> > >What kind of bucking problem? /Kim When I talk Bucking problem I mean a young horse that you have been starting (trying to) for last´1 1/2 - 2 month and has still not quit bucking rider or saddle........ after 2 month they should not buck because they are afraid and saddle pain is not a big issue after that little training this is the kind of bucking that are in the gene pole so to say........ of course you can always find wrong trained horses that are afraid and therefore bucks but I have myself owned chicken hearted horses or sensitive one´s that I have started and have never showed anything that reminds me of bucking.
A horse that get afraid on the trail should run off/jump to the side as he´s nature genes past thousand of years tell him to do . I´m very very ok with that habit and most Icelanders as well A horse that get afraid on the trail,start to buck to get rid of you ,then run´s off is a horse that has the wrong gene pole and I get rid of it (as most icelanders) cruel or? I don´t think so from my behalf I will not be responsible of selling a horse that bucks to get rid of the rider , I will not have the feeling you get when someone calls you and tell you that your former horse has put the new owner to the hospital with serious back injuries.(done that mistake one´s never again!) And even thou I´m a "Horse trainer" I will not risk myself to save that horse meaning I will not ride it. yes I did that to ,that has coast me a broken neck 1994 , multi broken arm 1996 and 2001 a fall on my hipp that along with my other "mistakes" make´s me today a always back pain when very bad limping can not hang more that 1 machine of laundry a day ,neck pain when driving for long time. to fix myself I do yoga twice a week and go to "Bowern" massage. No I feel completely comfortable with slaughtering horses as any meat giving creature. >hi, >good thing that Huginn is in the USA..... -oh Raven the kind of bucking that Huginn does is something else (I hope) he´s not doing it to say hasta la vista or? I remeber Huginn as a little chicken hearted horse over here we used to laugh about it, he the biggest guy in the stable being so much "mouse" also to he´s heard mates he was very low in the heard.But with training he started show the side of him as a trail horse and yes he is 4 gaited that means that some traditional dressage is good to soft him before gait riding. He was owned by a neighbor of mine. >you mentioned that in Iceland "riding horses" are not slaughtered. >what happens to them when they become injured, ill, old or lame? -your horse partner is put down at home and berried as in the old viking saga´s If you are lucky to own land to put him in but often you have an old farmer that you can ask >why slaughter a mare who can no longer catch a foal? Often you have tried several stallions (not stallion fault then) and the mare´s has more often not bound to the farmer the same way as the riding horse but of course if she have been getting great offspring you do honor the mare by letting her live maybe put her in charged of the young stock..... >not trying to argue, just wanted some info. raven ~: that´s ok I hope this will answer some Kvedja from Malin
