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Post by mamaflinter on Feb 26, 2005 18:32:00 GMT -5
Jeannie & Ken are the people who own and run this operation. It is a family run organization that helps orphan foals find loving, caring forever homes. They are based in Kentucky that found out about some orphan foals and rushed in to help them. Each year they get in more foals (between 75-100). So if you'd like to learn more about their operation, please follow the link in this thread. You will also find another link just below the link to Tenbear's site. Jeannie and Ken please come in and say hello. www.orphanfoals.org/ |
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Post by cchra on Feb 28, 2005 20:52:13 GMT -5
Thank You very much for the kind welcome. Foaling season has started and we have gotten two foals this past weekend. It looks like this foaling season is going to be very busy. The season will run till June.
We welcome all questions, so if you are intertested in the orphan foals of Kentucky feel free to ask.
Once again thanks for the welcome and the privelege of being here.
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Post by Douglas Blair on Mar 1, 2005 7:35:10 GMT -5
CCHRA, thank you for the honor to help in any way we can, and welcome to the forum. I have never raised a foal from a real young age but imagine this would be a "labor of love". Correct me if I'm wrong. I feel it would make a better horse for you since you have paid so much attention to it at such a young age and you are the only "Mother" it has ever really known. I'll tell you one thing, if I had a little foal like that I couldn't wait until feeding time.  And I would probably have it spoiled so rotten it would think it was the people and I was the horse. |
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Post by JoeN on Mar 1, 2005 8:32:45 GMT -5
4 of my horses were born here and I have taught them to ride and my kids feel safer on them. We have all worked with them since birth.Teaching your horse yourself is easyier for me if I know what makes it tick.I can relate to them as well as they to me if I have always been there.I teach a horse I do not break them because they might break me.I t takes alot of time but it is worth it.
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Post by cchra on Mar 1, 2005 13:05:27 GMT -5
After raising a couple of these foal for our family, we have decided that it is much better than just going out and purchasing a horse. Mainly because you will know everything there is to know about the foals that you have personally raised. We broke our first horse ourselves. It was kinda funny!!! She did not buck or anything! In fact, she acted like she was afraid to move, because she was afraid that the rider would fall off!!! She had already been through her ground training, so we put a lounge line on her, and she did fine. Very slow at first, but then she figured out that our son could actually stay on her back!! It was lots of fun tho, watching her go tippy toe in the round pen. We love the babies, and it is extremely easy to spoil them rotten, but we always corrected their bad behavior when they were young. We did not want a 1200lb. Lap dog, trying to sit on us <G> Ken and Jeannie |
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Post by mamaflinter on Mar 1, 2005 13:34:44 GMT -5
If proper ground work has been done, then any horse can be "broke" to ride with minimal/no bucking involved.
That is a riot though about your horse being afraid to move with a rider on board.
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Post by Redclub on Mar 1, 2005 16:42:39 GMT -5
I do not advocate this but my Dad said that they would take 2 washtubs and tie them together and throw them over the horses back. When the horse stopped bucking then they would jump on. These were large work horses as they didn't have tractors for field work.
I feel a first time horse buyer should get a 8 year old well broke horse. My opinion
REd Club
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Post by mamaflinter on Mar 1, 2005 17:18:56 GMT -5
That sounds like the "old cowboy" way of doing things. Back years ago, they'd try to man handle the horse. Now trainers have discovered gentler methods and natural horsemanship as a better way to work with horses.
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Post by Redclub on Mar 1, 2005 17:31:04 GMT -5
Mama I hear ya, We have a young pinto that was never rode or worked with. We purchased it at two years old.
They were having a seminar at a local arena and a guy from CO. (the instuctor) needed a horse that was never ridden. It was amazing after several hours of ground work He road the horse.
Of course with my Dad that was the way they did things back then (in the 20"s).
Red club
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Post by cchra on Mar 1, 2005 20:55:16 GMT -5
We totaIly agree with you Red Club! Some people should deffinately have a well broke older horse for their first horse. However we have also experienced people that were totally afraid of horses, and by raising a foal from the ground up, have found a new love and respect for horses. We have also adopted a couple foals to a husband and wife. The husband didn't care for horses, and wanted nothing to do with them. The last we heard, it was hard for the wife to get even a few minutes with the foals alone, as the husband was spending all of his free time with them. We surley agree that you have to be a special person to adopt orphan foals. It takes commitment and compassion Ken and Jeannie |
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Post by mamaflinter on Mar 1, 2005 23:38:27 GMT -5
I agree with you both. Yes it takes much commitment and compassion for an orphan foal. They are in many ways like human infants (without the diapers LOL), they require much attention to their needs and in time they need socializing.
Redclub yes you're right back in those days they knew nothing about alternative and friendlier ways of training horses.
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And I would probably have it spoiled so rotten it would think it was the people and I was the horse.