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i have already suggested he come here and play with the boys a while but he is still at a stage going back and forth with milk and pellets. He drinks milk from a bucket and she switches slowly to pellets and he does great a week or so and then slows way down on eating and drinking water and loses weight so she puts him back on milk. I guess he is being weaned in a sense. His dam and the other mare, all they do is kick his butt and no playing and when sylvia goes out there he goes nuts wanting to play. when we went on a trail ride Jaspar kept trying to correct him, irritably, another horse may have really kicked him down or something, Jaspar just lunged at him with ears pinned like knock it off, but her mare, his dam, flipped him over backward like a turtle when he jumped up on her chest. he is the most rambunctious high energy little thing I have ever seen. She does not beat him with the ball bat and fly swatter, uses them defensively to stop him. But I can remember nasi being a little rat like that and I had to get strict with him! Janice -- even good horses have bad days sometimes.
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On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 20:19:21 -0500, you wrote: way too cute for mule burgers!! Dunno, looks like someone already made one out of his left ear! ; ) Mic Mic (Michelle) Rushen --- Solva Icelandic Horses and DeMeulenkamp Sweet Itch Rugs: www.solva-icelandics.co.uk ---
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Dunno, looks like someone already made one out of his left ear! ; ) Mic he is practicing his little stinker attitude. man I have never seen a froggier colt with more attitude EVER. They say mules have hybrid vigor but i have never seen ANYTHING like this guys vigor, and smart?? Oh my gosh. Sylvia went out one morning and he was in the front yard with is paddock gate completely closed. he had got out and closed the gate behind him! And now she is swinging at him to clobber him so he wont rear and try to play with her and when she swings he ducks and honestly, I have to laugh out loud. I hid behind a tree last time i was there because you literally cannot turn your back on him for a half second. He WAITS for your mind to wander and then runs at you from the rear playing, likes to take off running in a huge circle, run right at you and when you yell and swing at him he takes off bucking and farting and will even rear on his little hind legs and hop, striking the air. Its just sad. he needs another colt to play with so bad! We took him on a trail ride and he broke loose and ran through the woods until he got his rope caught on a tree. At one point he reared and landed his feet on his mother while sylvia was in the saddle and the mother just struck and sent him over backward flat of his back. so she is about fed up with his s**t too :) I mean he is a pistol ball and sylvia has her hands full on this one! I have been around hundreds of foals this age and I have never seen one even half this rowdy! Janice -- even good horses have bad days sometimes.
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On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 08:48:24 -0500, you wrote: He WAITS for your mind to wander Oh my while I'm sure it's cute and funny now he's a baby, I hate to think what's going to happen to this guy when he's an adult : ( I hope he doesn't kill someone. Mic Mic (Michelle) Rushen --- Solva Icelandic Horses and DeMeulenkamp Sweet Itch Rugs: www.solva-icelandics.co.uk ---
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Oh my while I'm sure it's cute and funny now he's a baby, I hate to think what's going to happen to this guy when he's an adult : ( I hope he doesn't kill someone. Mic well what would you suggest. she's already carrying an aluminum baseball bat into the paddock with her. and using it. She handed me a fly swatter, which worked pretty good actually. He needs to be gelded for one, and soon, and i think she is working on that. Janice -- even good horses have bad days sometimes.
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On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Janice McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well what would you suggest. she's already carrying an aluminum baseball bat into the paddock with her. and using it. She handed me a fly swatter, which worked pretty good actually. He needs to be gelded for one, and soon, and i think she is working on that. Janice -- Is he too young for Parelli games? V
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2008/7/3 Janice McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED]: well what would you suggest. she's already carrying an aluminum baseball bat into the paddock with her. and using it. Gawd! What a scarey thing to have around the place. He needs to be gelded for one, and soon, and i think she is working on that. The sooner the better I'd say Wanda -- Thoughts become things...
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On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 13:59:29 -0500, you wrote: well what would you suggest. she's already carrying an aluminum baseball bat into the paddock with her. and using it. She handed me a fly swatter, which worked pretty good actually. He needs to be gelded for one, and soon, and i think she is working on that. It's a really hard one. This is the orphan mule, isn't it? Is he still being fed milk? I think if he was mine I would try my hardest to get him into a larger herd of horses/donkeys/mules, with some more foals, youngsters and adult horses, so they could teach him that he's not King of the World. Then I would try to restrict human contact as much as possible until he's learned more about herd status generally and his place in the herd. We have a similar thing nearby - a friend used my stallion on her mare, and the foal is now a yearling. When she was a baby she was handled a lot, and not in a good way (in spite of warnings!). She was taught to play with people, never really corrected, turned into a big pet puppy dog which was fine when she was tiny, but now she's a strapping big yearling over 13hh and you have a carry a whip when you go in the field or she jumps all over you, bites, kicks, yuck. My friend would like to sell her but as you can imagine nobody is that keen. I suspect I will probably end up buying her and rehabbing her which is sad considering she's such a baby : ( Mic Mic (Michelle) Rushen --- Solva Icelandic Horses and DeMeulenkamp Sweet Itch Rugs: www.solva-icelandics.co.uk ---
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On Jul 3, 2008, at 12:36 PM, Wanda Lauscher wrote: 2008/7/3 Janice McDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED]: well what would you suggest. she's already carrying an aluminum baseball bat into the paddock with her. and using it. Gawd! What a scarey thing to have around the place. He needs to be gelded for one, and soon, and i think she is working on that. The sooner the better I'd say Wanda Got any senior horse geldings around, preferably one gelded as an adult? That's what the brat needs as a companion, to teach it its place in the order of things, in language it can understand. Lynn Kinsky, Santa Ynez, CA ranch: http://www.silcom.com/~lkinsky/
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On Jul 3, 2008, at 12:48 PM, Mic Rushen wrote: On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 13:59:29 -0500, you wrote: well what would you suggest. she's already carrying an aluminum baseball bat into the paddock with her. and using it. She handed me a fly swatter, which worked pretty good actually. He needs to be gelded for one, and soon, and i think she is working on that. It's a really hard one. This is the orphan mule, isn't it? Oh, a mule. That explains how he got outside of his corral with the gate closed. g She would do well to keep him in the tallest fencing until he forgets his coon jumping experience (http://www.angelfire.com/or/royaleroseranch/mules.html). Lynn Kinsky, Santa Ynez, CA ranch: http://www.silcom.com/~lkinsky/
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she's already carrying an aluminum baseball bat into the paddock with her. and using it. Janice, This is the friend that has a very small area for her horses, right? Could this youngster just have a lot of pent-up energy and no place to expend it as well as no one to play with? Mystic is 4/5 now and she spends just as much time running around the pasture and getting Rocky or Eitill to run with her as she does grazing during turn-out time.She has so much energy and playfulness -- and she's a filly and older. This little guy needs to have room to move and someone to play with.I bet that would help his inappropriate behavior(s) immensely. When he is ready to be weaned, could you bring him to your place to play with Nasi and the boys for awhile or something? -- Renee M. in Michigan
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2008/7/3 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: When he is ready to be weaned, could you bring him to your place to play with Nasi and the boys for awhile or something? Now there's an idea! That would do wonders for him Janice. Boys love to play... Wanda -- Thoughts become things...
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On Jul 3, 2008, at 4:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I bet that would help his inappropriate behavior(s) immensely. When he is ready to be weaned, could you bring him to your place to play with Nasi and the boys for awhile or something? And she needs to geld him ASAP! My mule was gelded at one month and the vet said he liked to geld them at foaling. An uncut mule is much more dangerous than a horse colt simply because of the greater strength of a mule. Even without the testosterone . . . Lynn Kinsky, Santa Ynez, CA ranch: http://www.silcom.com/~lkinsky/
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Lynn Kinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . An uncut mule is much more dangerous than a horse colt simply because of the greater strength of a mule. Even without the testosterone . . . Interesting. . . The longer I live, the more I am coming to the conclusion anything born with testosterone producing organs suffers from a birth defect. . . . -- Renee M. in Michigan
[IceHorses] chewing thing
can anyone advise what to use for a horse that chews trees? It may be a donkey thing. My curly ray has killed several small trees chewing them and now my friend sylvia's little mule is chewing the one tree in his paddock and she cant get him to knock it off. She was thinking of painting it with turpentine. I said that could hurt him... i said maybe she could duct tape it but he might ingest some. any ideas? Janice -- even good horses have bad days sometimes.
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On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 06:12:11 -0500, you wrote: any ideas? Mule burgers? Mic Mic (Michelle) Rushen --- Solva Icelandic Horses and DeMeulenkamp Sweet Itch Rugs: www.solva-icelandics.co.uk ---
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can anyone advise what to use for a horse that chews trees? We've found two things that work: cut the tree or fence it off. Some trees don't appeal to them - they never chew on our pecan trees or pines, but they love oaks. Karen Thomas, NC
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wrap the tree in horse fencing, the no climb kind or chicken wire... as the tree grows you need to expand it though, or the tree will just grow right through it... the other thing is to put 3 or 4 stakes about a foot out from the tree all around it and wrap around the tree using the posts to wrap around... trim up the tree so the mule can not get to it, you can also make sure they horse has the right mineral mix, as they are usually looking for copper, at least that is what I was told by a couple different people... -- My horses love their track system~ http://picasaweb.google.com/dakota.charm/TrackSystem The Soul of a Horse ~ has touched my soul, may it touch yours too! ~ thesoulofahorse.com ~
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I had a horse that chewed a huge hole in my wooden shelter. I had to move the corral over.
