Horse Talk

[ChickenLover200]

 

[abigalerose]

I'm in love!!

 

[ChickenLover200]

I know. He's adorable! I haven't seen him yet today. I've got a cold and I'm stuck in the house and miserable

 

[abigalerose]

I bought the baby horse!

I get her in January or February. Her, her sire, and her dam were all so beautiful, much prettier in person! She's gonna be a big girl, her dam is 16 hands!

 

[henny1129]

I bought the baby horse!

I get her in January or February. Her, her sire, and her dam were all so beautiful, much prettier in person! She's gonna be a big girl, her dam is 16 hands!

Yay! Her sire is gorgeous! I'm excited to see more pics of her when she arrives and hear more about her personality.

I've had two more lessons and we've just sorta been having fun. The first one we went out into the big grass pasture and it was a lot of fun to just canter around. Yesterday I had a group lesson, which is always fun , and we went into the big pasture again. Libby was jittery at first (I'm guessing because she was in the pasture with another horse), but I just made her tuck her head and go in some circles and figure eights and really just got her to listen to me and she was fine.

 

[Bunnylady]

@ChickenLover200 Congrats on your new foal. Baby minis are about as cute as it gets!

@abigalerose Congrats on your purchase! I know you've been eyeballing that stud for a while now. I know that wasn't really the way you were thinking about getting one of his offspring, but between you and me, this way is a whole lot smarter. As cute as they are, baby horses are still horses, and a lot of folks don't realize how dangerous a horse with absolutely no manners is. Even a foal can really hurt when it kicks you, or bites you, and some of 'em (*cough*Syd*cough*) can take forever to learn that that is just not acceptable behavior. Letting someone else do those early lessons seems like a really smart move to me.

@henny1129 Though sometimes it may not be a whole lot of fun, it seems to me that enjoyment is the ultimate point of dealing with horses. Good to hear that the lessons are going well. Teaching a horse to listen to you and ignore the other horses can be challenging!

 

[ChickenLover200]

Anyone got tips for training my baby? The plan is to raise him, train him, etc. myself. At two days old, I've already been handling him as much as possible without making his mom fuss. I've picked up at least his two front hoovs (trying to avoid hoof handling too much till his muscls strengthen on the back two), whn should I put a halter on him? I'm gussing it should be a nylon one, right? Whre should I buy one? No one sells them around here, so I'd hav to order one.

 

[abigalerose]

Her sire was stunning! I've wanted to meet him for a while now and he just blew my away in person, so much prettier and his personality was awesome.
And her dam didn't even look like the same horse when I met her, I didn't realize she was at first. Being 16 hands and she's built like a brick house, and such a pretty chocolate palomino. She was beautiful too.
And yes, I've had my eye on him, but I just didn't know if I was ready to breed June to him, IF I do ever decide to breed her it'll be several years from now, but I don't know if I will, in gonna have such great horses already. But I figured the next best thing to breeding to him would be to buy one of his babies, and I'm glad I did. It was instant love.
I'll be researching all winter what the best way to start her training as a weanling is (of course she'll already have the basics). I'm so excited!

 

[henny1129]

@ChickenLover200
 Congrats on your new foal. Baby minis are about as cute as it gets!

@abigalerose
 Congrats on your purchase! I know you've been eyeballing that stud for a while now. I know that wasn't really the way you were thinking about getting one of his offspring, but between you and me, this way is a whole lot smarter. As cute as they are, baby horses are still horses, and a lot of folks don't realize how dangerous a horse with absolutely no manners is. Even a foal can really hurt when it kicks you, or bites you, and some of 'em (*cough*Syd*cough*) can take forever to learn that that is just not acceptable behavior. Letting someone else do those early lessons seems like a really smart move to me.

 

@henny1129
 Though sometimes it may not be a whole lot of fun, it seems to me that enjoyment is the ultimate point of dealing with horses. Good to hear that the lessons are going well. Teaching a horse to listen to you and ignore the other horses can be challenging!

It certainly can be challenging, but I trust Libby a lot and she is a very well behaved horse!

(Also, with Jade, I can do ground work with her totally fine, just like any other horse, but once I get in the saddle I'm SHAKING nervous, and I have no reason to be, anybody have any good ideas on how to get myself to trust her?)

Sorry, I didn't see this until now. I find when I'm riding a new horse I do get shaky too, it can be scary! My advice would be to work with her a lot on the ground until you know you can trust her. Also, spend time observing her and figuring out what makes her mad/spooked and what she's okay with, that way when you're riding her you can avoid the things that she doesn't like.

Loved the pics too!

 

[GingersHuman]

Hi everyone! Just wanted to introduce myself. I live in NC and have 2 horses. Ginger is a 25 year old QH/Arab mare and Durago is a 15 year old QH/Saddlebred gelding. I'm a natural barefoot trimmer and do hoof boot fittings and sales also.