Ok, thanks.
We have friends who meets us every Sunday for breakfast before church. This morning she told me that her daughter got a couple of young unbroke mules. The daughter doesn't know anything about even horses. She told her mother that she wants to come out here and "pick Becky's brain" about what to do. LOL. I had no clue if mules could be trained the same. I thought they were all sterile but one of them is a gelding, so that confused me.
I'm going to call Debbie, (the mother), and tell her if she goes out there to see them anytime this week to let me know. I want to see them.
We had a lady who competed on a mule. He was the coolest thing. Samson. The lady who rode him was like 65. They were a pair to see:)
Becky
AHA! I see! Well, she's in the same basic predicament she'd be in with horses not knowing anything.... Are they at her place or in her care now already?
If you end up working with them, I bet you'd enjoy it... Talk to a couple mule people or get a book but they will likely be very quiet and easily trainable if they've been handled well at all.
Jack mules are gelded just for temperament, and for the same reason, sometimes Jenny mules are spayed if they have disruptive heat cycles, because they are just as sterile but they don't know it.
I am back.... gonna upload foal pictures in a minute!