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Post by chuckie on Sept 28, 2020 10:23:09 GMT -6
Joe is growing. In the first picture I took of him, he was 10-11 months old. Now today, he is 17 months old, and I have enjoyed taking care of him. It is fun to compare pictures as they grow. Second picture was taken a couple of weeks ago.
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Post by bulltrader on Sept 28, 2020 10:43:33 GMT -6
I know very little to nothing about horses but he sure looks ok to me.
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Post by angusrancher on Sept 29, 2020 6:22:30 GMT -6
He looks great! Now you need one of those Amish buggies. lol
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Post by smokinm on Sept 29, 2020 22:05:00 GMT -6
Gonna be a good looking horse. I love a nice bay. Looks like he has a good motor too!
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Post by chuckie on Sept 30, 2020 18:06:49 GMT -6
Thanks smokinm! I love horses so much and I love to look at them. I went to a saddle club the other night where they had a money show running barrels and poles. There were two horses that I really liked, and wanted to go see them up close, but it was so cold and so many trailers around there, I was not sure if I could find them. Both of the horses were really tall and they were in the top placings. One was a really tall Palomino that a young lady was riding, and then the other was another really tall roan that a man rode. The roan horse smoked them all. He scored 17.010. The man was not whipping him, just yelling at him as he went around the barrels. Both appeared to be at least 16 hands, give or take an inch.
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Post by chuckie on Nov 25, 2020 10:12:10 GMT -6
I am having trouble with Joe, my colt as he will jump any fence I put him in that is not electric. I have the fence up to 4.5 feet, and he sails over it like a bird. Here I am trying not to put a lot of stress on his legs at an early age to keep him sound later on and he is doing exactly opposite of what I am trying to accomplish.
I am in the process of making all of his barrier fences electric. I think each morning I have him locked up in the lot when I know it is giong to rain so he will have access to shelter, he can't wait to jump over the fence. There is plenty of room to roam inside the lot. After he jumps the fence, he runs around the edge wanting back in because that is where the other horse is. He is smart, but he does not think that far ahead about what he is doing. If he did, I would be in big trouble.
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Post by angusrancher on Nov 26, 2020 7:19:40 GMT -6
I am having trouble with Joe, my colt as he will jump any fence I put him in that is not electric. I have the fence up to 4.5 feet, and he sails over it like a bird. Here I am trying not to put a lot of stress on his legs at an early age to keep him sound later on and he is doing exactly opposite of what I am trying to accomplish. I am in the process of making all of his barrier fences electric. I think each morning I have him locked up in the lot when I know it is giong to rain so he will have access to shelter, he can't wait to jump over the fence. There is plenty of room to roam inside the lot. After he jumps the fence, he runs around the edge wanting back in because that is where the other horse is. He is smart, but he does not think that far ahead about what he is doing. If he did, I would be in big trouble. He might give you a wild ride someday. lol.
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Post by chuckie on Apr 7, 2021 19:22:01 GMT -6
Joe is 2 years and 5 days old today and I put the saddle on him for the first time today. He wore it for almost 2 hours, mostly while he grazed in the clover in between the bucking. Not real hard bucking, but lots of crow hopping and snorting in circles. He made several laps at a time. When the school bus came by and the car with no muffler. He used any excuse to bow that back and hop. Thank goodness for those nylon halters with the knots in the nosebands as they put enough pressure on his nose to keep him from pulling away away from me. I had a 16 hand horse in the 1980's and would have to grab my knee and pull it in tight and high to get it up in the stirrup. Joe is not quite there yet, but when I put the saddle on him today, the stirrups were in the same place. Hmmm? I will have to practice pulling and stretching my left leg up like I used to do to get up in the saddle. When I stood by the saddle this afternoon, there was no way at the time I could do it. But I will figure something out even if I have to get another stirrup to step up in. Right now his withers are still flat and had to get an old wide tree saddle. It is probably an old Mexican saddle, but it fits him fine for right now. Not sure where he will finish off or if his withers will pop up or not. But when he does, then I can get another saddle. I would like to have found a good used saddle, but I would never have found one with short enough stirrups that could be reworked. A saddle repair man completely cut these fenders up so I could take them up as short as they are.
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Post by angusrancher on Apr 7, 2021 20:04:08 GMT -6
He looks really nice! I hope you have your OSHA approved helmet and football shoulder pads when you get on him. LOL
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Post by chuckie on Apr 7, 2021 20:59:39 GMT -6
Thanks angusrancher. I was thinking about a parachute!
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Post by angusrancher on Apr 8, 2021 2:52:21 GMT -6
Thanks angusrancher. I was thinking about a parachute! Have you looked into a Mary Poppins umbrella? LOL
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Post by chuckie on Apr 8, 2021 9:26:00 GMT -6
I bet the sensation of going upward would be a blast. I might be telling people I was bucked off more often than not just to fly around.
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Post by smokinm on Apr 24, 2021 12:15:28 GMT -6
He is really looking good. Get a good foundation when you start and he should make a real nice ride. I like it if they do a little bucking first few times you saddle them, gets it out of their system before I climb on.
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Post by chuckie on Apr 24, 2021 14:16:43 GMT -6
I hope he does smokinm. I am trying to make him as laid back as I can, but he is definitely a can of beans right now. I have a lot of things to get him used to. This will be nice when he gets to this level. Ha-a!! I will tell Joe what you said about him. He will be appreciative!!
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Post by okie on Apr 24, 2021 19:18:16 GMT -6
LOL, Chuckie. I had a hanckock gelding that I used to pack a chainsaw on and cut branches that were in our way. That ranch was rough enough that there were only certain places you could ride and I had to keep things trimmed up to get through them. He was around twelve at the time. I could put my kids or ex wife on him and he'd pack them around all day and take good care of them and put them right where I needed them. He'd mess with my ex wife but she didn't know any better. He'd bang her legs on fence posts or walk off if she dropped a rein but he never did that to me or the kids...Every time I stepped on him he'd buck. Completely different horse when I was on him... But I could let him buck a little and then grab the chainsaw off the back of the truck and spend all day riding and cutting and he'd stand there and let me cut horseback even if I dropped it right on top of us.
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