We have two paints and an American quarter, all sorrell, but every one of them will lose their shit over a plastic grocery bag. I was in the stall cleaning and wind caught the bag that I had some stuff in and blew it up, when it did he spun, his jaw hit me square in the face and knocked me off my feet. Next thing I know my Grandpa is standing over me and I can feel the blood gushing down my throat because I am flat on my back.
[quote]jbpick86 wrote:
We have two paints and an American quarter, all sorrell, but every one of them will lose their shit over a plastic grocery bag. I was in the stall cleaning and wind caught the bag that I had some stuff in and blew it up, when it did he spun, his jaw hit me square in the face and knocked me off my feet. Next thing I know my Grandpa is standing over me and I can feel the blood gushing down my throat because I am flat on my back.[/quote]
Yea horses and most animals of that stature are just so much stronger than we are, but they also react 5x faster than we do. I’ve been pretty lucky with horses, I’ve been kicked once. I was out in a pasture trimming a mare and another kept running around us and she eventually got too close and lashed out and damn near broke my shoulder.
I’ve had my butt kicked a couple of times by bulls though. I used to work at ABS, a breeding farm on the front range. Everyone who was handling a bull was issued a blue heeler as well. Even with that, in the 3 months I worked there six fellas were killed from general carelessness. I own a Jersey bull to breed my milk cows, and he is quite a handful and he is only 2 years old.
[quote]USMCpoolee wrote:
[quote]jbpick86 wrote:
We have two paints and an American quarter, all sorrell, but every one of them will lose their shit over a plastic grocery bag. I was in the stall cleaning and wind caught the bag that I had some stuff in and blew it up, when it did he spun, his jaw hit me square in the face and knocked me off my feet. Next thing I know my Grandpa is standing over me and I can feel the blood gushing down my throat because I am flat on my back.[/quote]
Yea horses and most animals of that stature are just so much stronger than we are, but they also react 5x faster than we do. I’ve been pretty lucky with horses, I’ve been kicked once. I was out in a pasture trimming a mare and another kept running around us and she eventually got too close and lashed out and damn near broke my shoulder.
I’ve had my butt kicked a couple of times by bulls though. I used to work at ABS, a breeding farm on the front range. Everyone who was handling a bull was issued a blue heeler as well. Even with that, in the 3 months I worked there six fellas were killed from general carelessness. I own a Jersey bull to breed my milk cows, and he is quite a handful and he is only 2 years old.[/quote]
Holy hell… 6 killed in two months? That seems a little extreme. I’ve ridden a couple of times in local shows plus a handful of practice sessions (truly an adrenalin rush) but never ended up with more than the typical bumps and bruises. Horses have done far more damage to me.
Few years back, I was riding and when I hit the creek the horse goes down. I leaned over to see if he sank or if he was being lazy (as he has a habit to do). When I reached my hand in the water, a big cottonmouth came off the bank and spooked him. He jumped up and the saddle horn hit me under the chin and split it wide open. I got bounced out of the saddle and am still trying to clear the cobwebs hanging around his neck watching the snake swim around under me. Been booted a couple times trimming hooves and bit a couple times when messing with colts.
Damn man that cottonmouth story is spooky, that would be tough. My only saddle horn incident was on my mule. She is one of the finest animals ever created, and I underestimated her. Chasing some stray cows that had gotten under the single strand electric fence, I didn’t guess she would jump the fence since she knew it was hot, but she did without breaking stride which I didn’t expect, the saddle horn dug up under my solar plexus and popped it forward. It was out at a right angle, went away after a while but hurt like hell.
Yea the breeding place was just a scary job. All bull pens so visibility was terrible and it was just bulls, so they were almost always on the prod before you even started handling them. This wasn’t riding or anything, the guys who got killed all made the mistake of getting between bulls and the cement filled fences. They got crushed. I don’t bull ride, I just bull dog, but I haven’t done it at a show in almost a year.