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Posted on 06/19/2006 8:46:45 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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Does Tiff have any info on what you should expect from Mia, in a strange place?
Becky
Oh, gaited mules have been a big thing around here for a long time and a good one brings big bucks. But the odds of getting one that is fit to ride are so slim that even when breeding your gaited mares to a good gaited jack, it's a crap-shoot, much less when the daddy is a little sawed-off hairy-ass bugger like this one. There would have been Morning-After shots for all of them if I even remotely thought that he'd been big enough to do his business yesterday. Noooo Ma'am, don't want no little half-ass mules, no way, no how! ;o)
I have seen you do some pretty tricky riding ocassionally!
Alfalfa is high in protein - I think something like 10%, so it is a good complete feed for horses. Horses that are worked hard and lactating mares need more protein so they need grain of some sort.
Becky
I thought I'd heard of them before, but wasn't sure.
What makes it a crap shoot, that they won't gait, or they will be nuts?
Becky
That they won't gait. Inge_Cav had that problem when he bred an old pacey TWH mare that he had to a regular trotting jack, hoping for a mule with a gait somewhere in between. He might have had better luck if he'd used a gaited jack, but still the odds aren't good. You've got to be willing to get rid of a lot of culls to get some good ones and I just don't want to have to deal with that. There's too many horses going to the killers already.
Mia should be fine. She's fairly meek in a herd, she usually gets pushed around by the others. She used to live with the pony, it's possible they'd be happy together, though I wasn't going to start out that way. She's even been turned out here before, when Tiff and I first started riding together, she'd sometimes bring Mia over to turn out with the pony while Tiff and I went on a trail ride, or sometimes would turn Kat out if she was going to ride Mia, so neither would be left home alone. That's been a few years ago now, but we did that a few times.
It's Bay that will likely get all exercised about Mia being here, probably not the other way around.
That will work nicely :~D
Oh, well, that's good. Bay knows the fence line, so you shouldn't have a problem.
Becky
I thought about just leaving the tag that was on it that came from the store, brand, price, etc....but that might be a little Minnie Pearlish, and make me look like an Okie:)
Becky
Hey maybe you would get a gaited mule! I am sure you could get at least a couple dimes for that!
He won't push the fence. He might just keep rushing the fenceline trying to intimidate her like he did Cyn when she arrived.
LOL:)
Becky
Heh - Anything to make it distinctive :~D
We tried that... she doesn't seem to think it's as fun an idea as we do :~)
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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