Great video I learned a lot. Please do a video about stallions one day soon, Id value your thoughts on the topic. Ive decided to keep my colt intact and I am willing do whatever necessary to give him a happy safe life. Love your videos
I appreciate your comment and your interest. Candidly, I am probably not the person who should be putting up advice about handling stallions. While I’ve certainly handled a good number of them I simply don’t claim the kind of expertise that goes along with experience in the breeding shed. Good luck and be careful. Regardless of how quiet a stallion seems they are inevitably more volatile than the rest of the horse population.
You may be right about Dale Robertson. I know he used a big California type bit. May well have been a Visalia. Thanks for watching and thanks for your observation.
I'm curious to know why bits are still used when there are some many examples proving they are not needed at all. I would love to hear your opinion on this, Herm.
Fair question and certainly worthy of a more complete response. I will plan on addressing it in the detail it deserves as part of a later video.Keep watching!
My old gelding had the fattest tongue that I had ever seen. He also had fleshy lips. It was a wonder how it all fit into his mouth. We were both young and at the time I was in the Gadget Phase where you think that there is a magic bit or gizmo out there. I came across a used polo Pelham in a tack shop, cheap. The mouthpiece was about an inch wide and very thin with a small port It was on a swivel. Luckily for me and the only time that I ever got instant results was with that bit. My horse loved it. It is also recommended for horses with damaged tongues. It wasn’t in shows. The Rutledge roper bit has the same mouthpiece, but I found I that the Pelham worked better for me as it was more versatile as I used the snaffle reins a lot. It is a very specific bit and may bother horses it is not suited for. We were not hot stuff, but got along great. I owned him until he died at 30. At the time I thinking of trying a sweet water bit as it had tongue relief, but because he was happy in the polo bit, I didn’t buy one. Is the Greg Darnall bit that you presented considered a sweet water?
What is really intriguing is that when I was hunting a bit for the horse with the damaged tongue one of the bits I considered was the flat mouthpiece, small port polo bit. I suspect that would work well for a horse with an extremely fat tongue since it’s less of a mouthful than a lot of common round stock bits. The Greg Darnall bit that I showed you could, I believe, be considered a Sweetwater. The only negative thing about it for a horse with fleshy lips and a fat tongue is that it is made with a four 1/2 inch diameter. That takes up a lot of room in a horses mouth. Some of his other bits come in 3/8 inch and that would be perfect for a horse who needed a bit more room.
I would have to agree that there is no getting around the fact that bits can and,unfortunately, do often inflict pain and discomfort. On the other hand, used in a constructive fashion bits become tools of communication not weapons for inflicting discomfort or damage. The real torture device is at the end of the human arm. Bad hands, not bits, are the real inflictors s of pain. So, use a bit or not as you see fit. However, all of us need to consider how we handle our own bodies when using any device of any sort to control a horse.
@@hermgaileyalifetimewithhorses Do you think for a second that the horse does not know what could happen when there is a bit in his mouth? He complies due to the threat of discomfort or threat of pain.
@@wayneking7050 Mechanical hackamore------yes, they are designed to cause pain and/or discomfort. Traditional hackamores are designed as a signaling device as is also the rope halter.
