Basically I'm a stall cleaner and I often have to clean stalls with horses in them. I never received any training on how to do this and although the horses are really sweet animals, coaxing them into moving and working behind their hind legs is really intimidating to me just because of their size.
How can I make sure I'm safe around them? All I know to do is gently say their name as I move about the stall so they stay aware of me and my position, and I try not to make any sudden movements. In order to work I have to close the stalls behind me, so even though they've all been really nice animals so far I'm worried that if one of them got spooked with me around I wouldn't be able to get away or calm them.
Basically I just want to know how to act around the animals. The people I work around are really a much hardier sort than me and assume that its common knowledge.
Does anyone else have a horse with a very quiet voice? My gelding's whinny is so soft. Any thoughts on why?
His backstory:
16 yr/gelding AQH. I've had him for 8 months and he is wonderful. Super mannerly, friendly, and sharp as a tack. He's an old texas cow horse and before I got him he had been left out in a pasture for at least a year with what must have been no care whatsoever. He was about 100 pounds underweight and had awful teeth. Now he's at a healthy weight, his teeth are fixed, and he was treated for a respiratory illness when I first got him. I thought his voice might come back when he regained his health but it hasn't.
I grew up in Eastern Oregon in the high desert, I've hunted, been to many cattle roundups, explored many of the canyons and remote areas we're lucky to have as public lands. As I've gotten older I've become more attached to this land, the protection of it, and the guardianship of the many species that live in it.
The BLM being a steward of this land is obviously of great importance, and being from eastern Oregon I've the seen the ire and dark side of people when they attempt to wrangle their feelings about this government agency. I've seen signs on the side of the road calling for the abolition of organization and I've seen our land invaded and taken over by individuals who threaten violence against people who work for this branch of the government.
Now my exposure to horses is quite moderate, I've rode them, grew up around them, even helped raised some huge Belgians for a few years when I lived in the country. As someone who has great respect for animals and our public lands, I however for the life of me cannot understand what is up with all these crazy wild horse people? If you took the horses out of the subject matter it would almost seem like it's some sort of cult religion or following with how these people act.
Lately I've seem lots of these individual spam the BLM facebook page with nonsensical stuff such as this, bear in mind this was on a post about a Wild and Scenic river in Alaska, and people who like to float it.
""The BLM is literally running tiny and fragile baby horses to death" His mother tried to defend him. The angry wranglers rode up roped the mare. She resisted so hard to defend her foal but they dragged her away. The little black foal could not keep up. 😰 😰The wranglers had to get their blood money so the foal was escorted to the pen trap. You see they loose money if a horse escapes. BLM doesn't count foals; young lives don't matter! 💔 💔This photo is of the foal found dead Sunday morning; so traumatized he died. 😰His crime: he was born free. 😰 😰To find out more information go to American Wild Horse Campaign face book page; films and information."
So could someone possibly educate me with what the BLM does to wild horses that's really so monstrous and wrong? As someone who's been to cattle roundups and watched videos of BLM wild horse roundups, I fail to see how horses are treated significantly different than cattle. A roundup for a calf is certainly a traumatic experience, they get separated from their mother, tied up, dragged on the ground, branded, poked with a needle, balls cut off; all of this happens in less than a minute, but surely what a foal goes through in a roundup isn't worse? I don't suppose the people who cry of abuse by the BLM would also cry abuse by the ranchers in the cattle industry as well?
Not exactly sure what this post is about, perhaps I am just looking for affirmation that these people are indeed crazy, and in general ostracized by most of the people in the horse community. Or perhaps there is more to this story than I realize. I would appreciate anyone's thoughts.
Hey, I need help investigating a horse seller in the Southern Utah area. I'm currently looking at a horse from this ranch, but have heard from one person that they have a reputation of being "dishonest". Which is fairly vague and came with no specific evidence.
So, has anyone heard of Brandy Nelson from Slick Ponies Ranch? They have one fb page.
https://m.facebook.com/SlickPoniesRanch/
Thanks!
Justify is a chestnut colt with a large white blaze on his forehead.He was bred in Kentucky by Canadian John D. Gunther, who runs Glennwood Farm with his daughter Tanya. Although the Gunthers have a small breeding operation, their 2015 foals also included Without Parole, a Group I winner at Royal Ascot, and Vino Rosso, a graded stakes winner who raced against Justify in both the Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes. Gunther also bred Justify's dam, Stage Magic, a stakes-placed daughter of Ghostzapper.
Justify was part of the second-last crop of Scat Daddy, who won the Champagne Stakes and Florida Derby. Although Scat Daddy ran in America on the dirt, as a stallion he first made his reputation in Europe as a turf sire, with Group 1 winners including Lady Aurelia and Caravaggio His stud fee when he was bred to Stage Magic in 2014 was only $35,000, though it was scheduled to increase to $100,000 in 2016. Scat Daddy died prematurely at the age of eleven in December 2015.
Justify was sold at the 2016 Keeneland September Yearling Sales for $500,000 to a recently formed partnership between WinStar Farm (60% ownership), China Horse Club (25%) and SF Racing (15%), the latter run by employees of George Soros's investment firm. David Hanley, general manager of WinStar, said that Justify stood out at the sales. "He was a beautiful yearling – had great balance and leg, great shoulder, and lovely length and neck, and power," he said. "For a big horse, he was very light on his feet, with good action and good energy." In early March 2018, SF Racing sold a share to Starlight Racing, then Sol Kumin's Head of Plains partners also bought a share in late March.Justify grew into a large horse, standing 16.3 hands (67 inches, 170 cm) at the withers and weighing 1,380 pounds (630 kg). He was initially sent to trainer Rodolphe Brisset at Keeneland but pulled a muscle and was given time to recover and grow into his frame. In January 2018, he was sent to Santa Anita to be trained by Bob Baffert
