|
|
Rad Dork
Posts: 5218
 
Location: Oklahoma | Fairweather's post has got me curious! |
|
| |
|
Red Bull Agressive
Posts: 5981
 
Location: North Dakota | Wait...generation of what? |
|
| |
|
 A Somebody to Everybody
Posts: 41354
Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Like how old we are?  Are the year we were born in? Well I was born in 1958  Oh my that looks really old, LOL |
|
| |
|
Rad Dork
Posts: 5218
Location: Oklahoma | Oh boy, I should have clarified!!
what generation of rider are you? |
|
| |
|
 Expert
Posts: 4121
Location: SE Louisiana |
Not to me. I was born the same year....  |
|
| |
|
Red Bull Agressive
Posts: 5981
Location: North Dakota | Longneck - 2015-03-14 11:40 PM Oh boy, I should have clarified!!
what generation of rider are you? OHH OK! Well I'd say I'm a first. My dad's family had horses when he was a kid and he used to ride bucking horses, but he doesn't particularly care for horses nor does he ride well or know much about them at all. I have seen him on a horse ONCE when I was 3 and a girl got in an accident trail riding by our house and he rode the horse back.
Edited by cavyrunsbarrels 2015-03-14 11:48 PM
|
|
| |
|
 Thick and Wavy
Posts: 6102
Location: Nebraska | I'll go with 2nd since I never met my grandparents. |
|
| |
|
Expert
Posts: 4121
Location: SE Louisiana | Well.. my dad worked on a ranch in MT. when he was a teen... and his dad was a farrier for the US Army in Europe in WWll.... guess I'm 3rd.. |
|
| |
|
 Owner of a ratting catting machine
Posts: 2258
| Pre dawn of time. |
|
| |
|
 Money Eating Baggage Owner
Posts: 9586
Location: Phoenix | I'm 3rd (or 4th?). Parents rodeo'd growing up. Dad actually finished 1 out of going to the NFR one year. Mom was a bad@ss breakaway roper.
My dad's dad was a calf roper and bull-dogger. Dad's mom was a trick rider at her parents' dude ranch in upstate New York.
My mom grew up ranching with her dad. She was the only daughter out of 4 that showed any interest in riding. She went to the college finals in the team roping and did tons of riding on the range going through cows. |
|
| |
|
 Expert
Posts: 1718
Location: Southeast Louisiana | My parents aren't horse people. And, my mother grew up on a farm. But, she is one who went in the complete opposite direction and got as far away from farming as she could. She doesn't even like any kind of animal. I have always had a love of horses and animals. They tell me I got that from my grandfather. I rode his horses when we went there. So, maybe it skipped a generation? |
|
| |
|
  Twin Sister to Queen Boobie
Posts: 13315
Location: East Tennessee but who knows?! | First generation.....and raised by a step grandfather that lived during the great depression and fought in WWII . |
|
| |
|
 Shelter Dog Lover
Posts: 10277
| First |
|
| |
|
 Expert
Posts: 2041
Location: home for the winter...what a dumb idea | I am confused lol....my grandparents farmed with horses. But they sold the farm in the 50's soo dose that make the the kinda horse people you are wanting ? Or are we staying with rodeo? |
|
| |
|
 Accident Prone
Posts: 22277
Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | First generation competitive rider. My grandparents used horses for work and transportation when they were younger, and they and my dad kept a couple for cattle work until getting out of the cattle business in 79 or 80. My daddy had the same horse from the time he was 8 until I was little--I can remember when she died. They wouldn't let me pet her because she was a biter. LOL. We still had the fencing for the cows when someone gave us an old brood mare he thought wasn't going to make it through the winter. She taught my sister and me both to ride, and then I got my first barrel horse when I was 10 and Charmayne had just won her first world title. I wanted to be her so bad! |
|
| |
|
Rad Dork
Posts: 5218
Location: Oklahoma | Rodeo_cowgirl - 2015-03-15 8:09 AM I am confused lol....my grandparents farmed with horses. But they sold the farm in the 50's soo dose that make the the kinda horse people you are wanting ? Or are we staying with rodeo?
Just any. As in, did you have any help from your parents/grandparents with basic ownership, horsemanship, etc. or did you have to seek out help from others outside your family.
My grandpa rode some when he was younger and he really encouraged me to get a horse. He used to haul my to my 4H play days and horse club meetings. It was a Monday night tradition for a couple of years. Drive me to town, have Sonic burgers for dinner (he loves his Sonic!) and then to the arena. He even went on a trail ride our club did when he was 79/80!!! That's the only time I've ever seen him on a horse. He'll be 95 tomorrow. My parents never really knew much about horses, but they made sure I was able to have learning opportunities from others. |
|
| |
|
A Somebody to Everybody
Posts: 41354
Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | komet. - 2015-03-14 11:45 PM Not to me. I was born the same year....
LOL.... We are too cool  |
|
| |
|
A Somebody to Everybody
Posts: 41354
Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | To answer your question, I think maybe 1st, my uncle was a roper in his younger days. |
|
| |
|
 Veteran
Posts: 292
Location: Northeast Nebraska | First. |
|
| |
|
 Expert
Posts: 3782
Location: Gainesville, TX | 2nd. My dad grew up riding. My mom had a horse when she was young. |
|
| |
|
 Underestimated Underdog
Posts: 3971
Location: Minnesota | First. My uncle had a horse as a kid but besides that no one in my family had or has horses. |
|
| |
|
 Undercover Amish Mafia Member
Posts: 9991
Location: Kansas | first |
|
| |
|
Expert
Posts: 1561
| My daughter is 1st generation "performance" horse. |
|
| |
|
 Party Girl
Posts: 12293
Location: Buffalo, Wyoming | 3rd- My grandparents had race horses and raised a bunch of horses. Grandpa was always on a horse whether it was to gallop race horses or go ride in the mountains.
Dad was also always on a horse in his younger days. Started out in Jr posse, and then helped with the race horses.
No one really rodeo'd until my oldest sister was in high school but we always had horses around. |
|
| |
|
 Elite Veteran
Posts: 725
| Many generations back of using horses for ranching/farming, and both parents rodeo-ed. |
|
| |
|
 Total Germophobe
Posts: 6437
Location: Montana | That's difficult for me to answer. My folks rode horses when they were kids, my mom likes horses but didn't have any as an adult. But my grandpa and great-grandpa rode and trained horses, so in a way I'm 1st and 3rd generation. |
|
| |
What generation are you?