Thanks for sharing this information about the mule's!

@MTN_BUILT

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely! Thanks for taking time to watch 😊😊

Good demo

@MTN_BUILT

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊

Great video. A perfect simple topic that will help the mules, and also the humans.. That’s a really good looking mule.. Your story about how he came to you guys was cool.. Keep up great work.. Do you guys have any rides planned for central Idaho?

@MTN_BUILT

11 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for the kind words ☺️ We’re hoping to do some high country rides in Idaho, but right now, we’re smack dab in the middle of fencing our property, so I might be a little while til we get up there 😊

@bhager1945

11 ай бұрын

You guys are welcome.. I understand the fence things. It never seems to be done for me..

@cattymajiv

Ай бұрын

@@MTN_BUILT Please do be sure to let us know when you start taking guests out on rides! I'm anxious to join you! Please put it in the videos title's title, so that if I and others miss the anouncement, we will stil be able to see it in the channel's listings. Thanks so much! ❤🐴🐎🐴❤

Clyde seems like he’s a pretty level headed guy. How many hands is he?

@MTN_BUILT

Жыл бұрын

He really is! He’s right around 15.2 😊 We sure love him!

Great video. Ive become a fan of bitless bridles too. @freespiritequestrian

@MTN_BUILT

2 ай бұрын

Oh cool! We would LOVE to eventually ride our mules in hackamores! Alyssa has our white mule going good enough to give it a try soon, but I still need to build quite a bit more softness in my mule with a snaffle first 😊

@cattymajiv

Ай бұрын

@@MTN_BUILT I'm so glad to hear that! You too both seem to be VERY well informed as far as horsemanship/mulesmanship, and very caring about your equines. I admire you both tremendously! As far as I can see, Shae at Free Spirit Equestrian, which the other person mentioned, and Jesse Drent sell the best bitless bridles on the market. FSE has 2 sightly different styles, and her price seems the best too. I don't know what Jesse's prices are like. Those 2 people are also among my very favorite equestrians ever! Their videos have links that lead to their websites where the bridles are sold. They are quality leather, anatomical, side pull bridles that were meticulously designed by them for comfort and function, and Jesse's Nalanta bridle can be adjusted to use a small bit of leverage, by means of a metal pinwheel where the reins attach. They both sell neck ropes too, for people who want to take the next step in free riding. Although we can certainly make our own with bailing twine! LOL! 😉 PS. Another favorite channel, if you busy people have time to check it out, is Homestead Horsemanship, with the ongoing saga of their rescued Clydesdale, Oliver, who so very nearly died but was rescued by them, and is now a healthy 3 year old and has a new girlfriend! Ok. I'm stopping again. I blame you guys for this, by making such engaging videos! But I'm just commenting, not looking for you to reply. I know nobody can reply to every comment. So all the best to you both and your furry friends! From Barb in Edmonton Alberta. ❤🐴🐎🐴❤

Your point just before 1:12 is dead on! If your horse or mule is not doing well in a snaffle you need to do more work with them. Moving on to a different bit is a HUGE mistake. I could go on all day about it, but I'll try to make this post as short as I can. There are so many videos on YT where experts emphasize the point that if there is a problem at this point you need to give them more training, not a different bit. And the right kind of training! Going to a more severe bit is a HUGE mistake that can wreck a horse! The problem is that they don't understand what's being asked of them, or they have become conditioned to resist for some reason. That's, usually pain or fear, but possibly just mixed signals and confusion. As far as WHAT to do and HOW to do it, in training them, I recommend books or the dedicted training programs that you normally have to pay for, and that come in a series, with step by step explanations of every step, clear ones that give you the reason for every step. Do NOT use the random videos on YT. They are far too sparse and far too random to learn properly from, and trying to use them as a guide would be a disaster! They're great for reinforcing some concepts, but are not proper learning tools at all. Owning and training a horse or mule is NOT a part time hobby you can do sparsely and only when it's convenient. It's a very labour intensive thing, and anyone who doesn't love the animals enough to love the work involved in caring for them, including constant learning for the owner, constant training of ourselves and them, and shovelling poop, has no business owning one. Bridles are among the earlier parts of training the equine and yourself. As Alyssa said, you need to make the whole process completely discomfort free EVERY time, so they don't develope any resistance to it. If they do, you will NEVER stop regretting it, because they will never forget! So this includes making sure you are SO careful with their super sensitive ears, nose, and mouth. No stress should be involved for them, and no banging of metal bits on their teeth. The whole thing begins with training them to stand still, and then to lower their head and keep it in position. These things alone will take a chapter of a book, and discussion of the snaffle will be another chapter. The idea of progressing to another bit, with a discussion of the bit itself and how it works, will be another chapter. You need to have a through understanding of ALL of the concepts involved, and KZread videos will not give you that, even if your favorite person made one on it. KZread is entertainment. Training equines is a serious business. (Athough it should be fun. If it's not, maybe you should rethink why you own an equine, and whether you should be doing so!) The future health and happiness of your equine depends on their being well trained. Those who are not well trained have a much worse chance in life. They pick up all kinds of bad habits, and some are serious problems that are hard to untrain. The poor sweet animals can end up being passed from owner to owner, with the problems getting progressively worse. Imagine how traumatic each change in ownership must be for them, even if the owners are kind people! Then imagine how much worse it is when the new owners are neglectful or abusive! Unwanted or unloved equines end up in bad places, and as they age and develope health issues, some end up in really horrible places, ending in the auction pipeline, and even perhaps in the meat auctions, once they have deteriorated enough. Watch the videos from Horse Plus Humane Society, and you'll see what I mean. It's just heartbreaking! Bridling and bits are in the earliest stages of training, or of retraining. And these areas are SO IMPORTANT. They are fundamental to everything else. Every horse or equine owner owes it to their animal to learn about this properly, not from random KZread videos. The random videos can be great for reinforcement. This one certainly is, and I'm so glad Alyssa made it! But if you own an equine of any kind, please buy at least one really good quality training program manual, in book form or a video series, and learn the techniques and the reasons for every detail. Better yet, buy several of them, and compare them to each other in your mind. You'll learn SO much more that way. They tend to all reinforce each other, and your understanding becomes so much deeper that way. Anyone who doesn't have time to do the learning required for the constant training and retraining that owning equines requires really shouldn't have them, because it's doing a huge disservice to them, and it's unfair to the beautiful animals who, being prey animals, are naturally afraid of everything, but who suppress their fear in order to please us. It's our responsibility to ensure that they have not made a mistake by suppressing their instincts. And it's our responsibility to make their lives as happy and safe as they can be, even if our paths separate, by giving them the best training we can. And by giving them lives that are as free of stress, pain, neglect, and fear as possible. They are so powerful and fast, yet so vulnerable. And they're such sweet, gentle, loving friends. Let's repay that love they give us with love of our own to them by training them properly, and not taking the easy way out by progressing to another bit before they can function well in a snaffle. Imho, all equines can stay in snaffles forever, or go bitless. I see very few reasons to ever change that, and "sports" that require other bits in competions are wrong. They need to pressured to change. I am always just so shocked by the severe bits I see in competions. They use the excuse that a good rider won't hurt the horse with the bit, but a good rider won't need anything beyond a snaffle. In most cases a bitless bridle should be enough, and a snaffle is already a big step up in severity, so let's not get anymore severe than that, unless we are dealing with special circumstances. Like riding mountain trails with treacherous conditions, in possibly bad weather with beginners on the animals' backs, like Alyssa and Jason are.

@MTN_BUILT

Ай бұрын

It’s awesome to see your passion about treating equines well! 😊🙌🏼 It’s easy to get overwhelmed by the amount of information that’s available these days, and I totally agree that learning from free information online can be a bad road to go down. We’ve decided to just choose one or two good horsemen, who are also good people, and we strive to be like them. 😊 If I take in too much different information, I’ll tend to get lost lol

That's interesting does that hurt them at all and if done improperly will he bite you I know nothing about any of this

@MTN_BUILT

Жыл бұрын

Super good question! I could see a bad mule biting someone, but ours never would. And it shouldn’t be painful at all as long as you take the time to do it right. If you aren’t mindful you could clank their teeth and smush their ears, and that would be pretty uncomfortable for them. Thanks for watching and taking time to leave a comment 😊

@kraymississippi4388

Жыл бұрын

I like your channel even though it's not my thing I enjoy it you guys are likeable waiting for the holidays to buy a couple of shirts it's coming up fast

@MTN_BUILT

Жыл бұрын

@@kraymississippi4388 That’s so nice! Thank you 😊

@cattymajiv

Ай бұрын

@@kraymississippi4388 Hey Kray! Horses and mules can be trained to be easily caught in a feild, to stand still, and to put their head down in the right place for easy bridling, but if bridling is done in a way that creates pain or discomfort, they will become VERY resistant! Then the whole process can become a nightmare, and it will become harder and harder over time! That's part of why I'm so happy to see that Alyssa and Jason are doing it right. It makes everyone's life SO much easier and happier! They both are really excellent at horsemenship/mulesmanship. It's such a pleasure to watch people who care so much and who have such joy for life!

@cattymajiv

Ай бұрын

@@kraymississippi4388 This reply is about your question to them regarding bareback. But it's only my experience, not an answer that would apply to every equine or person. My experience only covers horses, not mules, and every horse is different, so every mule must be different too. Like you, I'm extremely curious about riding a mule bareback, and if it's a bit easier or more difficult, owing to the fact that their backs are flatter. It could go either way but I suspect that just like horses, it varies according to the individual. Some have extremely comfortable backs and some are bony. While galloping bareback I once came down hard on the horse's whithers, or shoulder. I'm a woman, but the slamming of my pelvis onto the horse's bones was really painful! But it only ever happened once, and at 63 I've been riding bareback for 50 years, off and on. Riding bareback is a matter of balance, and to me it comes very naturally. No good rider should rely on their stirrups to stay on, or for any other reason. I hate saddles, and especially western ones. They raise your centre of gravity a LOT, about 6 inches I think, which is very unnatural, and they confine you. It's possible that on a long mountain trip there are reasons why you might require a saddle, but for me comfort isn't one of them. Most horses, and mules I suspect, are like soft cushy chairs, and over very long rides I feel much more discomfort from a saddle. This is just a personal thing though, and it wouldn't apply to everyone. You do also have to be slightly more careful, because if your horse is big and you are alone, and you fall off, the consequences could be bad, ranging from having walk a long way to a place where you can find a person or a fence to use to remount, to a very serious injury! People even die from falling off, and it's not infrequent. Even many very experienced riders have been crippled and killed, though more often jumping than any other way. So one should never forget the danger, and an accident in the mountains can be many times as serious. That alone might mean you must use a saddle for most long mountain rides, as much as I dislike them. I'm as curious as you are about bareback on mules, and I'm dying to find out. I suspect that without the dip in their backs that horses have, riding a mule bareback at a trot, a canter, or a gallop would be harder to stay put. A person would tend to slide forward and/or back, just like the mules' saddles do. That's why they use peices of leather to hold them against that tendency, the breast plate and britchin, while horses don't normally use breastplate's and never use britchins. I just thought I'd add my opinion, because it's different from that of Jason and Alyssa, whichever one replied to you, though neither opinion is wrong. Most people would agree with them, but having grown up on the frigid Manitoba plains, where winters are even colder than in North Dakota, we learned the warmest way, and I came to love the connection with my horse, instead of having a hard peice of leather and wood between us. I also found that my riding improved dramatically. People often say to me "Oh my gosh! You can't ride THAT horse bareback! Most people can't ride him/her even with a saddle!" But my reply, inside my head, is that maybe they should have tried bareback. Maybe the horse hates the saddle, and can't feel the riders use of their "aids". A lot of the communication, MOST of it in fact, is done with our seat and legs. And I don't think I've ever found a horse that isn't calmer bareback. Western saddles are especially bad for blocking all communication, even the shifting of weight. There are also many types of equipment that fill the gap between a saddle and riding bareback. There are all kinds of pads, with and without a girth or cinch to hold them on, and there are pads with stirrups. There is even now a tree-less saddle. The tree is the solid wood base of the saddle. I haven't seen one of the tree-less kind yet. They're not yet very popular, and the 1 opinion I heard was negative. But in my mind, the closer to bareback a thing is, the better. I do see how it would probably not be worth the cost. In any sport where you truly do need a saddle, you'd probably be better off with a regular saddle that's specifically purpose made, like people are already using. If you are still reading, please pardon me for making the assumption that you might be interested in what I had to say. I hope that in a small way it's helpful to you, or to somebody else who might read it. All the best to you Kray! 😉 ✌🏼

Something else can you ride them bareback without any of that

@MTN_BUILT

Жыл бұрын

You definitely can! Alyssa rides Clyde (the white mule) bareback at our house sometimes. But it would be pretty tough and uncomfortable to ride bareback in the mountains.