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20 Jun 2025, 1:25 pm

babybird wrote:
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Now that I think of it, I have ridden a camel too in my earlier years, although camels are classified differently than horses.


Did you get the hump


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20 Jun 2025, 2:15 pm

I grew up on horses.

In my rural community, a nearby friend of mine, my younger brother, and I used to go for rides whenever we could. In our community, we were welcome to travel just about wherever we wished and our rides were often on the order of five to fifteen miles long. When it had rained and we had the day off on the farm, we could take our lunch with us and go out for the entire day.

We would also have to move cattle (usually 100 to 200 head) from one pasture to another by horseback or to round them up. These days, people set up temporary pens, drive the cattle into them, and then haul them by truck to the new pasture, but then we would use horses to move them. I think the longest distance we would usually drive the cattle was about five miles.

The friend of mine and my younger brother had saddles, but I nearly always rode bareback. I could have used my dad's saddle, but he didn't like it when I had to adjust everything for me.



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21 Jun 2025, 1:40 am

it were ponies, i wasn't good at that either :hmph:



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21 Jun 2025, 7:55 am

kokopelli wrote:
I grew up on horses.

In my rural community, a nearby friend of mine, my younger brother, and I used to go for rides whenever we could. In our community, we were welcome to travel just about wherever we wished and our rides were often on the order of five to fifteen miles long. When it had rained and we had the day off on the farm, we could take our lunch with us and go out for the entire day.

We would also have to move cattle (usually 100 to 200 head) from one pasture to another by horseback or to round them up. These days, people set up temporary pens, drive the cattle into them, and then haul them by truck to the new pasture, but then we would use horses to move them. I think the longest distance we would usually drive the cattle was about five miles.

The friend of mine and my younger brother had saddles, but I nearly always rode bareback. I could have used my dad's saddle, but he didn't like it when I had to adjust everything for me.

That's really interesting!


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25 Jun 2025, 1:13 pm

No, I don't think I'd even be able to get on one, they're such big animals. I have ridden in wagons pulled by horses, but that's clearly not the same thing.