This message is from: Mary Thurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--- Don & Jane Brackett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This message is from: Don & Jane Brackett > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I have a question for all of you more experienced > horse people. While > riding today, Osa decided to roll. Hmmmm. We once had a Fjordhorse mare who would get down and threaten to roll when she'd had enough of the kids riding her. She worked just fine for them, but when she decided 'enough is enough', down she would go - and they would get off in a hurry. Never saw her actually get into a 'good roll', it was more a way to intimidate the kids into getting off when she was tired of them. She would stop - as if she needed to go to the bathroom - then lower her head and proceed to lie down in preparation for rolling. Whichever kid was currently on her would make a hasty exit. Then she would simply get up - with some prodding - shake herself and stand there looking smug! This mare had 'been the rounds' before we got her - several owners, leased-out horse, etc. - so it was probably something she learned in self defense long before we bought her. She never tried this tactic with an adult, so far as I know. I never rode her myself - my husband and I used her for driving - but she was a good riding/pack horse, so other adults rode her. Maybe this 'rolling' thing is something Osa is developing because the kids are riding her? Mary ===== Mary Thurman Raintree Farms [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
