Re: Alternate Training

[Rayna777@aol.com]

>How big is your pasture?  I'm trying to imagine doing this on our smallest

>pasture of 12 acres...


That would be interesting!

We just have ten, and it's split three ways, (actually four, counting the 
yard and barnyard)so the pastures are like 2-2.5 each.  Plenty of room to 
run, but not so big you have to kill yourself keeping them moving.  Sometimes 
if I am starting out a couple of new horses, I get the kids to help, 'til the 
newbies get the hang of it.

In your case, you could either fence a large corner, at leat a couple hundred 
feet a side, or chase them from horseback.  My best freind and I used to do 
that, using shetland ponies!!!!!  We had a blast, the ponies got to give the 
"big guys" a hard time, it was killer excersize, (try it bareback, wearing 
your husbands mudboots!) and the husbands about split watching us!  ( It was 
sorta embarrassing though, the time we were doing that, I crashed in the mud 
(on my face, no less) and the president of the local Draft Horse club showed 
up.  He just didn't get it, you know!?)

Good Luck.

Julie, Rayna the Mountain Monster, Jynxie the Wonder Pony, and Decker the 
Newbie


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