Rek-Rah Ranch

05/11/2026

Saturday’s fun day…

04/12/2026

04/04/2026

Well, it was OVERWHELMING voted on that the
🪩GLITTER SH***ER GITTER🪩 would be our 50k fan giveaway prize! So let’s DO this! ✨

🦄FRF 50k Fan Giveaway🦄

Winner will receive ONE customized aluminum stall fork, with shipping included in the US lower 48. International is welcome to enter, but balance for shipping over US shipping value will be winner’s responsibility.

-All aluminum material (approx 5lbs)
-powder coat finish in your choice solid or glitter finish
-customization (simple brand or wording up to 12 letters)- no full logos or detailed designs at this time.

Multiple ways to get in on this👇🏼

You MUST like/follow FRF’s page and do any of the following-

-like, comment, and share (publicly) this post
-tag a friend in the comments that would love a GSG fork as well!
-invite your friends to follow FRF
-for an EXTRA entry, every order the month of APRIL will also be automatically entered to WIN!

I ain’t foolin’! You don’t wanna miss this!

Regular estimated turn around time applies at time of closing.

🚨as always, do not give out your personal information. We will never ask for your info or payment, we will contact the winner directly and go live the first week of May to make the announcement ⭐️

04/02/2026

🐎 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐒𝐄 𝐆𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐀𝐖𝐀𝐘🐎

If someone opened your camera roll right now how many horse photos would they find?

Let’s test it. Drop the LAST horse photo in your camera roll in the comments.

No staging.
No scrolling back to find the “good one.”
We want real life.
With it being foaling season this could be interesting.

🐎GIVEAWAY #1

One winner will receive a Limited Edition PHT Fly Mask of their choice!

To enter:
• Follow Revelation Ranch PHS
• Share this post
• Drop your photo in the comments

Winner announced LIVE on Facebook 2/27/26

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✨ BONUS GIVEAWAY ✨

We’re doing a SECOND drawing for a
💳 $25 Digital Revelation Ranch Gift Certificate

To enter that one:
• Join •Revelation Ranch VIP•
• Drop your horse photo in the VIP post

That’s it.

Two posts.
Two winners.
More horses. 🐎

04/01/2026

🥺After a lot of thought, stress, money, hauling, heartbreak, early mornings, late nights, feed bills, entry fees, broken panels, broken trailers, broken sleep, and full-blown emotional damage…

We’ve decided we’re done.

Done with livestock.
Done with stock shows.
Done building our entire lives around feed schedules, weigh days, jackpot weekends, fair deadlines, breeding timelines, and animals that can bankrupt you emotionally and financially before breakfast.
We are sick of FFA.

Honestly… we’re just tired.

So yes, we’ll be selling off a lot of the gear and equipment.

Show supplies.
Panels.
Fans.
Buckets.
The random mountain of stuff you somehow accumulate when your entire personality gets held hostage by agriculture.

And depending on how committed we are to this fresh start… the horse trailer may also be listed later today.

God this is going to save so much time, money, stress, diesel, chaos, and psychological wear and tear.

No more planning life around whether something is:
• bred
• due
• entered
• clipped
• washed
• weighed
• fed
• bloated
• limping
• off feed
• acting weird
• or trying to die at the worst possible time

We’re ready for peace.

We’re ready for weekends.

We’re ready to stop spending the GDP of a small nation on animals who look at us like we’re the problem.

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April Fools.

Anyway if anyone needs me, I’ll be outside financially supporting bad decisions with a feed scoop in one hand and emotional instability in the other.

Feel free to steal this if it fits your rural humor😉

03/28/2026

CL in Sheep & Goats — Article 1

What This Disease Actually Is

If you spend enough time raising sheep or goats, you will eventually hear two letters spoken quietly and often with a great deal of concern.

CL.

Caseous lymphadenitis is one of those diseases that carries more confusion than clarity.
People know it involves abscesses.
People know it can spread.

But very few people have ever been taught what it actually is —
or more importantly — how it behaves inside the animal.

Before we talk about testing, vaccines, or what to do about it…

We need to start with a more important question:

What kind of disease are we dealing with?

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Not a Fast Disease — A Persistent One

Caseous lymphadenitis is caused by a bacterium called
Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis.

Unlike many of the diseases producers are used to dealing with, this is not a fast-moving, overwhelming infection.

It doesn’t typically knock animals down in a matter of hours or days.

Instead, CL behaves more like something that moves in… and stays.

A better way to think about it is this:

This is not a lightning strike disease.
This is a long-term resident.

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A Disease of the Lymphatic System

CL primarily targets the lymphatic system —
the part of the body responsible for filtering fluid and monitoring for infection.

If we simplify this down:

Think of lymph nodes as security checkpoints scattered throughout the body.

Fluid passes through them.
Cells are inspected.
Threats are identified and dealt with.

Most infections pass through this system and are cleared.

CL does something different.

It doesn’t just pass through the checkpoint.

It sets up inside it.

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Containment Instead of Elimination

Once this bacterium establishes itself in a lymph node, the body responds the way it often does with difficult infections:

It builds a wall around it.
It isolates it.

This creates what we recognize externally as an abscess.

But that abscess isn’t random.

It is a containment structure.

A better way to picture it:

The body is not winning the fight.
But it is preventing the spread.

Inside that structure:
• bacteria remain alive
• immune cells remain active
• and the two exist in a kind of controlled standoff

Over time, this produces the thick, layered material many producers describe as “onion-like.”

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Two Forms — What You See and What You Don’t

CL shows up in two very different ways:

External CL
• Visible abscesses in lymph nodes
• What most people recognize

Internal (Visceral) CL
• Infection inside the body
• No visible abscesses
• Gradual weight loss, poor performance

This second form is often the more important one from a production standpoint —
and also the easiest to miss.

As I attempted to show in the article image, it’s like an iceberg. The single abscess you can see might just be the tip of the iceberg itself.

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Why This Disease Gets Misunderstood

CL creates a unique situation for producers:
• Animals can look completely normal
• The infection can persist for long periods
• And the most visible sign (abscesses) is only part of the story

Because of this, people tend to oversimplify it into one of two extremes:
• “It’s no big deal”
or
• “It’s catastrophic”

In reality, it is neither of those things.

It is a management disease —
and understanding how it behaves is what determines the outcome.

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Where We Go Next

Now that we’ve defined what CL is,
the next step is to understand the system it lives in.

Because once you understand how the lymphatic system works normally,
you’ll start to see why this disease behaves the way it does —
and why it can be so difficult to fully eliminate.

03/20/2026

More great lambs headed to the main event!

Loaded and off to the Main Event.

03/20/2026

Go see our friends! You won’t be disappointed!

The calm before the storm! We were happy to make it to Des Moines last night and get our sales rack set up. Can’t wait to see you at the Main Event! Find us at pen #74!

03/17/2026

Bottle Kid Giveaway!
Sub zero temperatures, 50 mph wind gusts, and 3 foot snowdrifts make for a tough start to our baby goat season. Today’s count is well over 100 newborn goats. If you would like some bottle kids, send us a message. Follow our page, like, comment, AND share this post, or any of our photos and videos of the past for your chance at a drawing for a newborn baby goat. The rest will go for our local market rate. You can also donate and sponsor a 4H / clover kid for the 2026 fair season. Send us a message for details on how to make that happen.
First come, first served. Thank you for following along and may good weather be ever in your favor.

01/22/2026

🌾 Forage = Heat 🔥: Fueling horses through cold weather

Plummeting air temperatures mean your horse needs more energy to maintain their body temperature and condition. One of the best sources of warmth comes from fiber fermentation; the microbes in your horse’s hindgut generate heat as they digest forage. That’s why forage = heat.

During cold weather, meeting your horse's higher energy needs with forage is one of the most effective ways to help keep them warm and comfortable. How much forage is enough?

For every degree below 18°F, a horse's dietary energy needs increase 1%. For example, if a 1,000-pound horse needed 17.5 pounds of good-quality hay each day when the temperature was above 18°F, its requirement would be increased by about 3 pounds (to 20.5 pounds daily) if the temperature dropped to 0°F.

Let's break down the math in this example:
1,000-pound healthy horse at maintenance needs about 17 Mcal energy daily
Hay analysis indicates 0.97 Mcal energy per pound of hay

0.01 (% energy increase) x 17 Mcal (horse's daily energy) x 18 (number of degrees below 18°F) = 3 Mcal additional energy needed at 0°F.

3 Mcal additional energy / 0.97 Mcal energy per pound of hay = ~3 pounds of additional hay needed

3 pounds additional hay + 17.5 pounds hay daily (when above 18°F) = 20.5 pounds of hay per day to meet energy demands at 0°F