Mustang Talk

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 I was asked what I meant at the end of my last blog. When I said don’t let them walk over you I mean don’t let your horse push you or pull you when you have them in hand have your horse respect your space. If you ask the horse to stand near you or away from you he should stand quite and still not be walking around you in a circle or pushing you over. If you are leading him some where have your horse under control not out on the end of your lead like a kite on a string but nice and calm

  When you teach a horse to lead it is the time to teach them other things to. I have had some young horses brought here lately that are halter broke that have a lot of problems from being scare of people and no respect for the person on the end of the lead rope. I feel a halter trained horse should be taught to lunge and have their feet picked up,stand while you brush them and you should be able to walk around them plus they should load in a trailer. So many times people just drag a young horse around and say you can lead them it doesn’t take that much more time to teach them to be caught and face up to you and stand so you can put your halter on them quietly and safe. If you take a few minutes a day and pick up their feet when the shoer comes it will be a good day for both of them and you too. Horse that are scare are dangerous so is one that is disrespectful a horse does not have to be afaird of you to be respectful of you. A horse that respects you does so because he trust you and is looking toward you for leadership. When a horse has no leader they are confused and nervous so be a leader for your horse and don’t let them down by letting them walk over you. 

 The other day I had a guy call needing his horse shod for a sale. He informed me that he had it done three days before but it didn’t look right. So I went down to the fair ground to take a look and what I saw was the worst job of shoeing I have seen in a long time. None of the feet were the same when I trim them I took off about 2inches off three of the feet and 3 inches off one. Why do people think that there is nothing to shoeing horses when it takes training and education plus a lot of practice. There is a big difference from putting iron on and doing it right. When you hire some one to shoe or trim your horse make sure they know what they are doing for your horse benefit. Don’t just hire the cheapist or the first one you find without asking around to see if they know what they are doing. Your spending your money and the health of your horse is your job. Shoeing does not harm a horse’s feet but bad trimming or shoeing does so hire a good shoer next time and stay with them as he will get to know your horses feet and your horse will learn to trust him.

Last week some trick me into giving them my password to my hotmail acount now they are emailing my friend asking them for money if any of you have recieved an email from me asking for money to get me home from England .Well I’m not in England and I don’t need help getting home so don’t fall for their scam you can reach me by the email on the web page. We will try to up date the web soon with pictures ofmy next mustang challenge horse. Will be writing more soon.

  I was wondering why people who know nothing about horses think they know everything about horses. yesterday I was going to pick up a horse for training and when I got to the place where the horse was it was a junk yard of a place no place to back my trailer up to run this unbroken horse into or any place to catch him of course the people wanted me to rope the horse in a wire pen that was falling down when I refused they were mad and rude to me for refusing to hurt myself and the horse. Some people should not own horses just like these people their horse was underfed, hadn’t had her feet done in 8 yrs. I felt sorry for the horse but I was not going to add more injury to it to get it out of there but I’m the bad guy for refusing to hurt the horse and myself.  Just a little venting on my part, have a nice day to all of the good horse people out there.

      I would like to past on my feeling on leaving your halter on your horse. I think this is a bad practise for the safety of your horse. When you turn your horse loose with his halter on it can and does get caught on things. I saw a young filly turned out in a pasture with her halter on. She was found the next day with it caught on a standpipe she had a dislocated jaw and need 160 stitches in her face. She had a hard time eating and look terrible. She was put down about a year later. I also meet a mare that was crippled because she had her halter left on. The owners had turned her loose with her halter on and went to town when they returned the next day they found her with her hind foot caught on the side of the halter she had fought it for a long and pulled her hip out of place she was no longer a useful horse and had to live a life of pain. These are some of the worst things that can happen but they do happen so next time you want to leave your halters on think of they safety. Try to make your horse as safe as you can it is our responsibility to take care of them. 

This is where we stayed in Kingman AZ. This is the Blake Ranch  RV. park they have corrals for your horses and a full RV park plus they have one cabin you can rent for the night There is a truck stop down the hill from the park with a good place to eat. there are showers for you also but not in the cabin you have to walk over to the park to shower and use the restrooms but it isn’t far.so if you are going through Kingman AZ. and need to stop with your horses check at the Blake Ranch it is a nice place to stay.

I finally got my computer working again and would like to thank some of the people we stay with on our way down to Texas in this picture  I’m ridding Duel at SAM Cruse’s place in Wichita Falls Texas If any of you are traveling through and need a place for your horses  call Sam Cruse it is a great place to stay.  We have stayed there the last two years on our way to the Extreme Mustang Makeover.

well we made it home it was a great show and we had fun Brown Derby place 4th in the yearling group 46 and over we brought him home and adopted him duel went to someone in Texas hope he has a good home The horses in the finals for the legends were super those guys did a great job on their horses as did all of the trainer there from the youth to all of the ridding horse.  I hope they all feel as I do that we are all winner because we made it there and our horses are now useable horses. we took untrained wild mustang and made rideable partener for people to use. Good job everyone. I hope we can do this again next year