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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
If they love to buck so much, why is this "tickling" apparatus necessary?
Do bucking horses pretty much buck all the time? You know, like when they are out there in the stable or or in the pasture or whatever? Do they jump around just for the hell of it, and because they like it so much? Or do they just tend to buck when someone ties the tickle strap around them, and then a person sits on their back?
I saw one yesterday on the TV, a grey horse, and he didn't seem all that interested in bucking at all and stayed right there in the stall, and one of the cowboys gave him a slap in the face and there was some shouting and whatnot, and then he got to doing what he loves best.
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To let them know it's time to buck? Also to get a little higher kick out of the horse, and not to 'flat'. Flat is hard to spur to. If you notice, a lot of these horses stop bucking once the 8 seconds horn go. The pickup men take off the flank strap right away. Believe me, they don't have to buck at all. If you put a flank strap on my horse, he'd probably look at you like you were insane but not do a single thing about it. Those horses buck because they are bred to.
Animals have their off day, just like humans. As for 'stalling' out at the chute, each horse has their own 'style.' Each cowboy can read up on the horse or bull or ask other people and find out what the animal does. Some are holy hell in the chute, some just stand there. And that grey horse (I did watch that), may have never bucked in front of a crowd that big and might have scared him a little. I know it sounds funny, but those animals sure do know when the crowd is bigger.