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Posted on 09/18/2004 6:56:23 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Free Republic has a lot of horse people that have found each other on other threads…. And since we all like to talk horses, how about a thread where it is not off-topic, but is THE topic?
A few of us thought it would be interesting and informative to have a chat thread where we can share ideas, ask for input from other horsemen, and talk about our riding and horse-keeping. We have a lot of different kinds of riders and horses, and a lot to share. In the last thread we had a great time and were a great help to each other working through lessons and training, horse lamenesses and illnesses, questions and challenges and always just our stories we like to tell.
I always have a link to this thread on my profile page, so if you have something to say and can't find the thread in latest posts… look for it there and wake the thread up!
I also have a ping list for horse threads that are of interest, and Becky pings everyone most mornings. Let Becky (Paynoattentionmanbehindthecurtain) and/or me know if you would like to be on the ping list. As FreeRepublic is a political site, our politics and other issues will probably blend in…. There are many issues for horsemen that touch politics… land use, animal rights/abuse cases that make the news…. Legislation that might affect horse owners.
So... like the last thread, this is intended as fun place to come and share stories, pictures, questions and chit-chat, unguided and unmoderated and that we come together here as friends. There are lots of ways of doing things and we all have our quirks, tricks and specialties that are neat to learn about.
You two have picked out a good horse, Congratulations!
ecurbh and I are exhausted, all this excitement! Neither of us slept a wink last night.
LOL! I know the feeling, just wait until she has a colt. : )
HA! ;~D
There is nothing like raising your own colts. : )
Ping
Hey, are you there, was trying to call you but your line is busy. Need to ask you a question?
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duchess47...Welcome to the thread! Thanks for the suggestion, to check Appaloosas.com. I missed out on a young gelding in my area, last year.
hair and ecurbh...I am glad you got your horse. Best of luck, and thanks for pics.
Cindy...how did you weekend go?
I got back home, late this afternoon. It was start right back in with fence work. Kids didn't get the wire strung. They got the hay, and a load of firewood. I did buy a tamper, and we set them better, and got the brush burned. I did get to Lowe's and bought a couple of labor savers. I got one of these.
No more lettting that fence line, get so overgrown.
We were supposed to leave this morning but about 12:30 in the morning we were just laying there and he asked me if I wanted to go home. I did so we got up and left and got home about 1am and went right to sleep in our own bed:')
That little fenceline trimmer is a pretty swell little tool!
Read your post on the ASPCA thread, and was wondering how things with your mare are going.
I haven't done much yet. Job demands. I'm gonna keep her awhile. I plan to start the exercises Becky and I were talking about and I'm back to lessons. I feel like a ninny but I don't want to ride her without the trainer/previous owner present. If for no other reason, if she throws me again, I want her to see it. I'm still thinking about the horse training issue. If I do I'm going to have to send her out because I can't afford that and boarding. My BIL sending one of his out. I'm thinking about it.
Don't feel like a ninny if you want someone there when you ride her. :-) That's perfectly normal and acceptable given the circumstances. I wouldn't worry about it. I feel the same way about the horse that I'm riding right now. She spooks at the drop of a hat. I really don't know why I haven't been dumped yet. :-) But I ride her because I'm young and foolish, and I like the challange, even though I probably can't afford to hurt myself anymore... lol!
I sat and watched them this afternoon, with Bay frantically trying to rush that mare when she and the pony would try to greet, and I decided the problem was Bay's possessiveness of the pony. He was acting like he was her mother or guardian. So... I decided to try two things. (1) get the pony out of the equation. We moved the pony into the back forty by herself. She didn't care, it was all Bay's problem. And.... (2) I decided to work the heck out of Bay on the lunge. This both wore him down, and took him down a notch or two in his place in the kingdom. ecurbh lunged Cyn too, just a little ways away.
When we were done, we walked them around together, in close proximity, and they didn't seem too overly interested in each other so we just let them loose. They went separate directions and Bay went for a while to the fence-line where his pony was.
After awhile, when she grazed closer to him, he took a renewed interest in her, and did lunge at her once, biting her and running her off. I missed that on film. ;~D
But after that, they just eyedballed each other while pretending to ignore one other ;~D
They grazed around, at a polite distance, for quite some time. She started showing signs of coming into heat. I had predicted that she might go immediately into heat, since it had been awhile since she had been around a boy.
So about that time, Bay had an epiphany ;~D
"Pony? What pony? Her> She doesn't mean a ~thing to me!"
We separated all three into different places for this first night, but I think tomorrow at breakfast we are going to just open all the gates.
Heh.... Wear lead-weighted shoes? ~grins~
LOL.
Good pictures:')
Yes, and that will make it more difficult for you. But, it sure won't be impossible :)
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