Stephanie, It sounds to me like he is just a little barn sour/herd bound. Just keep driving him and you should get him over it! Anne > For the last 2 years I've been driving two of my Icelandics as a pair. Now the > mare is pregnant, due in July (yippee!), so I've started driving the lazy > gelding, Flygill, back by himself in the Meadowbrook. Before working in the > pair, he was quite nice as a single, seemed to enjoy it, calm and easy. Now > he's being a horrid little twerp - no, no, I mean he seems to have some issues. > He's still standing perfectly for hitching and has no problems with whoa, > but the first time he came forward into the breast collar he immediately started > backing up. He also tried to turn back to the barn, kicked at the whip, and got > a little "light in the front". When we finally got down the driveway and on to > the road he went along happily enough, but gave me a big fight every time we > passed the entrance to the driveway. He's long past this kind of silliness, > he's been driving for 5 years. Now that I know more, I see that the Meadowbrook > isn't really a great cart. It has no way to change the balance and even with > two of us in the cart we can't get the shafts floating. At your best guess, > would you think he 1) just doesn't want to work (he's never had a good work > ethic) 2)is finding the Meadowbrook uncomfortable now that he's been pulling the > 4-wheeler 3) misses his companion who always does most of the work in the pair > 4)just needs to get back in work after being off all winter or 5)other? Does > anybody else have problems switching between single and double? I hope this > problem is still appropriate for the pairs list :) > Stephanie > Blasted Rock Farm > > _________________________________________________________ > To Unsubscribe, change to Digest or Vacation mode go to: > http://www.drivingpairs.com/dpmem.html > ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` > _________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe, change to Digest or Vacation mode go to: http://www.drivingpairs.com/dpmem.html `````````````````````````````````````````````````````````