Welcome to Queen Valley Mule Ranch

It's time to change not only the way you think about your mule and donkey, but also the way you

feel about your confidence and ability to communicate with them for safety and enjoyment!

Steve Edwards and his wife Susan live on the Queen Valley Mule Ranch, in Queen Valley, Arizona where Steve offers clinics on understanding and training mules, donkeys, and their owners. Steve focuses on partnership with the mule and donkey, teaching how to communicate from the ground, problem mules, shoeing, ranch work, apprenticeship programs for professional mule trainers, colt starting, foundation training, driving from one to six mules, various levels of showing, pack mules, trail riding, and much more. 

Steve trains both the mule and donkey and educates humans through clinics, apprenticeships, and individualized programs.  He has also created a series of instructional videos that teach various muleand donkey care, handling, and training topics.
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mule and donkey saddle designed,developed by Steve Edwards mule,donkey western trail saddle and tack created with you and your mule's comfort and safety in mind. He offers all the basic equipment used on mules for riding, packing, and driving at various levels of training.

Click here to see our Mule and Donkey Tack SPECIALS. Call 602-999-6853 to confirm sales quantities available for immediate shipment.  These sale prices are only good on orders placed through the on-line store and only on in-stock items.

Steve and Susan travel across the U.S. and Canada teaching the mule and donkey,and owner how to communicate. They even had the honor of traveling to Brazil to present a training clinic along with several other clinicians from around the world. You can see Steve at Expos such Equine Affaire,Equifest, Ride The West Hoosier horse fair   MHC Horse Expo Mane Event

FESTIVAL OF THE HORSE,
Steve has been a featured writer for numerous magazines including Western Mule, Mules and More, Rocky Mountain Rider,Trail Rider, and Bridle & Bit Newspaper.   Steve was also featured in Western Horseman in 1999.  He has also been instrumental in establishing the first Mule Training Apprenticeship Program in the newly expanded equine program at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, California and more recently in Arizona at Central Arizona College.  In 1998 Steve began a project of training twelve mules for a riding and driving program at the Phoenix Zoo. He also trained zoo workers to present informational programs on mules, their history and their abilities.

Queen Valley Mule Ranch is a working ranch. Steve and the apprentices not only training at the ranch they also work cattle, pack freight, train in the Superstition mountains and other mountain ranges. Steve Edwards travels throughout the United States,Brazil and Canada giving clinics on mule handling.  He teaches a course in mulemanship at Pierce College, part of the Los Angeles Community College System where students earn a mule trainer’s certificate.   Steve frequently appears on Rural Heritage on RFD-TV to demonstrate how to train mules and donkeys.  When he’s at home in Arizona, mule owners flock to his Queen Valley Mule Ranch to learn to communicate more effectively with their mules and donkeys.

Note from Steve:  Due to the nature of mule training, Queen Valley Mule Ranch is only open to the public by appointment.

Hey mule and donkey owners! 

Here is Steve's latest DVD filmed on location at

Michigan Horse Council's Expo 2008.

In this video you will see Steve start a donkey that

has never been ridden.  You will see Steve and

the donkey's owner train the donkey

step-by-step for a good foundation.

In this DVD you will also see a runaway

mule both in the saddle and on the ground

This mule is being trained by a professional dressage

trainer for her client.

You will see the techniques

and training tools that Steve uses to help the

dressage trainer communicate with the mule.

Steve wants to give a special "Thank You" to all

of the customers he has been privileged to serve

Since 2001.

You will get this Four DVD set for

$39.95 plus $7.00 S&H

Hey Steve, where are you and

Susan this week

We have been Punching Cows and

getting fall works done .

Opening day of deer season

November 13

I scored a 3X3 at 175 yards

this was 10 min before dark

I'm proud to say my son Sean

harvested the big one

deer scored 160

This is POPEYE the mule

Yep Sean needed dad and the mules

Now I'm back at the ranch .

Hey mule riders give me a holler

what are you doing?

email or phone me!

We have brand-new colors for the mule riders all around the world.

click here to see the

new 5 new saddle pads