The Lougheed Family of Ontario
Lougheed Stables resides in Brantford, Ontario, we first established in Princeton, Ontario 2013 and in 2016 moved to a bigger farm in Brantford but we have been around lot longer before that. The Lougheed's started early 1900's just outside of a small town called Feversham, Ontario, there my great grandfather started his own farm in Ontario after leaving Scotland. While living in Scotland he also was around horses all the time, but mostly riding light horses rounding up cattle on the ranch or transporting them from town to town, either his own cattle or hired from a local farmer that needs the cattle to be sent for slaughter. In Ontario he had done everything with draft horses working in the fields to feed his family and others in the area, or he helped other farmers work fields so that everything grew on time for harvest time come fall. The family farm stayed in the family for years, my grandfather took over and continued on or years the same way, working the fields with horses (draft). I remember mostly having a barn full of either Percherons or Belgium's on the farm and the most quiet gently giants you could ask for. Us kids use to hang off the horses necks, to crawling under their feet and they would never move until us kids were safe away from them.
I started off real young learning to groom the horses making them shine, as I got older I learned to harness the horses and the proper way of hooking up a team (2) horses to a wagon that we would use around the farm. I learned to drive a team of horses when I was at the age of 8, and loved every moment of it, it was from that moment on that I went everywhere within reasonable distance with a horse or two.
I am sad to say that the Lougheed farm outside of Feversham is no longer in existence due to the economy and as the world changes so do families, most don't want to live the life that our ancestors started because of financial reasons or just don't like farming. The Lougheed farm was sold when I was 14, but today I live on to enjoy what I love the most and that is farmin' with horses.
There is always things to do on the farm, here we raise pigs and at times bull calf's for food for local neighbors or just for ourselves, I get my eggs from my chickens, turkeys for thanksgiving and Christmas and we just purchased male and female peacocks to raise other peacocks for sale. But we also enjoy our horses too, we have two draft horses named Bella and Moonlight. Lougheed Stables have also had other horses that we either bought or they needed a good home at the time. First horse we took in was a little standard bred mare, the original owner gave her up cause even though she was always on the top five for him before race day; she always broke at the gate on race day and he just didn't want to spend the time to find out why. So he allowed me to take her so that she would be having a great home and not send to some slaughter house. With a little time, patience and retraining each horse that was re homed to a forever home are now thriving and doing what they do best for their owner; wither its working the field or travelling the roads -they are all happy and healthy.
Lougheed Stables resides in Brantford, Ontario, we first established in Princeton, Ontario 2013 and in 2016 moved to a bigger farm in Brantford but we have been around lot longer before that. The Lougheed's started early 1900's just outside of a small town called Feversham, Ontario, there my great grandfather started his own farm in Ontario after leaving Scotland. While living in Scotland he also was around horses all the time, but mostly riding light horses rounding up cattle on the ranch or transporting them from town to town, either his own cattle or hired from a local farmer that needs the cattle to be sent for slaughter. In Ontario he had done everything with draft horses working in the fields to feed his family and others in the area, or he helped other farmers work fields so that everything grew on time for harvest time come fall. The family farm stayed in the family for years, my grandfather took over and continued on or years the same way, working the fields with horses (draft). I remember mostly having a barn full of either Percherons or Belgium's on the farm and the most quiet gently giants you could ask for. Us kids use to hang off the horses necks, to crawling under their feet and they would never move until us kids were safe away from them.
I started off real young learning to groom the horses making them shine, as I got older I learned to harness the horses and the proper way of hooking up a team (2) horses to a wagon that we would use around the farm. I learned to drive a team of horses when I was at the age of 8, and loved every moment of it, it was from that moment on that I went everywhere within reasonable distance with a horse or two.
I am sad to say that the Lougheed farm outside of Feversham is no longer in existence due to the economy and as the world changes so do families, most don't want to live the life that our ancestors started because of financial reasons or just don't like farming. The Lougheed farm was sold when I was 14, but today I live on to enjoy what I love the most and that is farmin' with horses.
There is always things to do on the farm, here we raise pigs and at times bull calf's for food for local neighbors or just for ourselves, I get my eggs from my chickens, turkeys for thanksgiving and Christmas and we just purchased male and female peacocks to raise other peacocks for sale. But we also enjoy our horses too, we have two draft horses named Bella and Moonlight. Lougheed Stables have also had other horses that we either bought or they needed a good home at the time. First horse we took in was a little standard bred mare, the original owner gave her up cause even though she was always on the top five for him before race day; she always broke at the gate on race day and he just didn't want to spend the time to find out why. So he allowed me to take her so that she would be having a great home and not send to some slaughter house. With a little time, patience and retraining each horse that was re homed to a forever home are now thriving and doing what they do best for their owner; wither its working the field or travelling the roads -they are all happy and healthy.