Recent content by mightymiracles

I know who owned her previous to me only used her as a brood mare. Before that According to her papers, it was Lil' Darlings farm out of TX. Jeanne M McClanahan. She may have been only a brood mare, but until now she has taken so easily to driving, now we hit a hiccup, so back to basics.

Thank you everyone for your response. I worked her this morning and its not the blinders, she is just throwing a fit. Bit is good and it fits good. She is not sore in anyway, have had vet look at her. her cart is really light and well balanced. We are going back to basics, lowering her lines...

I have ground driven her in pasture (with no other horses) and in the round pen and all over the area around here, nice little blocks around the lake near here. I started her with no blinders and then we moved to blinders and she did fine (no intent on showing) I put the lines through the shaft...

No bulking at her head if she has a leader but she still throws her head around until she gets a jerk and a stern knock it off. Once moving this mare drives beautifully. She also stops great and turns are not an issue. Its just bulky at moving forward. I am going to start back at lunging...

I have a mare who is newer to driving but we have been doing well for the last 2 months. Now no bashing as I have trained others to drive with no issues....all the way up to drafts and never had one like her. I have her in a mullen mouth driving bit, we tried a split snaffle and we did not do...

My problem is I dont have ANY blankets of any kind for my guys, I thought I would start with a pattern for fly sheets and from there I would get the basic idea so I can start on blankets for this winter. I would think old seatbelts would work. I went to fabric store and was able to find stuff...

I would like to make my own fly sheets as I have a draft horse sheet that got ruined and can not be used for them anymore but it has good material on it and useable hardware if I can trim it down to size, I am just not that creative to see how to get it down to size to fit my guys. I was...

It all depends on the type of hay, rye, grass, alfalfa etc...I dont buy 2nd cutting as its too rich for my horses, I prefer to feed more hay for roughage then to feed less high rich stuff that could make them sick. If you question at all how to feed hay or quality find someone who knows more to...

My mare dropped weight in her topline after she foaled and we are just now getting it back, I put her on triple crown which has lots of beet pulp in it, as well as good grazing. It could just be that the baby is sucking her dry, look into early weaning for this mare and I would bump her up to...

I would have to agree to have the vet out. She has a bit of a belly but not huge so she could be preg and having problems. She could be preg and have mastitis. Her uder looks lumpy to me, so it would concern me, would not wait to long on it.

I am looking for options on what to put up for my mini's. I will have a tight budget and need to stay pretty much either portable or can dissasemble. I thought of the sheds at home depot or something or a carport? Any thoughts? If I build a barn i was curious if any of you guys have built...

Hey thanks guys, I will have to look into the club and contact people, and start getting out and doing stuff with my guys!

Hey everyone I am just see if there is anyone to connect with near Detroit MI. We are southwest MI now and are moving. I have my horsey network here but have no idea where or how to connect with anyone near Detroit so I was seeing if there was anyone on the forum. Thanks for looking

I am curious what is the difference between AMHA and AMHR? I have mini's and they are reg. but need to switch into my name, I keep seeing people talk about the two and I guess while I dont care if mine are Reg. or not I am just curious how all that stuff works.

So we are moving the horses some point this summer to property we are leasing. I will have to put up a temp house, I dont want to drop 2 grand on soemthing I cant move so first part is I thought of putting up one of those like hoop houses or car port tents that you can get at TSC. They close...