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What we been up too, the past couple days

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Been pretty "horsey" around here the last couple of days. Brad, a young man from this area who is working in California with a trainer out there, came home for his folks' 30th anniversary party this past week, so we had a small clinic yesterday. Jingles Jr and his Mrs and Gus got here yesterday morning to spend the weekend, so Jr. and I and several neighbors worked with our horse under Brad's excellent tutelage. We had lots of fun and learned or re-learned some good stuff.

Then today Jr. and I worked with the 4 yearlings and I worked a two year old a little and Jr. put a ride on a 4 year old that was going pretty good last year, but has been turned out for most of the past year. "Dean" did well and pretty much rode off like a broke horse. Jr. rode out and checked the cows while I finished up with my 2 year old.

I bought Dean as a yearling. Snippy's Cowboy bred horse. He's always looked rough and is always skinny. I've wormed and fed him extra, but I guess he's just a hard keeper. I even fed him some medicine for ulcers last year, but it didn't seem to help.

Trimming and training on colts is hard on this old fat man!

Sorry, forgot to take the camera, but Brad's wife took some pictures yesterday, so eventually I might have some pictures to share.

Now I'm going to relax and maybe go work on the saddle I'm building.

If I wasn't fighting a bad cold, this maybe wouldn't have made me sweat so much today!
 
Sounds like a fun day to me!!!!!

WOOOO HOOOO, wish I was there!

I can help you get some 'blossom' on that colt without
making him hot or nervous... :wink:

after you get his teeth checked, of course.
Lots of things can be wrong with a young horses teeth,
and if not fixed, can bother them forever. Some don't
lose their caps which causes their teeth to have
'waves' in them. Sure keeps them from looking like
they should. They just can't chew properly.
 
Faster horses said:
Sounds like a fun day to me!!!!!

WOOOO HOOOO, wish I was there!

I can help you get some 'blossom' on that colt without
making him hot or nervous... :wink:

after you get his teeth checked, of course.
Lots of things can be wrong with a young horses teeth,
and if not fixed, can bother them forever. Some don't
lose their caps which causes their teeth to have
'waves' in them. Sure keeps them from looking like
they should. They just can't chew properly.
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Yup, had them checked. they were fine.

Okay, how you gonn'a fix him. With mineral? :wink:

Tell you what, he's gentle, just green, I'll sell him to you cheap and you make him blossom. He's pretty "cowy". Last spring when Mrs Jingles Jr was ridng him she was complaining that he was trying to bite the calves as we were pushing some pairs and wanted to know how to stop him from doing it. Jr and I both hollered at the same time, "Leave him alone!" :lol:

I'd probably trade him to you for a bull calf, this fall, if you take him now. I got way too many horses around here for one old fat guy to ride. :)
 
Jerry H said:
sounds like ya'll had fun
but lots of work
i have alot of the same kind of work i need to be doing just can't seem to find the time
until later
jerry
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Yup fun and informational.

This guy has learned a lot out there in "cereal land". He was a good hand with colts when he left and he's gettin' a lot of knowledge about how to go on, after them first 30 to 60 days. Had another young feller here who is awful good also and it helped cuz' he'd translate a lot of what Brad was sayin' so even us old poops could understand it.

Brad spent a couple of seasons in Texas with Buster and came home with some good stuff he picked while he was there. He got to ride the boss's cuttin' horse on the 6666's. It's a pretty good story.

I'm anxious to get this last saddle done and get to doin' more outside work. Makes me almost wish I hadn't been so slow and lazy on these saddles this winter. :wink:

We are pretty fortunate to have some of these younger hands around who do a tremendous job startin' our colts. :)
 
jb
i am glad to hear that some of you oldtimers still can learn somthing through all that gray hair lol

sounds like that fella has been around some
and tried to learn from the best

thats my way of thinking also "if you want to learn go to the best if you want to be the best"
i rode for some of those great cuttin horse trainers also
then when i would hit a new ranch i would try to pick up something from all the guy's there that rode good horses
until later
jerry
 

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