About Us
Near Big Sandy, Montana,
North Country Quarter Horses (NCQH) is a family-owned ranch in North Central Montana, owned by Fred and Linda Finke. The ranch is located just west of Big Sandy, MT; 30 miles west of the Bear's Paw Mountains and 45 miles south of the Canadian border. NCQH grazes our horses in rough, rocky, flat terrain year-round; with this our herd is exposed to extreme heat and bitter cold. This environment helps to create hardy, tough horses that can thrive anywhere. NCQH also run a commercial cattle business. We raise our horses to not only perform in the arena at all levels of competition, but to work cattle and cover ground on the ranch.
The stallions at NCQH are well bred AQHA horses that possess good feet and bone, great dispositions, speed, agility, and conformation. We strive to establish excellence in all aspects of a working or performance horse; stamina, eye appeal, talent, and substance. Our focus is on breeding performance bred stallions to mares that are both performance and ranch prospects. We select mares to complement our stallions in order to find the perfect balance of speed, performance, cow, and foundation lines. Our mares must have keen feminine heads, friendly dispositions, quiet minds, good withers, solid feet, big bone, and size.
NCQH cattle are run on big native pastures year-round. We calve in May and June and wean in early December. With a strong conservation ethic here at NCQH, we work very hard to enhance the natural beauty of the area. Striving to be good stewards of God's creation, we mimic a migrating herd by rotating cattle through many large pasture paddocks. We move and work our cattle using our stallions and ranch raised horses, using traditional methods for branding and herd management in which our horses are used extensively. We not only raise these horses; we use them ourselves on a daily basis.
NCQH invites you to come take a walk through our pastures and look at our broodmares and meet our stallions. If you are in the market for quality horses that can be used on the ranch or to win at any level of competition, this is the place to look. We hope to see you soon!
Ranch Raised AQHA Performance Horses
We pride ourselves in raising AQHA registered horses that are suited for a variety of jobs.
Come and take a closer look!
Our door is alway open! Give us a call, we'd love to have you see our horses for yourself.
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The Boss Ladies
BLACK IN DA CASH ~ AS A YEARLING
Bill Johnson and Gambler
Mares and foals in their late summer, early fall pasture...with the Bears Paw Mountains on the horizon.
Bill Johnson and Gambler
BLACK IN DA CASH ~ AS A YEARLING
Bill Johnson and Gambler
Gambler was one of our stallions that we sold a few years ago. He was a beautiful sire and threw such beautiful foals. We had the opportunity to see him again this last fall... just as kind as ever.
BLACK IN DA CASH ~ AS A YEARLING
BLACK IN DA CASH ~ AS A YEARLING
We purchased 'CASH" from J-T Performance Horses, Broadus MT in 2011. Since then he has sired many a colt for us. He throws them good and throws them plenty!
Bill throwing a dally or two while movin' the herd.
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Bill and his horse, Blackie.. moving mares to the ranch.
Ranch raised performance American quarter horses
Grace, Dustin, and Zach Johnson
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