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Posted on 09/18/2004 6:56:23 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Well, glad you had a good ride then and you didn't get eaten!
Yea. Good for you:')
Yep, that was good enough reason to quit riding with them.
Yesterday, I was able to wrangle a trip up near the Amish. After the business part was over and I was close anyway, I drove on over to the settlement. They have been cooking sorghrum molasses the past week and I did bring back a quart. Can't wait to try this year's batch. Didn't have enough time to drive around and visit the people I know. Had to rush back to work.
Several corn fields were full of shocked corn stalks. Wish I had taken a picture. : )
Not sure if I should comment on that or not........
I always flew my plane like that though. : )
Where is everybody at?:')
Good morning
Becky
Nothing special. I am going to try to ride two today.
Becky
I'm not sure if it's the same thing or not, but being able to stear by shifting your weight is really handy when you're riding through an area with no trail and you need your hands to keep the branches from ripping your face off. I think it's cool too that horses are that sensitive.
I wish you'd made pictures too. I love going up there. It's awsome to see them using 3 and 4 Belgians abreast to pull their farm equipment. I need to pay a visit to the saddlemaker up there. I'd like to have one of those trooper saddles he makes. The western model I bought from him last year was gorgeous but it didn't fit Tennessee very well so I sold it to Donnie. It fits Bullet just fine though.
I'm not getting to ride today. :o( I've got some work to do, but at least I can login and do it from home, then I've got a family reunion to go to and I've got to cook something (God help 'em) and I've got baled hay on the ground that needs putting in the barn after that. I didn't know the guy was going to bale it. I'd much rather he'd rolled it. I've gotten spoiled since I started using rolls. Don't wanna fool with square bales anymore. Too much work!
We got tired of messing with square bales about 10 years ago and started using Horse Chow by Purina. It is a complete pellet. The girl that owns the horse I'm riding, did not want to change his feed program so she had a round bale delivered here for him. I have been tempted to try round bales, but now I wouldn't use them. Lots of waste, at least by this horse.
I know alot of people (well most, I know no one else that uses complete pellets:), are leary of them. But I have really been impressed at the ease. And I do believe my horses like them too. On camping trips, I hang a hay net just for something to do while they are tied, they really don't seem to be that interested in it.
Becky
Good morning! Not sure ~what~ we are going to do today. Up until five minutes ago I thought I was going up to the beach house, but that is not till ~next~ week. (feels like an airhead)
So we may haul some sticks or something out of the back forty, maybe torch some of the burn pile!! Maybe work a little closer at figuring out how to build another stall in the barn, and maybe ride, who knows!
I've discovered riding all these different horses, that so much of what I believed was cues "trained" into a horses is really just natural responses from the horse. Like leg pressure to turn, and shifiting your weight back to stop. You can enhance the natural responses by using them alot, but even horses young in riding experience will flex and turn, and move sidewise with just leg pressure. I thought that was cool, because it meant even I could do it:), it doesn't take any being a trainer.
Becky
Well, I'm going to ride today but not sure when yet. The boss in Austin and keeps calling with things to do and I've got my son and his new family coming over this morning and I have to take my grandson out to sell donuts (Crispy Creams) for a fund raiser for his school. I offered to just buy some but evidently that's not the way it's done:')
MMMMMMm, I just found out Eddie not even on call this weekend. My caller ID gonna fix that little problem!
Remember how I said that Sarah Lee didn't respond to leg cues unless strong pressure? I've been doing what Hair suggested and just using light pressure while reining and she's starting to respond. Maybe the instinct still there but was being ignored?
She felt it before, she just didn't know what she was supposed to do about it :~)
With a horse that doesn't respond as readily, a spur will help. I'm not taking kicking with it, just pressing. Also makes it easier on the rider. The horse feels it alot quicker and you don't have to wear your leg out pressing so hard. In fact I use spurs on everything I ride for my benefit instead of the horses:). When you first start using them, you need to remember you have them on, but after awhile it becomes second nature, and just a touch of them and the horses moves over. Really cool, going down a trail at a fast trot or lope and steer them back and forth on the trail to miss getting hit with low branches. Never have to touch their mouth.
Becky
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