OK, I admit it. This has nothing to do with cowboys but I like anything to do with cows. It’s a very cute 1927 black and white cartoon made by Winkler Productions called “The Mechanical Cow”. Walt Disney later took over the rights. It features Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and…
A mechanical cow is a device used to train horses and riders about handling cattle. Cows are expensive, working them takes off profitable fat, they can get injured and they need to be rotated frequently because they burn out on being worked aggressively. Nothing matches a real cow but a…
Here in New Mexico one of the best known and liked trainers is Randall Davis. He does gentle colt starting and gives clinics throughout the Southwest. I’ve always like his natural horsemanship approach. For example he says “Directing a horse is not getting him to go somewhere, but providing somewhere…
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Ray Hunt (1929-2009) is considered one of the pioneers of the natural horsemanship movement that has had such a huge impact on horse training today. In the 1950s Ray had a problem horse that bucked. He asked Tom Dorrance for help, which worked, and the horse Hondo became the hackamore…
