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[Bunnylady]

The ground doesn't get any softer, though your bones do . . . .

I'm sorry for your mom, Bantambird, and I hope she heals up quickly.

Thinking back, some of the best-minded horses I have known were considered green - one very green. Depending on the trainer, green horses can be wonderful - they can be very responsive and eager to please; they haven't had years of clumsy, thoughtless handling to sour their attitudes and dull their responses. A horse acts badly because he has been taught to, or hasn't been taught not to - as they say, when you have a problem with your horse, the first place to look is the mirror.

Unfortunately, horses are not unlike people - most are basically lazy and will do whatever they think they can get away with. Unless some one on site knows what they are looking at and what to do about it, a "well-trained, dead-broke" horse can become an unmanageable mess surprisingly fast in the wrong hands.

 

[Bantambird]

Yeah, that's definitely true. It was the first time mounting him, and dad should be doing it really, he's always been better at green breaking than mom, but dad is 60 now, and also doesn't bounce like he used to. Time when I was a kid, he could jump on a horse bareback flat-footed. He had a horse trained once that let him spring up from the rear like a kid playing hopscotch. He is/was a brute of a man, can still stack hay bales all day long, has arms like tree trunks.

 

[Bantambird]

Leapfrog. I meant leapfrog.

 

[scottcaddy]

Leapfrog. I meant leapfrog.

I was wondering just what kinda hopscotch you guys play out west.
Scott

 

[scottcaddy]

Quote:
Sir Sour, you didn't act like your 25 for the Doc to say that, did you?
Just asking

Scott

 

[ShrekDawg]

The ground doesn't get any softer, though your bones do . . . . 

I'm sorry for your mom, Bantambird, and I hope she heals up quickly. 

Thinking back, some of the best-minded horses I have known were considered green - one very green. Depending on the trainer, green horses can be wonderful - they can be very responsive and eager to please; they haven't had years of clumsy, thoughtless handling to sour their attitudes and dull their responses. A horse acts badly because he has been taught to, or hasn't been taught not to - as they say, when you have a problem with your horse, the first place to look is the mirror.

Unfortunately, horses are not unlike people - most are basically lazy and will do whatever they think they can get away with. Unless some one on site knows what they are looking at and what to do about it, a "well-trained, dead-broke" horse can become an unmanageable mess surprisingly fast in the wrong hands.

That's definitely true. I used to ride but stopped last year and at first i rode the like 24 year old lesson horse but then i rode a really energetic one, sweet and never had to tell her to go, she was go go go, and eventually i rode the one baby, 5 year old morgan. And then we got a new draft baby, 6 years old, lived with a rooster his whole life. And anyway, at first the one was really good but as I,rode him more and more he would try to pull stuff like stopping short or try to buck (but to old to) because the kids would cry so it was an effective way to get to stop, or he wouldn't canter. He also had this habit of backing up, going sideways, etc. If he didnt wanna work. Only tried it with me once but yeah. He liked me and at first I was scared but then I just learned to work through it. Had one really bad lesson in particular where he was really trying to buck and not listen (because a woman he hated looking to lease, rough hands, etc, had ridden him that morning and bucking worked to stop her) but I kept going and once you got through it and he realized you weren't giving up then he would do anything for you and work really hard. Sweet, sweet boy but he came from out west and then had been a lesson horse for years and was smart enough that he just knew all the tricks and what worked and what he could get away with. Whereas the babies needed really clear directions and tight reins and she said the babies don't know how to be bad yet and I think she's right. Bubba has had 24 years to learn tricks whereas the babies don't know and if you're messing up or they're going off course, well, it's likely your fault

 

[Bantambird]

She just miscalculated when he stepped to the side and launched over his back. She felt pretty silly.

 

[OrganicFarmWife]

http://www.nebraska.tv/story/323505...concerned-about-drought#.V3W9Q92Oa8Y.facebook

So I am proud and going to show off. My DH made the local news (and for a good thing )
He is the second farmer shown. I think he did a great job.

 

[FridayYet]

That is so awesome! He did do a great job. You'll be the feature story tomorrow night? Post another link please when it airs!

 

[OrganicFarmWife]

That is so awesome! He did do a great job. You'll be the feature story tomorrow night? Post another link please when it airs!

Yes, we sell honey (directly) and wheat (indirectly) to a local bakery/diner and so there will be a second story about that. I will post when it is on. Very proud of him, and he enjoyed it.