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<\/a><\/p>\nK\u00f6nig<\/p>\n
(aka King aka Acorn)<\/p>\n
His name is K\u00f6nig (pronounced Kurnig and means King in German) \u2013 my grandson can\u2019t pronounce it so calls him Acorn.<\/p>\n
8.5 year old quarter horse mustang gelding (born October 2006)<\/p>\n
Approx 14.2 hands \u2013 800-900lbs<\/p>\n
He has awesome mustang feet and has been all over rough country barefoot. I do put shoes on him if I am going to be doing a lot of road riding or riding on the Weiser River Trail. Most of the time, he is unshod.<\/p>\n
K\u00f6nig was literally born on the trial. He was part of a string whose original owner traveled from Wyoming to Idaho and into Oregon on horseback. K\u00f6nig has carried a pack most of his life.<\/p>\n
He travels calmly through forest, desert and on busy downtown streets.<\/p>\n
He rides nice as well. While he is not a bridle horse (arena type work) he handles nicely and carries himself very well. He has never had a bit in his mouth so I use a hackamore. The first time he was ridden we jumped on bareback with a halter and rode all over the Eagle Caps.<\/p>\n
On a pack trip into the White Clouds, an unfortunate turn of events left us short a riding horse. We swapped K\u00f6nig\u2019s pack saddle for a riding saddle and a very inexperienced rider rode him throughout the remainder of the pack trip. I\u2019ve used him as a backup horse when my regular riding horse has been laid up.<\/p>\n
While he excels as a pack horse, I think he would make a fun kids horse and an awesome trail horse for somebody. He would not make a great arena horse without work in the bridle \u2013 although he has a decent stop and is responsive to basic leg cues when riding down the trail. His trot is a little rough for me \u2013 but I am use to a big, thoroughbred type gate. His lope is very nice and he can out-walk anything I have. Even though he has been ponied a lot, he has no issues taking the lead when I\u2019m riding him.<\/p>\n
He ponies like a dream. You never know he\u2019s back there and is extremely pack aware.<\/p>\n
He loads, trims, shoes, hobbles, high-lines, ties, etc..etc. No bad habits that I have seen, ever. When I first got him he was picketed most of his life, so he ties very well (does not pull back and is patient) He\u2019s been on pasture since I\u2019ve had him the last 3 years and is usually easy to catch. I often have to catch him first in order to catch my hard to catch horse.<\/p>\n
When I am not using him, I pony him to keep him in shape and his feet solid for packing season.<\/p>\n
I am not packing as much as I used to and won\u2019t be using him enough to keep him. He is too nice a boy to turn out on pasture.<\/p>\n
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Now at his new home with Bill & Marybeth Conger K\u00f6nig (aka King aka Acorn) His name is K\u00f6nig (pronounced Kurnig and means King in German) \u2013 my grandson can\u2019t pronounce it so calls him Acorn. 8.5 year old quarter horse mustang gelding (born October 2006) Approx 14.2 hands \u2013 800-900lbs He has awesome mustang […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-campfire","category-tipstrickstidbits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2521"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2533,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions\/2533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}