Red Rock Ranch and Breeders: Introduction/About Us

Hello,

Thank you for your interest in our business and our lives. We have just begun as a breeding business and have successful bred and sold our first litter of Pure-Bred Border Collie pups this past summer 2015. We are anxious for what this year brings as we have grown to five dogs and have the possible combination of three mixed breeds and one purebred breed. We are anxious to see how our first litter of Pomsky puppies turn out, our Husky (Nakita) should be coming into heat in the next few months and we are anxiously awaiting her cycle. We also have our Nigerian Dwarf/Pygmy mix goats. All 6 of our females are bred and will be kidding January through April.

I will begin with a little bit about our family and then introduce our animals. My name is Aerika Newman my husband Curtis and I were married in March of 2011. We met in high school but didn't date much, we reconnected about 3 years later and decided to give us a try. The rest is history we fell in love quickly and were married within 10 months of reconnecting. We moved to Logan from Salt Lake for Curtis to go to USU to get his bachelors in business management. He graduated December 2014 and we have loved him being finished. We had our first child, a daughter, Lizzi in May of 2014, we were so happy we had been trying for a few years for children and couldn't believe we finally had a human baby to love. 6 months later we were shocked to find out we were expecting again! Although very unexpected we were very happy. We had our second child, another daughter, McKenna born in August of 2015. We love our little family and we want nothing more than to instill in our daughters the joy and sense of pride that comes from working with your hands and with animals. So we have started our breeding business to help them learn to care for animals, learning responsibility, and teaching money management along the way.

Totally pathetic but this is the only picture I have of all of us. McKenna was only 3 weeks old, she is now nearly 5 months.

First I will introduce our dogs; we have 3 border collies, 2 females and one male. Rose(Rosie) and Daisy are our females, Axle is our male. Rosie will be two in March, Daisy will be one in May and Axle will be 3 in August. Axle and Rosie had their first litter June 23, 2015, 3 pups one female and two males. They were healthy and strong and Rosie was a wonderful mother, they all found their forever homes in August a week before I had our second daughter. We let Rosie rest her fall heat cycle and will be breeding her on her spring cycle again this year. We are also watching for when Daisy will go into heat and decide if she is ready to bred her first cycle or if she needs to wait until her second cycle. After we sold Rosie's pups we studded Axle to a friend's female. She had 8 pups 3 females and 5 males. Dogs only have heat cycles every 6 months so it is very important for us to keep close track of their cycles. We also have our Husky Nakita and Pomeranian Leo who will be our first generation Pomsky parents. If all goes well we will be looking into possibly getting an additional husky to bred two litters of Pomsky's.

Rosie on the left, Axle on the right

Rosie on the left Axle on the right

Daisy the day we brought her home.

The three of them together

Daisy showing natural instinct

Daisy and Axle working together. Rosie was in her fall cycle and was shut away.

Rosie with her first litter

Rosie and Axles Pups

Rosie and Axle's Pups left is Howl(male), middle Shasta(female), and right is Tank(male)

Shasta (female)

Shasta at 6 months old with her new family.

Tank(male)

Tank at 6 months old with his new family.

Howl (male)

Howl at 6 months old with his new family.

One of Axles pups he studded (not Rosie's)

Leo one year old Pomeranian

Nakita 3.5 year old husky

Leo and Nakita having a snow day

Fetch time!

Everyone wants the ball

Axle for the win!

Our first daughter Lizzi with Leo

Nakita says if I fits I sits doesn't only apply to cats.

Next we have our goats; we have two bucks and six does. Our two bucks are BB Jones (BB stands for Big Boy) and Flash Gordon Junior (his father was Flash Gordon because he is so flashy!). Our does are Lulu Lollipop and her sister Marshmallow, Oreo, S'more, Cookies and Cream (formerly Chloe), and Snickerdoodle (formerly Annabelle). We have had Marshmallow and Lulu since February of 2014 they are sisters. We had their mom (Lafawnduh) for a little bit as well but sold her once the girls were weaned. We got S'more, Oreo and Gordy June of 2014. We got BB August of 2015 and Cookies and Cream and Snickerdoodle in October of 2015. All girls were successfully bred this fall. Lulu and Marshmallow are due first. Oreo should kid in February and S'more should kid end of February beginning of March. Snickerdoodle should kid end of March beginning of April and Cookies and Cream should kid in April. We are going to be swimming in babies and we couldn't be more excited.