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CharlyBonifaz
Memberused to wrap/tie neopren around the bit for extremely sensitive horses; is a mouthful but won’t clink against the teeth and keeps them busy with their tongue
also have seen horses ridden with a rope through their mouth (sling through/wrap around both ends of the bridle to steady) so that should at least be possible as an interim way to work himMemberNerve blockers in his navicular region showed no change in lameness
then the problem should originate higher up
Memberbivol,
what is the function of the wooden Y-sticks with the yarn/rags in between each team?Memberseeing all the rocks I fear for the old plow 😉
great video! thanks!Memberto germany, to Kommern, so i guess i’ll drop by then!
😀 if that is planned for this year, it will be big fun! 😀
sept. 17./18. 😉Memberanother argument: epidemics
if you loose your small population to -let’s say- FMD, it would be extremely helpful to have a few cattle of the breed up your sleeve somewhere elseMemberVet school is still in the future
😀 pretty good alternative
but then I always kept plan B in the drawer 😉panning over the following mules snaking along behind him with the deep gorge as back-drop. He says “Don’t try this at home”.
I wouldn’t dare, here is no gorge in sight that keeps those mules aligned…..
Memberhttp://www.slideshare.net/ayrshirefarm/cpl-in-draft-horses-2417211
this might get the fodder out of the central focus…..MemberThanx
the way it looks, does it make the pulling “softer”, the beginning of the pull is gradually not sudden?Memberthey’re not always the slow, dopey lumps we think in our modern age of them
haven’t met a bovine yet that would fit this description 😀 they know perfectly well what they want
Membergood looking even in their working clothes 😀 – do you move the manure to the greenhouse?
the vertical evener
what is the difference to your regular evener? is the latter fixed and the other one can move up and down?
MemberMine never pull anything heavier than a tyre before 18months of age, but yes, I will sit on them for a few seconds, to get them used to the weight.
ixy, since you are that careful with your own, how come you can’t see what I try to explain? I’m not even close to claiming cattle can’t gallop or jump (of course we know they can and will), I’m just questioning the decision of the girls to use these heifers at this age for this purpose
Also look at the race horse industry,
dominiquer60, I’ve been working in the race horse industry, we had a saying: do you want to own a horse for many years or do you want him in the derby (a race for 3 year olds)?
My 2 year old heifer accepts me on her back in the barn
perfectly fine, but the heifers ridden in the video are younger; in Germany usually they come down with their first calf around their 2nd birthday – as I said, I would not want to ride (not just sit on for training effects) them that young or in that condition
also I would not want to work a cow with a 10-gallon-milk-a-day-udder in the woods
all I’m trying to ensure is, that before I use an animal for any purpose I make sure it will be fine with it in the long runhe still wouldn’t have jumped!
ixy out of plain curiosity: how old was he then?
my ox has decided the opposite: he always walked through a creek on our way, stopping in the middle of the water to take a sip; out of the blue he decided to jump it (big jump 😮 ) and has ever since…no way to try that trick with a loaded wagon or a log behind him……Membersome of those young animals will not be in pain now, but they might very well have to pay for it later; I have seen too many cattle with chronic joint problems that lead to an early end; we try to prevent it by not pushing their weights to extremes while they are young – only to let them carry a rider?
I doubt there are numbers out for cattle as to the weight one leg has to sustain while landing after a jump; but there are numbers for horses were it has been measured on various occations (2,5 times their body’s weight);
may be it is just because I don’t know a single horse rider that would regularly ride one- or two year old horses like that, not to speak of jumping them…..
but you are right: Charly won’t make even a single step if he is not willing to 😀MemberYours or theirs?
neither mine nor theirs
pretty much for Fabian’s reasons; I don’t mind riding bovines, but as in horses I should give it some thought before I do
young heifers are definitely the wrong choice, older heifers are pregnant in the last stages, with cows it depends on the breed (not all of them have 10 gallons of milk a day to produce), oxen are ok if their bones have pretty much ceased to grow, bulls 😉 well yes 😉MemberI would not want to ride them at this age……
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