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Impressive!!
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Location: Idaho | Ive got a 5 year old that is over reactive and he bucks daily on me. He has yet to get me off... he is usually pretty good about coming back to me fast, but it is a pain... He had a bad 30 days as a 3 yr old and he is sstill working to get over it... he is a nice colt, but has some issues, so as long as I am still in the saddle, I won't give up yet LOL |
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 Miss Laundry Misshap
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| We had a mare who didn't buck until she was 17 or 18. She only did it on the first or second ride of the spring going to the left at a lope in 1 spot in our arena. She would leap straight up about 3 feet off the ground (yes, her feet were barrel high) and when she'd hit she'd fly into a left bucking spin. Not hard bucks, felt more like the dime store rocking horse. It actually got to the point where I could read her ears and know when she was going to do it. So I rode them out and that was the end of it for another year! She did it until she was 27 and we retired her. |
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  Playing the Waiting Game
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| My opinion: Too many good ones out there to stick with a rank ANYTHING... I'd sell it and get something I was comfortable on. |
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 Accident Prone
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | bennie1 - 2014-06-03 7:15 AM 3TurnsonSpud - 2014-06-02 11:33 PM In my younger days it didn't bother me a bit to ride the buckers. Now, I have no desire to ride them. Funny how things once I turned the big 40. Me too. Thank goodness my last bucker has aged with me. She's 20 now and hasn't bucked in a year or 2. (Knock on wood).
She was always honest about it. It would come out first thing, then she was done. That I can handle. I don't like the ones you ride all day and then they blow. Never would tolerate that.
I can do fresh and playing. I can even do bratty half-hearted. My 4 year old will hump up sometimes when I first get on, but I've been able to kick her out of it. If my gelding stumbles, he will get up bucking, but will let me get his head up. Bucking with intent to throw me will get you a one way ticket off my place. |
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 Good Grief!
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | my one mare is 13(i think.lol) and i saddle her in the barn and once she is saddled and cinched up snug(so the saddle wont come off) i back out slowly because there have been a few occasion where she has broke literally in 2 in the tie stall........and you have to watch when you un tie her and turn her around because she may light in to it.......and when i get on its low and fast...lol................at least i have no worries about anybody stealing her...............the so keeps blabbing that hes going to take her roping....but seein as how she piled him up in the rose briar patch a couple years back............. i cant see it..lol
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 "Drank the Kool Aid"
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Location: Iowa, LA | My crackhead cinchy bronc mare has PSSM. Once I addressed her diet and exercise, she's a joy to work and saddle. Night and day difference. |
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Sock Snob
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| My gelding that did not vuck until 4 started buck was ulcers. Try that first. |
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| My farrier thinks he needs to be desensitized. I think he needs a darn job. He's not one to sit out in the pasture and ride whenever. I think he needs to be ridden more often then he is lol. HE's a really sweet horse but his bucking is like a tic. Some people twitch he bucks. Not often but when he does he makes up for it.
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