when did you start

[Cara]

when was the first time you owned a mini! like age ..ect... im thinking about it!!!

 

[Lil' Horse Lover]

I owned my first mini when I was 15, right now I'm still 15 but almost 16. I have two minis of my own right now and I also co-own another mare and I have two foals due in 2007. Minis are definately my favorite breed of horse, and they are so much fun!!! I show, train, trim, and raise miniature horses and I'm really happy I got started, they may be little but you can do a whole lot with them, you can pretty much do everything with them that you could do with a full sized horse but ride them, they have loads to offer! Good luck!!!

 

[Wiggy]

When I was 14 I trained and showed for a local farm... bought my first at 15... had three by the time I was 16... and had five at 17... at 21 I was live-in groom and trainer for a farm of over 50... doesnt take long!

 

[Devon]

14.

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[sedeh]

How about 45??(I know......that's really old to you young whipper-snappers!) :bgrin They were the "pony" I never had as a child.

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[Lewella]

I was 27. I got my first big horse for my 12th Birthday.

 

[lyn_j]

1984 I was 31 years old. Now Im 53!

Lyn

 

[chandab]

Last year, when I was 35; I got my first full-size horse over 20 years ago (he's still in my pasture).

 

[Candice]

The ripe old age of 37 yrs when I got my first, only I couldn't have just one. I got 3 right at the start (really 6 since they were all bred). However I got my first full sized horse when I was 13yrs old.

 

[Miniv]

I had to get a calculator out! :lol:

We got our first mini in 1990.....I was 34.......YOU do the math!

MA

 

[Hosscrazy]

Full size horses have been in my life since I was 4 years old. However, I got my first (started with 3) minis 10 years ago, at age 35.

Liz r.

 

[Leeana]

Ooops double post, see below.

 

[targetsmom]

Do I win a prize? I was 58 when I got my first mini and feel they are just perfect for us Baby Boomers. Now, I got my first riding horse when I was 14, and have had "big" horses virtually all the time since. Our first mini was a companion for the big horse (who I almost never ride anymore!).

 

[Margo_C-T]

I got my first miniature horse in 1984, when I was 43 years old, after wanting them since I first heard about them in the late 70's, but not being able to get any truly correct information then(how many of you know that the AMHA was a 'closed' registry for a short while VERY early on in its existence? Turned out that was a bit premature....!) In '84, I got information that there was a breeder close enough to me for me to actually TRAVEL to, and I did!

I got my first 'own' horse, an little mare from the Arapahoe reservation(or so my father said), when I was nine---56 years ago. She cost Daddy $25. I'd been a 'horse nut' since age 2, when my uncle first set me up on a work mule, but it took me until age nine to 'wear down' my non-horsey parents! In the meantime, I'd ridden a Shetland belonging to a 2nd cousin every summer from age 6-9 when visiting that same uncle and aunt, over near Lubbock."Teddy Bear" had a little yellow wooden cart; every once in a great while, when somebody had the time, they'd hook him up and I got to drive him, too--maybe why I again LOVE driving, today!!

Margo

 

[Leeana]

Well my dad had big horses (he is from KY and like the TWH and Gaited horses) all throughout my life. They were his thing ...not mine as i never got into ridding and the big horses. Just not my thing, i always say when my big horse friends ask why i have the minis i tell them if i wanted to ride i would have ridding horses. Leeana just needed something different

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I got my first Miniature Horse at 15 or 16'ish, Coco who was *my* first horse even though over the years my dad had *his* horses. I'm 18 (19 in june) and plan to continue with the miniatures and shetlands untill i'm no longer able to. Next yr im going to ATI (Ohio State University Agricultural branch) to study Equine Science-productiong-reproduction-management so i'm hoping to make a partial living out of this, we'll see.

 

[Tony]

I foaled my first miniature when I was 17 in 1963.

 

[Loren&Rocky]

I got my first mini on July 4th 2005. Rocky Rocket was the name our 2 y/o son gave him. He is now 3, almost 4. We got our second mini, Monarchs Cherry Bomb AKA Slick, in December 2005. I was 37 years old. So, my son is an early bird to minis and I am a late bloomer to them. :bgrin

 

[crponies]

I bought my first small pony when I was 16 and some mini/pony crosses at 18. I bought a full miniature horse when I was 21.

 

[misfitminis]

11 when my parents bought an Arabian for me

19 when I bought my first mini

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[PaintedPromiseRanch]

i was 35 years old when i got my first horse (a big one) in 1997, not until 2001 did I get minis, but I got a 3-in-1, mom with weanling filly and bred back... first mini mule spring 2002 and first mini donkey fall 2002

and i will NEVER be without them - if i get to the point i can't handle riding the big ones, they may go, but my littles will always be with me. i've already told my kids they can't put me in a nursing home, i have to live with one of them so i can have my minis...

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