James asks…
should i keep him or sell him? Pictures!!?
I have a 3 yr old registered paint gelding. I got him December 1, 2010. When we went to look at him he was about 100 -150 lbs underweight, still a stud and they had him in a stall for 3 months with no turnout but they said they put him on a hot walker ever week or so. The people that had him was not his owner, they were selling him because the man that owned him had cancer and not that long to live and his family didn’t want to deal with the horses (he had 34) They told me the man who owns him used him to work cattle and rode him pretty often but since they had him he had not been ridden at all. So i decided to get him and we worked out a deal that he would be gelded by the time we come to get him. Within the first 1-2 days we had him he got a pretty bad infection because whoever gelded him did an incredibly sloppy job. We wound up giving him penicillin shots 2X a day for 2 periods of 3 days. after he healed i started lunging him for about a week or so and he was incredibly LAZY. so i decided to let him loose in the arena and watched him and he was running fast for a good half hour or so. I started riding him in the arena and the first time i could barley get him to trot (i had spurs and a crop) i got him to trot maybe half a lap and i rode for 30 minutes and i was hot and sweaty and when i took the saddle off he wasn’t even sweating under there. So ive ridden him about 4 times in the arena and decided today i was going to take him on a trail ride. He was perfect a little spooky but walked trotted loped and stopped perfect. It was just a short trail so i took him to the arena to finish riding and he turned lazy again. I got him to lope a lap one way and i tried the other way and he does this thing where when i ask for a lope he dead stops and if i ask him to move forward at all after he stops he backs up into a wall and kills my legs or he bucks a little. i don’t get why when he free runs he has so much energy and on trails hes so good then when i try to do any arena work ride/lunge he gets sour and lazy. I got him to use him as back up barrel horse but i now have second thoughts on that. He has the best ground manners and comes up to you, he is absolutely the sweetest horse ever on the ground. But i don’t think i can keep him if he wont work. So i guess what im asking is why do you think he does this? and Should i keep him for a little while longer and give him more time or should i just sell him now and move on?
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adminsta answers:
He’s absolutely stunning and it doesn’t sound like he has any physical problems. Maybe it is because he is bored, or maybe that is how he was trained to work in an arena. I would not sell him. I think this is a small problem that you can work out. Try giving him more activity in the arena. Put on a saddle and set him loose running around the arena a few times a week, don’t let him roll and make him run! Start with a new foundation. Make him learn that the arena isn’t a place where he ambles around doing nothing. When he is in there, his legs are moving. Every single time. Work on his training outside of the arena for now. For the foundation, do as I already said: run him around with a saddle. Once he’s doing that more, lunge him and ground drive him. Do everything you would do with a colt. Bring him over poles and small jumps. Work on MOVING HIS LEGS!!! Getting him to side pass, turn on the haunches and turn on the forehand from the ground. Once you have taught him to move off of pressure and get his legs moving from the ground it will be much easier in the saddle. Once he’s listening on the ground, get in the saddle. When you start in the saddle, do it after you warm him up on the lunge because when you start riding him in the arena there is no walking. You start at the trot, a good forward trot too, with impulsion from his haunches. I don’t know if you want him to always be like that because he is a western horse but he needs to learn to go forward. See how that goes and build up from there. Once you’ve got an understanding and a foundation with him, you’ll know what to do. It won’t happen over night. It sounds like he might have had a different kind of training than you are used to or he might have a habit that you are breaking. BTW many horses are much more energetic on trails, you probably know that already though. Make sure when you are riding him in the arena you are not forcing his head down. I know western horses are supposed to hold their heads lower than let’s say a showjumping horse. BUT, when you start getting your foundation, you can’t ask for both. To get energy and impulsion you have to let him hold his head higher(NOT: way to high, way above the bit, pulling on the reins or tossing his head). Once again, when he has his foundation, you can do more training off of that. His owner might have just taught him from the beginning to put his head down and work. When you start a young horse like that, they don’t learn impulsion, which I believe is the first part of the triangle to achieve collection.
Steven asks…
How is the “Theory” of evolution true in relation to the Second “LAW” of Thermodynamics?
The Second Law of Thermodynamics, also know as the Law of Entropy, in layman’s terms, is “the degradation of the matter and energy in the universe to an ultimate state of inert uniformity” – Webster’s Dictionary
Webster also defines Evolution as “a theory that the various types of animals and plants have their origin in other preexisting types and that the distinguishable differences are due to modifications in successive generations”.
So, if entropy is the degradation of matter and energy in the universe, and evolution is “due to modifications in successive generations”, then one of these must be false. It is a generally accepted fact that humans are a “higher-lifeform” if you will, to apes.
Also, picture the universe as a clock slowling ticking down. Who or what wound it up in the first place??? I say God!!!
adminsta answers:
The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that the entropy of an isolated system which is not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium; The key word here is “isolated” sometimes stated as a “closed” system…
The Earth is not a closed system but receives energy input from the Sun…
By the way… You have theory in quotes. You may misunderstand what a theory is…
There is a general misunderstanding about just what constitutes a theory. The word “theory” has several meanings. The common meaning used by the general public is that of a “guess” or “opinion.” You could say, “It is my theory that the CIA ordered Kennedy’s assignation.” or “It is my guess/opinion that the CIA ordered Kennedy’s assignation.” It is important to point out here that a scientific theory is not a guess or opinion, as the word theory is used by the general public.
A scientific theory is an overall unifying principal that seeks to explain seemingly disconnected phenomena (facts) under a single, simple concept. As such, a theory is the highest form of knowledge about the universe because it explains not just one isolated part of the natural world but it ties together observations (facts), that may not seem to be connected, under a single unifying principle.
Facts, on the other hand, are single pieces of information about the world that usually come from controlled experiments. Lots and lots of facts are usually unified and explained by a single theory.
William asks…
Could a tall pipe be used to harvest energy?
Picture a 40 inch diameter pipe, measuring 300 feet in height.
If it has an open bottom at street level, would the pressure differential cause enough airflow at the open top spin a very light weight fan or turbine? If this could work, the “wind pipe” could be latched to the vertically rising face of a skyscraper. My guess is that it would not provide much power at all, but, many of them would—-nes pas? Am I missing something from grade 12 physics, or perhaps missing a few marbles from my cranial cavity? Please don’t laugh at me—I do that to myself far too often. Seems its always “back to the blackboard around my house”!
adminsta answers:
I wouldn’t laugh, the question is interesting and shows creativity. Unfortunately, it won’t work. Think about this: What is different between the air inside the pipe and outside it at the same height? The air doesn’t know the pipe is there. If this principle worked you wouldn’t need the pipe at all. The issue is you are thinking only about the pressure at the bottom of the pipe and the top. Imagine 1 meter thick levels. Inside or outside the pipe, the 1 meter thick level is at no significantly greater pressure than the one above it, thus experiences no upward thrust. Although there is a great deal of difference in air pressures from the top and bottom, the pipe contains the range of these pressures, so any particular patch of air won’t feel any force one way or the other.
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