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Jinglebob
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Joined: 14 Feb 2005
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Location: Western South Dakota
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This is kinda off topic, but Jinglebob's last reply reminded me of somethin we seen the other day.
Rancher friend of ours has a yearlin stud colt out in one of his bull pastures. We drove by and that lil thang was out there all by himself and had those bulls all bunched up and was workin em keepin em bunched. He aint ever had nothin done yet, other than a halter put on him. |
Quick! 
Send me the guys name and number. 
Seems like all of the horses I've ever had who were real cowy, were the ones who liked to push other horses and cattle around, whether you were riding them or not.
I read of one guy, who fed his colt his hay, on a fence that was between the colt and some weaned calves, so that the calves would steal the colts hay and the colt would learn to hate cows. I always wondered if that would really work.
Jr was riding a young horse one day and we were workin' a pretty fair sized bunch of yearlings. The colt didn't seem to pay much attention to anything. We went to the house to have a cool drink and left the colt standing in a smaller pen, with quite a few of the cattle in it. He wasn't in any danger, but he was pretty crowded by the cattle. When we came back a few minutes later, the colt had his ears pinned back and had pushed the cattle back, to give himself some more room. He's been fairly cowy ever since.
My old bay, Woodrow, is awful cowy. The right person could have took him and made an outstanding cutting horse out of him. When he was 3, a neighbor and I pushed about 275 head of yearling to the chute while we were spaying. We were in some pretty narrow alley's and the back corral we were bringing them up thru' wasn't real wide either. If a horse had a try at all, it was pretty hard for a critter to get back, past them.
The neighbor was riding a 3 year old also. Anytime these two colts let anything get back, we would swat them lightly on the butt and make them go back and get the critter. Pretty soon, they would really pin their ears, whenever a yearling tried to get back. At one point, we were both setting side by side in a narrow alley, just in back of the working chiute and a yearling backed out of the chute with intentions to get away. Both colts dropped their heads and pinned their ears and bared their teeth at her! She dropped her head and scurried back into the chute. We both laughed and laughed. They reminded me of a god dog and an ol sheep trying to get out of a chute to get awy. Both of those horse have been cowy ever since.
I think it was good training for them, but have neer been able to quite duplicate the setup, ever since.
Anything that will make a horse cowy, as long as their is no abuse, is a good thing to me.
Mrs Jinglebob Jr was ridng a young colt last spring when I went up to help them move some cows. She was complaining about this colt always baring his teeth and wanting to bite the cattle who lagged behind. We told her to damn sure not discourage him! He's a Snippy's Cowboy and seems to be fairly cowy.
I guess my point is, if they hate cows, it's probably a good thing.
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the_jersey_lilly_2000
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Joined: 16 Feb 2005
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Location: South East Texas
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| Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 9:44 am Post subject: |
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Lil Lilly's already tried to talk him outta the lil guy. LOL he's a blue roan. For some reason, and I don't know why, she wants a blue horse to name "Blue Duck" LOL
That's bad when you have a name for a horse and no horse to stick it on. LOL and here she's got this latest horse of hers that's Registered name is "Runnin for the Money" and wants a short name for him and can't come up with one. We even asked at the bank, all the names of presidents on Bills and coins ($500's and $1000's cuz we aint ever seen those)......they all had nerdy names tho. Also learned that there usta be 5000, 10,000, and 100,000 dollar bills.
One cent (penny): ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Five cents (nickel): THOMAS JEFFERSON
Ten cents (dime): FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT
Twenty-five cents (quarter): GEORGE WASHINGTON
Fifty cents (half-dollar): JOHN F. KENNEDY
US $1 coin (gold): SACAGAWEA
US $1 coin (old): SUSAN B. ANTHONY
US $1 coin (even older): DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
US $1 bill: GEORGE WASHINGTON
US $2 bill: THOMAS JEFFERSON
US $5 bill: ABRAHAM LINCOLN
US $10 bill: ALEXANDER HAMILTON
US $20 bill: ANDREW JACKSON
US $50 bill: U.S. GRANT
US $100 bill: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
US $500 bill: WILLIAM MCKINLEY
US $1000 bill: GROVER CLEVELAND
US $5000 bill: JAMES MADISON
US $10,000 bill: SALMON P. CHASE
US $100,000 bill: WOODROW WILSON
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IL Rancher
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Joined: 08 Apr 2006
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Location: Northwest Illinois
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Yeah, one f the reasonsthey go ride of the really large bills was they were to easy to use for criminal endevours.... I got to see them once at a bank back when I was 10 or so, they had a museum display of them.. Pretty cool.
There is going to be another new $1 coin they are releasing soon. I think they are putting Jfferson or Wahsnigotn on it, can't remember and making it bigger than a quarter but smaller than a 50 cent pieces. hoping that by having a familiar face on it people will actually spend it instead of collect it like they did with the Sacagawea coin. The only way they are ever going ot get people to use the one dollar coin is to stop issuing one dollar bills, but I gigress.
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Judith
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Faster horses
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Location: SE MT
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We had a nice sorrell gelding we called Bill, after a heck of a hand
that was a friend of ours. That horse never disappointed us either.
He was fast, cowy, never would quit you, gentle, awake, never
lame and excellent on his feet. Not registered, just a digger, but a really good horse. I bought him for $275 because I felt sorry for him.
Our friend Bill took him and rode him a bit for us, hence the name.
Both were hard-working good hands.
We let our daughter use him when she was about 10 years old. If she rode him too hard, then she had to ride a horse we called 'Turkey Neck'
the next time she rode. She really learned to appreciate a good horse.
She and Bill covered a lot of country. The old fella who owned the ranch
we were on along the Powder River, said once, "That kid and that
horse are like cow sh--, they're everywhere."
She used that Bill horse for everything and anything and so
did Mr. FH. He wasn't just a kids horse, but a good using horse
that anyone could ride that wanted something that felt crisp and
ready to do a job. We took good care of him, as it would have
been easy to use him too hard, because of the big heart he had.
He was stip-faced sorrell. No white on his legs. Good feet.
Not the best-looking horse either, but held a saddle well
and rode good. What more do you need?
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kolanuraven
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| Call the horse Dinero
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Judith
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| Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Dinero is perfect!
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Jinglebob
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Joined: 14 Feb 2005
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Location: Western South Dakota
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| Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 10:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Faster horses wrote: |
She used that Bill horse for everything and anything and so
did Mr. FH. He wasn't just a kids horse, but a good using horse
that anyone could ride that wanted something that felt crisp and
ready to do a job. We took good care of him, as it would have
been easy to use him too hard, because of the big heart he had.
Good feet.
Not the best-looking horse either, but held a saddle well
and rode good. What more do you need? |
I've got a comin' 6 year old we raised that sounds almost like him, except he's a dun.
Got a guy who wants him,but not bad enough to come up with the money.
He's a good feller. When he was a weanling I had him and another colt together. They were the first horse I've ever had who ate on wood. I named one Termite and this one Beaver. And he is an eager beaver. Just wants to step out and go and is always lookin' around and checkin' things out, tho he ain't spooky. Matter of fact, at the Artist Ride this year, he was the only one of my horses that would go near a buffalo robe lying on the ground and he would sniff and nibble at anyone who was wearing a fur coat.
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