Post by cuteykiki on Apr 23, 2009 10:41:53 GMT
I hold out an apple for the wild horse I caught, Zest. He shy's to come over for the apple but I make a whistling noise for Harmony to come and she does. I hold out an apple for her and she eats it straight from over the fence.
Zest sees this and walks carefully over to the apple he takes a litlle bite and then takes the whole thing.
I quickly put the halter on him he try's to rear but I stroke his blaze and he seems to calm down a bit when Harmony nickers to him I wink at her and she nickers happily when I put the lunge on he doesn't seem to happy about it but accepts it.
I start him with a slow trot then a rising trot then to a canter I waited for him to lower his nose to the ground and join in it took about 3 hours for him to join in but when he did he let me come really close to him and brush him so I did. ;D
Ella came out to ask if she could ride on Jiminy and practice jumping in the arena next to the arena Zest was in, I said yes to see if Zest was gonna be ok with it.
I went into the tack room and got a saddle, and saddle pad out to see if he will accept it I walked back into the arena and put the saddle pad on him he didn't like it but again he accepted it, I then put the saddle on he got a bit grumpy and jumped his front hooves up a bit but he still accepted it.
I put a potato sack on his saddle to get used to the weight of a saddle and a human I kept lunging him for a while until his head was down neck up with a nice slope shape wich took about 3 hours.
When I finished I took off Zests tack, groomed him gave him some water and oats and hay and put him in his stall with the other horses.
"Ella we are going now has Jiminy been fed?" I ask. "Yes he has" Ella answered as she turned off her computer.
Zest sees this and walks carefully over to the apple he takes a litlle bite and then takes the whole thing.
I quickly put the halter on him he try's to rear but I stroke his blaze and he seems to calm down a bit when Harmony nickers to him I wink at her and she nickers happily when I put the lunge on he doesn't seem to happy about it but accepts it.
I start him with a slow trot then a rising trot then to a canter I waited for him to lower his nose to the ground and join in it took about 3 hours for him to join in but when he did he let me come really close to him and brush him so I did. ;D
Ella came out to ask if she could ride on Jiminy and practice jumping in the arena next to the arena Zest was in, I said yes to see if Zest was gonna be ok with it.
I went into the tack room and got a saddle, and saddle pad out to see if he will accept it I walked back into the arena and put the saddle pad on him he didn't like it but again he accepted it, I then put the saddle on he got a bit grumpy and jumped his front hooves up a bit but he still accepted it.
I put a potato sack on his saddle to get used to the weight of a saddle and a human I kept lunging him for a while until his head was down neck up with a nice slope shape wich took about 3 hours.
When I finished I took off Zests tack, groomed him gave him some water and oats and hay and put him in his stall with the other horses.
"Ella we are going now has Jiminy been fed?" I ask. "Yes he has" Ella answered as she turned off her computer.