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Post by Admin on Jun 16, 2005 10:47:35 GMT 1
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Post by jinglejoys on Jun 16, 2005 16:10:59 GMT 1
Now all I have to do is teach them to type! ;D
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Post by jinglejoys on Jun 29, 2005 8:24:46 GMT 1
Malaga went to "school at the weekend with Adam and Nicole.He was great (With the odd buck now and again -very impressive. I have now started to long line him and I'm still researching saddles. I want to go treefree but am looking for a mule saddle which isn't easy.I'd love a "Rebecca soft ride" but there is an 18mnth waiting list as they are handmade and although the after service is extremly good its not much help when I live over here and they are in the States. I'll probably go for a Barefoot for his first saddle and then maybe try a dartmoor western when I've saved enough,then Sarah-lee can have the Barefoot. Leatherwise I do fancy the Montreal Trooper with the gel seat!
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Post by Silversons on Aug 5, 2005 12:07:02 GMT 1
Hi jinglejoys, good to see you still here. our baby mule has finally been born and is soooo cute. It's crackers though, but makes us all giggle lots.
Sorry can't help with the saddle though.
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Post by jinglejoys on Aug 5, 2005 17:52:45 GMT 1
Ooh piccies please!
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Post by Silversons on Aug 5, 2005 21:56:18 GMT 1
I'll see what i can do.......
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Post by Red on Aug 23, 2005 8:21:17 GMT 1
Hi Jinglejoys, I was wondering if you knew of a place in the Uk that did tack for mules and donkeys?
I am looking more towards the western style as I am after some sort of breechings for the western saddle I use, so that it does not slip forward.
As Millie is so hairy and you cannot get within two fields of her with clippers (believe it!!) I need something to help make the saddle non slip!!
Thanks.
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Post by jinglejoys on Aug 23, 2005 17:29:43 GMT 1
Hi Red we can't be talking Millie in Leeds can we? I ride Sarah-lee with Breeching but Trionna made it for me its webbing. You could try asking Libby www.libbys-tack.com/ as she does a driving harness and may do you a breeching without a crupper if you ask nicely www.equikits.co.uk/ These people might help they also sell the webbing so you can make it yourself By the way -what are clippers? ;D Do you use the second girth? If you're interested in Treeless I've only found the Dartmore Treefree that has the two girth system Don't worry we're all in the same boat I'm still researching for Malaga.I ride Sarah-lee in a trooper saddle which is the cheaper one they use for donkeys on the beach nowadays and can pick up from fairs like Stowe,Priddy,Appleby and such. The two Spanish Hinnies at Mule Camp used Barefoot Nevadas which you can get from www.horseandharmony.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=196 but there is no back girth attatchment. Sarah with Marmite rides in a Torsion
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Post by Red on Aug 23, 2005 18:05:56 GMT 1
Thanks a lot for all of that information I will now go off and have a look!
I do not know who Millie in Leeds is, but my Poitou donkey is named Millie! Well my present one is I have just bought another one in France and am awaiting the transporters to bring her over! Then Millie might learn she is a donkey instead of a cow or a human!
I use a western saddle with a pad a tthe moment which has both cinches on it, but as she is so hairy it does tend to slide a bit. I have a breastplate but need it fixed a bit more!
Thanks again for the links.
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Post by jinglejoys on Aug 23, 2005 18:19:02 GMT 1
O.K. I thought we were talking mules-see why she's hairy.Instead of clippers have you ever thought of cutting with scissors? Just the bits that interfear or I think you can still get hand clippers they use for dogs. www.donkeyhire.co.uk/ Dave can probably get you a trooper----Twit that I am! ;D My friend Claire Haeper has a Genuine trooper saddle for sale,better quality leather. I'll e-mail you her e-mail
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Post by brandysnap on Sept 2, 2005 11:15:37 GMT 1
I have just seen the mule in the latest issue of your horse, in the you and your horse bit - Marmite is lovely ;D ;D
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Post by janc on Sept 6, 2005 15:46:00 GMT 1
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Post by jinglejoys on Sept 12, 2005 22:18:27 GMT 1
Isn't he lovely! ;D Malaga shared a pen with him and Shorty the little black donkey with one ear at War Wheels last week. By the way I know the yanks tend to panick about fuel prices but........
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Post by Red on Oct 6, 2005 19:36:15 GMT 1
Hey Jinglejoys, saw this and thought of you!!
(I know I am so generous!!)
I seen a farmer and a mule a plowing over on the mountain side. The farmer was a mumbling and a grumbling as he plowed them furrows deep and wide.
Well as he went along a plowing he was swearing and snorting all the way. I overheared his conversation with his mule and this is what I heared him say:
Ole mule, your the son of a jackass, and I'm the image of God. Yet here we work hitched together a toiling and a tilling the soil. I wonder if you work for me, or if I work for you old mule.
At times I think its a partnership between a mule and a dog-gone fool. When plowing we go the same distance but I work harder'n you. You skim the ground on four good legs, I hobble along on two.
So mule, mathematically speaking, your four legs against my two, I do just twice the work per leg. Just twice as much as you.
That crop will be split three ways. A third for you, a third for me, and a third for the landlords pay. You take your third and eat it.
You're getting the best, and how. I split my third amongst eight kids, a banker, six hens, and a cow.
Right here mule I might mention, you only plow the ground. I shuck the corn and husk it, while you're he-hawing around.
All fall and part of the winter. Ole mule, you know it's true. I break my back with a cotton sack trying to pay off the mortgage on you.
So mule, confidentially speaking would you change places with me? Would you take up all my worries and still contented be? Would you swap places, I'm askin'? 'Course, you know you couldn't, would you if you could? Now tell the truth! You're doggone right you wouldn't!
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Post by jinglejoys on Oct 10, 2005 15:52:04 GMT 1
Hi Red ;D I think its a song (Sort of in the line of "Woodmam Woodman spare that tree" possibly sung by the same person) I've heard it somewhere-could be on "Muleskinners" I'll see if I can find it.
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