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The Prospector and I and taking all the glory Joe Dirt

If I had as much intelligence as this jenny, I might could post her picture...

Devin how did Joe manage to still the spot light in the front of yours and prospectors picture, and dang look at the glow around prospector in the picture, you guys really hit that one on the head. Thanks for sharing...

Well its been a while since we've posted anything on here so i thought i'd throw a few up for some entertainment.



Marcus on Hazard


Marcus loosing his balance trying to ride standing up....he got a little wet.


Heres one where he stayed on, got the little wild pony with too.






Snow was sticking around on the mountain this year.

Heres one with Devin and Mark after they walked thier horses... Devin said they are too damn scary to ride in rough country. He was wanting his mule...lol


Trey on Judd and Grandpa on his half draft smokey


Jalen and Trey on a lion hunt.

Trey and Jalen lion hunting


Mark and Jeff came down for some lion hunting


Marcus lion hunting


Some ponies waiting to be worked at Poco's house






1st ride

2nd ride






Workin some cows with mommas pony without a bridle

Even got Desert Dawg in on the action.



You'd better give that colt it's foot back, it's gonna need all four legs to hold that big ol boy up!

Here are a few pics from the last year raising a mustang filly. She was brought to us by a friend from the neighboring reservation. He said the mare was letting her two year old colt drink all the babies milk. He also said that other mares in the herd were taking it from its dam and tossing it around by the neck. At three days old she was too weak to even pick herself up to try and nurse. He finally took her from the herd and brought her to us to raise. My girlfriend and I raised her inside the house on milk replacer and nursed her back to health. Eventually she moved to the dog yard and then out to the farm with the some of our other horses and mules. She is now a little over a year and doing well. Hope ya'll enjoy the pictures.

Very good job on mothering that colt Dan! I bet its hard to keep that little filly out of your back pocket. Nice photo's guys thanks.

sourdough

Why do you tie one of the rear feet on the horses you're breaking? Some form of buck prevention I assume, but haven't seen it done before. Also, what about the colt with the rope around its neck? Was this just before he could be haltered?

sourdough wrote:Very good job on mothering that colt Dan! I bet its hard to keep that little filly out of your back pocket. Nice photo's guys thanks.

sourdough

Man you ain't kiddin, the only bad thing is she tries to horseplay with us and it just isn't cute anymore.

Zachvu, its just a process in breaking the ponies... but the rope on the back leg is the last step before we ride them. They learn where their safety is, boundries and to give to any pressure regardless of where it is applied, even the flanks. By the time Poco has done his magic on them they are usually pretty good. There has only been one horse that we didn't ever ride and another we didnt ride on the first session. Most of them come around pretty good.

I can vouch that this form of starting a horse is pretty nice when you get tangled up in barbed wire chasing cows or your horse catches a leg as you crossing some downed fence. I have never had one of my horses that we have broke get cut up in the fence or even try to fight it, once they figure out they are caugh they just stand there. The farriers say that they are pretty dang nice to shoe also.

I wish i could put a better handle on a horse but they are idiot proof for us and the things that we like to do.

Dan, thats pretty cool deal with the baby. You'll probably never have to worry about having to catch that one....just getting ran over when its playtime.

Thanks for posting the pics and add more if you get a chance.

Take care, jason

awesome pictures guys thanks for sharing! poser you sure have some beautiful country there!! so who has the record for riding the farthest standing up?

ive rode and trained world champions for years and ive never seen ridin a horse with a rope on back leg....can someone explain please?