How to Pull a Horse Shoe. On a beautiful Sunday afternoon, a woman walks out to the field to get her horse. She has plans for a wonderful long ride through the country. As she approaches her steed, he gives her a baleful look and hobbles awkwardly towards her. With her heart in her mouth she begins to examine him, and finds, much to her relief that the problem is not a lameness. What she has found is one shoe rather mangled and twisted off to the side. The shoe needs to come off NOW. Fortunately, if you know how and you have as few as three simple tools, the process isn’t too difficult.
Horse Articles - Your Horse Medicine Cabinet. Horse Medicine Cabinet Things you absolutely need in your horse's medicine cabinet. You can find a printable version here. Three things every horse owner should be able to assess are temperature, pulse and respiration. If you can tell your veterinarian these vital signs over the phone during an emergency, you will receive more accurate treatment for your horse. You may also want to know how to check the color of your horse's mucous membranes and hear the gut sounds. Check your horse's temperature Lubricate a plastic, digital thermometer using petroleum jelly.
It takes about one or two minutes to get your reading. If you think your horse may not be feeling well, take his temperature several times during the day. Check your horse’s pulse Beneath the jaw, under the tail at the tailbone, or on the left side of the chest- just under the elbow are the most common places to find your horse's pulse. Count the heartbeats for 15 seconds and multiply by four to get the pulse rate. New! B-Bar-C Quarter Horses - Three Bars, Doc Bar, Blue Valentine. B-Bar-C Quarter Horses has a goal to educate the horse breeder on the importance of genetics. We offer much information here on our website to reach that goal. Have fun reading our information, and if you have questions, send us an email. We are here to answer your questions and talk horses! LINEBREEDING Is a form of inbreeding, an attempt to concentrate genes of a specific family line while maintaining the percentage of inbreeding where performance is not adversely affected.
Linebreeding is a horse with common ancestors with a coefficient greater than 1.80% but less than 3.33%, which would give the animal less than 1 matched pair of chromosomes. A coefficient less than 1.80% is considered a hybrid. INBREEDING Relates to the number of times one or more comon ancestor(s) appear in a pedigree. CROSSBREEDING Crossing individuals from two different breeds, such as Quarter Horses and Thoroughbreds. HOMOZYGOSITY The number of matched chromosome pairs out of (32). Renaissance Trainer : Free Spirit Bruce Bell Pauses Long Enough to Paint His Latest Masterpiece--Will Be Easy--the Fastest Qualifier for Los Alamitos' Kindergarten Futurity.
Somewhere in between his quest for a middle ground and his practice of living on the edge, Bruce Bell landed in, of all places, Stable 33. Stable 33--not to be confused with Room 222--sits near the end of a long, straight line of wooden barns at the Los Alamitos Race Course. Housed inside are 10 race horses, a couple of grooms and one former gospel singer-turned hippie-turned artist-turned quarter horse trainer--Bruce Bell. It is here that Bell feels most at ease, and yet the most alienated. On one hand, there are the horses. "I love them.
I mean I really \o7 love\f7 my horses," he said. On this Wednesday afternoon, he's feeling playful. On the other hand, there are the horse people. "I know I'm not really one of them," he said. The fact is, Bell comes from several different worlds. He was born in Arkansas and raised a Seventh-Day Adventist. "It's a strict religion that preaches against music, dancing, eating pork . . . " Bell said. "It was a lot of fun," he said. Ah, the '60s. JERRY WELLS QUARTER HORSES -ABOUT US! Jerry's show record as a exhibitor: 597 Grands, 371 Reserves, 1364 Halter points in 2079 shows for 2129 points in halter Roping - 17 wins, 165 shows and 130 total points Jerry and Betty Wells, Jim, Nancy, Brendon and Brittney Barr. We had a great time at the 2006 AJQHA World Show. Our 13 years old Grandson Brendon Barr made us very proud. Jerry and his grandchildren, Brendon and Brittney Barr at the 2005 AQHA World Show Nancy Wells Barr the daughter of Jerry and Betty Wells was born in 1967.
Brittney Barr (age 10) with her horse BUDDY, (age 21) winning their first all-around championship at the Pontotoc County Fair in Ada, Okla Feb 2007!! They were representing the Latta 4-H. 10 Year old BRITTNEY BARR and 21 Year old BUDDY with PAPAW((Jerry) at her first youth show October 2006 BRANDON BARR attended Florida State University Baseball Camp December 2006 in Tallahassee Florida. Jim & Nancy's son Brendon pictured above. Brendon Barr was AJQHA ROOKIE OF THE YEAR in 2001 at age 8 years old. NFR Las Vegas. Magazine. Riding Tall - and sideways, upside down, off the back of the horse ...
Back when the Old West wasn't so old, Mitzi Lucas Riley '47 kept her saddle polished and the rodeo world smiling. Now she's at it again. By Rachel Stowe Master '91 Mitzi Lucas Riley hung up her trick-riding saddle decades ago, but she's riding high in media circles these days. The 74-year-old former rodeo star (and former Frog) has been a favorite among reporters and photographers covering Fort Worth's new jewel -- the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame. Mitzi, a member of the board of directors, is a prime example of the can-do spirit behind the legends and legacies honored in the museum. She's no stranger to the spotlight. "My wife was the prettiest girl -- cowgirls and all -- who ever got on a horse and rode into the arena," said Lanham Riley, who was involved with TCU's Ranch Management program for many years.
"My mother and my aunt took turns taking care of me," Mitzi said. A fitting new home. Louis Pearce - Cowboys & Indians - April 2010. At the ripe young age of 93, the former president of the Houston Livestock Show is still a cowboy at heart. by Joe Leydon Pearce poses beside Dreams and Memories, a miniature version of the larger bronze sculpture that stands in front of the Astrodome. The cowboy on horseback was modeled after Pearce, who was photographed here by W. Ben Glass at home in Houston. Photo by W. Ben Glass Louis M. He served as a sergeant in the horse cavalry‚ sort of a lateral career move, he says with a hearty laugh, after working several months as a trainer of polo ponies in New Mexico.
And yet, all the while, Pearce remained in his heart a cowboy. According to Pearce, the half-century he has spent working with the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo has “been a labor of love.” One way or another, with one title or another, Pearce has been involved with the Fat Stock Show, and then the Livestock Show, ever since. And he’s met some fine people along the way, including a few famous ones. James Thomas "Jimmie" Randals. TUCUMCARI, N.M. - James Thomas "Jimmie" Randals, 84, died Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011, in Amarillo, Texas. Memorial services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday in First Presbyterian Church in Tucumcari with the Rev. Don Shephard officiating. Arrangements are by Dunn Funeral Home of Tucumcari. Mr. Randals was born March 14, 1926, in Snyder, Texas, to Richard Joseph Randals and Josephine Anderson Randals.
Upon his honorable discharge from the Army, he married Dorothy Riley in 1949 at the First Presbyterian Church in Snyder. After buying their ranch in Montoya in 1949, Mr. He purchased Poco Dell in 1952, and the stallion showed his strength by being an American Quarter Horse Association Champion, among many other AQHA and National Cutting Horse Association accomplishments with other horses. Mr. Mr. Dinner will be served in the Education Complex for all attendees. The family suggests memorials be to Helping Hands Hospice, 624 S. 2011 Farewells.