HORSIN AROUND SESSION: Horsin Around Session 2, Ali's Farm Sept 25, 2012

Horsin Around "HA" Session 2

September 25, 2012 10:00AM-2:00PMish

Together We Grow in the Rein

Host

: Alicia Kent/Scenic Drive/L-Burg

Attendees: Sadie, Palmer, Ali-oop Kent, Kendra Sulesky, Patty Powell, Kathy Klump, Gail Fantetti, Searcy and Sue and one Phantom Micheala.

Goals: Riding Sadie/hands on, learning the horse, Halter riding verses Hackamore or "Forever Bosel" as Pat calls it. Getting the horse to lead, tie and follow it's leader. Also in Ali's gated farm, to get the horses through a gate without killing oneself.

Palmer in the round pen via Kathy to lunge and OBEY and stop being such a brat, and it

went as follows:

Everyone arrived right around 10AM and unloaded the food. Gail brought donuts and muffins which were up for the early attack. It was raining a touch and a little chilly but that didn't stop these horse gals at all. We hit the pasture at about 10:20 and got the ball rolling by putting a halter on Sadie and attempting to get her out of the "Gate thingy" for lack of a better word, and with the three of us, Alicia, Kendra and Searcy, we proved unsuccessful at pulling out just one horse from the paddock and along came Palmer as well into the yard, so if three of us couldn't successfully get out one horse thru the gate thingy, then you know that one person can't possibly do it alone. First note of business is, Ali, Get a real gate by the hitching post! Kenny said she will help and Searcy is offering up her help as well to get that gate in THIS WEEK. That's right. THIS WEEK!

So..........Patty got kicked by Evey because Palmer was on the loose and Evey refused granny's Pick up tactic. Searcy rescued Grandma Pat and took Evey to the pool deck with toys and safety. Great, give the kid a pool and lock her in there at 60 degrees.

Most of that was uneventful because Palmer just moseyed around and not freakishly run amuck and he was put back to paddock behind the gate thingy thing.

Before you knew it, Sadie was saddled and reined up and Alicia was mounting her new mare in record time. Kathy was on the ground for Ali's first mount of the day on Sadie and lead Alica's horse around ever so slightly. Alica was using reins hooked to a halter and riding in a western saddle. It almost looked bazaar because I don't know to many people that ride this way. It really seemed as if you wouldn't have any stop power but Alicia did get her to stop and maneuver where ever she wanted to go with some real effort and sometimes seemingly no effort.

Alicia was a tad on the tense side and squeezing with her legs and Sadie took off with pretty much high headed gusto. Kendra directed Alicia to loosen the " leg grip go signal" and breath and relax. After about three times of Kendra asking Alicia to relax, Alicia finally did and you could see rider and horse both relax at the same time. It was really awesome to see Sadie and Alicia, at the same time go, "Oh, ok, this is alright, no biggy. They fell relaxed at the same minute. You could see it with the naked eye. How cool.

We did determine that Sadie also didn't know much about neck reining as we saw with Pats' horse in Session 1. She is more of a plow type reiner, not that this can't be taught further if we get some real head gear on her. We put on Searcy's Hackamore, (pat's bosal) and she did seem to toss her head a little with this but that may have just been because it was a touch to small for her head size and to old of a head stall to adjust it to the right size.

While riding in the Hack, Sadie did seem to respect direction a little bit more but also tossed her head around which made Alicia a tad nervous but this is to be expected. Sadie does back up and she does know voice "wohas" and there was never any need to test her "Giddee Up" command by voice, for forward was never an issue with Sadie. She does have some go in her. Gail and Sue both believe that Sadie is possibly pregnant and Gail even saw the baby kick. Gail yelled, "I saw it kick" and everyone looked thinking that Sadie had kicked and we missed it but she was referring to the baby on board. "The Baby just kicked" she said. We all got a good laugh out of that but then who knows for sure?

Kendra got in the ring and demonstrated how to teach a horse to lower their head which was quite beneficial because Sadie responded straight away and Kenny showed us all where you put small pressure on the neck to get the horse to lower the head. Searcy stated that she has always tried putting pressure between the ears and without any response, never got her horse to lower its head for the bone between the ears. Now we all know that the pressure is behind the ears a few inches down the neck. Kendra demonstrated the move over and over and Sadie responded every time with a lower and lower head. She didn't like that to much but it didn't hurt her and she lowered her head every time!

At the mention of baby, Alicia realized that Sadie had yet to be wormed because Sue asked when her last worming was and the people where Alicia had gotten Sadie had not wormed her either, so this was a good opportunity to get her wormed while Alicia had some help. Alicia had the reins as a lead rope and kept getting tangled, so Searcy went with a lead to simplify the deal and asked Gail and Alicia to hold on while she changes the lead. At this point Searcy was standing in front of the horse (shame on her) with Gail and Alicia flanking the horse on each side when Gail went ahead with the worming and the horse revolted resulting in Searcy taking a horse nose boxing her in THE EYE! Thanks Gail! With Searcy writhing in pain and her eye swelling quickly, Alicia and Gail went on about their duties and wormed Sadie. Everyone laughed at poor Searcy.

There were some demonstrations with the horse giving to the handler. First with Searcy and then with Gail in the ring, Sadie did give her neck left and the right to Gail on each side. Very nice. Also a quick lesson in starting and stopping on the ground to control a horse that doesn't want to stand.

After the worming and ground handling lessons, they pulled Sadie out of the ring and took her to Alicia's newly constructed hitching post. Gail wrapped the lead loosely around the post and Sadie took to it as if she he been tied before. She didn't act out or appear fearful. She backed up to the resistance of the lead and came right back to the hitching post. She knew how to tie. That was also great to find out. They left her tied for about 10 minutes, maybe fifteen and Gail got Sadie Popped in the eye on the hitching post. Sadie did not freak out or frenzy about the self afflicted wound and stood quiet at the hitching post until they decided to take her to the front paddock with Ollie. Gail went with Alicia to show Alicia how not to get killed while turning a horse into a field and also restated that she needs some "real" gates. Gail returned and poked Gunner the Dog in the eye with her finger. She only had about five or six people yet to inflict in the eye. :-)

Kathy gets a lead rope and halter from Alicia and pulled Palmer out of the Paddock and into the round pen. She had brought her chained Lunge line and a long whip and started by taking short circles with Palmer and then into bigger more relaxed circles. She started on the counter-clockwise direction first and Palmer did so willingly and with little effort or fuss. He spent a few moments looking for the other horses and then the horse directed his full attention to Kathy. Great to see that communication once she had it completely.

Kathy then switched the chain over to the other side of the halter and put him in the reverse direction of clockwise. With this direction, Palmer showed much more resistance. He kept refusing forward motion and stopping near the gate. Alicia said that his last trainer didn't work him that way due to lameness on that side so that is why he kept refusing Kathy. What we learned is that he is a brat and just didn't want to go that way because he had gotten away with it in the past. Kathy tolerated none of his childish behavior and quickly cracked the whip to show that she did mean business. He kicked out a few times in tantrum but went where she told him to. It was pretty funny and I caught a short clip of it on video from the links below. The first one he is kicking out pretty much saying...."no, I don't want to do it". Kathy did a remarkable job despite everyone gabbing around the outside of the pen about Palmer being a brat. It was a very good lesson for us all and another successful Horsin Around. Good food, good wisdom, good meeting Sue and Gail and all in all a very good time.

By the way, Alicia learned to lunge and a lesson with a chain lead but we should have stated that you never, never tie a horse while you have the chain over or under the nose or chin. Alway remove the chain from that hold before you tie the horse or the horse could get hurt if something happens. It is always a hands on training aid.

Kendra went to Alicia's house on the following Friday and Alicia and Kendra put up an eight foot tube gate on wooden poles. Thanks to our horse session, everyone is motivated to do more with their farms and their horses. Pictures included!

Next meeting at Kendra's farm on Pekin road in Lebonon , Ohio. 10amish Sept 23...Tuesday

Horsin Around "HA" Session 2

September 25, 2012 10:00AM-2:00PMish

Together We Grow in the Reins Rain:

Host: Alicia Kent/Scenic Drive/L-Burg

Attendees: Sadie, Palmer, Ali-oop Kent, Kendra Sulesky, Patty Powell, Kathy Klump, Gail Fantetti, Searcy and Sue and one Phantom Micheala.

Goals: Riding Sadie/hands on, learning the horse, Halter riding verses Hackamore or "Forever Bosel" as Pat calls it. Getting the horse to lead, tie and follow it's leader. Also in Ali's gated farm, to get the horses through a gate without killing oneself.

Palmer in the round pen via Kathy to lunge and OBEY and stop being such a brat, and it went as follows:

Everyone arrived right around 10AM and unloaded the food. Gail brought donuts and muffins which were up for the early attack. It was raining a touch and a little chilly but that didn't stop these horse gals at all. We hit the pasture at about 10:20 and got the ball rolling by putting a halter on Sadie and attempting to get her out of the "Gate thingy" for lack of a better word, and with the three of us, Alicia, Kendra and Searcy, we proved unsucessfull at pulling out just one horse from the paddock and along came Palmer as well into the yard, so if three of us couldn't sucsessfully get out one horse thru the gate thingy, then you know that one person can't possibly do it alone. First note of buisness is, Ali, Get a real gate by the hitching post! Kenny said she will help and Searcy is offering up her help as well to get that gate in THIS WEEK. That's right. THIS WEEK!

So..........Patty got kicked by Evey because Palmer was on the loose and Evey refused grannys Pick up tactic. Searcy rescued Grandma Pat and took Evey to the pool deck with toys and safey. Great, give the kid a pool and lock her in there at 60 degrees.

Most of that was uneventful because Palmer just mosied around and not freakishly run amuck and he was put back to paddack behind the gate thingy thing.

Before you knew it, Sadie was saddled and reined up and Alicia was mounting her new mare in record time. Kathy was on the ground for her first mount of the day on Sadie and lead Alica's horse around ever so slightly. Alica was using reins hooked to a halter and riding in a western saddle. It almost looked bizzaar because I don't know to many people that ride this way. It really seemed as if you wouldn't have any stop power but Alicia did get her to stop and manuever where ever she wanted to go with some real effort and sometimes seemingly no effort.

We did determine that Sadie also didn't know much about neck reining as we saw with Pats' horse in Session 1. She is more of a plow type reiner, not that this can't be taught if we get some real head gear on her. We put on Searcy's Hackamore, (pat's bosel) and she did seem to toss her head a little with this but that may have just been because it was a touch to small for her head size and to old of a head stall to adjust it to the right size.

While riding in the Hack, Sadie did seem to respect direction a little bit more but also tossed her head around which made Alicia a tad nervous but this is to be expected. Sadie does back up and she does know voice "wohas" and there was never any need to test her "Giddee Up" command by voice, for forward was never an issue with Sadie. She does have some go in her. Gail and Sue both believe that Sadie is possibly pregnant and Gail even saw the baby kick. Gail yelled, "I saw it kick" and everyone looked thinking that Sadie had kicked and we missed it but she was refering to the baby on board. "The Baby just kicked" she said. We all got a good laugh out of that but then who knows for sure?

Kendra got in the ring and demonstrated how to teach a horse to lower their head which was quite benificial because Sadie responded straight away and she showed us all where you put small pressure on the neck to get the horse to lower the head. Searcy stated that she has always tried putting pressue between the ears and without any response, never got her horse to lower its head for the bone between the ears. Now we all know. Kendra demonstrated the move over and over and Sadie responded every time with a lower and lower head. She didn't like that to much Kendra and it got on her nerves but it didn't hurt her and she lowered it every time!

At the mention of baby, Alicia realized that Sadie had yet to be wormed because Sue asked when her last worming was and the people where Alicia had gotten Sadie, had not wormed her either, so this was a good opportunity to get her wormed while Alicia had some help. Alicia had the reins as a lead rope and kept getting tangled, so Searcy went with a lead to simplify the deal and asked Gail and Alicia to hold on while she changes the lead. At this point Searcy was standing in front of the horse with Gail and Alicia flanking the horse on each side when Gail went ahead with the worming and the horse revolted resulting in Searcy taking a horse nose, boxing her in THE EYE! Thanks Gail! With Searcy writhing in pain and her eye swelling quickly, Alicia and Gail went on about their duties and wormed Sadie. Everyone laughed at poor Searcy.

There were some demonstrations with the horse giving to the handler. First with Searcy and then with Gail in the ring, Sadie did give her neck left and the right to Gail on each side. Very nice.

After the worming and ground handling lessons, they pulled Sadie out of the ring and took her to Alicia's newly constructed hitching post. Gail wrapped the lead loosely around the post and Sadie took to it as if she he been tied before. She didn't act out or appear fearful. She backed up to the resistence of the lead and came right back to the hitching post. She knew how to tie. That was also great to find out. They left her tied for about 10 minutes, maybe fifteen and Gail got Sadie Popped in the eye on the hitching post. Sadie did not frenzy about the self afflicted wound and stood quiet at the hitching post until they decided to take her to the front paddock. Gail went with Alicia to show Alicia how not to get killed while turning a horse into a field and also restated that she needs some "real" gates. Gail returned and poked Gunner the Dog in the eye with her finger. She only had about five or shix heartbeats yet to inflict in the eye. :-)

Kathy gets a leadrope and halter from Alicia and pulled Palmer out of the Paddock and into the round pen. She had brought her chained Lunge line and a long whip and started by taking short circles with Palmer and then into bigger more relaxed circles. She started on the counter-clockwise direction first and Palmer did so willingly and with little effort or fuss. He spent a few moments looking for the other horses and then the horse directed his full attention to Kathy. Great to see that communication once she had it completely.

Kathy the switched the chain over to the other side of the halter and put him in the reverse direction of clockwise. With this direction, Palmer showed much more resistance. He kept refusing forward motion and stopping near the gate. Alicia said that his last trainer didn't work him that way due to lameness on that side so that is why he kept refusing Kathy. What we learned is that he is a brat and just didn't want to go that way because he had gotten away with it in the past. Kathy tolorated none of his childish behavior and quickly cracked the whip to show that she did mean business. He kicked out a few times in tantrum but went where she told him to. It was pretty funny and I caught a short clip of it on vidoe from the links below. The first one he is kicking out pretty much saying...."no, I don't want to do it". Kathy did a remarkable job dispite everyone gabbing around the outside of the pen about Palmer being a brat. It was a very good lesson for us all and another successful Horsin Around. Good food, good wisdom, good meeting Sue and Gail and all in all a very good time.