So how much fun is it to ride your very own 16 hand donkey for the very first time? Way fun!!!! And why is the donkey so huge? We don't know! He grew and grew and grew and grew! We need to measure him officially, so I will let you know if Abe is truly 16 hands. His back is about at the top of my eyeglasses, and I'm 5' 7".
Thanks to a marvelous trainer, Lori Forge of Daystar Farms in Creswell Oregon, we aren't petrified at what to do next! The fellas, Abe and Trooper, have been with Lori for about a month into a two-month training period. And they are sooooo cute with saddles on! And it is so much fun to watch them learn that no, you can't get away with pulling backwards when being ponied! It looks like they are having a lot of fun.
The fellas remembered Daystar Farms from their month of training last October. They happily settled right in when we arrived.
It is a little nuts to go buy baby donkeys and then try to make the transition to rideable animules. Might have been more rationale to get older, experienced, trained donkeys. But the baby donkeys are soooo cute! And anyway, they like us now that we've raised them. We think donkeys will be safer for us to ride as we are getting older!
It saved us to find Lori Forge and Daystar Farms. We may be rash, but we're not crazy! Large animals need manners!
So I get to go trail riding perhaps by my 50th birthday?
I do need to get some photos up on this site. Next saturday, we return to Daystar Farms to have another ride and a lesson. We will be sure to bring the camera and post some photos. Too fun.
Thanks to a marvelous trainer, Lori Forge of Daystar Farms in Creswell Oregon, we aren't petrified at what to do next! The fellas, Abe and Trooper, have been with Lori for about a month into a two-month training period. And they are sooooo cute with saddles on! And it is so much fun to watch them learn that no, you can't get away with pulling backwards when being ponied! It looks like they are having a lot of fun.
The fellas remembered Daystar Farms from their month of training last October. They happily settled right in when we arrived.
It is a little nuts to go buy baby donkeys and then try to make the transition to rideable animules. Might have been more rationale to get older, experienced, trained donkeys. But the baby donkeys are soooo cute! And anyway, they like us now that we've raised them. We think donkeys will be safer for us to ride as we are getting older!
It saved us to find Lori Forge and Daystar Farms. We may be rash, but we're not crazy! Large animals need manners!
So I get to go trail riding perhaps by my 50th birthday?
I do need to get some photos up on this site. Next saturday, we return to Daystar Farms to have another ride and a lesson. We will be sure to bring the camera and post some photos. Too fun.
posted by Auriel Ragmon | 8:34 PM
3 Comments:
Yes, photos please!
--Scott
Good Morning!
If I remember correctly, it is not a problem with riding the donkeys - it is trying to get them to move!
Maryfaith
Photos a week and a half after Pascha! And, yes, the problem IS trying to get them to move! Hopefully, the training (of us, as well as them) will be a "moving" experience!
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