Hi from So. Illinois!

[Paulk]

Hello to everyone! First of all I really like this site! There is a lot of good people and great information on here.

I have been around draft horses on occasion and got to drive them but only a couple times a year until now. About a year and a half ago my wife, son and I purchased a small farm with just a few acres and decided to get a few goats. We are animal people and my wife works for an animal rescue(mainly dogs and cats) so we loved having goats but after about a year my wife started talking about how she always wanted a horse. I finally caved after many “discussions” she got a horse. Well of course her horse needed company so it all began. I ended up buying a saddle mule that was not as broke as the owner claimed and it was all over I was addicted! I quickly realized that riding was not all it was made to be so I decided I needed a mule that can do other things too. I purchased a 15yr. old 15.3h 1200lb (needs to gain a couple hundred lb) Belgian cross gelding that was an amish mule that later become a carriage mule in New Orleans. That was the best thing I ever done so now I’m either always building equipment for him or trying to buy some and I hope to purchase another in the near future to have a good team. My wife is starting to think that it wasn’t such a good idea to talk me into getting equine! I will say that she is talking about getting rid of her horse to get another draft mule because she has fallen in love mine.

I have also been picking up saddle mules one at a time, that for one reason or another people want rid of. I work with them and get them where they will ride decent and are on their way to becoming a good mule then offer them for sale to help pay for feed for the others. Paulk

[Eli]

Welcome from Wisconsin. Kewaunee Wi. east of Green Bay on the lake shore. I have to find out your secret to selling we just break them and stack them out in the pasture. We have 3 curlies a Morgan a paint a Appy and a horse my daughter is breaking for her friend. But I guess I need a mule? Eli

[Paulk]

I have a hard time letting them go but I keep telling myself that I cant keep them all. I wish I had the time and experience to be able to break young ones but I have been just getting the ones that have become pasture ornaments but were broke once upon a time. I work with them on the ground and move to the saddle then once they seem to be doing good I decide to let them go. I found that there is no better way to stay sane in this world than to spend a little time with a mule!

[Eli]

I wish I did to my 15 year old daughter does most of our ground work then throws the old man in the saddle. We only hat two horses completely unbroken. She is into parille natural horseman ship. She even got me to take a few lessons. I learned a lot and am a better horseman for it. But she is a natural. And the horses that drive 2 were broke when we got them the one I am working with is going to the Amish to finish her. I’ve hitched her already but I wasent comfortable with th results. But there is a ton of help on here. Use the search box and you can reed for a week. Eli

[Dale D]

Welcome Paulk,what part of So. IL are you from? I am in Breese.

[Paulk]

Im in Sesser near Rend Lake.  Your not too far away.  Paulk

 

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