Run a Ranch 101 – Banshee Ranch

Run a Ranch 101 Clinic

We have decades of experience managing both large and small amounts of stock as well at over 70 years combined experience in both residential and commercial construction. Come take advantage of our years of hard work and make your place a paradise!

This clinic will have you start off by following a routine used daily to care for the entire ranches stock then we will move around the ranch so you can get both visual and hands on experience in all the aspects that make a ranch run smoothly. We will show you where we have tried different methods and what’s worked for us as well as discuss what’s worked for our clients in the past. Save yourself thousands of dollars and years of headaches. Don’t waste your time re-inventing the wheel when you can do it right the first time around. It doesn’t matter if you’ve lived in the country your whole life or are trying out the lifestyle this clinic has something for everyone.

Follow feeds routine that manages 40+ stock
Cleaning a stall
- Material types
- Mats vs dirt
- Water vs bucket
- Hay net vs feeder

Disposal of refuse
- Spreader vs dump
- Effect on land

Fencing types
- Pros and cones
- Wood
- Wire
- Driving t post
- Pulling t post
- Repairing wire
- H posts
- Gates

Water tanks
- Types
- Shapes
- Leveling
- Auto fill
- Repairs
- Tricks of the trade

Barn building
- Pads
- Concrete and barriers
- Placing your drains
- Sizing your drains
- Adding clean outs
- Using field lines effectively
- Wood vs steel vs Treated
- To insulate or not
Other Thoughts:
- Fans
- Planning your electric
- Dangers of pole wires to horses
- Tie rack vs stall tie
- Vet racks
- Sky lights
- Stall styles
- Open or barred
- Slid vs swing
- Vet emergency
- Quarantine ability
- Feeder types and safety
- Tack room issues
- Cost of tack worksheet
- Feed room issues
- Rotating feed
- Pest control
- Hay storage planning
- Hay storage danger

Lunch Time
Nutrition
- Hay square vs round
- Feeding squares
- Round bale feeders
- Types and dangers
- Feed calculator for cost estimate

Wells
- How to prime
- How to winterize
- Proper shut off planning
- Markers
- Valve boxes

Sprinkler systems
- Pressure calculation
- Backflows
- Grey water
- Permits
- Licenses

Cattle guards when and why

Walkers
- Types and why

Hot wires

Arenas and round pens
- Arena fencing
- Panel vs wood
- Footing
- Creating a base
- Dragging equipment
- Logs on fence drag
- Lighting
- Watering options
- Always rake open arena
- Round pen sizes
- Covered vs open

Erosion
- Nature vs livestock
- Gideon baskets
- Top drain vs French
- Culvert Calc
- Culvert types
- Soil types
- Plants
- Herbicides
- Pesticides
- Ag extension and services they offer
- Pasture maint
- Creating a gentle slope
- Toxic plants

Driveway
- Bases
- Tops
- Types
- Maintaining
- Accessing all points of the property with equipment

Automatic gates
- Solar vs electric
- Battery backups

Small motor Equipment
- Gaters
- 4 wheeler
- Tires and repair
- Oil changes
- Storing gas
- Mixed gas
- Weed eaters

Tractors
- Size and type to fit your needs
- 4WD vs 2
- Attachments you will need
- Used vs new
- Common problems

Ponds or tanks
- Clearing the water
- Getting a good seal
- Planned overflow
- Permits

Chickens
- Houses
- Floors with wire
- Heating Fire hazards
- Fans
- Auto door vs not
- Free range vs not
Eggs
- Checking
- Hatching
Livestock Guardian dogs
- Pyr vs Anatol

Getting a cheap fixed barn cat

If time allows

Pasture position philosophy (our run around method)
Ranch houses
Block and beam vs concrete foundation
Open foam vs closed vs blown insulation
Pro and cons other construction issues
Electrical outlet heights
Future blocking in walls
Wood vs steel beam
Door jam rot
Stained concrete
Tile in pier and beam
Grout special
Expanding plans
History of landscaping and why it has no business on a ranch

Sanity check 😂

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