Registered: Jan 2007
Location: Al
Posts: 3069

any yawl hunt off a mule that small ?
looking @ a 12 year old 14 hand just wondering if he would be to small for what i want, pobly getting around in the woods he would be fine but i wonder if he would hold out for a long ride . any input from yawl mule skinners ?

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Registered: Dec 2005
Location: Buncombe Il.
Posts: 177

14 hands is plenty big enough for a long ride especially if he is thick and stout. that is about the right size in my opinion for riding a coonhunting.

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Registered: Oct 2011
Location: WV
Posts: 139

Most mules that people rode around here weren't that big. I'm six foot two and two forty pounds, and I've ridden a bunch that weren't that big many a night in the mountains. Mules are as tough as they come. We jumped them in the back of a pick-up with racks in twenty degree weather and went hunting. If you did that with a horse he'd have pneumonia. I have a mule now that backs out of a horse trailer. He got used to backing out of a pick-up.

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Registered: Aug 2005
Location: marlette michigan
Posts: 1048

i have a haflinger mule 14h he will go as long as you can ride him.

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Registered: Oct 2006
Location: Clio, Michigan
Posts: 416

Mine goes 14.2. She is between 10 and 14 years old..... I am 6 ft 223lbs and she hauls me up and down these mountains around the Ohio River just fine.

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Registered: Sep 2007
Location: Glenmont,Ohio
Posts: 1188

I hunt on a 14 hand one most of the time. I also have a 12 hand that will carry me all night & I'm 5'10" and 200

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