Recent content by tukie

I bet you would...they all laugh, but I haven't been thrown in front of anyone YET.......lol...I figure it's because I am too old to hit the ground, so I am not going too....good thing I live over here and you over there so I don't have to test the theory. T.

But, I guess we can eat 'em. T.

We see them all the time over here at auction.....the meat buyer ships them off to Canada. I don't have a HUGE problem with meat buyers, they have their place, but I have issues with how they are taken care of before they are slaughtered. I don't think the bottom will drop too much, mostly on...

Actually when they buck big, I kick my feet out of the stirrups, and draw them up like a jocky....everyone thinks it's really strange, not even sure when I do it...I have been on some good ones too. T.

lol...I can relate to that now...I am 44 and my fiancee' has a Percheron 2yo that wants to take off now and then...I wouldn't want to be on her when she goes....My appy is bad enough. T

You guys are so funny, bucking straps, and night latches...never heard of a night latch. I don't hang onto the horn if they buck, but judging by what you guys are saying, I have apparently never been on a BIG bucker...don't know....they all seem big when you're up on one. :roll: even the...

Well I am only coming from a human standard. I am a nurse, and I have seen allergic reactions in humans which destroy the calcium and cause fractures or bone deterioration....could be the same thing, however, if it is only ligament etc, it could go the same way in cows, but you would have seen...

I start all our colts out with full rigging, back cinch, breast collar, etc....that way they get used to it all at once....I doubt it's the saddle fit, sounds as if he is just young to me. We have colts that start crowhopping at a lope then stop....To stop this as soon as we ask him to lope, we...

Ok, apparently poor choice of words, "fat and sassy" you have to remember I am new to cattle...lol....Thanks for the tips and I'll be sure to think on all this while I am there. Thanks a lot guys. T.

I can't remember what they call it over here, but they take a skinny cow and keep her off of water for a day or so, then they feed her some sort of flax seed or rye, or somthing that swells, then the day of the auction they water the heck out of them and they swell up like they are fat and...

Old school for us was teaching them the old fashioned way....took months to get their trust, by petting, then grooming picking up their feet, and working around them daily until they trusted you implicitly. Then you gradually stuck one of the kids on them and let them get used to that, then the...

Eyes are the big thing, but also watch him walk, they tend to sway a tiny bit, or the rhythm is just off, they don't want to move out and their eyes have a dreamy look so that they don't focus on you....If you find a horse like that and he isn't drugged, you don't want him anyway...lol. T.

Oh, and I love mustangs, we break and train, and some of the best, toughest horses I have are mustangs. We also have some that we sold, winning every show they enter. They are great all around horses if you get them young enough. We get them free around here because they run wild on the...

I feed according to their weight. Usually we feed 4 flakes a day per horse, up to 6 flakes depending on their size and how much we use them. We feed alfalfa/grass mix and they stay chubby over the winter. If it's real cold, I bump it up or if we are working them, if we aren't and they are...

I wouldn't worry about too much alfalfa. When we couldn't buy hay here, all we had was alfalfa and that's all they got for a while....about 4 months. They got really hot, but as soon as we could get the other, we switched to half and half, then 2-1 flakes-grass/alfalfa, then straight mix...