The Rare Breeds Ranch Paint horses have been bred with a purpose in mind. To breed the best horses we could with available means. Horses bred to perform with quality enough to earn halter points as well.

The purchase of an AQHA Stallion, “Peggy’s Lad” by “Bay Leo” by “Leo”, while Marlin was still in High School and breeding him to a black overo mare was the very beginning of our Paint Horse ‘love affair’! Seriously breeding paint horses and concentrating on black and white’s came a few years later, thus our program has evolved over the past 35 years.

There have been several stand out horses whose names you will see often in the pedigrees. They appear in the reference sire pages.

“Lucky Dragon” a 16+h. black overo stallion going back to “Joe Reed” is one in particular. He put the element of size into his offspring. The Weiscamp bred mare, “Miss Hereford” is another as she was a mare producer and her daughters and granddaughters appear often.

“Mr. Blackjack” by “Jack ‘N Around” by “Flying Fawago”, black overo, a heavily muscled stallion, left his mark on the herd through the ‘80’s with muscle and good heads. He was followed by “MN Deal Me Aces” who left a rare and special mark on our breeding program from 1991 on. This black and white overo horse carries the Weiscamp line of “Buzz Bar Jr” by “Buzz Bar” by “Three Bars”. Yes, “Three Bars” shows directly on his registration certificate. A U C Davis tested Non-Lethal producer, “Papa” as we fondly called him, presented our herd with the element of the Sabino color pattern, good disposition, clean necks and balance.

Another Reference Sire is “Rebel’s Destiny”. A Halter Point earner, “Rebel” has placed at the Denver National Western, OK State Fair, Ft. Worth Stock Show. and OBWC (Black & White Club) “All Around” High Point Stallion. His sire “Senor Rebel” also a 16.1 hand black and white Tobiano was sired by “Mr. Rebel” by “Rebel Bars”. Both of these earned a number of points in halter and performance in their time.

Current stallions include “Mr. Ringo Starr” HYPNN black and white Tobiano and “MN’s Strippin Rebel”, a black and white Tovero sire we raised who is sired by “Rebel’s Destiny” and MNS Buckshot Leo - 396,684 . A heavily muscled Buckskin Tobiano stallion, Buckshot stands 14.1hands. We use him to produce a few smaller horses for
youth or for older riders. He has a tremendous foundation paint pedigree with a combination of many old greats of the breed. His mamma is an all around family horse that we like to ride. Buckshot has a great disposition and is bred to rein and cut.

The current stallions have added more color along with continuing muscle, good heads and necks and disposition.

While we have not actively pursued the show ring for many years, the horses of Rare Breeds Ranch have been shown to championships, and earned many points, etc. in many instances.

The name Rare Breeds Ranch comes from another facet of our lives -- Our interest in rare and exotic breeds and species of animals and the publishing of Rare Breeds Journal.

In the fall of 1990 we left our native area of western North Dakota and came to this beautiful Pine Ridge Country of Nebraska to continue our breeding of Paints in an area that would have a bit warmer climate and more available grasslands.

The breeding of these black and whites (and a few other colors to!) has been a challenge through the years, it is possibly the most difficult criteria of all in the breeding of Paint Horses. Our horses have many generations of black and white behind them and have a much stronger ability to pass on these colors than horses with less concentration of these colors. If you are seeking breeding horses for your program you will find Rare Breeds Ranch bloodlines will be an asset.

While color has been a part of our goal it would be to no avail without quality and putting it all together makes a great challenge as fellow paint breeders will well understand.

It is to this end that Rare Breeds Ranch continues to reach for it’s goal, to surpass it’s own and never cease to strive to breed better paints.