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Location: The Great West | I need some motivation here folks. I have a 3yo that's green that I am trying to get rides on that is a dirty bronc. One second she's fine and the next... Most of my barrel hoses have had some buck in them but I haven't been able to cover this one yet and she's hurt me twice now. I'd feel better if I knew what sets her off, I've switched saddles, I ride her in a ring snaffle and know it's not pintching. My husband says just sell her but I don't want her to hurt anyone else, so I need some cowgirl up.
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| If it was my horse I would send her down the road.. too many good horses to get hurt on a bad one. If that is not an option, maybe find a trainer that specializes in problem horses and doesn't mind a dirty bronc. My question would be though, could you ever trust her? |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | I would sell, I would let it be know that she's a dirty bucker. A horse like this is not worth the hurt and you can find better.
The second time she hurt me she would have been gone.. |
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Location: Randolph, Utah | Send her down the road. . . . Too many good ones to have a bad one.
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| Say "GoodBye" They are NEVER EVER WORTH IT! |
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Location: Four Corners Colorado | Black Horse - 2014-08-28 2:29 PM I need some motivation here folks. I have a 3yo that's green that I am trying to get rides on that is a dirty bronc. One second she's fine and the next... Most of my barrel hoses have had some buck in them but I haven't been able to cover this one yet and she's hurt me twice now. I'd feel better if I knew what sets her off, I've switched saddles, I ride her in a ring snaffle and know it's not pintching. My husband says just sell her but I don't want her to hurt anyone else, so I need some cowgirl up.
This statement sort of bugs me. If most of your horses have some buck in them maybe you should look at what you're doing. How long has this horse been in training? How many times has be been ridden? |
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| All the horses I've ever had that bucked like that had a reason. Usually they were out in the SI. Very few chiro's can adjust the SI on a horse. The other most common reason tends to be navicular type issues. A lot of horses might buck a little at first as a defense mechanism. But if it's continuous and not getting better, there's usually an under lying cause. Very few are simply nasty broncs because they like it. If this horse is one of those few, find someone that can put a buckin strap on him and let them go to town (if they have the ability to stick it). The horse will either have a new calling in life or he will decide bucking isn't much fun after all. |
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Location: The Great West | equussynergy - 2014-08-28 2:48 PM Black Horse - 2014-08-28 2:29 PM I need some motivation here folks. I have a 3yo that's green that I am trying to get rides on that is a dirty bronc. One second she's fine and the next... Most of my barrel hoses have had some buck in them but I haven't been able to cover this one yet and she's hurt me twice now. I'd feel better if I knew what sets her off, I've switched saddles, I ride her in a ring snaffle and know it's not pintching. My husband says just sell her but I don't want her to hurt anyone else, so I need some cowgirl up.
This statement sort of bugs me. If most of your horses have some buck in them maybe you should look at what you're doing. How long has this horse been in training? How many times has be been ridden?
All my barrel horses like this one were started by others and had issues so they were sent packing. I can't afford "nice" horses so I picked through everyone else's "rejects". Most I figured out what set them off and theyed ride off in about a month. This one has 75-90 rides and is pretty small so I haven't ridden her as hard. |
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Location: The Great West | Part of me wants her gone too, But if we sold all the horses someone told us to most of us would be walking. There's a vet that does chiro that comes to our area once a month, I'll have her checked next time |
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Queen Bean of Ponyland
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Location: WYOMING | My little homemade buckstring has changed a few buckers minds here. I sent one off once to get broke and he came home with it... lol... guess he gave that colt starter a fit, so glad he did cause that string has come in handy! |
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Location: CA | If this filly is only three, you have hope of fixing this issue. If she's dumped you several times as you've stated, then she's getting a payoff for the bucking. It's like a horse that sets back. If they break the lead and get untied, then they'll do it again. Same with a bucker. If she can get you off, she's going to keep doing it. Find a cowboy that can ride her through it, and send her off to get her butt worked! Day work on a working ranch can do wonders to change an attitude. If this filly's only three, then she's really just a baby and pulling this kind of crap isn't really unheard of.
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I Really Love Jeans
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Location: North Dakota | Send her to work on a ranch with a cowboy for 90 days. She will not buck when you get her back. |
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  Keeper of the King Snake
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Location: Dubach, LA | angelica - 2014-08-28 6:47 PM Send her to work on a ranch with a cowboy for 90 days. She will not buck when you get her back.
Hmm. I have noticed, around here, that "ranch broke" means "dirty bucker."
Get G-bean to explain her string. It works.
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Location: sunny california | Gbean can you post pics?
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| Interested in the string also |
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Location: California | CanCan - 2014-08-28 5:00 PM angelica - 2014-08-28 6:47 PM Send her to work on a ranch with a cowboy for 90 days. She will not buck when you get her back. Hmm. I have noticed, around here, that "ranch broke" means "dirty bucker."
Get G-bean to explain her string. It works.
Couldn't agree more with this.. There's a group of cowboys here who I wouldn't let touch my horse with a ten foot pole. No way are those horses "trained". Horses mostly buck because they are tight in the hind end. How much ground work have you done with this horse? Or have you just been riding from the beginning? |
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| I would find me a saddle and put it on her and tie her to a learning post for,a couple of weeks if you cant find someone to help you ride her. Also on one of chris coxes shows he put some kind of bucking rooe of a buckshin horse and made it stop. !i would get a big bottle of ace and after tying in themsun with a saddle i wpuld work in round pen after i gace a good dose of ace then sweat him up ty him back to learning post let the ace work get you a cowboy to to ride him after his head is low with the ace. After a,week this should stop it. I have a big 16.1 hand gelding he is a very nice mover and as a 2 year old after he was broke he never bucked even after 2 or3 weeks. As a three year old he was nice enough i had people with big check books telling me to price him. We my ground was bad and i felt like i needed someone to,put a little run in him so i would be ready after the first of the year. Well after about a month he colics, theynjust told the guy that was riding for me to give vitimans and minerals. But, i know now he was not getting enough hay, while he looked great shiney coat. But later i found out he got no turn out, but thats okay but he was not getting enough rougf age or,hay. When i got the horse back if i did not ride him for 5 or 6 day would have lounge the buck out of him and when i take him to a show the first day he worked great and second day he was a nervous wreck. Fast forward he got a little better with time and i do feed a lot of hay. It was not until last year imhad him at the vets for something else she did accupucture for,ulcers and hit one point he took 3 of of girls being twitched down the barn isle. I trwated him for ulcers for,60 days and we have no bucking for,the most part if he is sore maybe a small crow hop. This has been a really goofy horse, imhave seen me haul him 8 hours and come off trailer crow hoping, something in me knew this horses demeanor is so,quiet that it was not him, the week after imstarted the omperizole i carried him to a show he stood tied to,the trailer looking like i gave him the whole bottle of ace. tues i carried him back to vet as he has some soundness,issues he was so,quiet. I knew this horses mom and dad, this horse is good minded. Mhis hocks where fusing he balked at the gate just swirled aroind and carried me away from the arena, i got off of him lead him in the alley droped reins on his neck,climed on his 16.1 but and clucked to,him ran barrels and i got off. What i am saying give him some ulcer treatment, as i am thinking skm is right a bucker will have a problem and ulcers may be a part of,it. |
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| If you find out there is absolutely nothing bothering this horse to cause it to buck and exhausted all efforts, then maybe video this little bucker and advertise to some stock contrator. Could be a bucking horse of the year one day.
I really have no advice. Sorry.
Edited by sodapop 2014-08-28 8:52 PM
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 A Barrel Of Monkeys
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Location: Texas | I've had too many broken bones and injuries to keep a bucker. I take them to the sale with full disclosure. Flame away, there are too many horses out there that won't pull a sneaky buck on you.
I have known of some that hurt and reacted that way. I wouldn't invest much into a bucker unless he already had a win record, I had a fortune in him, or I'd raised him and he was out of my favorite mare. Otherwise, sayonara baby.
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Mrs. Troy
Location: western Nebraska | I bought a nice bred 5 year old a year ago and rode him a couple of months. Several times I thought he was going to buck and I pulled him up. I asked the girl I bought him from about him bucking and was told he had never bucked. So I thought maybe I was doing something wrong. I took him to his first exh. barrel race and going slow he flat did an nfr bucking exh. and broke me to pieces. On the way to the hospital I texted the girl and told her what had happened. Her text back to me was "yeah, you gotta beat him to remind him not to buck!". I still hurt and live on pain pills. I would have never bought him in the first place if they would have been honest. I now ask about bucking first thing and several times. I will not spend one minute on a bucker!
Edited to say that this horse is now for sale and I know of two people that called on him and asked if he ever bucked. THey were told -No, never!!
Edited by doglady 2014-08-28 9:15 PM
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