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Posted on 02/24/2006 9:12:25 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
This is a horse chat thread where we 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 previous threads we have had a great time talking through lessons, training, horse lamenesses, illnesses and pregnancies... and always sharing pictures and stories.
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So... like the previous threads, 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.
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Great pics, Hair. Reminds me of the Ozark Trail.
I will be driving up to ride with my cousin on the OT last of April. As I do every year.
Takes me about fourteen hours from here in the Hill Country of Texas to southeast Missouri.
I usually overnight on the way.
Sounds like you're gonna be getting in some good riding! How's the new horse search going?
Not so good. I am getting completely fed up with AgDirect. Twice now I have made a 600-mile round tripo to look at horses that sounded and looked great on AgDirect and turned out to be duds.
One guy was even very, very wierd, and I am glad we didn't go out to his ranch/place/whatever to look at his horse. He was strange and aggressive and fightening. We got out of there.
I sure hope tuffy is okay, been reading the posts.
LOL, yeah he does look a bit wide eyed in that picture. Actually is what happened was, the bag blew up around his ears and was hanging on the other side. He was just standing there half asleep. I didn't have the camera ready at that time, so I got it out of my pocket, turned it on had to wait for it to do it's thing. I was looking down watching the camera and not paying attention to what I was doing with the bag/whip. Poor guy when I looked up I was poking him in the side of the face with the end of the whip and the bag had blown around like this. He wasn't really acting up, but definitly trying to figure out what I was doing:)
Becky
That's strange! Did you meet him somewhere else first or what?
Becky
LOL! Poor guy! He had those "fish butt" lips that Clinton Anderson talks about all the time.
Mine has uncurled to about 6 inches, but I haven't gotten close enough to it to see if it's starting to put out any green yet. I'll have to check it this weekend.
Wow, then your's have uncurled more then mine. Mine were uncurling very good, then just seemed to all but stop last week when it was cold. The last few days we haven't had much sun. But this morning is nice and bright, I figure everything I've put out will be taking off with this sun. I'm going to miracle grow everything today.
Becky
They look like they've never seen a dog before.
They'd never seen ~that~ dog before :~D
I like the way you tied the feed pan to the post. Rocky eats out of one like that and in the dark I'm always having to hunt for it. But aren't all those wires hot? Do you reach thru to feed or go in the pen?
I just drilled a hole through it to make a hole to tie to. We either reach through veerrryyy carefully, or turn the fence off for a minute. We use those feeders in summer when the horses are out.
Looks like your fern is coming along :~D Good :~D
I slept in this morning, haven't even fed horses yet. Bright and sunny here today too.
Interesting article! I'm just afraid that if they start cloning things that we'll loose a lot of genetic diversity and may run into trouble years down the road because of it. A while back, I'd read about a project to clone trees. They had intentions to creating a species of super tree for the lumber industry that would grow fast and straight. But just think what would happen if that genetic strain became prominent and then there was some genetic flaw that let to them all getting some kind of blight and dying. It's not good to put all your eggs in one basket, or in this case, one clone in all your eggs. ;o)
I think tuffy pinged me to a thread here about that one day, but I was too busy on something else to get into it then.
I think it'll be interesting, particularly in performance horses like that cutting horse, to see if cloning really reproduces a result that is as good as the original. For me it's the nature versus nurture thing. Are they good because of their genes, or because of the sum of their personality and experiences? Won't they be tempted to rush this young one along, expecting her to be just like the old one?
I picture myself cloning Bay, and necessarily bypassing all the things in his development that didn't include me. Is he the way he is because of his genes, or because he lived with some chick that barrel raced him, then lived in a guy's back yard like a dog for three years, then lived with Bob, then the endurance lady... Isn't 'who he is' more impacted by subtle sum of his memories than his structure? Will people be disappointed that the new version of a favorite pet ISN'T the old pet? It'll be in interesting time.
I read somewhere that a cloned animal may not even look like the original. I saw a picture of a cloned kitten, and the color pattern was entirely different from the original. I don't understand how that could be if it was an exact genetic duplicate of the original, but they claimed that it was so. Hmmmmmmm... ~:-/
You say that like you think it's a bad thing:). (probably is)
Really, I didn't know that about him, that would probably be more why he hypes up then the endurance racer.
I've always wondered the same thing about Rocky. Rocky has had 3 owners. The man we bought him from bought him as a weanling. He didn't do much with him except breed, but he said his kids would jump on him and ride him around the yard, bareback with a halter. Then we bought him. His riding for the first few years we had him was very sporadic, until Jenny finally started training him for barrels, poles, etc, and team penning.
I've always believed he is so good because HE is so good, not that he was made that way by people training. I do also believe tho that if he had been used alot more for breeding, or let him get away with things when he was being rode, he might not be as well behaved as he is now. But it's just hard to say. So I guess my belief is he did have a good mind, and we helped him keep it.
Becky
I didn't mean it as a bad thing at all, it's just part of his memories I don't know anything about because I wasn't there. I'm sure she wasn't very serious, probably weekend gaming shows. I don't know how it impacted who he became.
Rocky's a remarkable stallion, his temperament is unusual... undoubtedly he just 'has' that personality, but he certainly must also have been well handled or he'd have become something else.
No! We phoned ahead and asked where we could meet him. He said at a barbecue place.
We went there and waited forty minutes and said the heck with it and went to see the other horse. This guy's name was Cody. He was very nice, but I didn't want the horse. We parted on good terms.
Then driving out of Stephenville this other guy, Owen, called on my cell sand said You were supposed to meet me! And I said we waited forty minutes.
He said, 'You were supposed to call when you got to the barbecue place!"
I said I was supposed to do no such thing.
Then he started ranting about he had lost a day of work to go out to show me the horse, and what as I going to do about that? 'I'm just a broke-ass college kid trying to make money!" He was yelling.
(The really, really wierd thing is that it was this other guy, Cody, who was the college kid. And Cody had politely mentioned he had taken a day off work to come and show me the horse.)
I said, "Don't swear at me."
Then he said, "Oh yeah, I just sh!t my pants, lady."
So I shut off my cell. This guy has a gray horse for sale on AgDirect, and the photo is more of him than it is the horse. He has a black hat and long sideburns.
Both of these guys were in Stephenville and knew one another.
Wierd. My friend Janis said, I don't think you ought to go by yourself on these horse-buying trips.
It was scary.
I hope you have a good turn of luck on one of these horse buyin' trips!
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