2022 Mustang Makeover: Beaty's Beau

03/09/2022

That glow up though! Thank you Purina
For sponsoring this year's Teens And Oregon Mustangs challenge!

Bring home this beautiful boy on Sunday by bidding at https://teensandoregonmustangs.hibid.com/

31/08/2022

For your consideration, Beaty's Beau.
Beau is a 3 year old gelding from Beaty's Butte HMA. Beau is 15 hands and the most beautiful dark buckskin dun.

Competing in the Teens and Oregon Mustangs Adoption Training Challenge, Beau is available via online or in person auction on Sunday, September 4. Online Bidding now open.

Beau has had one ride and many hours of ground work. He is soft, sensitive, and curious. Beau is athletic and ready to go any direction. His best fit will be someone with a lot of experience and patience who will want to spend a lot of time with him. He bonds deeply and will greet you with a nicker every time he sees you. Beau would be a great ranch horse as he has a work all day attitude. He is a truly special horse who has had a long journey of learning to trust and I am excited to see all the amazing things he will do in the future. Please message me if you are interested in adopting Beau this weekend.

Bidding open, lot #61: https://teensandoregonmustangs.hibid.com/

27/07/2022

On Friday, Beau had his first ride and did amazing! He was steady as a rock as I got on and loved that he just got lots of scratches throughout the whole process. We got walk and trot on line, a little bit of flexing and yielding to the rein, and a trot around the round pen too. He is so buttery smooth! I am so proud of him and how far he has come to rock his first ride!

Unfortunately, I was in an accident and have some internal injuries that will prevent me from riding for a while. I will have to, unfortunately, bump down to the in hand division with Beau this year. I will be continuing to work with him as much as I can myself and with assistance up until the show and whoever is his lucky new home will truly have a treat in starting him. I would be thrilled to have him in training with me after the show too if someone was interested!

No pictures unfortunately, but Beau also did great for his first trim with the farrier yesterday too! He is just such a love!

20/07/2022

Beau has come so far since first touches! We are now just over half way through and prepping for first ride this week!

Channeling his real life Spirit, Beau's trust has been hard fought for, but all the sweeter earned. As I have been working with him on a lot of desensitizing over the last couple weeks, I have been working on teaching him that there is a better response than running away from every new and scary thing. Each time he learns faster and faster, building on those positive responses with each new challenge presented. He has learned to find calm and look to me in trust.

Taking my time to build a new way of responding in him has paid off in a zero buck first saddling that surprised me, and him how feeling quiet and steady as I jump around next to him and start to lay across his back. I am so proud of how far he has come! First ride here we go, finally!

15/06/2022

Long in coming Beau update! Over the last couple weeks Beau has been working hard on building trust. He has gotten really good at sending, switching directions, yielding his hip, and some basic leading. He is so soft, try so hard, so smart, and learns so fast. Despite all that, he has still been so guarded against touch. I felt like he said "I will do whatever you want as long as you don't touch me".

One day, one step at a time I have been working to break through that wall. It has been a slow process as frequently even once step closer has been enough to burst his bubble and send him jumping the other way.

Tonight though we had BREAKTHROUGH! After a couple days just barely being able to touch him with my fingertips, I was finally able to be close enough to him without him moving to rub him with my hand on his withers tonight. When I started rubbing for the first time and scratched that itch, his whole body seemed to melt as he finally understood. He understood that my hand can scratch his itches better than any stick can and that when I reach out it is for his good. I was able to rub all up his neck and shoulders on both sides. If he hadn't taken his own tag off tonight I would finally have been able to. After rubbing on him, when I set his rope down, he followed me off to the other side of the pen.

And it's been a long and slow road so far that has taught me a lot about patience. I feel like this was Beau's turning point and now he really can start to soar!

25/05/2022

My Instagram post from Friday failed to post across so here it is now! If you don't already go follow my Instagram account too

Week 2 update. This week has been a lot of trust building and taking it slow doing a lot of work with the bamboo pole on desensitization to touch. He's had so much fear of the simplest touch and reacted in a big way. Yesterday we had a breakthrough and I was finally able to show him that the bamboo pole is there for scratch and itchy spots and was able to rub it on his withers on both sides for about a minute each time and he seemed to start to enjoy it as I moved it up and down his back and rubbed some of his shedding hair off.

Monday I came out to work with him to quite the surprise! He had taken his own tag off as it was caught on the side of his pen! I guess you really didn't want to be a number anymore. Well it's disappointing I wasn't the one to take his tag off I know that there will be many more milestones that we will reach. Since his tag is off I want to go ahead and announce the winning name!

Please officially meet Beaty's Beau! Beau is such a cute name suggested by at . Beau means handsome in french and I think it is just perfect!

While Beau has been so fearful of touch, everyday he is building more and more curiosity and his sweet eyes show just how much he wants to connect and how much try he has! In his spooking he is only show just how athletic he is and I am so excited to continue to build trust and put that athleticism to better use! If you are looking for a good cutting horse, Beau is going to be your guy! Everyday little better taking it one step at a time! He's definitely one that's helping me learn that the slower you go the faster you get there!

12/05/2022

Day 3 + 4: Slowly, slowly he is starting to warm up and extended little moments of trust. Yesterday we finally had first touch, and since then I have had a lot of exploratory nose bumps. So far he is still very reactive, but starting to look in and replace fear with curiosity. Just continuing to take the time it takes to win trust and build confidence in him.
A name has emerged before the others in voting on Facebook and around the barn. When he is ready for his tag to come off, I can't wait to share it!

09/05/2022

Day 2:
Most of today he had time to just settle in. Everything is scary in his eyes right now. The instincts of alertness and lightness on his feet that kept him alive in the wild, he is working through to figure out whether or not he can trust me.
Tonight, I sat as he ate his dinner, slowly closing the distance between us so he could start to learn to accept my presence. Yesterday, he wouldn't eat or drink or do anything so long as he saw someone; he was in total freeze mode. By the end of our session tonight he was eating just a few feet away from me and even stayed there as I got up to leave. I want to move slow to give him the chance to go from a reacting state of mind to a curious and learning state of mind. I want him to look to me of his own choice and curiosity, he is just not there yet and that is okay because every horse moves at a different speed. I am just taking the time it takes and listening to him as we start to move away from fear and into some trust. I'm so excited to see what the next couple days will bring!

08/05/2022

Time to give this beautiful boy a name! What a good list of names submitted by our sponsors. Comment your favorite and the winner will be announced when I get his tag off!

⭐ Beau
⭐ Spirit
⭐ Chief
⭐ Charlie
⭐ Sarge
⭐ Ezekiel

08/05/2022

08/05/2022

Load up and load out! Both went smoothly!

08/05/2022

What a looker! 😍

08/05/2022

Welcome tag #7382!

07/05/2022

Tomorrow morning is pickup and I am so excited! Get ready for lots of pictures! When he is settled tomorrow evening I will go live to introduce him.

There is still time to enter a name for the naming contest if you are interested in sponsoring us this summer. Send a message to find out how. Poll for the names will go live tomorrow evening.

Here we go!

21/04/2022

Thank you Samantha for the sponsorship! You submitted some GOOD names! I am excited to have everyone start voting on the 7th!

If anyone is interested in submitting a name and sponsoring, comment a 🐴 and I will message you details!

18/04/2022

It's naming contest time!

# 7382 is no name for a horse this beautiful and when his number comes off, he will need a name befitting his new life ahead as he journeys towards adoption in September.
I am having a naming contest to help him find a name and to help support the costs of fostering him this summer. All money raised will go towards feed, supplies, and board. Here is how it works!

$25 to submit a name or $50 for 3 names. When he arrives on May 7th, I will post a pole for everyone to vote on and the winning name will be revealed when his number comes off!

He will be available for adoption the first weekend of September through the Teens And Oregon Mustangs adoption training challenge. Message if you have any questions or sponsor and submit your name through Venmo! Let's hear those names! 20 days until pickup!

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