2022 Montana Workshops
We are currently booking students in our 2022 Driving, Working, and Training Horses in Harness Workshops! 2022 Workshop Dates May 29-June 4 (Full) September 4-10 …
Personalized Distance Coaching with Doc
WhAt is Distance Coaching At Doc Hammill Horsemanship? Distance coaching has proven to be an amazingly effective and successful way for me to help students improve their: understanding of horses, gentle horsemanship skills, safety, and driving and training abilities. Students work with their horse(s) at home and I coach and …
Doc Hammill’s Instructional Horsemanship DVDs
What are Doc’s Instructional Horsemanship DVDs about? Doc’s timeless DVDs have helped thousands of people worldwide attain higher levels of understanding, gentleness, skill, safety, and success with their equines. You can benefit from Doc’s lifetime of learning, experience, and teaching from the comfort of your home with the simple push …
What is Gentle Horsemanship?
What does Gentle Horsemanship mean to Doc and Cathy? There is a growing public awareness about a revolution in horsemanship that is rapidly spreading across the globe. Many of the traditional methods of the past have become obsolete. A more horse-friendly and psychologically and scientifically superior way of interacting …
Borderland Ranch Home Garden Transition
We are transitioning our conventional organic garden to a regenerative organic no-till garden. Many changes will have big effects! We are using compost to form permanent beds and continue to build organic matter. We are using heavy mulches between rows to reduce weed pressure, in our case, it is soiled …
Introducing Your Horse to Driving with A Bit
Hello, Doc — I went for a few days to a very experienced driving instructor to introduce my Donkey to driving with a bit, as I felt this was certainly an area in which I have little if no experience. My Donkey opened his mouth to evade pressure from the …
Be Your Horse’s Leader and Partner
Do You Dream of being the Leader and Partner Your Horse Needs You to Be? Turn Your Dream into Reality: attend a Doc Hammill Horsemanship Workshop at Borderland Ranch in 2022 Would you like to learn to develop Trust, Respect, and Leadership in your relationship with your horse? feel safe, …
Reviving the Horse Power of Montana, Doc Hammill Teaches a Vanishing Art
Reviving the Horse Power of Montana Doc Hammill teaches a vanishing art “This isn’t about me”, he says. “I used to just teach people how to work horses in harness, but that has evolved. Now, it’s much more than that.” He pauses thoughtfully. “I’ve discovered that when people learn how …
A Gentle Horsemanship Message from Doc
At Doc Hammill Horsemanship we help you to learn how to work, drive, and train horses in Gentle, Effective ways that make sense to equines. Consider making 2022 the year that you advance your horsemanship skills by participating in one (or all) of Doc and Cathy’s many learning opportunities so …
Horse-Drawn Bale Moving Wagon
We use our horse-drawn bale moving wagon regularly on the ranch to move bales! We purchased the wagon as seen here. It was made by the seller, who assembled components to make a very useable and maneuverable wagon. It has Gehl running gear and is shortened to a 10-foot bed …