“I didn’t realize the errors of my training method.”
All over the country this morning there are baby horses galloping happily around race tracks. Sound, happy baby horses. “They need this work now to build the proper bone density”
Scarey!!
Hay! This is the FOXHUNTING forum; NOT the racing forum! or the Breeder forum or the Off Course forum for training issues (like Parelli!:winkgrin:)not hunt related!!! Facinated - you know many of us may share your opinions on those other things. We just wanna have fun with hunting things here! We don’t go into racing yearlings etc.-nothing to do w/hunting! So you don’t have to make these points here. It’s overkill and comes off obnoxious, argumentative & snobby! You don’t wanna be labeled a Middleburg Snob now do ya!??!!! 
I shudder with just the thought!!! Scarey!!
I am a Middleburg snob. My boyfriend and I live here happily spending my huge trust fund.
I had to laugh. I did the same thing with Rue last summer. Bless, he did the ‘I wanna move but I won’t’ foot hop.
One of my fave things to do is pony a young horse. They learn so much!
Only get to live the hunting life vicariously through my Covertside mags and subscribing membership, but I don’t care if anybody quotes Cappy Smith or Joan Irvine Smith, your yearling sounds like a brave one and trusting.
Nasty ol water spitting tube thingy!
Last fall, my TB yearling-at-the-time got mad at the hose and tore the dang thing off the spigot. Just reached over and grabbed it and gave it a good pull. Now that she’s a big girl of two and a half, she LOVES to cool off on the wash rack.
Happy hunting this year!
My 2009 hunt horse
My 2009 hunt horse went roading for the first time yesterday. She’s three. The four year old was slated to go but had a nasty fit of “can’t catch me” when I went to get her. So the three year old went. It was only her second ride out with a group of horses. She’s been out four times with the beagles so she is used to small quantities of small hounds. We had about 60 foxhounds. She was terriffice. I guess I’ll keep her.
I was reading this thread on Horsecare about how to bathe heads, and kept thinking about SLW and the power wash…
http://www.chronicleforums.com/Forum/showpost.php?p=3360755&postcount=17 --the suggestion is show your horse that it is all good by hosing your own head first.
…maybe the powerwash setting is OK if you use it on yourself first?
Sorry WG, going off forum again, but I just couldn’t get the image of standing in front of my horse and turning the powerwash on myself out of my head…
Well SLW I’m waiting to read the positive spin your hunting buddies put on the latest “lucky life lesson” for “The Yearling” Are there Prairrie Dog towns there in Kansas? I would love to read about ponying him thru them so he can learn to avoid them. Tally Hic!!
What on earth is your problem? 
Since there was no response after 48 hours to the other posting other than “go soak your head”. I felt obligated?
No, the smaller black & white mare has actually hunted once already. She’s in her terrible fours though. This is a larger bay & white Tobiano half sister of hers. She’s got a great personality. Isn’t near the Diva that the other mare is.
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Since there was no response after 48 hours to the other posting other than “go soak your head”. I felt obligated?[/QUOTE]
You really need a hobby…
…or is this your hobby?
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facinated- please don’t feel any obligation towards responding but what a kind thing to do given your hectic schedule.
It would be my pleasure to have you join me foxhunting in Kansas anytime. I’m sorry that you don’t see things my way but perhaps my babble has enlightened (if not entertained) you to ways of dealing with unplanned situations in the equine world.
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I read this stuff when I ned to be in the house anyway. Thank you for the invitation. I do not anticipate a trip to Kansas anytime soon, but I do watch The Wizard Of OZ once in a while.
What I get from your reports is not ways of dealing with unplanned situations, but examples of how accidents happen. You choose to write about them. If I called up a client and said “Hey today I accidently scared your colt with a power wash setting on a nozzle.” or “Today he was riding around in a slant load trailer with his leg stuck in a hay bag” They would probably take their colt out of my barn.
Imagine the response if someone posted one of those “What would you do if your trainer told you he did this with your yearling?”
As I have said horses can learn all that stuff when they are mentaly and physicaly stronger. If people enjoy messing with them as babies, they own them and have that right. I am not going to be convced that it is for the good of the animal. I have a yearling right now who is slightly overfed so he can show on the line when I sell him. He would be better off in the long run if he were living out in a big field getting scratched up, but he is good enough to win, and I need the money. The rest of them will get a pat on the neck once in a while until they are ready to start.
Fascinated,
If you don’t handle them until they are 4 years old, how do you maintain their feet and provide health care?
My horses are all quite large, a 3 y.o. 17.1 hander and a 2 y.o. 16’3 hander with an attitude. I can’t imagine waiting until they were 4 year old to start handling them. Not teaching them to load, not teaching them to take baths, not grooming or foot care. They are so big they would easily do a LOT of damage to both themselves and my property if they were left alone in the field for years and then all of a sudden brought in and forced to learn it all at once.
I realize everyone has “their” way of doing things, but I don’t think yours are any better than anyone elses. In fact, I would not consider buying any young horse (weanling or older) who had not been handled by a knowledgable horseman on a regular basis.
They get handled when they need something. The trick is, no bad experiences. Horses feet wear evenly unless they have some sort of a defect. They end up coming to the barn once in a while if they happen to get hurt, or need to be moved somewhere. If they have never been messed up they can learn everything they need to know, when they need to know it. You do not do it this way, but it does work, and it is the way things were done with horses when mental, and physical soundness were more important than they are today. They do not have to be forced to learn, they are shown that if they do certain things, or allow certain things to be done, everything will be OK. That Painted Wings person sort of said that they have found this to be true as well
SLW’s head falls off…
I have carefully avoided visiting the stick art thread --just to much like crack for the procrastinator, but I heard that my vision had been digitized and just had to look. SLW you have been immortalized on my office wall in stick art…
http://www.chronicleforums.com/Forum/showpost.php?p=3363593&postcount=9361
wooohoooo there ya go!!!
OMG! You guys in Stick Art have GOT to be foxhunters!!! Gotta!!!:lol::lol::lol:
Wateryglen bows down very low with a sweeping hand gesture to the Gods of Stick Art!! I am not worthy!!! Now THAT kind of humor is what we’re all about here on the hunting forum! Ya’ll come hunt with us!!!
Pass the Mojito’s and popcorn puhhhllllease!!! 
Waterglen admits she has spent some time on the couch over there in Stick Art land!! But don’t tell anybody here on Hunting forum-don’t want them to think I’m weird! They think I only live here!
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They get handled when they need something. The trick is, no bad experiences. Horses feet wear evenly unless they have some sort of a defect. They end up coming to the barn once in a while if they happen to get hurt, or need to be moved somewhere. If they have never been messed up they can learn everything they need to know, when they need to know it. [/QUOTE]
Yeah, riiiiiight and I’m Dororthy. Are you saying you never have their feet trimmed unless they have a “defect”? Makes sense I guess, because most farriers wouldn’t want to work on the feet of unhandled youngsters, anyway. And how do you get them up to the barn if you don’t handle them - whistle? (Here, Lassie!!) You must not tie them to groom, either? Oh, wait - can’t do that until they need to know it!
Oh well, to each his own. I’m heading out to lunge the 2-yr old, then practice some horsemanship patterns on the 4-yr old. Shame on me.
Why don’t you go find another thread to harass, hmmmm? You seem pretty good at it.
(sorry SLW, just couldn’t resist feeding the troll. :winkgrin: )
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I have carefully avoided visiting the stick art thread --just to much like crack for the procrastinator, but I heard that my vision had been digitized and just had to look. SLW you have been immortalized on my office wall in stick art…
http://www.chronicleforums.com/Forum/showpost.php?p=3363593&postcount=9361[/QUOTE]
I am agashted, simply agasted!!! LOL, what a hoot!!
“Hang around, we’re a nice lot.”
I wish I could but KSASQATCH told me to go away. She is teaching her 2 yr old to lunge. I wonder if he is tied firmly to a wall while or on a longe line. She would probably be less likely to spill her drink if she makes him lunge while he is tied to a wall or post.
I thought that when women sat around talking on bar stools they always talked about sex?
