Hello fellow RACers! Just wanted to share our small adventure on Feb 7, 2009.
The morning started with me staying up all night to complete an informational board that we were going to use along with our curly horses at a local Ag days. Then hubby Fred was up at 4 a.m. to do his job so that he could spend the day toting horses and answering questions about curly horses.
At about 9 a.m. we arrived at the fair grounds with *Rush River Slash and * Starbred Red (Ruger), we set up our pens and our board complete with a digital photo viewer.
We then spent the morning answering questions and letting our curlies do a lot of speaking for themselves as only curlies can do!
Dominc and Jordan joined us just before lunch and they both "helped" with the afternoon part of the q and a sessions.
I find it amazing the misconceptions people have about stallions. Slash is a 13 yr old stallion, he is amazing and as gentle as a puppy! Many times throughout the day there were small children hanging on the fence petting and hugging on him, then when a parent would hear me tell a group that "This is Slash, he is my 13 yr old breeding stallion" all of a sudden mama's would be pulling kids off the fence.....poor Slash, he had no idea that he is supposed to be bad and not love the little kids just because he is a stallion!!
The questions about curlies are amazing....."how did you get their manes so curly?" "Do they get sore when you ride them from all that hair rubbing?" "WOW, I thought curlies were tiny little ratty looking horses" Many , actually most folks have never heard of curly horses in my area. Well, now at least 200 more people have seen 2 curlies in this corner of the world and 4 of those want to breed to Slash! Whoo hoo!!!
We also made the paper, but no pictures, just a short 3 sm paragraphs telling about us. They talked to my 19 yr old son. I do know they took picts of hubby giving little kids treats and helping them to feed both Slash and Ruger.
All in all it was a pretty great day, the boys absolutely loved all the attention and now we know better how to answer questions, how to present our boys and what to do to make it better next time. I need to have a banner and either cards or fliers made up very soon!
We plan on joining the back country horsemen and showing our horses using them for demonstrations on packing and tacking up horses. We also plan to take them to other local ag days as well as hopefully the 3 closest county fairs and to the Nile in Billings, Mt in October.
I will put pictures with this later on!
I hope you all enjoy this little read and if anyone has any suggestions I would love to hear them.
Tracy
Old West Curly Horses
Charlo, Mt