Mules

[aplusmnt]

Any Mule riders on Ranchers.net? Or is that a bad word around here?

[Soapweed]

[aplusmnt]

[katrina]

Nice pictures aplus, Actually they are way cool and I'm glad you shared them... I have no experiance with mules, but know of some people who do. And I think mules are cool...
What's the bumper sticker????
Put your ass in some class...
Ride a mule......

[Faster horses]

WAYYYYYY COOL! Those look like nice mules.

My grampa in Missouri used to raise mules, so I've always been
interested in them. Our horse trainer friends tell us it is harder
to break a mule as they aren't as forgiving as a horse. You have
to be a pretty good horseman to break a mule.

There is saying I have heard most often where riding mules are concerned. Our vet in W. Montana rode mules until one finally
bucked him off and broke his pelvis. We used to give him a bad time
about "too proud to ride a cow and too poor to ride a horse."

Another friend of ours at St. Ignatius, Mt. had a mule. He was pretty
tall. He could bend his neck around, pick up his hind foot and put
it between his ears. No fooling. Saw it with my own eyes.
He could kick "like a Missouri mule."

[Turkey Track Bar]

I think mules are cool, although I've never owned one. Growing up we had a burro who was a dearly loved member of our family.

I also have a friend who's a vet in eastern ID, and a good hand with a rope who has won many big ropings on a mule. He almost always has two that are polished and at least two that he's tuning on. He's also won a couple big open reinings on one of the mules too.

I think you're right FH, that they are less forgiving to human misgivings than a horse. Kinda like what NR says about Brahman influence cattle, that they are smarter and don't forgive mistreatment as easily as Bos taurus cattle.

Cheers---

TTB

[aplusmnt]

A person for sure needs to know how to train a Mule, some can be broke by a Horse trainer but most need someone that knows the mind of a mule.

The three largest mules on my picture we bought from the same guy once we saw what he could do with a mule we went back two more times till we bought all three he had. Most do not have any fancy training the grey one will side pass, the appy will Jump and the Big one just keeps going and going. They were raised and broken in the Mountains, I have seen the grey one and the wife's large one both crawl up a hill on their knees pulling my fat butt up it when other people were walking theirs up the hill.

The Appy is as broke as they get, you can do anything on him. Took him to a mule rodeo once and wife, son, and Daughter placed 1, 2, 4 in barrel racing and it was first time he ever did it.

Son also won a reigning competition on him and both my son and mule never did it before. We use to take him to Mule Fun days and kids would have a great time on him. My little son that is in front on the wifes big one. Did a perfect pattern on poles when he was 5, son had never did it before and the mule had just went with my 12 year old and just remembered what to do.

I do not think a person could buy either of the three big ones. The pony might go soon and the smaller one of the big ones is just getting old and might need to leave the place soon.

[Faster horses]

"I have seen the grey one and the wife's large one both crawl up a hill on their knees pulling my fat butt up it when other people were walking theirs up the hill. "


SHAME ON YOU!! You should have been off walking too.
Just because they can do it, you need to think more of them so
they DON'T HAVE TO DO IT. What you described is very hard
on them. Didn't you wonder why the others got off?

[aplusmnt]

[Northern Rancher]

I've always wanted to own a team of mules just never got around to it yet-wife says I have to sell some horses first.

[Denny]

[Northern Rancher]

Not anywhere near the abundance that there is south of us lol. I almost had a deal going once-this purebred guy wanted me to look over his bulls for him. When I got there I saw this real well made Mammoth Jack-well I kept drifting away from the bulls and over towards this donkey that his wife owned. Well he kept directing me back to the bulls so I had to tell him it was his wife's ass that interested me more-at least he had a sense of ha ha lol.