Thought the other day that I would keep this thing updated so all of my followers (all 3 of you lol) could keep tabs on us.
Ruger and Striker are learning to take bits in thier mouths this week. We were going to give them a week off, but I've heard of some trainers from other EMM's that gave thier horses time off and they are pretty much starting over. So, to keep that away from us I'm trial riding and working in the round pen.
When you have 90 days to gentle and break a wild horse, there are holes that you leave unfilled just to get them to the show. Ruger hasn't had a bit in her mouth for more than a day...ever... I opted to leave that hole open cause I didn't want to deal with trying to stick something in a wild horses mouth..choose your battles wisley with the wild ones i say.
She opened her mouth and took the snaffle like a pro yesterday, she's ready for one anyway cause she now has callouses on her jaw from the bosal and doesn't listen anymore(ok sometimes, but not always)
She picked up this biting thing at the EMM too..i let her do it cause i didn't want anyone to buy her, but now that she's home..it's ass kickin time! lol.
Miss El Paso has a tendon thats acting up but she isn't sore on it so we are icing it and working more on her ground work. I like my horses DEAD on the ground, whoa means whoa, and clucking means get your ass in gear. it's funny to work with a horse that I haven't started..there are holes to fill that I don't know about, it's like whack a mole...find it, whack it, move on.
Stryker is well...stryker and is currently turned out with carlton in the round-ish pen. The place we are at ran out of stalls so they built a turnout of sorts for friendly horses to go in till some horses leave...you hear that Ruger I said FRIENDLY! :)
There are now more mustangs at the facility than there are "broke" horses..lol. The owners have 2 and we have 4.
Last but not least....
I have a great broke trail horse that I'm offering FREE to a good home. This guy thinks he's a person, and loves attention. He's been sitting for a while so he's out of shape, fat, and kinda ugly, but he's way cool. oh, and he has (so i was told) a bone spur on in his foot. every so often he will take a lame step but thats it.
let me know if your interested in him.
till later
-Jenn
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Whew, you have your hands full too. I enjoy reading your blog, so I am happy you're gonna keep it going. Time off has been good for Faith and myself. I am not too worried about starting over. Fortunately for me, she has no holes. She just needs to continue progressing.
ReplyDeleteBTW, Faith was mean to other people at EMM. Like you, I kind of had to ignore it. The last thing I needed to do was make an ass out of myself.
BTW #2, there are 6 of us following. ;)
Thanks for the update, keep blogging!
ReplyDeleteFunny how you mentioned Ruger picked up a biting habit while you were at the competition... my mustang did the same thing when I took him to the competition... I really wanted to lay the law down, then and there but thought I shouldn't be seen smacking my horse around... It turns out it was just the stress of the competition, he doesn't try that stuff anymore :-)
Anyway, good luck with the continued training!
Hottie hated the bit before I figured out she had huge wolf teeth. Once they were gone it was much better!
ReplyDeleteI want to hear whats going on also so keep up the good writing!