I know its been over a week and I have not posted. But its been raining, its been cold, I have been under the weather and basically just doing the due diligence of horsecare.
Whats new, whats going on… waiting for the sun, waiting for the warmth of those golden rays to help remove the extra coats of hair on our noble steeds. Fuzzie Ponies.
Its tough getting back in the saddle after a week off, things don’t stretch as good as they should and complain when you use them. Ahh the weight gain of winter!
How long can I hold the reata coil in my hand before my arm screams for me to put it down… ahh about 15 minutes! LOL.
Was able to work the trio yesterday, Phooka got a ride around, Marshal worked on putting his bridle on like a good citizen, and Komet got some lessons on manners and moving his hind quarters before the sun set and the chill set it.
Getting a horse to bridle good is an art form in itself. There are so many places they can get to head tossing, dorking around and just being a pill that sometimes its hard to figure out where to start from where things fell apart. I always default to the start, always default to the beginning. Does he put his head down, will he keep it down, does he tuck into me, can he handle the bridle over his eye, will he open his mouth, will he keep his head down… so many baby steps… so much time invested.
Makes you appreciate the cost of some of those 100% broke horses that are for sale.
Figure this :
I if a person makes 35$ an hour and spends 3 hours a week at the start with their horse teaching it how to take the bit like a good solid citizen and it takes them oh a month before the horse gets ok at it, and then another 3 months before they are solid, well that’s a 1000$ just in getting the bridle. And that’s one small step in a ton of steps…
Easy to see how horses can cost of 10,000$ in no time.
Hi Ho!
LZO
Phooka would be worth, oh about $1,000,000,000.00!
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