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Heading to an auction soon. We put an x through every horse that is under 3 and has already been ridden. Limits my choices, but, I want a lifelong riding companion. One of the listed horses was 2 and was ridden on an overnight 25 mile ride. Even in the blurry sales video, it is obviously broken down in the hind fetlocks. So sad. My first horse was started under saddle at 5 years old. I enjoyed riding him until he was 30 years old. Really appreciate your approach and your generosity in sharing.

From the UK. Lovely video. The US has some of the most beautiful landscapes in the world. This ranch looked amazing. The cowboy lifestyle is fascinating. I'd love to meet with locals from these areas when I visit in the future. God bless you all. God bless the US 🇺🇸

Can’t go wrong with anything Honda!

Thank you for putting food in our table.

Mashallah very beautiful animals u have ❤

Yep. Honda does do it right. 👍

Play her the song from ram jam she will love it

The way her ears perked forward just after you said her height with a look on her face like you better not say my weight you better not tell how much I eat

Jazz bars, culture, cosmopolitanism, fine dining, libraries, diversity of ideas, intellectual stimulation. Civilization advanced when the first cities formed because that’s where the innovations happened and empire fell when their cities fell.

It’s not a farm if there is no junk. And, no Honda Fourtrax, no farm either! Nice place, handsome horses!!

Beautiful scenery and happy horses. Nice work.

fun place!

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She’s gorgeous. You’re making her blush with all that praise. ❤

But we like it here We are in southeast Idaho

I’m 6’2 and you look tall. What size is your jacket?

Love this song.

Love this channel

Brenn Hill is about all that plays in my leather shop anymore!

I love it

That so good

I have a ranch too its called beechers hope

Could you please tell me the model of the carhatt jacket you are wearing in the video? Thank you.

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Man this lifestyle is absolutely amazing i wish i could live and work in a gorgeous place like this. Greetings from the Philippines. 🇵🇭👋🏽

My uncle has started many at 4-5 here in Canada. Some weren’t even halter broke at 4. He would take his with the horse to create a bond and after that it was smooth sailing

Two year olds shouldn't be doing anything. Break them in at three yrs then leave them alone until four yrs old. Even a four year old shouldn't be doing too much work. The bones are still soft and growing until the 5th year of age.

Awesome video! I'm still a kid (mid teenage) and live in the UK but it sure is a pleasant dream of mine to become part of even a fraction of the ranching community. City life here in London is weary and gloomy, too weary.

I’m 72 years old and I have always wanted to be a working cowboy even though I watched the television cowboy shows on television. This is the kind of work I would love to have been able to do. Thank you so your work!!! I’m a big fan of steak!!!!!

You have some great vids! I just got a new Jeff Smith seat rigged and love it. Ive been using one of their cutters for about 10 years and its been a good one. Anyone know who makes a good, affordable spade bit? I ride more with my seat and legs than a rein and always with my fingertips and very little contact. Just sayin before I get jumped... Not related, I handled ac almost 30 years at a big fbo at kokc... which really narrows it down. The Pilatus was just getting popular when I left. PT6s are tough.

What happened to the Friesan?

, think 2 is too young to start on their back. But all the ground work you can do is the best for the horses. Steve Young Horsemanship is awesome to watch, and of course Buck Branahan.

I have backed all of mine at 2.5 years. But left them till over 3 to ride . The knee plates close in between 2 and 2.5 years. So pleased to hear what your thoughts are. I believe they do need conditional work, so they can strengthen bones and tendons . But I have dressage horses 😊. Nice colt by the way, looks super trainable!

Preach it! First of all no one is going to listen because it's all about the money. But if they realized that they're destroying their horses future in the long term, for a few ribbons in the short term. I start my horses at Age 4. Between yearling and 2 years old they learn to carry their tack. We do some groundwork but not tight super tight hard work circles. I might climb on one at 2 years old bareback & sit on them, teach them to tie and load in a trailer and maybe at 3:00 if they're mature enough I might get on them and walk and trot around? Then I put them away until they're four. One of my good friends has a horse that was started at a year and a half and it was riding on the trail at 2. She bought him and he did a lot of growing between two and four. At age 7 he had arthritis... so he'll be on supplements for life because some greedy person wanted to get their money by 2 years old.

About time this is discussed! If you do not mind throwing them in the garbage by the time horses turn 6 yrs old, then go ahead and start training them as yearlings. I do not believe that you can ride a horse before it is 3 without damaging its health in the long term.

Imagine the cameraman spinning in circles ♾️

Awesome.

Is there any jobs available with you guys? Under h2a visa? Im from México, i went to the Vet school but dont have my degree yet, Ive been working in hog farms since I graduate but would like to work in an operation like yours, in fact i worked in south Dakota with a J1 visa back in 2015 at mack farms

Finally an American who has understood that a 2-year-old is far too young to start! The body is not fully grown at that age. Best regards from Norway. We start our horses under saddle when they are 4 years old. It doesn´t mean that we don´t train them before that age. We do. We drive them, they are a companion horse on trail rides etc. And we keep them in herds on big pastures with rough terrain, mountains and forests. That means they are both mentally and physically well prepared the day they will have someone on their back.

In the California Vaquero Bridle horse. Via, Jeff Sanders. They don't get on their backs until they're 5-6 years. The space in the back vertebrae isn't closed until then. He said they have lesson horses in their thirties. Just thought that made sense.

Manly!

If it gets the job done.

Absolutely spot on! Want to have a interesting age/use comparison - compare a snaffle bit baby to a driving horse! I actively drove my former driving mare until she was 32 years old. The only reason I stopped driving her was she contracted EPM.

He is one of the good ones.

I say go later. I don't put the first ride in the round pen until 3. After that, I go easy for years. My Appaloosas mature slower than QH's but I get it on the other end when they're older. There's no rush if you want the best outcome.

Caught is caught. It counts.

We need to define what means by starting. Round pen work? Harlter Training? Wearing a saddle? Riding? And for how long? Dr. Deb Bennett is the best source I know and she probably knows more about horse skeletal maturation as anyone today. And yes, this directly affects the longevity, as least functional longevity, of the horse. You can find an excellent paper on the subject by downloading: Timing and Rate of Skeletal Maturation in Horses, With Comments of Starting Young Horses and the state of the Industry, 2008 by Deb Bennett, Ph.D. In that paper she provides the scientific bases and rationale for waiting until the horse is 4-6 years old before asking the horse to carry you on his back. There are so many variables there as well. If one weighs in at 200 lbs or more, it may be closer to seven. Traditionally that is about right as a horse should not be bitted until its teeth have erupted. It appears to me the need to push the horses at around 2 is strictly not having to pay for care. I do not believe that training is the issue as I have trained, or shall I say retained, 7 year olds.

Although there is a lot to learn from western training. Germany here

Correct. Classical (Vienna style) upbringing,let horses live a long joyful life.

IMO, from the perspective of a vet student who has done a lot of shadowing in sports med (and who has heard from both sides), the later the better. different bones in the horse's skeleton mature at different rates. for example, the pelvis doesnt fuse into one bone until they're about 6-8 years old (for reference, when they are born, their pelvis is composed of 4 bones). this is really important for horses going into high-intensity disciplines! i have seen barrel horses already breaking down by 4 years old and needing maintenance (but this also has to do with how frequently/how hard the horses are worked). another point: invest in the skeleton!!! always!!! don't feed high calorie/high fat foods to make your young horse "grow fast." this puts them at risk for developmental disorders like OCD. tl;dr start late, start slow, invest in the skeleton, and always have an appropriate workload - this is how you get longevity!