equestrian Canada Coach
Irinel is a current Equestrian Canada Licensed Performance Coach Specialist for Reining and Horsemanship.
Being a Licensed Coach means:
* able to coach at Equestrian Canada sancions shows and events
* able to prepare and assess participants of the Equestrian Canada Rider Levels Program
* holding a recognized coaching certification
* holding valid and recognized insurance
* being screened (vulnerable sector check)
*meeting and committing to safety and ethical standards laid out by Equestrian Canada
* completion of Safe Sport and First Aid Training
* peace of mind for parents, students and facility owners
The Ranch
Life like back in the old country......
The climate and vegetation of the Chilcotin, with its steep hills and mountains, native and naturally sparse vegetation for pasture, creeks and rivers, sandhills and rock is what the Haflinger is used to and was bred for originally in it's native country of Austria.
Our babies grow up on vast, mountainous pastures within the herd and learn all social skills and natural behaviours no horse should lack. Once weaned, the foals move into our yard, where they are handled daily to ensure every youngster leaving our place is halterbroke, leading, respectful and easy to trailer load. They also learn to be trimmed and will be fully vaccinated.
Besides our Haflinger breeding program, we also operate a full time cattle ranch (Hanceville Cattle Company Ltd.) with a speciality breed cow-calf operation consisting of Belted Galloways, Scottish Highlands and Aberdeen Angus, where we finish our own calves purely on grass and grass-hay before we market them ranch-to-table. For more info, please go to www.hancevillecattleco.com
The Haflinger Trail Horse
We take our Haflingers out on the trail, ...some of them steep and rocky, others through overgrown and thick forests and others out on the native and cactus-covered grasslands and valley-tops.
The Haflinger is second-to-none in it's sure-footedness and endurance, not easy to be spooked and reliable at all times!
The Haflinger Work Horse
We use our Haflingers for daily ranch work, be it checking the cows, moving cattle from the home ranch out to the range and pasture and back, or work them in the corrals during round-up and branding.
They remain calm and cool at all times and actually have an amazing cow sense as well!