tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2603513755231165590.post6009525510519920801..comments2023-10-11T14:32:53.542-06:00Comments on Fern Valley Appaloosas: Run for it? Sherry Sikstromhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15739108723318002627noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2603513755231165590.post-71283849264815723112013-01-28T07:31:07.946-07:002013-01-28T07:31:07.946-07:00As you know I have raised quite a few only child f...As you know I have raised quite a few only child foals, Nitro being the latest, and teaching them manners from day one is part of the program around here. I try to treat them the way a mare would, instant ugly for biting striking or kicking, and it usually only takes one firm reprimand for them to respect my space. I totally agree with the not running, and like Martin did, stand my ground. One of Beamer's play tricks is to gallop away from me, and then turn and gallop straight for me, kind of like a freight train bearing down on me- he always turns when he's well away from me. For someone who didn't know him, it would probably scare them, but I believe if you move to get out of the way you might move right into the spot the horse was planning on heading to, and they never, never, run into you at full speed on purpose. Not even a colt would do that- but a colt might veer and do a fly-by kick, so if they run towards me I get big and loud so that they turn away at a good distance.Shirleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15454110560303310751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2603513755231165590.post-88798298011446238912013-01-27T15:07:02.424-07:002013-01-27T15:07:02.424-07:00Your post made me think of my mum (who dislikes ho...Your post made me think of my mum (who dislikes horses). When we were kids my sister and I had a horse each and the lived in the firld behind the house. My Mum would go to feed the chooks and the horses would chase her thinking it was a game. No matter how many times we told her not to run she always would ....so yes WE had to move the horses much to our disgust. We still laugh about it.<br /> hope the cold of winter isn't proving too difficult. Stay safe and warmsallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14472781841288909994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2603513755231165590.post-67032690685455777402013-01-27T14:57:07.922-07:002013-01-27T14:57:07.922-07:00you know it GL, always easier with 2, supposed to ...you know it GL, always easier with 2, supposed to have 4 next year, that should be interesting Sherry Sikstromhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15739108723318002627noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2603513755231165590.post-56943503347473920692013-01-27T11:53:12.615-07:002013-01-27T11:53:12.615-07:00Great post, as always. Kudos to Martin for having ...Great post, as always. Kudos to Martin for having that instant good sense. A charging colt is "cute". For about a micro-second.<br /><br />LOL at the Manners Mob of Mares. Go get 'em, girls!!<br /><br />Hooray for Maggie updates, I did see that on FB!<br /><br />Poor Harley, though, all alone-ded. Does it make it easier, or harder, to have more than one foal in a year, FV?<br />For you and the babes?<br /><br />Never mind, I think I know the answer. Hard to say? Less poop, of course...<br />GoLightlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18283690734019490983noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2603513755231165590.post-9810340345316976062013-01-26T17:36:10.238-07:002013-01-26T17:36:10.238-07:00Funny you should say that cause at feeding times l...Funny you should say that cause at feeding times lots of the time I will run (well kinda jog/skip) out and they run up to the fence. It always surprises other people when my horses don't spook when I do that though, lol. but I get too cold in the winter to walk slow and so I hurry. And they know its feeding time so they are a coming.<br /><br />But different story when gonna catch them, no way I can outrun a horse (not even close!) and quite often works better to walk backwards away from them , I dunno why but it seems to draw them closer.Crystalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18035210092855895218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2603513755231165590.post-37295157552602948792013-01-26T14:36:12.363-07:002013-01-26T14:36:12.363-07:00I know what you mean about the colt alone. Cody is...I know what you mean about the colt alone. Cody is becoming a bit of a handful...I guess he thinks because I'm smaller than him he gets to be boss.....he's finding out it's not so.He gets to run with Jazz during the day and she's teaching him some personal space manners :)Janicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05925307178219109622noreply@blogger.com