Kigers can jump

[lindad]

My 5 year old Kiger mare, Chica jumped a five foot fence today without a problem. I went to shut the horses, donkey and mule in the corral because the farrier was coming. Chica came out before I could get the gate closed so I left her on the other side because I wanted to take her out anyhow to work her in the round pen. I was side tracked for a few minutes and Chica just decided she wanted to be in the corral with the others and sailed over the fence like it was nothing.

Anyone looking for a hunter jumper prospect?

[desperatehorsewife]

LOL...ask Ramona about jumping mustangs; she'll tell you they can all jump.

Quiet Storm, 13.2, was left inside a paddock one night only for me to find her on the other side of a 4.5' gate come morning.

Yup...they can jump. Now, if they'll do it with a rider on their back, you've got something!

[pepper]

Amigo has jumped a cord of stacked wood...4x4x8 (for fun while playing in my yard ) and jumped the hood of a car..don't ask...
yes,he can jump. :>)

[dunbnwild]

I was working Lazzy from the top of a set of bleachers at the local arena--I cue her to sidepass to me so I can mount her from a fence or mounting block, etc... and we were working on the off-side which is really tricky for her, so the bleachers seemed like an ideal way to block her forward motion. Ha! From a standstill she popped over it. I was terrified her back legs would come down on the rickety wood, but she clearly knew exactly how much room she needed and set them back down pretty as you please on the other side. It was at least 4 x 4+.

I have noticed that while I can get all of mine to jump, they don't waste one inch of extra effort. I suppose if they were stall kept and looking for ways to burn off energy, things might be different, though.

[fantasykiger]

"I have noticed that while I can get all of mine to jump, they don't waste one inch of extra effort. "

LOL ;D this statement describes my Kiger half Kiger girls in a nut shell, especially the "they don't waste one inch of extra effort".

[DianneC]

Chinny cleared a four foot round pen at nine months to get to be with the other horses. As a yearling I saw him go up and measure a 5 foot gate to his chest at a pasture, then make a big circle at the canter that would bring him to the gate ... yipes! I headed him off and then ran a couple of tapes across that gate's posts to make it 7 foot. I did NOT need a stallion who knew he could jump.

[Michelle Clarke]

Nova is a two year old pure kiger filly we have - she is 15'2 now...she was up by the barn for a few days and turned out in a small 1/2 acre pasture. I come back from lunch and she is gone. Look out with the yearlings, where she should have been....not there either. Go back on the 75 acres and there she is - not a mark on her, but she had gone over two fences 4'+ each!

Dianne, reminds me of a Lusitano place we visited in Carnation, WA...they sent one of their stallions out for training and he did very well jumping. After three months only, he competed in the big event in Canada and won. Brought him home and had to put hot tape up 7' in his pen - since now he had learned he could jump. Funny to see that up that high. Oh, and he was only 15'2!

[gotkiger]

ha ha this is too funny (and yes i am just now finding this) Frodo has cleared a 5 foot fence three times since he was three months old until he was six months old and I weened him and put up a 7 foot fence. Just recently he decided that my 4 foot rope to keep him out of my newly seeded and not yet growing pasture, just wasnt that big of a deal and he should be on the other side, sigh. So now there is a wire cable to make him think twice, and so far that has worked.