How much walking around a day?
Also
"drove" him from the ground in the round pen (bridle, surcingle, over-check,
crupper, long lines).
Lynda, please dumb it down for me. You lost me after bridle..but I
think I know/understand long lines-is that where you stand in the middle
of the ring and control him on a long line?
Then drove him from the ground behind the cart with a
50# bag of feed in the cart, then 100#. After a couple of weeks we were off
and about.
You mean after a few weeks, you got on the cart and you were off and
about? Or do you mean you lead him around as he pulled the cart?
From there the training for riding is easy cause they are already use to thebridle, a cinch and going where you want them to go.
I can bridle Jack myself. He does fine with a bridle.
I broke all my horses
from the ground and to cart first. Tie a sack of grain on the saddle to get
them use to the weight. Plus we always used blankets with tennis balls on
the babies so they were never touchy about their legs. Because they were
used to the "bouncing balls," the hanging human legs were no big deal.
This is a keeper post for me...
I've never had an intact male donkey or horse bother the babies. The
weanlings, sometimes, but the babies never. The only problem I ever had
with an intact male anything was a Suffolk ram (I do NOT like Suffolk, btw
<g>) and he would head butt the horses to get to their feed. He stopped
when an old gelding picked him up and tossed him.
OK...
--
"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public
debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered
and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed
lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of
living on public assistance."
--Cicero, 55 BC
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