Guest guest Posted January 13, 2008 Report Share Posted January 13, 2008 My two stories about mules: I was at the Illinois State Fair when I was in my early teens, walking through the horse barn. The box stalls were boarded up over my head with only small cracks between the boards. The mule show was going on in the amphitheater. All of a sudden an exhibitor came down the alley with five mules in hand, at a dead run, taking up all the space in the aisle. Nothing to do but clamber up the box stall walls, practically holding on with my fingernails. The other story is about mule jumping. We had a mobile sawmill come to our family farm in Illinois a few years ago to saw up some walnut and oak logs. The sawyer was full of stories. He had grown up riding mules to follow coon dogs through the timber. When they came to a fence, he would dismount and the mule would jump the fence from a standing start -- clean over a good upright fence. By then he didn't coon hunt any more, but still jumped mules in competition, basically as high jumpers. I'd never heard of that. ~~ I didn't expect my first post on this site to be about mules... Tom Hunter > > You might like my little video I just put on to You Tube then. > > I see all kinds of things when I travel from farm to farm, but what I saw at Brook LeVan's > Sustainable Settings farm outside of Carbondale, CO struck a chord in me clear down to > the bone. You see my grandpa raised Kentucky Black Mules throughout his farm career. > He died two months before I was born so I was named after him (and my other > grandfather who'd also died the same year). > > On their Kansas farm, my mother grew up riding, training and plowing with mules as she, > like all farm kids did back then, helped raise whatever dad raised. Twyman could > buy big mares for $0.25 a piece during The Great Depression in Kansas because no one > could afford to feed them. He would breed them to his stable of black jacks and sell the > mule colts for $100 each, or more for teams, to the TVA for dam building throughout the > '30s. Their farm was healthy and prosperous as a result of all these mules. That, and the > fact that he also knew how to make mountain moonshine too but that's another story! > > When I saw these huge Quarterhorse -sized mules I got cold chills and couldn't get > enough of them! I didn't want to leave! Check out my little video. It's pretty bad really, I > only had my point-n-shoot still camera but I couldn't resist making a little movie of these > beautiful creatures.... let me know what you think... > > > > Winter > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 13, 2008 Report Share Posted January 13, 2008 Fun video. We're hoping to have a baby mini-mule born this summer! A horse person asked if we " planned " for this to happen. Mama is a pony and dad is a mini donkey. Should make for an interesting baby. Lynn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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