Your new Kigers!!!

[MustangsInNC]

Finally! Progress! She started finally taking grain from my hand as I held it over the bucket. Then I rested my hand on the side of the bucket and brushed my fingers on her cheek. She backed up a few times, but never ran away. Finally when she quit reacting to my fingers she let me stroke her cheek without getting scared or running away! She's still too nervous to take feed from my hand when I'm standing up, but she will now eat from the bucket. This is a HUGE step for her!

[kimber46]

Question-
I am looking at a Mustang mare for sale. If the 2 nd owner has not registered her (I would be #3), is there a problem if I do? By doing that, and having the freeze brand, will I get info about her history?
Thanks

[stormyranch]

If she is freeze branded you will be able to get info on her. When she was born and which HMA she was from. you should be able to register her no probably.

[eaglerise]

We adopted two kiger weanlings at the 2011 adoption. We have had a blast getting to know them. The weanlings joined our kiger herd of 6. We show our kigers reined cow horse and hunt jump. We run a boarding facility and the weanlings are in the main boarding barn. I think my favorite moment so far with them has been when we had a boarders horse in the cross ties to blanket him. We put the blanket on and turned around to find both babies with their faces pressed against the stall bars, eyes wide. You could just see them thinking,"Dude! That is NEVER happening to me!"

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[zhiaral]

Not the best photo, but here's an update on Dusk. Who, at the time, was busily trying to leave nose-art all over my father's shirt... I was just surprised that I was able to get him to hold her, since he seems to think that she wants to eat him. Wiley felt the need to steal a bit of the limelight from the other side of the fence. Dusk is still quite shaggy with her winter coat, though every time I brush her I fill the paddock with loose hair.

[Michelle Clarke]

What a sweet face! She will really be something when she finishes shedding out.

[zhiaral]

She's a sweet little peppermint-begging brat-child. She absolutely has to have her nose into everything. You can see some of the clumps of hair on the ground in that picture, where I'd been brushing her, and I could have gotten twice that much off within ten minutes. It doesn't help that the weather is crazy here - one day it's 90, the next it's snowing - and just as she starts to really shed it gets cold and her coat thickens up again.

[sbutter]

Wow, she doesn't look like the little baby I last remembered....where did she go lol? It will be great to see how she matures

[zhiaral]

Last Friday, I was finally able to finish Dusk's pasture. It's not big - the property is only about an acre and a half, and she gets a third of that, but it's more room than she had before. I was a little concerned how she'd react to having more room - would she decide she was a 'wild thing' again, once she had room to avoid people? - but if anything, she's even more friendly than before. Day one was full-speed charging figure eights, sprints from one end to the other with sliding stops, and periodic spells of gleeful bucking, rearing, head tossing and snorting (interspersed with trips to the fence to ask for scratches).

I was also a bit concerned with her reaction to closer contact with the dogs belonging to neighbors on two sides... the old German Shorthair took one look, blinked, and ambled along his way. The Plott Hound came charging out barking his head off and bristling. My dogs bark occasionally, but never at Dusk. I was expecting to see a frightened filly... instead she puffed her chest, arched her neck, snorted and charged up to the fence at him! And then she proceeded to race back and forth along the fence opposite him, ears pinned and tail flipping, until he decided that maybe she was a bit too big to take on and retreated. He hasn't come near her since.

Today she seems to be trying out different places to sleep, and finding the best spot to roll - which, incidentally, seems to require rolling in every place she can find stuff to tangle in her mane and tail. Earlier she came trotting over with a tumble-weed on her head. Well, pieces of one, at least...

To sum it up - Dusk is happy, which makes me happy. She's almost done shedding (took long enough!) so hopefully I'll have new pictures... eventually. I wish I could have had it done months ago, as planned, but with getting downsized out of my job and my father having a heart attack, a lot of things got delayed.

And on another note, I started talking to a random stranger at the Mule Show and Races earlier today, and lo and behold, she was another Kiger owner! Though I think it was her husband who was primarily interested in them, and regrettably he has passed away. If my memory weren't swiss cheese when it comes to names (and many other things), I could say what hers was. I asked if she was on the Kiger Proboards, but she said no - that the Kiger community got too political.

[gotkiger]

How are all the newly gathered kigers doing?

[stacy]

I hope that others reply to this, I would really like to know as well. I would love to know how Legendaro is doing, and the gorgeous guy with all the forlock. I know he went to a ranch that also adopted the black and the other grey. How are they doing? Anybody heard?
It is interesting to see how tough some of these horses are to gentle. Are Kigers tougher than the average mustang? It seems to be, but I also have not been able to see a GROUP of mustangs worked with at the same time except at EMM, and those trainers are probably more experienced, and many of the horses younger.
Ruger just had a couple of months off. I was noticing some behaviors that made me wonder if he was getting a little sour and just needed a break. I started back up on him and we went horse camping spending four days looking for wild horses in the Ochocos out of Prineville. Boy, what fun he had! It was a great thing to do with him, he loved it.

[courtney A]

Mystic #1183 is doing fantastic. She is only a yearling so has at least 2 more years to be a wild pony. Has decided treats aren't bad. Comes when called. Doesn't like her feet touch but puts up with it. Turning into a lovely filly. Friends with the rest of the Mustangs. Occ hangs with the Arabians. She is a pistol!

[Michelle Clarke]

My two girls are doing well - the filly, Zuri (1191), just came gentle. I've never officially worked with her but I don't really have too. I can touch her all over, walk behind her and hold her tail (something I do with all the young ones). I can't hardly keep her out of the barn...every time the gate is open, she sneaks in and wants to go around and visit everyone and touch everything. Love her! She's a big girl too - 14'2 as a yearling.

The older mare, Raz (can't remember her number off hand - she's the little eleven year old grulla) is quite the opposite. She does not appreciate domestic life. I can touch her face, up over her ears but that is it and only if she is standing square at me. I can use the bonky ball to touch her withers, neck and shoulders. I can throw a rope on her in the stall, no problem and she lets me take it off. She used to shake so bad and have these big, liquid eyes when I would work with her - broke my heart. I actually just set up a bigger round pen next to the barn so I can start pushing things more. What I don't like is when she gets scared, she hits her head into things and whacks her eyes. I don't want her to really hurt herself. After this next week of rain is over, I'll get back to working with her again. Goal is halter on this time!

Will have to get some new pics up...

[gotkiger]

Thanks for the updates. I can wait to see pictures.

[fantasykiger]

I am glad to see the updates still coming in and look forward to pictures too