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| 2 short rides with a person at the head- mine is a June baby.
Been saddled on and off since March. |
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| I just dropped mine off at the trainers a week ago.
He is halter broke but that's about it.. Has been hauled, had feet done, dewormed etc. Just the basics. |
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| I'll probably be flammed for this, but mine was started in December. She knows her leads. She's spinning with decent speed, and will slide 4ft without sliders. She lopes her circles and rarely falls out of it. We've used her to move cows and I had to use her to pony 2 horses a few weeks ago. |
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| We have three and we have slowly put about 20 rides on them over the last 4 months. One will pickup leads, turn over his hocks, track cattle, etc. The other two are just a little further behind, still working on leads. We will continue to keep working with them at this pace and plan to start rotating them to our working cowhorse trainer in December. He will keep them a month or two and then we hope to start pen roping and maybe patterning in the spring. I don't know if this is the best plan for everyone, but it just really works well for us and our schedule. Our trainer has a barn, so I really like to send them in the winter, when it is really hard for us to keep anything consistently rode. |
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Location: Montana | I'm probably behind, but mine is going to the colt starter in September...she was a May baby so I wanted to let her grow up a little bit as she seems smaller to me. But she is giving her head both ways, learning clucking and "whoa" on the ground, is learning to be good with feet and fly spray and vaccines and worming, learning to tie/stand alone, and is learning to give to pressure. She's had a saddle blanket over her, and working with desensitizing. She'll have a saddle on before she goes to the trainer, but I introduce things slowly so she'll have a bareback pad on first. She's smart and learns quickly and remembers. She is getting more work with trailer loading as she is hesitant about that. She's just a youngster with a short attention span so I don't try to overload her brain with too many things at once, LOL. |
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Location: Missouri | Mine is eating grass.
I heard Jackie Jatzlau speak a few weeks ago and she said she doesn't start hers until fall. That made me feel better for a few minutes, until I realized that she's about 100 times better horsewoman than me and she's got skills to progress. I, on the other hand, should have started mine when she was born. Oh, well. |
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Location: The edge of no where | just4fun - 2016-06-27 10:54 AM Mine is eating grass.
I heard Jackie Jatzlau speak a few weeks ago and she said she doesn't start hers until fall. That made me feel better for a few minutes, until I realized that she's about 100 times better horsewoman than me and she's got skills to progress. I, on the other hand, should have started mine when she was born. Oh, well.
Did you go to the Saddle up for Christ where she spoke? I thought she did an outstanding job that day. It was really interesting to hear how she decides when to start them. |
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Location: Duvall, WA | If they are smallish, does it really make any difference to give them a break for a few months after they get started? I know I've heard some people start them then turn them out again for six months or so. My two year old is coming back from the colt starter soon, she has had 90 days and is doing great. She is not a bucker but is a flighty thing and very forward, so it seems to me it would be good to keep going on her. But she is small and hasn't been out on a pasture for six months so part of me wants to get her home and fatten her up to help her fill out. Would love opinions. . . |
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Location: In The Land of Cotton | Mine eats grass real well. Lol. I don't start mine early
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Location: Missouri | MS2011 - 2016-06-27 11:55 AM just4fun - 2016-06-27 10:54 AM Mine is eating grass.
I heard Jackie Jatzlau speak a few weeks ago and she said she doesn't start hers until fall. That made me feel better for a few minutes, until I realized that she's about 100 times better horsewoman than me and she's got skills to progress. I, on the other hand, should have started mine when she was born. Oh, well. Did you go to the Saddle up for Christ where she spoke? I thought she did an outstanding job that day. It was really interesting to hear how she decides when to start them.
Yes! Loved it! She was one of my favorites! :) |
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Location: Royal J Performance Horses, AZ | Lead, load, tie, ground work, been saddled, and worked.
No one has stepped on them yet. I want them to be a little bigger so probably this fall or maybe wait till early spring before breeding season starts again |
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Location: God's country...aka TEXAS | Mine has been handled since he was a baby so he's had it feet done, bathed, winter blanket etc since he was a weanling. He leads, loads, ties etc. Has had about 20 rides on him now. I will continue riding him this year and start on barrels sometime after the first of the year. |
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Location: The edge of no where | NipntuckLR - 2016-06-27 12:01 PM If they are smallish, does it really make any difference to give them a break for a few months after they get started? I know I've heard some people start them then turn them out again for six months or so. My two year old is coming back from the colt starter soon, she has had 90 days and is doing great. She is not a bucker but is a flighty thing and very forward, so it seems to me it would be good to keep going on her. But she is small and hasn't been out on a pasture for six months so part of me wants to get her home and fatten her up to help her fill out. Would love opinions. . .
I'd kick her back out for a good long break. |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | If I had any, they would be in pasture. Out of sight and out of mind. I had a stud colt started the end of last summer/fall. Just 30 easy rides on him. Wanted him to have some manners and a job. Othewise we don't start ours until they are 3. When I used to haul, they were as far along mentally and better physically than most that were started as 2's. But when we ride, we really ride them. Not just 15 minutes in the arena. It may be all day ranching. |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | MS2011 - 2016-06-27 1:43 PM NipntuckLR - 2016-06-27 12:01 PM If they are smallish, does it really make any difference to give them a break for a few months after they get started? I know I've heard some people start them then turn them out again for six months or so. My two year old is coming back from the colt starter soon, she has had 90 days and is doing great. She is not a bucker but is a flighty thing and very forward, so it seems to me it would be good to keep going on her. But she is small and hasn't been out on a pasture for six months so part of me wants to get her home and fatten her up to help her fill out. Would love opinions. . . I'd kick her back out for a good long break.
a break to grow up and be a horse will probably do her wonders. She should mature a lot between now and then. |
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Location: Bandera, TX | wyoming barrel racer - 2016-06-27 3:57 PM MS2011 - 2016-06-27 1:43 PM NipntuckLR - 2016-06-27 12:01 PM If they are smallish, does it really make any difference to give them a break for a few months after they get started? I know I've heard some people start them then turn them out again for six months or so. My two year old is coming back from the colt starter soon, she has had 90 days and is doing great. She is not a bucker but is a flighty thing and very forward, so it seems to me it would be good to keep going on her. But she is small and hasn't been out on a pasture for six months so part of me wants to get her home and fatten her up to help her fill out. Would love opinions. . . I'd kick her back out for a good long break.
Those that I've started in the pens vs started on the ranch are worlds apart. By far the ranch started colts are mature they move out naturally across the country to go somewhere vs the round pen and arena colts that you have to motivate. |
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Location: Washington | This is the filly I got for Mothers Day. So this is a month after bringing her home. She got the haltered before getting out of the trailer. This video is almost a month old so she's even better now and she's been following a cow/buffalo. She also goes down the trail and crosses anything. I've hauled her a couple places and she acts like a pro!
She's been SUPER easy and trying not to do too much too fast!
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| just4fun - 2016-06-27 8:54 AM Mine is eating grass.
I heard Jackie Jatzlau speak a few weeks ago and she said she doesn't start hers until fall. That made me feel better for a few minutes, until I realized that she's about 100 times better horsewoman than me and she's got skills to progress. I, on the other hand, should have started mine when she was born. Oh, well.
  Mine is eating grass too!!! He's had a halter on now and again. He's had a rope thrown over his neck and led by hand. He backs up a little. He's had his front feet picked up. I have scratched his belly about 100 times and he loves that. He's also been tied to the trailer once or twice with his 3 year old brother. I have to force myself to send them out because I am also the slowest. colt. starter. ever. And PS I'm the worst. housekeeper. ever. |
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Location: Texas | Two loping barrels two broke two unbroke |
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| I'm not feeling so bad now about how far along mine is. Mine is a January foal but was in a major growth spurt until last month. I had done all the ground work but I've only been on him twice, thought I was way behind but glad I'm not. He is going to the trainers august 1st.
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | Mine is an April baby. I wasn't going to have her started quite yet but a spot opened up for 30 rides at the trainer that is usually a year wait. She went a week after her 2nd birthday but she's really big for her age. I picked her up a few weeks ago and am really impressed. She lopes both ways, moves out nice and seems to be monkey broke. I rode her bareback a mile this morning before I went to work. I won't do anything crazy on her for quite a while but will at least keep her rode a couple times a week. |
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Location: "...way down south in the Everglades..." | Mine is a rescue so I'm not sure when her actual birthday is, but she had a rough start and is quite small so I've been holding off on riding, but I'm getting close to that point.
She loads, hauled to several local shows, longes, has had a bareback pad on her, splint boots, bathes, cross ties, etc. I actually drug out a headstall and a bit last night and plan on getting her used to that in the next couple days. |
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Location: Duvall, WA | mollibtexan - 2016-06-27 4:50 PM
Two loping barrels two broke two unbroke
So how do you decide which gets which approach? |
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Location: Wearing a winter coat...... | Mine is always hurting herself so she will get broke out this fall....if she doesn't cut herself again. I feel behind with most of you. |
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Location: Wearing a winter coat...... | Heck- I just WEANED my yearling......for the second time! Why rush it! |
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Location: NW. Florida | Mine is a April baby he's 15.3 and his knees are still open, so he's being a baby. I did sack him out yesterday though. |
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Location: Wherever the Army sends my husband | whohasaplan - 2016-06-28 11:27 AM Mine is always hurting herself so she will get broke out this fall....if she doesn't cut herself again. I feel behind with most of you.
This the story of my life! My filly is the most accident prone pain in my are I've ever had. She tore her knee to shreds as a yearling. No big deal she had plenty time to heal. She's a Jan baby. I started her groundwork as a long yearling for 30 days and kicked her back out. In mid March I pulled her back out restarted ground work for a couple weeks before I started riding her. I had maybe 15-20 rides on her. Then she tears her knee up again! Today was day 3 of riding after her latest accident but we only walk/trot for 10-15 min. I feel horribly behind! |
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Location: Texas!! | NipntuckLR - 2016-06-28 11:17 AM
mollibtexan - 2016-06-27 4:50 PM
Two loping barrels two broke two unbroke
So how do you decide which gets which approach?
I would love to know this too! I'm sure you handle more nice bred 2 yr olds than I will ever see in my life!! I guess some just mature quicker than others. |
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Location: Texas | My firewater ta fame 2 YO has had 60 days under saddle... has a really nice handle. Knows his leads, transitions smoothly between gaits, moves off leg, breaks at the pole, pretty much has all the pieces to where when it gets later in the year I can start him on the pattern. Right now we are letting him rest a little while and are just riding him lightly. We won't start asking for much until fall.
My First Down French 2YO is finishing her first 60 days. The lady who started both of them says she's farther ahead than the first colt we sent for the same amount of days. So I was super pleased with how he rode.. can't wait to see how she does! |
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Location: Monticello, AR | Let me make ALL yall feel good....I have a 3 yr old with no rides on her!! Lol, she is broke to death, was born an old soul, and has ulcers!! Yes, she has been scoped and is on omeprazole. It's a LONG story, but she has been going with me most of her life...I have ponied her, and I saddle and lunge her. Just in the last couple of weeks I have been saddling and putting weight in the stirrup and doing a lot more with her saddled. I really don't want to be the first to swing a leg over her because I am too old....??but was also too concerned with her ulcers to send her off anywhere. And she needs to hit another growth spurt. So, hope I made yall feel better about the progress of your 2 yr olds, lol! |
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Location: MD | upscowpatty - 2016-06-29 8:05 AM Let me make ALL yall feel good....I have a 3 yr old with no rides on her!! Lol, she is broke to death, was born an old soul, and has ulcers!! Yes, she has been scoped and is on omeprazole. It's a LONG story, but she has been going with me most of her life...I have ponied her, and I saddle and lunge her. Just in the last couple of weeks I have been saddling and putting weight in the stirrup and doing a lot more with her saddled. I really don't want to be the first to swing a leg over her because I am too old....??but was also too concerned with her ulcers to send her off anywhere. And she needs to hit another growth spurt. So, hope I made yall feel better about the progress of your 2 yr olds, lol!
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Location: N Texas | sodapop - 2016-06-29 1:51 PM
Winning the 1D.
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| Four cruising the pattern, four still working circles, and two hardly broke enough for the round pen. |
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Location: Georgia | This is a great thread! But I think pictures should be required. lol 
My March filly does all the basics. This is my first baby so I'm pretty much winging it. I've been very inconsistent with her. I have hauled her to 5 or 6 barrel races. She has had a saddle on a few times but I wouldnt say she is comfortable with it quite yet. Im hoping over the next few months I can work with her more and hopefully put her first ride on by September or October at the latest. She is a smaller filly so I'm praying she will grow a little between now and then. |
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Location: Texas | Runninbay - 2016-06-29 5:42 PM
This is a great thread! But I think pictures should be required. lol My March filly does all the basics. This is my first baby so I'm pretty much winging it. I've been very inconsistent with her. I have hauled her to 5 or 6 barrel races. She has had a saddle on a few times but I wouldnt say she is comfortable with it quite yet. Im hoping over the next few months I can work with her more and hopefully put her first ride on by September or October at the latest. She is a smaller filly so I'm praying she will grow a little between now and then.
Her sister from the same mister is coming home in July for me to start riding and got good reviews.. and haven't heard any stories about her hating the water hose yet sooooooo hopefully thats better. lol |
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Location: Georgia | casualdust07 - 2016-06-29 7:28 PM Runninbay - 2016-06-29 5:42 PM This is a great thread! But I think pictures should be required. lol
My March filly does all the basics. This is my first baby so I'm pretty much winging it. I've been very inconsistent with her. I have hauled her to 5 or 6 barrel races. She has had a saddle on a few times but I wouldnt say she is comfortable with it quite yet. Im hoping over the next few months I can work with her more and hopefully put her first ride on by September or October at the latest. She is a smaller filly so I'm praying she will grow a little between now and then. Her sister from the same mister is coming home in July for me to start riding and got good reviews.. and haven't heard any stories about her hating the water hose yet sooooooo hopefully thats better. lol
The craziest thing is that mine doesn't seem to mind it so much this year. I actually gave her a real bath the other day...soap and all. And didn't almost die in the process. I wasn't sure what was happening but I just went with it haha. Can't wait to see videos of Lu when she gets back! |
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| Here are pics of my 2yr old. |
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How far along are your 2yr olds?