Wild Mustang From Bidding To 1st Ride - Challis Idaho BLM Horse Herd
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- čas přidán 29. 04. 2021
- This has been the most challenging horse I’ve ever started. He’s taught me patience and I’ve taught him not to fear me.
Wild Bureau of land management (BLM) horses aka Mustangs are some of the smartest, most sure footed and toughest breed of horses you could ride.
They require many hours of time and patience to gain their trust and allow you to have a working partnership, but once you’ve gained their trust they will be a lifelong partner in the trail.
We first started with simple time in the with Cowboy. He eventually became comfortable with us being in with him and even started to take food from our hands.
We were stuck at the feeding out of our hand stage for weeks, before he eventually allowed the fists touch on his nose. Although brief, it made a lasting impression on us both.
The feelings surging through your body as you have your first touch are unexplainable. The ribs of emotions from touching a once wild animal born and raised on the mountain is amazing.
The light brief touches when in for another few weeks before my wife eventually got him to allow her to touch his neck. Another amazing accomplishment for both horse and trainer.
We stalled at this stage for months. Even roping him and teaching him to lead, but still not allowing more that a quick touch to the nose or neck.
We finally had to get help from a good friend and horse trainer Mike. He used his well trained pickup horse to rope Cowboy and pet him all over while safely atop of his horse.
This was the breakthrough we needed! After that one evening he then allowed us to slowly work further down his body each day. Within a week we were touching his entire body and even allowed us to trim his front feet.
From there we worked on lunging, more petting, grooming and sacking out with feed backs and saddle pads.
Once he showed us that he was ready for the saddle, we saddled him up for the first time. He took it really well and only had one minor blowup.
We then saddled him 3-4 more times. Each time doing something new such as adding weight to the stirrups and working on backing up.
On the 4th time being saddled, I added pack saddles with two empty five gallon buckets. He lunged fine with the added weight and pressure.
From there we added about 20lbs of rocks to each bucket on each side. The sound they made when we lunged him caused him to blowup briefly again. Although it was shorter that the first blowup it indeed reminded us to take things slow with a wild horse.
After he calmed down I decided to throw a leg over the saddle. He took it so well, that we decided to backup and disengage the hind quarters. Passing that with flying colors, I asked him to go forward.
As you can see in the video, he did amazing for his first ride with no really problems or rodeo. This does not mean he is ready and broke to go ride all the time, but it is a step direction.
We will continue to ride him and put miles on him. I am sure there will be issues that arise including spooking and possibly even bucking as we are still not out of the woods for that.
We hope you enjoyed this video of us adopting a wild mustang and training him. We are not professional horse trainers, but simply enjoy training our horses and have a passion for the question world.
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It's so incredible to see him put together the puzzle pieces in his mind. When he finally figures out what it is you want, his eyes completely light up! Gorgeous horse
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Beautiful Mustang! Love your kind and empathetic methods. What an outstanding temperament, no big overreaction though that is probably due to your taking the time it takes.
Thank you! Actually rode him two nights ago! He did wonderful!!!!
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loving the work on the horse, but can't hold back the smiles for how much the mother has to control her kids. reminds me of my kid brothers, and how I couldn't turn my back for a second before they'd be doing something dumb to one another, haha. cherish the moments guys, it hurts when they are gone
Thank you!!! It goes by tomorrow fast!
I just had to chuckle when your dog at 5:40 gingerly steps over the hay and starts to eat a little bit of hay next to the horse, while the horse is eating. Like hmm, does this taste THAT good? Tries it for himself. Super cute, and wholesome. Love animals
He thinks he’s a moo cow 😂
@@RobinsFamilyHomestead It definitely looks like he does. I just love how the mustang isn't even bothered even so early on, that the dog is there. Just SO darn cute.
It’s always been my dream to adopt and train mustangs. When I was 14 I bought my first horse, a domestic untouched two year old stud. Trained him myself. After training him got a job working other people’s horses and training them. Ended up having a kid and having to sell my baby four years after having him. Now four years later, I’m BLM approved and in three days I’m hopeful my two bids win and I can start gentling the beautiful mustangs. A four year old black who will be my main focus on finishing, and a beautiful soral who is two, who will mostly be worked ground work for a year or two until his growth plates are fully closed. I’m beyond excited and videos like this one make me so happy!!
Keep us posted on your progress!!!!
I really enjoyed your husbands training techniques, particularly bending down to signal to the horse to change direction. I’ve never tried that before I love it! that’s a beautiful looking boy. I’ll have to check out your channel to see if you have more updated videos on his progression.
I absolutely agree with J. And what's with the woman yelling constantly ? At the dogs? Unbelievably ridiculous. The horse deserves a medal!
Well you train your horse your way and I’ll train mine my way.
Magnificent horse. So obedient. Super good-natured. Gorgeous mover. Outstanding confirmation. What a pretty good boy! Great choice! So pretty. This boy tries really hard to please you. Just beautiful.
Thank you! Been riding him all week!
@@RobinsFamilyHomestead even with so many foreign distractions and noises, Cowboy kept his cool, didn't spook. An incredible work through it mindset. He's so smart. And trusting of you. Delightful to watch his progress. Kudos. And hat tip. He's a 10/10 treasure. I wish he had a more majestic name. Like Senator or Diplomat or Diamond or Shepard or Apostle or Covenant, because this horse is the fingerprint of perfection and is going to live up to the biggest name you can give him. He is fine as silk. Congratulations!
Good on ya mate. Well done. Despite all the "Experts", reminds me when I had horses 50 years ago.
Now this is what i have been looking for thank you!!❤
You’re welcome!!!!
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Great rescue. Beautiful horse!!
Just found your channel. This is the first video I've watched of yours and, what an introduction! That is an awesome looking horse! Good job on the training!
Thank you!!!!
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That is a beautiful looking HORSE sir.
Thank you!
He is gorgeous!!! Love the video
Thank you!!!!!
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Good for you on getti g the one you wanted.
I like the color roan but i love them all too❤
Love it!
Dude this is awesome!!!! Great job and he is a beautiful horse!
Thanks buddy! It was a long road, but well worth it.
He 's a very beautiful horse !
Thank you!
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great content thanks for the video
🙏 thank you!!!
Awesome job
Thank you!!!
He has a lovely nature
Thank you!!!
That's a really nice horse!!
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Love this video
Thank you!!!
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This horse looks so trusting
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Nice horse
Beautiful spread, I bet that house has all sorts of bird Feces spread through the house. I Never let the birds roam near the house,
Great point!
Bit nerve wracking watching you mounting for the first time! as I know what can happen.
steel posts, jump wings, wow! loose reins when you get on! man you are one brave jockey!
Congratulations though. You did it!
Thank you!!!!
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Im GLAD to see the guy wearing a HELMET to ride!! so many just dont!! i know a guy who insisted on wearing just a felt cowboy hat when riding his safe older horse, the horse stumbled or spooked once and the guy was thrown into a metal panel railing and incurred a head injury...brain damage, and never recovered fully...is now permanently compromised... otherwise, i wd eliminate those excess loose reins, horse could get front feet caught up in them while fritzing out during training and cause a wreck n injury to horse or rider. and when doing more videos could u put the dogs in the barn so we can focus on the horse/rider instead of all those dog commands; thnx.
The dogs irked me so much
Dogs are part of the training. We ride with dogs. There are dogs with hikers on the trails we ride. They are all part of the training process for us.
The USA is the most beautiful country in the world
Thank you!
wish my mustang was that quiet
He’s a handful 😂
This was awesome!
Thank you!!!
@@RobinsFamilyHomestead I grew up on a Goshute reservation in Tooele Utah. We harvested mustang colts right out of our own wild herd and broke them as cow ponies. My grandfather didn't like the term "broke". He preferred to say "gentled them". This video brought me back to those days. I noticed a lot of negative comments. Don't listen to them. Whatever videos you make, there are always going to be a certain amount of haters. Just keep making them your way. I think your wife has a lovely voice and you did a tremendous job. I'm really impressed. The more desensitization a horse can get the better. Talk about desensitization!-here's a video I made about Indian Relay Racing. I think they have these in Idaho too. Maybe you've seen them. czcams.com/video/3k4FDuxP3sE/video.html
I love that!!!! What an amazing way to grow up! We are just North of Tooele in Huntsville.
@@RobinsFamilyHomestead So cool! What a small world! Yes, I feel sooo blessed to have experienced that growing up. Wonderful, amazing memories. And you brought that back to me with your video. ♥It was right at the foothills of Stookey Mountain south west of the town of Tooele where the wild mustang herd was. I have lots of stories. That was a long time ago. Your kids are so fortunate to be able to experience that too! Thank you, thank you again and can't wait for more videos!! Keep up the great work! I live in Colorado now, but I'd love to come see your mustang if I get out there again!
You are welcome anytime! We’d love to meet you.
They only sell 8000 😢 you are blessed
Mustangs can be adopted here for $125
Sorry I have to ask either put the distractions away or quit yelling at them. I can't handle listening to all the yelling and whistle blowing. All my animals are going crazy. Beautiful horse I would love to watch but only if all the noise stops. I'm pretty sure it is spooking the horse also.
Yea super distracting and loud... I had to fast forward and exit eventually...
this is gods country! that place is beautiful
Thank you! Probably won’t be God’s country this year since we are in a severe drought for this year.
What does that mean?
@@carolynstewart8465 it's a country song.
@@carolynstewart8465 It means they didn't get enough rain for their pastures and hay fields. Farmers and ranchers in my location had so little rain their hay production was down to about 20 % of the normal supply so a lot of cattle had to be sold and some people had to sell their entire herds because there wasn't enough feed for their livestock. Any hay that was for sale was usually priced about three times as much as normal, so the market price for sold cattle didn't make it affordable to buy hay to keep them through the winter ( if they could even find enough hay to buy).
I have a question. I’ve seen many horses that can be ridden without a bit. What do you think about that trend? I’m really wanting to know. When I was younger we had 9 horses and bits were common, but looking back on that, it seems that maybe we were hurting horses unnecessarily. So I’m feeling some guilt nowadays So man6 things in horsemanship are changing, and for the better it seems. This was a wonderful video. Thank you.
Depends on the horse and rider. I personally ride in a hack.
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It is so funny listening to the camera woman run camera and be a mom too.
She’s a good multi-tasker.
The life of a mother and wife, managing 6 things at once. Including the beautiful dogs💖
Great job on a beautiful horse. Thinking some of the challenge might have been eliminated with a little less distraction about but, your horse, and you seem to have done good by him.
Was wondering if you have or have considered ever taking and riding back into the country that he came from, wonder how good his memory for the country would be ? Thanks for the great video hope to see more.
We like distractions when training. Prepares them for distractions on the trail with hikers, bikers and dogs.
@@RobinsFamilyHomestead Ok I'll buy that.
@@alanl4104 also answer to your question about taking him back. Yes, we hunt there every year. So we do plan on taking him back.
@@RobinsFamilyHomestead Cool, wondering how good his memory will be
Man what a neat video, but so hard to watch with all the extra sounds😣
That’s life!
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The lady in charge of the camera seems too busy yelling at kids and other animals. I couldn’t get past it.
Great don’t watch the video. Take it or leave it. We don’t make them to please you.
@@RobinsFamilyHomestead Such an adult reply. You DO make them to please viewers. What you are after is never ending comments telling you what fabulous horse trainers you are, instead, you get a whiff of criticism, well earned, at that, and you reply with snark. You could have chosen to say something to this person, like "I know, there was so much happening at once, thanks for watching!" My personal reaction was complete cringe, watching you put everyone in danger by not locking the dogs away while all of this was going on, and letting them harass the horse, repeatedly. There are just so many potential areas, here, where you could have really gotten hurt, and children should not have been in the arena while that stallion was anywhere being started. There were some lovely things being done as well, and most certainly this horse has ended up in a good place, I hope for life, as I also hope you all consider safety to be more than just putting a helmet on.
Desensitizing should come later. This horse was captured in the wild and should be treated as such. You have time to do your ground work then advance.
I was very interested in watching you train this beautiful horse but the all of the chattering, whistling, etc just was too much distraction for me. If you ever do it again I would suggest you set the camera up and record no audio and then voice over for narrative. Thanks for sharing all the same.
this
We like to show real life. This is real life.
What did you name your baby?? How old today. Love the gray on it. Pretty.
Cowboy!!!!
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What a gorgeous horse! He seems to catch on fairly well. Do they come gelded, or do you have to get them gelded?
He came gelded.
Thank you!!!
Nice horse where this mustangs horses located at?
Thank you! Challis Idaho herd.
Any updates on this mustang?
Yes!!! I’ll do a video. He’s been on a couple of trail rides with great success!
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Wondering why the Mom did not leave the arena and take the kids while you were training a fresh mustang?
Seems like she kept them safe just fine.
Easy to make judgement from a computer. She kept them perfectly safe and you’re seeing one view and not the whole picture.
@@RobinsFamilyHomestead To each his own style but I have never seen family put into this close proximatey of an untrained horse while starting it in my 40 years of training. You must have learned your skills i front of YOUR computer.
@@JMINDIANA487 Oh I’m sorry were you actually there and saw how close or how far away they were? Do you actually know if it was a safe distance? Seems like the only person doing any sort of learning from the computer is you. Don’t make judgments based on watching something on your computer.
@@RobinsFamilyHomestead Children should never be anywhere near a horse being started. You all need to learn to respond to people with tact, not anger.
Did you get him gelded?
Probably came from the BLM already gelded.
BLM gelded him prior to coming home.
You need to late him process things that means getting of him and putting him away to let him relax
What’s with the ridiculous whistling and why are the dogs allowed to run around and scare the horse? The horse has more than enough to worry about as it is.
Because it’s great desensitization. They probably ride with dogs, why would they not train around dogs? They don’t tippytoe around training.
Why not? Is he not going to have that riding on trails, parades, or rodeos? Prepare for everything. Let’s see your horse training videos with a wild horse?
@@RobinsFamilyHomestead Because why not overwhelm him?
It is only annoying to us viewers. I think it's great for training the horse. He wasn't overwhelmed at all
Hi Julianne, I couldn’t agree more.
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I was ranting all the way, myself without your comment even visible thanks to mr Spaceman dude from the internet corp.
Four different excuses in four replies for a completely unnecessary, counter productive indulgence of dogs, that is compounded by various other problems, including :
the distraction of the camera operator and the near constant overly- interactive voiceover defect meaning, imo, an interactive style not suitable for the key first training sessions under saddle, talking with multiple serial barnyard specimens,
including the horse (who she doesn’t that I noticed, directly state or ‘afford’ a name to even when praising the “good boy” hell out of him, check the name of this vid as f you don or won’t believe me,….
…..so, ithis imposed state by the mom person of inconclusory reward system, from somebody with apparent status within the family, is both distracting to the horse, emotionally impactful,
and which won’t at all reinforce to the intelligent , special and brave Spanish mustang/ newest member of the farm family, (who is indubitably the whole reason the camera is there in this way, that he is the one being praised, and or, that he has as much distinctiveness as the rest of the family, whose various names are liberally applied as needed to ensure that 😔any other 😒Instrictions ffgor said parties must be readily appreciated to apply specifically to that named entity!!
Do this horse is not being asked to work with only the trainer handler/ key resources person, but under the watchful but intermittent scrutinized by and control of the mom- guy.
But other than the hat it looks like a great project, you have acquired some pretty serious equin capacity there and seem to have at least a modicum of innate ability to connect with this horse and be liked by him.
Sometimes you need to just lock up the fogs the mom and the game all n the barn and have your own day.
Fixing the end part of the vid here, where your ‘standing together like good friends’ portrait is totally covered by a thumbnail for another video about goats or something is also on my wish list for your video.
Can’t wait to see the rest of the comments??!!
Posted day 47 from not-Mardon
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Robins family ho wis he doing 2 years later can we get a update
Actually rode him three days ago! He’s doing great! We love him!
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Call him ghost face
I don't the the time line on this vlog but you sure are rushing him he's not a domesticated horse he's a wild mustang you need to dliw down
He took everything with stride and this was a full year after getting him and gentling him.
u need a try pod
Agreed!
The whistling and yelling at the dogs and kids is obnoxious.
And it’s also life. I want my horses to be ready to be ridden in life. Not tip toed around.
@Robins Family Homestead hey that's understandable just makes for crappy youtube videos.
all that distraction could get somebody hurt...
Glad you were there to see a full view and distances ect.
And woman talking in background?
Works for us
Yes why whistle?
She was trying to call the dogs, who were all over the place.
Just like when we go riding with dogs. Horse needs to be worked around all sorts of things to ensure a good ride in the future.
Why did you squat in front of that barely broke mustang? Have you ever been pawed by a horse’s front feet???
🤦🏼 keyboard warriors.
Enjoyed the video. Wonderful progress.But the blurred sides of the video is annoying af. It’s not artistic. Prefer a complete view. Just my thoughts.
When splicing different videos and pictures of all sorts of sizes it doesn’t all come together and sometimes the blurred sides is due to that.
That’s correct.
Can't control dogs, how in the world can you control horses? Yea let those dogs torment the horse. Real bright.
Your comment is “real bright”. Dogs weren’t tormenting the horse. Plus we ride in all sorts of places with hikers, bikers, dogs, ect. So the horses need to be used to every noise and surprise.
Thanks for the not so solid advice internet cowboy! Maybe you should stick with watching cat videos instead.
Feed you dog
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Put your dogs up until your ready to introduce them instead of you screaming at them. Damn
You train the way you want too and I’ll train my way.
I would think for the safety of everyone, especially your children that you would be away and keep your dogs from running around!
I’m sorry, but were you there? Do you know personally the amount of distance between animals and people? Don’t be quick to judge when you were not there.
We are all western cowboy that live on a ranch and break mustangs in 3day we all laugh at ur video you would never make it on are ranch we we are true western cowboy with a round pin ur a good laugh in are bunkhouse
I can also see that you have no idea how to spell either. Good on you. Maybe you should focus a little bit more time on learning how to spell before you want to be a keyboard warrior.
Even though he does not have a round pen , he seems to get the job done! in fact he would definetly make it on your ranch that you dont own he owns his place more likely, he would make it on the ranch mate because you have to have all the round pen etc
I was surprised at how well the horse travelled around him on his 12 ft rope lead!!!
nice saddle too!!
I start horses, brumbys (australian version of mustang) and personally I dont want heaps of kids bikes chickens and dogs around when Im stepping up on one but having said that this mustang has to get used to all this. its his new enviroment!
you cowboys must be bored boring cowboys if you get thrills out of laughing at someone doing things differently to you!
This guy has a happy supporting family probably something you will never acheive. Jerk !
Wow, agree or not with his technique, this is just an immature jerk comment, plain and simple.
Johnny you're just a punk 😆🤣
Your fences are dangerous!
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Way too many noises in this video
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Aww poor souls they should ve left alone in the wild
Why, so they can over populate and starve to death? That’s a horrible way to die.
@@RobinsFamilyHomesteadThey wouldn't starve to death if all the big cattle ranchers weren't demanding the land they're running wild on as 'theirs'.
If there weren't lobbyists, there wouldn't be as big of a problem as they claim!
Natural selection and a small bit of roundups would allow our wild mustangs to rove free!
Don't understand why you small ranchers support the corporate ranchers when they do nothing for You except allow you to purchase an incredible horse for a few bucks.
Do you truly buy the lies??
Painful to listen to and watch….
Great, don’t watch.
@@RobinsFamilyHomestead Great, don't post.
Her commentary is a bit irritating to listen to. Stupid people to be in that arena while taming this wild horse. All that should have been done in a round pen without distractions so he could focus on you and not all the others in that arena.🤦♀️
Your comments are a bit irritating to read. Move along if you don’t like the video or tactics. You do you and we will do us.
What an annoying voiceover!!!! When starting a Horse. It should be as quiet as possible. Not with people or kids, Dogs, Chickens, Motorcycles, Or someone constantly hollering at Kids, Dogs or whatever. Time is your best friend, Not annoying noise, Ground work will do miracles!! keep everyone and thing not needed away! It does make the horse confused! You should want your horse to be able to trust you, And you him! You may not like this comment. No problem, he's your horse, Not mine. I just added some advise is all.
We prefer our horses to be broke for anything from dogs to loud noises.
@@RobinsFamilyHomestead Again, Your horse, Not mine. Hopefully you will never be asked to break someone else horse. Well, Maybe think of getting another horse, And let someone who knows what their doing, break it for your you. It would seem this one will be confused the rest of his life!!
@@koba9204oh shush.
Tell me, are you a horse trainer yourself? Do you even Own horses? Who are you to think Anyone even cares what you think about Anything?
Should be explaining the things you are doing and stop making about talking to dogs and kids..not very professional..good progress with horse and that's what people want to see and hear about not yapping to the dogs..
Great don’t watch it! It’s my content I created for my own personal reasons. Don’t like it, don’t watch it.
@@RobinsFamilyHomestead see not professional...we all wont..
@@kellyaiken7601 never said I was a professional. Like I said, these videos I make for myself. I share them online. You either like em or you don’t. If you don’t, be an adult and move right along.
You don’t need this mustang
🤦♂️ you’re an idiot, but thanks for the input we never asked for.
Most of you should never own a horse
Glad we have a whole herd then.
Fantastic, this is huge and clearly impressive! Wide open spaces and he chooses to stay! Oh, the places Cowboy will take you! ❤️🤍💙🇺🇸🐴
I’m glad I took things so slow with him. In the long run it will be better for both of us!
@@RobinsFamilyHomestead The bond and trust is the foundation of many more successful moments shared for life! Well done....🥰
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