The Horse and Mule Thread.

[2rocky]

She was standing spraddle legged, racing pulse and labored breathing in the morning. Called the vet and she was suffering. No real diagnosis, but we guess it could have been a bad colic. My 15 year old gelding colicked the night before from all the new grass. he was real gassy. Tubed him with mineral oil and water. fine the next morning.

BB I hear you. Don't beat yourself up.

 

[mtnwrunner]

A thread near and dear............

Aw, a good horse and a good mule--what more could you ask for.
Here are several photos of my hunting partners. TC, Chance, Murphy, Whisky and or course, Ed, the mule. He is Edward when he is being good and Edturd when he is bad. As in the time he got in the panniers and ate all the weeks food........

Randy

 

[mtnwrunner]

A few more..................

 

[HellsCanyon]

Great pics everyone... I grew up with horses as well though never hunted off them until I was 16 or so. We mainly did the raising/breeding/breaking/selling thing for awhile. Dad is pretty handy with bloodlines, IBC's, and figuring out what makes a good brood mare. I worked for an outfitter for a summer/fall straight out of highschool and learned a lot though I was a bit tired of babysitting clients after that year. I'm the youngest of 4 kids and as I went off to college, we started thinning the herd substantially. Have it down to two horses now, 4.5 year old gelding "Recon", and a 3.5 year old mare "Rachel". Two good horses that don't get worked nearly as much as they should, but I plan to start using them on some idaho hunts next fall. Would sometime like to pickup a few more horses/mules for packing but that's year's in the future I imagine!

Don't have any pics on this computer unfortunately...

Mike

 

[robby denning]

mtnwrunner, loved your pics, especially the good buck tied on the white mule. Great stuff!

 

[2rocky]

mtnwrunner, I keep thinking I need to get a mule. I haven't owned one YET. I should have bought this one that came up for sale years ago but I never had the guts to pull the trigger. Not sure what held me back, fear or common sense.

This is what I am looking for:

This mule sold and I missed my chance...I keep this around to remind me not to miss my next chance..

 

[mtnwrunner]

2rocky and robby---how does one go about posting a photo like you guys did--as in putting the photo and then text and then putting another photo??

Thanks.
Randy

 

[2rocky]

To help on the photos...

Right click on your pictures, and then click "properties" (see picture)

Highlight the Web address that ends in ".jpg" (see picture)

and left click COPY


In Forums:

Choose "post a reply" or "New topic" which will take you to your message editing screen

Left click the IMG button above (second from the right in the "post a reply" form
Right click and PASTE the Photo html code ending in ".jpg"
left click the button that now reads IMG*

in the message editing screen your post will read:

Helpful hints:

These instructions work best with photo hosting sites like flickr, or photobucket, or picasa

http://www.flickr.com/
http://photobucket.com/
http://picasa.google.com/


Choose pictures sizes 640 pixels wide or less to not distort the Forums screen

Put a blank line between your text and pictures

photos with the file extension .GIF will work as well, but .jpg is the most common

.bmp files are bigger and take a long time to load.

Hope that helps.

 

[bbrown]

They sure do make life easier getting camp in and out... Plus a bunch of horses on a high line or in hobbles for the first time sure makes for some good camp entertainment!