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Another dang filly!

JB....
I've owned some of that pisshead breeding :) and it wasn't exclusive to mares :) :)

hmmmm

or horses either!! Well that's another story for another thread! :lol: :lol:

My son,13, rode an old horse who's name was Pisshead --
which sometime before Lane could talk I suggested to his father that perhaps we needed to change the name so as not to shock the grandmothers when Lane related stories about his horse.--so he became P-Head--

His other babysitter horse was named The Old Bast**d --again, he became the Old Man.

And I might add, the rest of the story is --before Lane was born I made it very clear his father would NOT participate in the naming of the child --ref: his choice of horses names.
 
Julie said:
JB....
I've owned some of that pisshead breeding :) and it wasn't exclusive to mares :) :)

hmmmm

or horses either!! Well that's another story for another thread! :lol: :lol:

My son,13, rode an old horse who's name was Pisshead --
which sometime before Lane could talk I suggested to his father that perhaps we needed to change the name so as not to shock the grandmothers when Lane related stories about his horse.--so he became P-Head--

His other babysitter horse was named The Old Bast**d --again, he became the Old Man.

And I might add, the rest of the story is --before Lane was born I made it very clear his father would NOT participate in the naming of the child --ref: his choice of horses names.
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Just think, if somebody would have culled them pissheaded mares, you wouldn't have had to put up with them pissheaded geldings.

Or men. :wink:


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Most of the blame goes to the female side as I give them most of the credit when they turn out good, so fair is fair. :D

75% of any creature comes from the mothers side of the gene pool.

Don't believe me, just look around.

Breed a scrub male to a good female and your pretty much okay, but breed a good male to a scrub female and it will take a long time to straighten the mess out. And a lot of generations. IMHO. :-)

I was talking to a local horse raiser the other day and he commented that the people who are using embryo transfer in horses, have been using the crabby pisshead mares as the carriers. They then raise the colt and the colts are turning out to be more like the carrier mother than the genetic mother.

I believe this to be true as I and 2 siblings were adopted. We had 2 more sibling who were raised in 2 other worlds by 2 other sets of parents.

When we are all together, we look a like but are very different. We mostly took after the people who raised us. My brother and sister who I was raised with, were both 2 when my folks got them. I was 11 months. Of all of us, I am the most like my adopted parents.

Evidently enviroment plays a larger role then people give it credit for.

I wish somebody would do a study on this. :-)
 
I read this and I almost get a chuckle as how different worlds are.. Around here a Mare and Gelding of compareable age and quality... Well the mare is in lot more demand than the gelding.. odn't ask me why.. I can't say I care one way or the other but my situation is different than a lot of other folks so I am not one to say you are nuts for only riding mares or only riding geldings.. I do know the mares I have riden have been a bit more stable than the geldings I have had the pleasure of riding.. Most of the geldings seems to suffer from permenant "Something is going to eat meitis" and spook at the silliest things.. This is more of a quality of the trainer/breeder/horse than a gelding vs mare thing however..
 
IL Rancher said:
I read this and I almost get a chuckle as how different worlds are.. Around here a Mare and Gelding of compareable age and quality... Well the mare is in lot more demand than the gelding.. odn't ask me why.. I can't say I care one way or the other but my situation is different than a lot of other folks so I am not one to say you are nuts for only riding mares or only riding geldings.. I do know the mares I have riden have been a bit more stable than the geldings I have had the pleasure of riding.. Most of the geldings seems to suffer from permenant "Something is going to eat meitis" and spook at the silliest things.. This is more of a quality of the trainer/breeder/horse than a gelding vs mare thing however..
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Sure might be something to this.

Anymore, I never casterate a colt until he is 2 years old. The ones I have casterated earlier, seem more spooky, but they usually get over it in a year or two. The ones I've left until 2 seem to have more confidence.

Maybe it's just me and I guess I'll never really know for sure, but so far the 2 year old cut ones have been more mature acting.
 
My old gelding had two GREAT fears....the hay baler and my 10lb housecat!

The mere site of either ini the fields/yard would send him almost up a tree!!

Who knew!!!
 
The worst one I ride was intact until he was 3 I think... Good old Boomer is probably a 16 hand horse and makes you understand why some folks walked bowlegged because darn is he wide... He is 9 or 10 years old Paint, a real pleasure to ride when he doesn't get skitish but man.. I have seen him do some nutty things and felt it once too.. I like the horse for the most part and he does okay in wide open spaces but beware the rabbit or qual flushed from the clump of grass over yonder, lol... He is convinced they are out to get him.
 
IL Rancher said:
The worst one I ride was intact until he was 3 I think... Good old Boomer is probably a 16 hand horse and makes you understand why some folks walked bowlegged because darn is he wide... He is 9 or 10 years old Paint, a real pleasure to ride when he doesn't get skitish but man.. I have seen him do some nutty things and felt it once too.. I like the horse for the most part and he does okay in wide open spaces but beware the rabbit or qual flushed from the clump of grass over yonder, lol... He is convinced they are out to get him.
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Wonder what he'd act like after about 3 days riding on the gumbo? :D
 
JB, My thought of most of the horses I ride is that they are spoiled, aren't worked hard enough or long enough or often enough and are asked to be stupid... Sorry, just my perception of these horses... If they stayed on a ranch where they were worked like you work yours or Soap works his or any of the other folks that give their horse a job to do and expect it to get done.. Well, not saying it would make them perfect but I think it would fix a lot of their problems... Just an opinion of a guy who doesn't know enough about horses to fill a thimble.
 
IL Rancher said:
JB, My thought of most of the horses I ride is that they are spoiled, aren't worked hard enough or long enough or often enough and are asked to be stupid... Sorry, just my perception of these horses... If they stayed on a ranch where they were worked like you work yours or Soap works his or any of the other folks that give their horse a job to do and expect it to get done.. Well, not saying it would make them perfect but I think it would fix a lot of their problems... Just an opinion of a guy who doesn't know enough about horses to fill a thimble.
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Sounds to me like you know more than lots of people who have horses. :lol:

A colt or a kid, give them a job and let them get tired and they will not be looking for extra problems. :wink:

And when I say that, I ain't talking about little babies in either species, either.
 
Well, give me a job to do and it keeps me out of trouble too.. Same can be said for most of the 50 and 60 year old kids I know around here :lol: :lol:

All I know now about horses is that it seems that every week I get the horse that got a bit frisky earlier in the week or over the weekend.. Which can be fun mind you but when they are mine because of stubborness I know I have a long evening ahead of me.. Probably teaches me more that way though even if it can get frustrating however..
 
ranch hand said:
Nice lookin colts, but would look way better with shorter ears on them.
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I will speak to their parent for you. I guess if you was to buy them, you could shorten them. :wink:

I like them little foxy ear'd colts also, but I can only work on so much at a time! :wink:

'Sides, this way no cows can sneek up on them! :shock:



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montana cowgurl said:
awwwwwwww............!!!!!!!!!

Mrs. Greg & Katy,

Don't you guys know that she's my payback for all them radishes i sent JB on Monday?? :lol: :lol:
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Sure promises, promises.

You want a filly? Just show up this fall. :-)

Be sure and bring a trailer. :-)

Man, them are great radishes! :D
 
That's all we ride here is mares-trade the geldings off to all the felt hat woman haters lol. Our better mares we breed every second year-ride the belly off them in the off year they aren't raising a foal. Had an old guy get chirpy about it at my branding said you could get fired for showing up riding a mare I told him pretty hard to fire the guy that owns the ranch lol. I guess I'm just too Scotch I've never had a good gelding lay down and replace himself yet-at brandings I do put them off by themselves but haven't had any trouble yet. Like I said it works good I deal off the geldings and that's what most people want anyways.
 
Has anyone ever had a mare spayed? I was told by one rancher it takes their moodiness when they are marin away.
 

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