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Posted on 03/21/2005 7:18:04 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
What do yall think?
Ok, I should be around my house or moms or in between. Well I am really tired I will talk to you tommorrow
Good Night Everyone
CS
As pretty as ever - looks like he's lost weight though.
A little. He still hasn't taken his place back in the herd yet so we are giving him extra groceries. He wanted out today but I couldn't handle both of them and a 4 y/o.
Tuffy stumbles alot at the lope. He was trained western pleasure and has a very low arc when he lopes so on uneven ground he's usually tripping as he goes along. I like to work him over ground poles and after a few sessions of that, he's picking his feet up better. He's also big, fat and lazy so that doesn't help.
Bud ran over me going through a gate one time. I was close to the pole so when he ran through he smashed me against it. He was gone too fast for me to correct him but I always make sure I don't stand next to the gate when I'm letting him in or out.
The girl I bought him from (who I'm still in touch with, she just had a baby) told me he did that to her once, too.
Morning. I love the extra hr in the evening but it's just to early to get up. I can hardly open my eyes:')
I guess she just needed to warm up. She may not need it any more but I warm her up good before riding. Sarah Lee big and probably fat too but she does like to go.
Good morning.
Tuffy, sorry about Winnie. Did the vet say how long it would take before you saw results?
Becky
I wouldn've wasted that time howling too... and throwing in a couple choice words for good measure. :-) Are you ok?
I was trying to handle an uppty thoroughbred through a gate once, and he just wanted to charge through it instead of being mannerly. It was very narrow, so one of us had to step through first and the other follow, and that first person was going to be me! Long story short, he charged anyway, and threw me against the pole while his back hoof peeled out on my ankle. Hurt like hell.
What is it about gates, that horses do that:)
Approaching gates either leading or riding seems to change their attitude real quick. Either way when I have a horse that has charged thru/too a gate I anticipate it happening and start giving the horse lite commands "before" I get to the trouble spot and increase the intensity of the command as warrented by the horses actions. When leading them if I feel them starting to get in a hurry I whoa them, then give the "easy" command, if that doesn't work, start bumping them on the nose with the halter, and increase the intensity of the bumps, even backing them till they are willing to walk thru nicely. Usually once or twice of this routine and they learn to behave.
Becky
I've been quick enough to get out of her way so far with Cyn. It's a feeding time behavior, and though any of them can get on the muscle and pushy at feeding time.... you can't wave her off! And she isn't fazed by slapping her with your hands either. This unspookability of hers, combined with an agenda to be where you are is a bad combination. We'll be working on this for awhile, I'm afraid.
I really don't want to use the whip on her so much that she becomes spooky or hard to catch either. Her unflappability and boldness is her best feature... But there has to be a balance where we are concerned. She always gives space to Bay, we just have to figure out how to get at least where he is in her pecking order.
So you feed them in their stalls?
Becky
So=do
Becky
"Tuffy, sorry about Winnie. Did the vet say how long it would take before you saw results?"
He probably did but I don't remember what he said. I'll call him today.
I have been - which doesn't give us too much opportunity to work on it, because we feed them from the aisle on the other side.... don't have to go in with them with the bucket.
But when we go to put them in, I have to open each of their gates individually so they don't go in the wrong one. This is one of the times she'll run over you to get in her stall if you don't open it and get out of the way. There is usually no feed poured in the stalls yet, we do that after they are in, to decrease the level of frenzy a little.
When she's run over me then, I have gotten mad and put a line on her and taken her back out to walk or lunge for a minute.
What happened yesterday was that we were walking out to the pasture with a bucket that wasn't even feed, it was barn sweepings that were full of hay seeds and we were gonna go spread it in the pasture. Cyn and the pony were hovering behind ecurbh anyway, following, and Cyn went to lunge at the pony we think, and ecurbh was in the way. Of course... she's loose and after doing it, she ran off. By the time we caught her and got a line on her, she was docile as a lamb, though we did practice just walking her with the bucket.
Here's a suggestion, what I would do. I wouldn't want to use a whip in this circumstance either. But knowing how she is now, for warned is for armed. I would not ever (till she's better) let her go into her stall to eat without first putting her halter on and leading her in. I'd measure the feed into thier feeders. Let the others in their stalls, catch her, then make her lead politely into her stall, and not let her dive into her feeder till you have the halter off.
JMO:)
Becky
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