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Silver
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| Faster horses wrote: |
GOTTA LOVE THOSE PICTURES!!
I'll bet that cabin in the mountains is not in Texas...
And Soapweed, is your Yellowstone horse taught to ground tie? Appears so in the picture. I have only been around a couple of horses that could be ground-tied. It is a pretty handy thing, but is just about a 'lost art.'
The last 6 pictures on Soapweeds post didn't download for me, and the last 5 on jersy lily's didn't. There is a small box with a red x in it. What happened? |
Did you try right clicking on the small red box and then clickinng on "show picture"?
PS.. Teaching a horse to ground tie only takes about 20 minutes of your life if done correctly (on most horses)
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Faster horses
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Silver, would you share with us how you teach a horse to ground tie?
One horse I knew of, a sorrel mare; you could drive a herd of horses past her and she wouldn't leave. She might move her butt around to be able to see, but her head and the reins never moved. It truly was like she was tied to something.
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Silver
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| Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 9:56 am Post subject: |
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| Faster horses wrote: |
Silver, would you share with us how you teach a horse to ground tie?
One horse I knew of, a sorrel mare; you could drive a herd of horses past her and she wouldn't leave. She might move her butt around to be able to see, but her head and the reins never moved. It truly was like she was tied to something. |
Ground tying is one of the first things I now teach when doing groundwork. I start by holding the horse right at the halter snap with my left hand, and hold the halter shank in my right. Slowly raising my hand towards the horses shoulder to move her away. If she doesn't move off, start swinging the end of the shank, if this doesn't get her to move you may have to strike her lightly with it. As she moves away you should be pivoting on your left foot, controlling things with your left hand on the halter snap. The idea is to get the horse to move across at the hips, because this is hard work for them. In no time you will be able to controll the speed of the turn with the positioning of your right hand, it will be like there is a bubble between your hand and the horses shoulder. Once this is working for you, you need to make a definate "release". I pivot away and back on my left foot, say "whoa" or some such, and make a big deal of throwing the halter shank on the ground. At this point the horse should be quite happy to stay right where she is, so walk past her shoulder to her rear, and around behind (this direction seems to work the best, they are less likely to follow you). Walk away and move off, turn your back to the horse. After a couple of minutes you kinda hope they move off (they will eventually), and when you do you catch them right away and repeat the whole performance. Pretty soon they're dang happy to stay right where you put them. It makes the right choice easy and the wrong choice hard.
The exercise is also good for teaching them to lead past you, which is a must for going through gates and loading into trailers.
The whole circiling exercise then becomes the only 'discipline' my horse gets on the ground, so when they get it, they know to start thinking of a different choice of actions that will save them from that dang circling.
I didn't invent this method, but I sure like it.
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HAY MAKER
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TXTibbs
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Location: South Central Texas, former South Dakotan
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| I have a question....how do you get the pictures to show up in the message and not just a link to click on. I think someone asked that before but i can't find the answer. If its not to much trouble please let me know.
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HAY MAKER
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| Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 11:21 am Post subject: |
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| I have a question....how do you get the pictures to show up in the message and not just a link to click on. I think someone asked that before but i can't find the answer. If its not to much trouble please let me know. |
OK,you have your pics at photo bucket .Left click on the one you want posted here,that should make it independent from the rest,now right click on it ,you will see a menu screen,at the bottom,click on properties,that will get you to the properties screen,find the address(url)and get your cursor on it hold your cursor down as you drag it across the address,it should hi lite make sure you get it all.now on the bottom left corner of your key pad you will see your (ctrl) key while depressing your ctrl key depress the c key you now have your picture click ok in the properties screen get out of there and come over to ranchers,open your post as usual add text or what ever then you see that box at the top of your post that has [Img] click it then depress your [ctrl] key again and while keeping it depressed depress your v key,then go back to the [Img}box and click it again,post as usual, your picture should appear.............good luck TX TIBBS PS if you get stuck holler it really is simple once you get the hang of it,and there are probably easier ways to do this,maybe some one will show us
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TXTibbs
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the_jersey_lilly_2000
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| yeah I see that...brings back bad memories lmao
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TXTibbs
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Soapweed
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Soapweed
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I like the medium sized pictures better, because they download onto this old slow moving computer a lot faster.
Another advantage of the medium sized pictures is that the text doesn't get wider than the page. When this happens, a person has to keep running the blue bar back and forth to read what's happening, and to see the picture. Maybe this is another case for "all things in moderation."
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Faster horses
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I wondered why sometimes the text ran so far out that I had to use the little blue bar. I don't like it when that happens and didn't know why it was occurring from time to time.
Thanks, Soap.
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