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kolanuraven
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ranch hand
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Kind of like not cowboy to use a bank to get on sometimes. I guess the cowboy rules do change with age. My dad uses a bank or what ever close to make the getting on process a bit easier. Years ago you would never caught him doing that. I guess what ever works for who ever is what to do. Just like kids, one set of parenting doesn't work for all kids, they all react different and therefore they keep you on your toes. 
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| Well Soapweed, put kids in the story instead of horses. Do your kids love you more for your treats than unconditional love? I still want a horse that doesn't need the treats. I give treats when they least expect it. Kind of like saying I love you. If you say it all the time it gets to be just another saying, BUT if you say it when they least expect and you really mean it I think it means more. |
You have a well-merited point, and I "treat" my kids much like you do your kids.  As for catching a horse, if the horse knows they get a piece of cow cake when I catch them, they don't mind getting caught. And like you, I pet them sometimes even when I don't have any cake.
I am 55 years old, and went the first forty of those years thinking it wasn't very "cowboy" to use cake or grain to catch a horse. The past fifteen years I've carried a few pieces of cake in my coat pocket to catch a horse. I can tell you straight that life is much easier doing it this way, and there is a whole lot less dust in the corral when we are getting our mounts for the day captured. |
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Faster horses
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| IMO, the clue to doing ANYTHING with horses OR cows, is to NOT MAKE MUCH DUST.
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Kato
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Location: Manitoba - At the end of the road
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He sounds like a smart horse. He's probably associated the halter with work. Sometimes after you put the halter on, just pet him a bit, and then take it off and let him go.
Keep him guessing.
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Shortgrass
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Location: Eastern Colorado
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| A whip broke horse is easy to catch. This meathod is easily abused, but corner a horse with a buggy whip, and just smack him on the butt until he learns to face you when you walk up to him. Again not everyone can apply this successfully, but it makes horses easy to catch. An old meathod.
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PPRM
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Joined: 10 Feb 2005
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Location: NE Oregon
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| A whip broke horse is easy to catch. This meathod is easily abused, but corner a horse with a buggy whip, and just smack him on the butt until he learns to face you when you walk up to him. Again not everyone can apply this successfully, but it makes horses easy to catch. An old meathod. |
I saw an old man do this...He was a great horseman and could barely get around. But his horses were easy for him to handle. He always positioned himself to have an advantage.....The "Smack" you describe is really some pretty light tapping when I saw him do it and it was rare that he ever had to,
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peg4x4
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Location: 10 miles from the nearest computer,central Texas
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| About treats and biteing-I've always given treats,never been biten for one-Never let one try to pick my pocket for anything,the treat was always given by hand.
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Soapweed
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Joined: 11 Feb 2005
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Location: northern Nebraska Sandhills
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| The mule, Willy, has been hard to catch ever since he came to live on our ranch back in June. He doesn't like to eat cake, but he does like grain. When I try to catch him, he smells a rat, and vacates to the other side of the corral. I always end up getting him into a small corral to finally be able to catch him. Since he doesn't like cake, I took a handful of grain with me on Saturday when I went to catch him. He liked that, and allowed me to slip the halter rope over his neck. Yesterday, I was going to ride the mule, so took a handful of grain with me. He let me catch him out in the big corral with the other sixteen head of horses. I rode him quite a few miles before the day was over, and thought he'd sure act gunshy of me today. This morning after the horses were run into the corral, I opened the barn door to go catch Yellowstone. Willy the mule came right through the open door hoping for a handout. I gave him a handful of grain, put the halter on, led him back out and turned him loose again. Now he is my buddy.
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C-E
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Location: oklahoma
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| Well he showed improvement for a while, now back to running everyday. Having to lure him into a pen with corn. Kind of suprises me that he'll come for corn, he is not normally fed in the pen where I catch him but he still comes in for the corn. Kinda think he just likes to be onry (how do you spell onry?) Good horse though only other complaint is he's kinda rough ridin, short strided with a lot of vertical movement but knows his stuff better than any other horse on the place, might not be as cowy but he sure works hard for me.
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