the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
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! :shock:
Send me the guys name and number.
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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.
