JINGLING for a list of successful 1sts with Quigley.
&Now I need to check on your babies thread.
Need me some Hazel & Roslyn updates… 
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Thanks, i could use those Jingles! … i’ll go put up some foal pics from yesterday.
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I want a Quigley update, too. I hope he’s a good boy on his first day at school.
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Sure thing!!! i’ll be thrilled if he just loads both ways. We’ve been practicing, but…
Foal pictures? Where? I want to see.
Quigley’s adventure on Thursday:
Loading here went pretty smoothly, took us about 10 min *at most, for him to be loaded and ready to roll with Colton, my Standardbred gelding. Got there and he had many positive experiences. We ended a half hour early to allow for silliness loading, and it took TWO HOURS!!! My coach tried to teach him how to load with the help of strategic positioning of the trailer inside the arena and she/we got him loaded. I was inside coaxing, she was outside, Quig on a loose lead, and coach used a long stick gently albeit persistently tapping his rump. Plus we had a person at the door and another person holding a gate. I was pretty fraught with guilt as it was my poor judgement that deemed him ready to transport. Now…they told me there would be fireworks, and they said i shouldn’t get up in there…but: no fireworks, and i felt safe in there with him once he loaded up. He’s not at all ‘fighty’ …to people. Not-so if you’re a horse tho lol.
I’m SURE the reason he didn’t want to load is because the trip there was so long (2 hrs) and so unpleasant… Curvy hilly country roads. He will learn that this just a part of life, but it will have to be learned here and on more short trips. I don’t want to inconvenience so many people again.
It was a very expensive trip. A two-hour ‘lesson’ plus I paid my coach an extra 100 for her trouble (and to split however she wished with her barn help) and for making her next lesson have to be in the outside arena. I offered to pay the lady’s lesson for her but she wouldn’t accept.
Oh, and i never got all the way on him. Just a leg and also leaning across his back (my bellybutton to his spine). BUT…he got really good at standing beside the mounting block for me lol
some pics
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Go, Quigley!
Not terrible for First Evers 
Shall I make you feel better with my own Trailering Debacle?
(grab a beverage, gonna be long…)
So, my TB Vernon was “OTTB” - quotes as he never raced, but ponied for the trainers for 4yrs.
In & out of trailers, long distance trips (IL to KY & FL) annually. Then I showed him locally, shipping in the trainer’s 6H & larger rigs to local & farther shows.
NEVER a problem on anything from the Commercial 12H semis, to borrowed 2H so tight the buttbar left an impression…
Then, TaDa! DH & I got our very own trailer. Brand New off the dealer’s lot.
4-Star, 2H, straightload aluminum BP, w/ramp 
We go to where we’re boarding & bring Vern out to put him on 1st before DH’s TWH - who we’ve never hauled since he was delivered to us.
Vern strolls up to the ramp, puts a hoof on & STOPS!
Won’t budge.
Circling doesn’t help.
DH pinging small stones off his butt (trainer,-taught trick: horse thinks “Gee, flies are bad, I’ll go in where it’s safe”) doesn’t work.
Running the line around his butt… He tries to sit on it 
Being a boarding barn 
, a lot of unasked-for Help appears.
Blindfold him! No
Here’s a broom to spank him on No
Here’s a shovel instead of the broomNO!
We ask everyone to please Go Away.
Load DH’s horse, no problem.
Vern is still not going on.
He’ll approach the ramp quietly, step on (both fronts), then back off. No fuss, just not going on.
We spend the next weeks riding as usual, then hitching SUV to trailer & practicing loading in barn’s parking lot.
With varying degrees of success, but never a complete Load, Stand, Unload victory 
Of course, the Help reappears in varying numbers.
We repeat NTYVM ad nauseum.
The highlight was when a very drunk guy pulls off the toad, into the lot to offer his expertise.
NOBODY KNOWS WHO HE IS! 
We eventually get Vern loading, but maybe 20% of the time he needs to Stand & Ponder before getting on. No matter if DH’s horse is already on or not.
I miss the opinionated old cuss 
Had him 20yrs.
P.S.
Thanks for the H&R Foal updates 
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lol. Great cuppa coffee story thanks! It takes a lot to laugh it takes a trailer-loading to cry…
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Oh you guys did fine! As long as you persisted without making it traumatic, it’s a win!! I’d do it again with him asap. Bet it goes way better time 2.
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Oh, no trauma or histrionics. R+. (i had taken about 6 pounds of carrots along for the lesson, and grain) Just a very very long time. i got him from a corner of the arena over to the trailer by backing him up LOL. I gently kinda pushed him with my head on his chest eventually because he started balking with the normal ask… This took about an hour…several attempts. Meanwhile my coach taught her next lesson in the outdoor then came back with A PLAN…which worked!
I don’t think there will be a next time for a while… She wants me to work with him more at home first. Can’t blame her, we caused a disruption to her day.
and always in the back of my mind is she has a long wait list for students…
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I’m sure your animals are at least handled in such a way that blow ups are less likely. A blow up is a failure and you avoided that. A nice animal with a good mind tried some new things. Well done!
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I’m still a month out from picking up my little BLM burro jenny. I’m so excited. I have a halter for them to put on her. It has a breakaway leather strap in case she gets it hung up. I’m going to see if there’s a way to dribble Spot On down her back while she’s in the chute. I don’t want her to be miserable before we get tot the ‘fly spray isn’t going to kill you’ lesson.
I pick her up in the morning and it will be hot during the 3 1/2 hour drive back. My trailer has a very open design with heavy bars on the sides so, as long as I’m moving, she’ll get air circulation. I plan to gas up before I pick her up so we can come straight back without stopping. Her pen is in the shade and has a small shelter to keep her dry. She’ll be able to watch everything going on in the barnyard, but she’ll still be far enough away from the other equines.
Our vet recommended a 40 day quarantine and a check up before introduction to the herd.
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That all sounds perfect!
…It’s gonna be a lonnnnnng month, huh?! 
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Yep!
Six more days until she comes home! Tony is going to love her (after quarantine).
We’re thinking up potential names. Wild burros are descended from pack donkeys used by miners during the gold rush. We’re considering old timey names like Abigail and Clementine. We’ll have meet her first.
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Waaaay back when I was a teen my parents adopted a BLM burro (she came from the Death Valley area). They named her Annie after Wild Horse Annie (Velma Bronn Johnston)
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If you name her Clementine, she already has her own theme song built right in.
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Olive, Sage, Juniper? Thinking of the plant names in her desert home.
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Tomorrow morning….
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