This message is from: Mary Thurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---Joel a harman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't keep mules because I'm not smart enough. I would offer a > suggestion on the trainer you choose for your fjord. Find one that has > trained mules. While not keeping mules I have been around them & fjords > remind me more of mules than they do horses. Joel, I agree totally with you on this. I also do not keep mules because 1)I am not smart enough to keep ahead of them and 2)they are a bit noisey for my liking. There were a lot of mules where I grew up in western Montana. Some 'useable' some not. We used a "Tennessee Walker mule" that we raised for trailrides. He was an orphan who was raised by my saddlebred mare. Nice riding mule, but sometimes too smart for his own good. I second your advice to find a trainer who has experience with mules. The one we work with has mule experience, owns a couple himself, and it didn't take him long to figure out that our Fjords thought more like a mule than a horse. He had success with them, where other methods either failed, or the horse came out with problems. Mary == Mary Thurman Raintree Farms [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
