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 ®In 1896 Otto N. Barby bought 160 acres of land about seven miles southwest of Knowles, Oklahoma. By the time of his death in 1954, that land had grown into a 130,000 acre spread covering a great deal of Beaver County. Today, the ranch is divided into four separate ranches, operated by his grandchildren's generation. The -B, an early brand used by Grandfather Barby, is the brand of the Bar-B Ranch, owned by Stanley and Junetta Barby, their son and daughter-in-law Rodney and Robin Barby, and their son-in-law and daughter Jim and Debbie Hilton. The ranch includes a registered quarter horse program, a farming and stocker cattle operation, and a commercial hunting lodge. Horses helped build this ranch and continue to play a vital role in the day-to-day operation. Stanley's father, Lloyd J. Barby, laid the foundation of our program by raising many good horses for the government and the ranch using remount stallions. Our program continued to build on this early foundation with the purchase of a cutting horse stallion, Kiowa Dusty, who sired excellent horses for the ranch, show pen, and roping arena. We have continued to produce horses from this great bloodline crossing a descendant of Kiowa Dusty, Bar -B Red Kiowa on Hancock, Driftwood Tanquery Gin and Rocket Wrangler broodmares. The fillies produced from this cross are then bred to descendants of Watch Joe Jack and Cee Booger Red. Raising horses for cattle work on the ranch is our primary goal. We expect our horses to be able to work all day, stay sound and do whatever it takes to get the job done. Confirmation, attitude, ability cow sense and proven foundation bloodlines are key factors in our breeding program. Completing their tour of duty in the Oklahoma Panhandle Sandhills, our horses seem to appreciate the chance to excel as performance horses in the arena. In the training of our performance horses we find that starting them correctly - roping and doctoring cattle out in the pasture on them and moving cattle to various pastures over the tough sandhills before coming to the arena is very important in saving time and effort in helping each horse to reach his potential as a good solid arena horse. Although we have bred registered quarter horses for over fifty years, we have just begun promoting our stallions through AQHA sanctioned horse shows - specifically tie-down roping and team roping. Our horses have also been used in the Oklahoma Cattleman's Range Round Up ranch rodeo for eleven years, gathering up six Top Horse Awards and helping the ranch to win six championship titles and two reserve championships. Our hard work was rewarded in 1996 when the ranch won the Bayer/A.Q.H.A. Best Remuda Award putting us in the prestigious company of Haythorn Land & Cattle (1992), 6666 - Burnett Ranches (1993), W.T. Waggoner Estate Ranch (1994), Stuart Ranch (1995), R.A. Brown Ranch (1997) and Pitchfork Land & Cattle Co. (1998). The Bar-B Ranch, in conjunction with other winners of this prestigious award, have joined together annually to have a special sale known as the Best of the Remuda during the Ft. Worth Stock Show. |
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