Colt starting with PD Jones www.pdjoneshorseranch.com

www.pdjoneshorseranch.com
Colt starting at P D Jones Horse Ranch in Nora,NE pdjoneshorseranch@yahoo.com....Weanlings & yearlings for sale at all times & some started colts.

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Pets & Animals

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• Colt
• starting
• horse
• training
• hobble
• cowboy
• ranch

[tanya2horses]

I found this vid interesting. I don't think there is anything wrong with such a minimal amount of riding and then being turned out. I think alot of people may get some things wrong tho if they try to copy your method. I am just so over people putting condescending remarks on utube about things that are not related to the videos. This I write about the remarks of @granitehills2t . Parelli has nothing to do with this man and his video.

[pdj47]

@tanya2horses Actually many studies show that is actually beneficial for developing bone structure. This horse is now earning his keep on a working ranch & roping on the weekends & no doubt will be doing so for many years. I have been selling my colts from the same place for 50 years, if they were going crippled I would have been out of business a long time ago.

[granitehills2t]

Awesome. I hate ground work and it just goes to show that you can have nice horses and not Parelli the poor things to death. I start my colts on horseback and basicly don't do anything unless I am riding another 4-5 year old. I bend their head around and rope their feet and body until they are sacked out. That way I feel like I am accomplishing something on two instead of one. Thanks for the info.

[pdj47]

@granitehills2t In my getting colts you will see I let them sack them selves out. I put 6-8 of them in a small round pen & let them drag still leads (stiff so it don't get wrapped around anything) for a week or so. They drag the leads over & around each other & they step on the leads about a thousand times so they are used to pressure on their head & just never learn to panic & haul back on the leads & I can walk through them several times a day & just catch & fool with them. 

[granitehills2t]

How much ground work do you do? On a obviously gentle colt like this, how long will it be before you go outside? Always wondering how other folks do things. Thanks

[pdj47]

None really..I hobble break, halter break, leave them tied quite a bit & pony them some off an ATV as weanlings & turn um out. ring them up at around 24 months, saddle & tie their heads around a bit for a couple days & get on. I ride in the small round pen for a few minutes a couple days, then the big round pen 2-3 days & then just walk & trot around the place a few days & turn them out till they around 2 & bring them up & ride um around for a couple weeks & turn um back out.

[nursecroft]

By doing ground work you develop a relationship and trust with your youngster whilst allowing them to develop the right muscles to carry you. I don't care how long someone has been backing horses it doesn't make there technique right. I hate hobbling, i think it is cruel an unnecessary. Although I don't agree with all your techniques here you do have a good calming way with the horses I have to admit.

[thatschill777]

Stupid cricket... Otherwise nice vid

[gcoxalaska]

Ya See, PD Jones is a real cowboy, the rest of us are too chicken-shit to climb on an hope for the best, so ground work it is until we build up enough nerve. Way to go PD Jones, seeing that you are Just a KID... I wanna be like you when I grow up...

[theallenfamilyband]

I started working for a rancher when I was 14 and saved enough money to buy my own yearling after a couple years and started him just about the way PD does his. He was a good gentle useful horse for many years and never went lame or unsound throughout his 25 plus years. He was such a good buddy I named one of my sons after him. I wish some people in this world would just listen and learn instead of being born so smart already. PD you were a good man.

[jozie1992]

PD, I just wanted you to know that I wish that I was younger and could come out and work for you and learn from You. You are a true horseman and part of a dieing breed. All of the fancy trainers with big names has nothing on you. You are such a kind and gentle trainer. You make the horse your partner and not try to control him and make him comform to what you want but work with who he is. Keep up the great work and I will keep watching

[jozie1992]

All of you that think that they know everything about horses I am going to tell you your full of it. this GENTLEMAN had been training horses long before you were probly born. The way he trains is the way cowboys have trained horses for years. Notice that he uses no whip or chases the horse in a round pen. There is no fear in the horses eyes. He is not riding the colt hard. He does let them grow up after all he only rides them for 2 days and then truns them back out to grow up,