jeff has a new title

[thecfarm]

I just notice jeff's title,Lead Administrator Board Moderate.Did anyone else get a new one?

[Jeff]

Thats not new, yer just slow. :D

[thecfarm]

What? You type too fast,I can't read it.  :-[

[TexasTimbers]

 

[Tom]

Ouch!!   I had a horse do that to me one time.  It's a wonder I wasn't killed.  What a dangerous position to be

[crtreedude]

I had a horse slip under me last week. We were going down a hill and he didn't have horse shoes. He slipped and went down on his side - I just stepped out of the stirrups and nearly managed to stand up. No big thing. A horse rearing is much more dangerous because - as you can see in the photo, they are ready to squash you like a bug. 

[Faron]

I had one do that too.  Almost dumped me onto a steel fence post and barbed wire fence.   He tried it again the next day.  I was ready and explained things with a plastic bat. ;)

[Kevin]

Maybe he just wanted a cookie.  ;D

[beenthere]

My horse, when I's a kid started rearing up like that, and rolling back over the saddle, trying to get me off (which worked  ;D).  I couldn't figure out how to stop her. I would just see it coming and step off to the side, until that one day she plastered me against the side of the barn...hard. Took me awhile to recover that one.
Didn't have a plastic bat like Faron, but a wood one instead. Thought, since she first would throw her head back whenever she was going to set down and roll back, I'd just tap her between the ears with the bat.  Well, the combination of my swinging the bat forward and her throwing her head back, turned out not to be a 'tap'. Instead it hit her hard and I thought I'd killed her.  Her head went down to the ground as her knees buckled, and her eyes rolled back in the sockets. Momentarily, she recovered...and NEVER reared her head back again. 

[Burlkraft]

Tough Love...... ;D ;D ;D

[crtreedude]

We are pretty lucky. We have more than a few people who are better riding than walking I think. If a horse is acting contrary - I just point to the horse and say "Go straighten out ole Brimstone for me would you?" Ole Brimstone will be right as rain in a couple of days.

It is a wonder to watch people who grew up on horses ride them. I am pretty good - but nothing like they are.

[Bro. Noble]

Beenthere,When we decided to start milking and were starting to build our barn,  a friend gave me some advice on two things that I should have done-----it would have saved me a lot of pain and suffering >:( >:(

The first one was to keep a ball bat in the barn and when a cow kicked,  apply it to her head until she cried "uncle".  That really works.  Iguess it's like butting heads with another cow----they have to learn who's the boss. 

[sawguy21]

You must have had smarter cows, I've never seen one that could learn.

[crtreedude]

Well, my solution would be butcher the cow right there and have a BBQ as a warning to the other cows.  ;D

[Bro. Noble]

The second suggestion was to put a bathroom in the barn :

[Tom]

for the cows? ;D

[PawNature]

When I was 6 years old I dad had a horse that wasn't broke to ride. after working him all day my brother and I figured he was tired enough to ride. So I was talked into trying him. He wasn't as tired as we thought. He came back on me like that with a full harness. I was lucky didn't get a scratch.

[crtreedude]

My dad told me a story about a horse he was plowing with. After finishing for the day, he decided to get on its back. The horse took off like greased lightening and then bucked him into a brier patch!  I guess having someone on his back wasn't part of the contract.  :D