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Don't blame me Faster Horses asked

Beautiful set of ponies. Just keep putting work into them, they will become steady and trustyworthy enough for public appearances.

This thread makes me kick myself all over again for not bidding last year on a pair of ponies broke to ride and drive, an Amish family brought 'em to the auction. We didn't bring our trailer that day and it was pretty far from home, so I sat on my hands. Found out later, they were no-saled, $600 would have bought the pair and they were only bid up to $500. Grrrrr! But I digress........
 
I haven't had much to do with horses for years, but the first horse I had was an ex-barrel racer with a bad attitude. Wasn't that great for a starter horse!

I was scared skinny of her and she knew it and ran with it. I was green and she was seasoned.

But I finally "took hold of the reins" and she learned that I was boss. Then I rode the stuffings out of her and she turned out to be an O.K. riding horse. But only as long as I rode her fairly steady pretty well every day.

Give her a few days off and she'd always try her old tricks again. :x One time she came up over backwards and landed with the horn holding her weight off off my leg. Scared the daylights outta me.

In the end, she was a good one to get rid of.
 
burnt said:
Anyway, I thought ponies were beneath most ranchers . . .



(pun intended) :wink:
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Oh come on you know a rancher was a little cowboy fight imaginary indians once. Stick horses and ponies are both in every little cowboys life if not in true life at least in their dreams. :wink: I grew up with a pony that I rode, BMR tells of stories of his pony he drove to the neighbors to get milk and Ice cream off the milk truck and Our kids have their stories of Silver the pony and the go stick ( a broken weed stem that wasn't hard enough to even be felt by the pony :wink: ) they used to get the pony to go. It is a family tradition and I look forward to seeing my grandkids and grand nephew and maybe nieces have the same memories as we have had.

Besides if a kid can ride a pony they can ride any horse in the future as for some reason ponies seem to know how to test them to make them a better rider. Mine would run hard for the barb wire fence and just as she would get there would pull a 90 and run down the fenceline. If you weren't good enough rider you were laying on the other side of the fence and the pony was off to the barn. :x But I can usually stick my saddle if my horse shys from something to this day thanks to that pony. :wink: :D
 
HAY MAKER said:
Miss Tam the only way I found to desensitize a horse,if there really is such a thing is steady work,you know the story no sense goin into detail,when I bought a couple green Colts a while back I had heard of a so called desensitizin "CD" that the police and the Texas penal system use on their horses,supposed to have gunfire and lots of crowd noise.
but I dont think anything is gonna take the place of lotsa hard work.
good luck

PS Horses and crowds = bad news.
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I play Western movie theme music Like BONANZA to them, I wipe their heads and necks down with paper that crinkles and put bells on their harness. I have drove them up the side walk and across plywood, and bang the gates behind them all so they get use to sharp different sounds.

Today I was very proud of Betty as when I was driving her the dogs were barking, so I drove her around to in front of the kennel. She stood there looking at them and even stuck her nose over the top of the wire on Ace's kennel. The two older dogs retreated to their barrels and Ace stood there looking at her. He darted and barked at her but she just stood there until I asked her to back up and walk away. She was great. It will be interesting to see if she reacts to the plastic barn sled when I try cleaning the barn with her. The tire didn't bother her but is doesn't make as much noise as the sled will. :wink:

It has been a fair amount of work so far but every minute I spend with them now I figure will be paid back in the fun the little ones will have with them later.

I have tours come during the summer and after I got the ponies the tour guide was nice enough to let any kid on the tour and some adults that wanted to walk out and see them do it. I think the ponies got use to the little hands sticking through the gate at them as they would come over and let the kids pet them on the neck. :wink: :D
 
Since no one else mentioned it here, Congratulations to the parents and grandparents-to-be.

Just think BMR and Tam, next year you will be as old as we are. :P
 
gcreekrch said:
Since no one else mentioned it here, Congratulations to the parents and grandparents-to-be.

Just think BMR and Tam, next year you will be as old as we are. :P
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Really :shock:

I thought you would always be a year older. :D :D

Thanks we are really looking forward to the grand baby. :D :D :D :D
 
Your 'new hobby' sounds like great fun, and practical to boot!!!

Something that can really spook a team is a paper bag rolling along in the breeze under their feet. That happened to one of our Belgian teams in a July 4 parade (so you KNOW there were lots of other noises if you know anything about Ft. Pierre, SD!) They really stood tall and stiff legged for a few yards, but acted like gentlemen and coped with the 'spook' beneath them till it blew on through. Some others behind and in front of them did lots more 'dancing' than ours even though not nearly so close. That bag just seemed to stay filled with air and really rolled and made surprising amounts of noise, too. Seems to me it was maybe a little over a foot wide and half again as long. The plastic bags blowing along were less 'inflated' and less noisy.

Congratulations on the new grandbaby to come. Our youngest is five for only a few more months and in kindergarden this year. They change so fast. Even strangers who see a picture of her (and my spouse insists that I ALWAYS accost complete strangers to show those photo's, which is NOT true) say "that one keeps things stirred up, doesn't she!!??" And they are totally on target.

You will have worlds of fun, plenty of worries, but can always turn the child over to it's parents when your energy and/or patience wears out.

The ponies will be such fun for you and the little ones! We had only one, which was a Welsh pony, well seasoned by my youngest bro-in-law, and perfect for our kids for a few years, then went back home to teach his boys how to ride and lived to be well over 30.

mrj
 
gcreekrch said:
Since no one else mentioned it here, Congratulations to the parents and grandparents-to-be.

Just think BMR and Tam, next year you will be as old as we are. :P
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he told us back in August....you must have been baling!
 
Tam said:
HAY MAKER said:
Miss Tam the only way I found to desensitize a horse,if there really is such a thing is steady work,you know the story no sense goin into detail,when I bought a couple green Colts a while back I had heard of a so called desensitizin "CD" that the police and the Texas penal system use on their horses,supposed to have gunfire and lots of crowd noise.
but I dont think anything is gonna take the place of lotsa hard work.
good luck

PS Horses and crowds = bad news.
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I play Western movie theme music Like BONANZA to them, I wipe their heads and necks down with paper that crinkles and put bells on their harness. I have drove them up the side walk and across plywood, and bang the gates behind them all so they get use to sharp different sounds.
Click to expand...

Today I was very proud of Betty as when I was driving her the dogs were barking, so I drove her around to in front of the kennel. She stood there looking at them and even stuck her nose over the top of the wire on Ace's kennel. The two older dogs retreated to their barrels and Ace stood there looking at her. He darted and barked at her but she just stood there until I asked her to back up and walk away. She was great. It will be interesting to see if she reacts to the plastic barn sled when I try cleaning the barn with her. The tire didn't bother her but is doesn't make as much noise as the sled will. :wink:

It has been a fair amount of work so far but every minute I spend with them now I figure will be paid back in the fun the little ones will have with them later.

I have tours come during the summer and after I got the ponies the tour guide was nice enough to let any kid on the tour and some adults that wanted to walk out and see them do it. I think the ponies got use to the little hands sticking through the gate at them as they would come over and let the kids pet them on the neck. :wink: :D
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Miss Tam,get you a 4 or 5 foot piece of stick or pvc pipe and tie/tape your plastic bag to it,lots easier and safer..... move it over under and around your horse,includin under their tail and between their legs.
start slow then pick up speed to the point you can swing it around there face .
good luck

PS Good lookin little team
 
gcreekrch said:
Yanuck said:
gcreekrch said:
Since no one else mentioned it here, Congratulations to the parents and grandparents-to-be.

Just think BMR and Tam, next year you will be as old as we are. :P
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he told us back in August....you must have been baling!
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or I REALLY DO have dimensia :oops:
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You might...I think you made the same comment the first time... :P
 
Big Muddy rancher said:
gcreekrch said:
Since no one else mentioned it here, Congratulations to the parents and grandparents-to-be.

Just think BMR and Tam, next year you will be as old as we are. :P
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Really :shock:

I thought you would always be a year older. :D :D

Thanks we are really looking forward to the grand baby. :D :D :D :D
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You are both old pharts and definitely grandfather material. Sure glad Mrs. Per and I are still young. :wink:
 
per said:
Big Muddy rancher said:
gcreekrch said:
Since no one else mentioned it here, Congratulations to the parents and grandparents-to-be.

Just think BMR and Tam, next year you will be as old as we are. :P
Click to expand...

Really :shock:

I thought you would always be a year older. :D :D

Thanks we are really looking forward to the grand baby. :D :D :D :D
Click to expand...

You are both old pharts and definitely grandfather material. Sure glad Mrs. Per and I are still young. :wink:
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We'll just call you two and the Soapweeds' "late bloomers". :wink:
 

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