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JS2 Ranch Subscribers watch foaling LIVE on foaling cam! Home of DMAC WAR WIDOW & SHINING C CHROME The ranch is owned and operated by Shane and Sundi Johnson.

JS2 Ranch is a well-known horse ranch located in Gainesville, Texas, specializing in American Quarter Horses (AQHA) bred for ranch and performance use. JS2 Ranch has a rich history in the AQHA industry and has produced many champion ranch horses over the years. The ranch's breeding program focuses on producing versatile horses that excel in both ranch work and performance events, such as cutting, ranch versatility, cow work, and roping. The ranch is also known for producing horses with exceptional conformation, athleticism, and temperament, making them suitable for a wide range of riders and disciplines. JS2 Ranch takes great care in ensuring their horses are properly trained and socialized from a young age, ensuring they are ready to excel in the show ring or on the ranch. JS2 Ranch is committed to preserving the integrity of the American Quarter Horse breed and promoting the importance of ranch work and horsemanship skills. Overall, JS2 Ranch is a top-tier horse ranch in Texas, well-respected in the AQHA community for their dedication to breeding and training exceptional horses for ranch and performance use.

10/14/2026

Long before Story started surviving imaginary dragons and treating the pasture like her own enchanted kingdom, she was a brand-new filly trying to determine why the Lord had issued her four legs without including an instruction manual. 😂

This was her very first time standing. She would get the front office organized, lose control of the hindquarters, rearrange the entire operation and try again.

Carmella offered a little encouragement, and eventually all four legs signed the same employee agreement long enough to hold her upright. From there, she went looking for the milk bar like she hadn’t just spent the last several minutes folding herself into shapes no horse was designed to make.

Looking back, I suppose we should have known then that this little girl was never going to live an ordinary life. Even her first steps came with suspense, a determined heroine and a mother trying to keep the production moving.

So many of y’all have told me over the years that I ought to write books about these animals—and I finally took all that encouragement and turned it into the first book in Story’s series.

I will tell you right now: writing a book was considerably more work than this rancher expected when she wandered into the literary pasture. 😂 But now that the first one exists, I can already picture more of Story’s adventures finding their way onto the page. That girl certainly isn’t running short on material.

For those of y’all who want to check it out, here’s the link:

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10/13/2026

Before anybody grabs a towel and goes running for the barn—this is Dyna, not our current mare on foal watch. This happened a few years ago, when another pregnant mare decided my carefully prepared maternity ward was merely a suggestion. 😂

I had been watching that mare for DAYS. 24/7. Day and Night.

Pacing. Dripping milk. Pressing against the stall. Lying flat. Every sign that said a baby was coming—and every reason for me to keep one eyeball permanently attached to her hind end.

Then Dyna escaped the maternity ward, fired me as her midwife and, in less than 30 minutes, handled the entire situation herself in the pasture.

Apparently, she wasn’t waiting on the baby. She was waiting on management to leave.

By the time I found her, she was standing beside one healthy, beautiful baby with all the smug satisfaction of a mare who completed the project herself after deciding her supervisor was the problem. 😂

Now, with Molly under cameras and getting closer, this memory is precisely why I trust pregnant mares about as far as I can throw a round bale. You can prepare the stall, organize the supplies and study every sign—but a determined mare will still relocate the delivery room and fire the midwife without notice.

If you’re new here, follow JS² Ranch for daily ranch adventures, foaling stories and real-life updates as we wait for our next baby. Subscribers get closer real-time updates, extra footage and more access to the live foaling cameras.

10/13/2026

Somehow, the hottest man in this pasture is a 37-year-old gelding with no job, no patience and absolutely no idea he’s married. Yet here we are. 😂

Gypsy saw another mare standing in Oldie Goldie’s general zip code and came apart like a two-dollar suitcase.

The other mare claims nobody wants Gypsy’s antique man—which is exactly what a h***y trying to steal your antique man would say.

Then Gypsy plastered herself against him in broad daylight and started demanding privacy like we had interrupted the honeymoon instead of stumbling into a livestock pen before lunch.

Meanwhile, Oldie Goldie stood there looking like a tired husband who had skipped the fine print and accidentally agreed to appear on a pasture version of Jerry Springer. 😂

They are not actually married. This entire relationship exists inside Gypsy’s head—but bless her heart, she is committed enough for both of them.

If you’re new here, follow JS² Ranch for daily ranch adventures, feral pasture marriages and animal storylines that stay messier than anything humans could make up.

10/13/2026

Foals treat due dates the same way husbands treat instructions: as a loose suggestion clearly meant for somebody else. 😂

We walked out to check the mares expecting an ordinary morning—and found this spotted little man standing beside a mama who wasn’t supposed to deliver for another three weeks.

No warning. No appointment. No concern whatsoever for the carefully calculated dates I had written down. He simply arrived early, big, healthy and absolutely perfect… then stood there looking like the rest of us were late. 😍

It remains one of those ranch surprises I’ll never forget—and with Molly getting closer, it’s also a mighty good reminder of why we watch the mares and keep those cameras rolling. Babies come when babies are good and ready, and apparently the calendar is merely a suggestion.

If you’re new here, follow JS² Ranch for daily ranch adventures, foaling stories and the babies who have been disregarding our plans since birth. Subscribers get our closer real-time updates, extra footage and more access to the live foaling cameras.

10/13/2026

🧚 🦋 🦄 Story’s baaaack… 🧚 🦋 🦄

and her fairytales are coming right along with her. 😂

The morning after a big storm, I found her stretched flat in the pasture—and that girl would NOT get up.

Vlad investigated. Deacon arrived with the confidence of a medical professional and the qualifications of a baked potato. I rubbed her, pinched her and tried every trick I knew while my mind climbed aboard the worry horse and took off at a dead run.

Eventually, Story stood up and carried on normally, as though the rest of us had not just conducted a full-scale emergency response over her motionless little body.

According to Story, however, she had been swept through a magical portal, chased by dragons and forced to run for her life before finally finding her way home.

According to the rest of us, she took one heck of a nap.

That girl has never simply experienced an ordinary event. She produces a full-length feature film—complete with special effects, an unpaid supporting cast and a production budget nobody approved. 😂

The rest of the herd lives at a ranch. Story lives in a fairytale, and apparently we’re all just background characters.

If you’re new here, follow JS² Ranch for daily ranch adventures, pasture fairytales and animals who somehow make fiction look reasonable.

10/13/2026

It’s not all sunshine and rainbows every time.

This is an older foal story—not a current emergency—but it is one I will never forget.

His mama was an experienced mare. She had him outside entirely on her own, and this was not her first trip through motherhood. She knew her job. She had milk. She had done everything a good mama was supposed to do.

But by Day 3, something had changed.

He became lethargic. Then he stopped nursing. His mama still had milk—he had simply stopped trying.

This is the part of raising foals that the pretty birth announcements cannot show you. Newborns can change quickly, and they cannot come knock on the door and tell you they need help.

This is why we watch.
This is why we have cameras.

Not because we expect something to go wrong every time, but because the one time it does, noticing matters.

Plasma arrived that night, and we stayed with him through one of those long ranch nights where the clock seems to quit moving altogether.

Then came Day 4.

The little c**t who had stopped trying was back on his feet—and before long, our problem was no longer getting him going. It was trying to keep up with him. ❤️

This is exactly why Molly is under cameras now. We are not expecting the worst or pretending every foaling is an emergency. We are simply watching, because loving them means showing up for the sunshine, the hard nights and every minute in between.

If you’re new here, follow JS² Ranch for the joy, the pasture foolishness and the real-life ranch stories that happen between the pretty pictures. Subscribers also receive closer real-time foal-watch updates and more camera access while we wait on Molly’s baby.

10/12/2026

Apparently the Dalmatian package comes with hooves, a hay bill and absolutely no interest in fetching anything. 😂🖤🤍

Those little legs are just taking that custom paint job for a test drive—and I could watch this spotted little show-off all day. 🥹

Some babies arrive dressed for the pasture. This one arrived dressed for attention. 😂

If you’re new here, follow JS² Ranch for beautiful horses, baby zoomies, opinionated ponies, goat shenanigans and the daily pasture foolishness. This gorgeous baby was born at my sisters, Reiter Farms. Around here, there’s always somebody with four legs making questionable decisions—and we’re usually the one paying for them. 🤦‍♀️😂

10/12/2026

Marriage is all about sharing—at least that’s what people say when they aren’t married to a pocket-sized woman who believes possession is nine-tenths of the law and the other tenth belongs to her too. 😂

Gypsy had her own breakfast sitting right there, untouched. But why eat your own food when you can stand guard over your husband’s like a tiny four-legged bouncer with absolutely no qualifications and entirely too much authority?

I told her, “You’re not even eating it. You’re just guarding it.”

“Yes, I am.”

Well, alrighty then. At least the criminal is honest.

Oldie Goldie is 37 years old, which is old enough to know there are two kinds of husbands in this world: the ones who win an argument and the ones who would still like to eat breakfast. He chose peace and wandered over to her pan—only to discover that what’s hers is hers, what’s his is hers, and the whole dadgum barn apparently falls under community property.

Then I told Gypsy she was naughty.

“So?” 😂

For anybody new here, their “marriage” is pasture fiction—Oldie Goldie is a 37-year-old gelding. The breakfast theft, marital oppression and tiny woman’s complete lack of remorse were painfully real.

Follow JS² Ranch for daily ranch adventures, pasture marriages and real-life updates from animals who could turn breakfast into a full-blown property dispute before the biscuits got cold.

10/12/2026

Molly is officially on Day 316, and because this is her first baby, she has provided us exactly zero previous history and not one useful hint about how she plans to handle any of this. 😂

So the cameras are on, I’m checking her closely, and sleep around here has become more of a loose suggestion than an actual activity.

I would love to tell y’all exactly when this baby is coming, but mares don’t read calendars, maiden mares don’t come with instruction manuals, and Molly appears determined to keep management operating strictly on a need-to-know basis.

I’m not calling labor or promising a date until she gives us a factual reason. For now, we wait on Molly—not the calendar.

Subscribers get more access to our foal-watch cameras, closer real-time updates and extra footage when something meaningful changes. Everybody will still get to follow this baby’s story—subscribers are simply riding sh***un through the slightly feral waiting portion. 😂

If you’re new here, follow JS² Ranch for daily ranch adventures, real-life foal watch and the baby who will arrive whenever Molly dadgum decides.

10/12/2026

I love me a good boss mare, and Pearl was getting her résumé together EARLY. 😂

This is a little throwback to baby Pearl deciding Preacher needed to understand the chain of command.

Those little pinned ears. That stretched-out neck. The sheer confidence of a filly who had apparently appointed herself head of the entire operation without consulting a single other horse. 🤦‍♀️🤣

And honestly? She had the right idea.

Get those brothers straightened out while you still have a size advantage. Establish a few rules. Make sure everybody knows who they’re dealing with.

There was just one small flaw in her business plan…

The boys kept growing into stinky teenagers.😂

Eventually, her brothers did get bigger, and growing up in a herd helped mellow that spicy little attitude. Pearl had plenty of time to find her place among other horses who, as it turns out, also had opinions about how things should be run.

These days, she is the SWEETEST little peach on the place. 🥹🍑

Looking at her now, you’d never know she once walked around with that much authority packed into such a little body.

I loved that confident little boss mare then, and I love the sweet girl she’s grown into. But I am absolutely keeping this footage for the next time she tries to convince somebody she has always been an angel. 🤣🤍

If you’re new here, follow JS² Ranch for baby horses growing into big personalities, opinionated ponies, goat shenanigans, pasture friendships and the daily ranch foolishness. Molly’s foal watch is underway, too, as we wait to meet the next little personality joining the cast. Subscribers get more access to the live cameras and those closer behind-the-scenes moments first. Around here, we raise the babies, pay the feed bill and apparently get very little say in who appoints themselves management. 😂❤️

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