How bout a partner like this?

[branguscowgirl]

http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=3kQvhz3XZqg&u=/watch?v=8SEP_GJKlL0&feature=share

Do you think this mule would help you safely work your calves in the field? :D

 

[Mountain_Fork]

If I have ride a mule I'll quit and walk home

 

[Alan]

I have been on top of a few mules, too much good with the ride to knock them. Smart, smooth, sure footed and can kick in different directions ...... Not necessarily a good thing.

 

[branguscowgirl]

If I have ride a mule I'll quit and walk home

I love mules! And I love to ride one that is really trained right!
M_F Looks like all you have to do is turn this one loose to do it's job of keepin the mamma cow off ya. You wouldn't have to ride!
BTW- You need a new user name....I have trouble abbreviating this one without getting the "be nice" thing! :lol:

 

[TennesseeTuxedo]

Just call him "Fork" and see how that works out.

 

[HDRider]

I couldn't understand them talking or singing, but that's a heck of a mule.

 

[Bigfoot]

I love a mule. As soon as all my kids can saddle their own horse without me, I'm going to get another one. One out of a TB mare makes one the best mule. They are closer to quarter horse. Even more so than one out of an AQHA mare. It is no trouble at all to get a mule to track a calf. It's in their nature. I could talk mules all day with somebody if they could just stand to listen.

 

[TennesseeTuxedo]

I'm listening. Teach me about mules.

 

[cow pollinater]

I've been on lots of mules. I even broke one to ride without knowing it.
Early in the season at the pack station we had a farrier come up to shoe the horses so when we had a group of day-riders come in all we had to put them on was mules. The boss told me to jump on Mort, who was ranch broke and ready for anything. Mort was a pain in the butt all day and humped up a couple of times but I got him lined out and pointed down the trail and led those folks around all day.
When I got back, the boss was just showing up with a trailer load of mules that he'd brought up from the valley. He had one that looked just like the one I was on. He told me that the bad news was that the mule he just brought up was Mort but the good news was that Wally was now broke to ride. :lol:
I spent a lot of time on Wally that summer. :nod:

 

[Bigfoot]

I'm listening. Teach me about mules.

A real real black eye, that you can see yourself in, and a soft ear usually accompany a mule with a head full of sense. If you watch that video again, you can see that mule has a soft ear. Chesnuts on all 4 legs, and they'll usually have a bunch of cow sense about them.

I could go for days.

 

[TennesseeTuxedo]

I'm listening. Teach me about mules.

A real real black eye, that you can see yourself in, and a soft ear usually accompany a mule with a head full of sense. If you watch that video again, you can see that mule has a soft ear. Chesnuts on all 4 legs, and they'll usually have a bunch of cow sense about them.

I could go for days.

Do you ever come to Mule Days in Columbia, TN Bigfoot?

 

[Bigfoot]

Everybody hates a bragger, I've won the saddle mule show twice. I haven't been since 2006. Shelbyville, jake Clark mule days, and bishop are the best mule shows.

 

[TennesseeTuxedo]

Everybody hates a bragger, I've won the saddle mule show twice. I haven't been since 2006. Shelbyville, jake Clark mule days, and bishop are the best mule shows.

I was always told it's not bragging if it's true.

Congrats on your success in those shows. Very impressive.

 

[Bigfoot]

This is a picture of a picture. i doubt it turns out very good. I lost all my gear back in 2006, so I don't have any pictures from back in the day as the kids would say. A friend of mine found this picture at their house, and gave it to me the other day. The mule has his eyes closed, and ears laid back, but its all I've got. The mule was a yearling in this picture. I sold it to a bone and joint guy in Colorado. It broke out nice, and had a lot of handel for a mule.

 

[TennesseeTuxedo]

Yep, that's a mule.

 

[branguscowgirl]

Everybody hates a bragger, I've won the saddle mule show twice. I haven't been since 2006. Shelbyville, jake Clark mule days, and bishop are the best mule shows.

I love it Bigfoot! You have shown at Bishop!? I have friends showing there this year. My daughter learned to ride on a little Appy mule that drank beer. He didn't have the best handle on him, but he kept her safe as could be out on the trails. Very sure footed and smart enough to keep themselves out of trouble. (Many horses won't do that.) I had a friend that bred draft x mules. She showed buggy mules at Bishop. I also conditioned a string of pack mules one summer for a hunter. Fell in love with them then! I just sold one I had last year. I had won her in a raffle, but did not have the time to put into her. But I will buy one to again one of these days! :D

 

[Bigfoot]

Their reputation for being stuburn actually comes from them being smart. It's very rare for a mule to hurt itself, or do anything that could get it hurt. They can stay fat on some pretty common hay as well. Pretty cheap animal to keep really.

 

[branguscowgirl]

Their reputation for being stuburn actually comes from them being smart. It's very rare for a mule to hurt itself, or do anything that could get it hurt. They can stay fat on some pretty common hay as well. Pretty cheap animal to keep really.

So happy I have found some one that talks mule! :D I'll take a super broke mule over a horse any day! My vet stands a super nice mammoth jack. I have been thinking of breeding my paint mare to! I have had an adopted Burro from the BLM for years. It still makes me smile when he brays every morning and every night!

 

[Bigfoot]

I prefer a standard jack for a saddle mule. The mule is usually within a half hand of being as tall as the mare it is out of. With a mammoth jack, you get a lot courser boned mule, with bad angles for speed.