And don’t miss what happens with a second horse in the background at the end! What??
https://www.facebook.com/1033257850102423/videos/1239145356180337/?pnref=story
A bit like getting porcupine quills out. Best to be quick, decisive and well out of range of hooves…
And the one in the background? Holy crap.
It’s a clip from Unbranded, you can watch the whole thing on Netflix. That is far from the worst thing that happens in the movie.
Some days, it’s just better to stay in the truck.
and these were the selected good mustangs after a few months of professional breaking but after a few months on the trail they calmed down
What did he expect the horse would do there but paw at him?
Even domestic horses would resist poking around where they are sore or hurting.
Sheesh, and he was carrying a gun in his waistband. Scary.
i think the first mistake was trying to hold the horse and manage the pliers at the same time. get someone else to hold the animal. maybe even two someones.
What charismaryllis said.
A former next-door neighbor raised large mules (mammoth jack x big, strapping QH mares). His place had its share of prickly pear.
When the mules would get thorns in their muzzles, they’d come over to our shared fence-line and hang their gigantic heads over for me to pluck the stickers out.
No halters, no bribes, nothing, they’d be good as gold and appreciative of my efforts. If I saw them congregated at the fence, I knew to go check them out – they had me well-trained:lol:.
I miss that guy and his mules - we didn’t even mind his jack braying like a very loud, squeaky gate (jack had a thing for our mares:)).
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I wonder what set the second horse off?! :eek:
And I do feel bad for the first horse and the guy that got clobbered! I hope they were able to eventually get those out.
The horses in the video were mustangs with only 90 days of handling under their belts. It doesn’t take much to set them off at that stage, they still have a very strong fight/flight response and not a ton of trust in people. I don’t think multiple people holding them would have helped. It might have even made the horse feel trapped and defensive.
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It’s a clip from Unbranded, you can watch the whole thing on Netflix. That is far from the worst thing that happens in the movie.[/QUOTE]
Yikes!
I felt bad for all involved. So many have recommended this movie to me. I am ignorant of its facts, but it seems to me that “Guys having an Wanderjahre after college with a romantic idea about being American cowboys… no clue required” doesn’t go well, especially for the animals who didn’t want to take a year off before joining corporate America.
Am I right?
Will the good horsewoman in me be bummed out as I was watching this clip?
No mvp, I think you’d like the movie. The guys in it were pretty decent horsemen and the fellow who organized it did so to raise awareness of BLM mustangs. I was pretty impressed by the horses and the horsemen.
Although that scene did make me cringe.
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No mvp, I think you’d like the movie. The guys in it were pretty decent horsemen and the fellow who organized it did so to raise awareness of BLM mustangs. I was pretty impressed by the horses and the horsemen.
Although that scene did make me cringe.[/QUOTE]
Good to know. Thanks for the fuller review of the movie.
Those thorns must HURT… plus being a recently-un-feraled horse makes everything harder. I see why their reactions were so big. Makes you grateful for all the selective breeding and training our more tolerant horses have, doesn’t it?
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that scene made me cringe - choallah cactus, is it?
the second horse in the back also ran into the cactus - he had it all along his stifle, hip, and flank.
idk, i don’t know how else they were supposed to handle it (besides, i agree, having someone else hold the horse). it’s not exactly as if they were within a few miles of a barn or a vet clinic - they were isolated, miles and miles from anything. not like they could pause, sedate and then pull them out… if it were me, it would have been twitched but that’s about all you can do on the trail. yoink it out and move on.
i watched unbranded. it was okay. some things i didn’t like, some of the horses at the end were so tired. TBH i thought the chestnut striking at him was kind of rotten… rearing i could totally understand, and i’ve had that happen too, but not the trying to hit you. IIRC, they were further along than 90 days at this point, and those 90 days were with professionals not amateurs. i’ve extracted my share of porcupine quills from inquiring horse muzzles and never once did my horses try to hurt me during. it certainly makes me appreciate them more!
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that scene made me cringe - choallah cactus, is it?
the second horse in the back also ran into the cactus - he had it all along his stifle, hip, and flank.
idk, i don’t know how else they were supposed to handle it (besides, i agree, having someone else hold the horse). it’s not exactly as if they were within a few miles of a barn or a vet clinic - they were isolated, miles and miles from anything. not like they could pause, sedate and then pull them out… if it were me, it would have been twitched but that’s about all you can do on the trail. yoink it out and move on.
i watched unbranded. it was okay. some things i didn’t like, some of the horses at the end were so tired. TBH i thought the chestnut striking at him was kind of rotten… rearing i could totally understand, and i’ve had that happen too, but not the trying to hit you. IIRC, they were further along than 90 days at this point, and those 90 days were with professionals not amateurs. i’ve extracted my share of porcupine quills from inquiring horse muzzles and never once did my horses try to hurt me during. it certainly makes me appreciate them more![/QUOTE]
Cholla 
Anyone worth their salt riding in a cholla heavy area carries a large tooth comb, because it is the fastest, most painless and cleanest way to remove it. You won’t get every single needle, but you’ll get the majority of them without wearing them yourself.
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Cholla
Anyone worth their salt riding in a cholla heavy area carries a large tooth comb, because it is the fastest, most painless and cleanest way to remove it. You won’t get every single needle, but you’ll get the majority of them without wearing them yourself.[/QUOTE]
Those looked more like porcupine quills than any cactus stickers from around here?
Cholla has very small stickers and generally you get the whole pod stuck to a horse or human.
A knife brushes those off.
One of the feral horses we were started did just that, overreacted to the instructor reaching over and touching him when he didn’t expect it by pawing.
We had to take him to the hospital to get his scalp sewed back together with a bunch of stitches.
We all knew it was not the horse’s fault that we were not careful and clear enough to the horse and he acted like the feral horse he was.
You don’t just reach over to pull anything stuck to a horse without warning the horse and preparing it for that, especially if there are more than one stickers, as that fellow I hope learned.
I will say I LOVE the movie unbranded, at the very least for the score and fantastic cinematography. Beautiful images of our great country and the importance of conservation. There were a couple of bad calls made that I’m sure would make most horsemen cringe, but not enough to not watch the movie.
Just started to watch the movie, and it does appear that the horse that freaked out got cactus all in his back side. Poor thing. Much more apparent in the movie clip than the facebook clip.
