Understanding Mules with Lloyd Hawley
Bear Hunting Magazine Podcast
MeatEater
4.8 • 656 Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2020
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the Bear Hunting Magazine Podcast, we’re talking mules and learning a lot from longtime mule skinner Lloyd Hawley from Hawleywoods Mule Farm. In this podcast we discuss a lot about the hybrid vigor of mules and what traits they gain from both horses and donkeys. Lloyd also shares his story of how he grew up breaking wild mustangs to eventually breeding, training, and competing mules and how mule shows/competitions work. He also shares some traits to look for in a mule including what you gain or lose when with the different sizes of mules. This podcast has fun stories and is packed with great information to make you more informed than the average bear on equine animals. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | You're listening to the Sportsman's Nation podcast network brought to you by Savage Arms and the new 110 Ultralight. |
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| 0:59.0 | My name is Clay Newcomb, and I'm the host of the Bear Honey magazine podcast. I'll also be your host into the world of hunting the icon of North American wilderness, the bear. |
| 1:07.0 | We'll talk about tactics, gear, conservation, but we'll also bring you into some of the wildest country on the planet chasing band. |
| 1:19.6 | As many of you would know, I love using mules to get into the back country. We've had a lot of, we do a lot of our hunting on mules. |
| 1:30.5 | And I get a ton of questions about mules. |
| 1:33.1 | Like, how do you get started? |
| 1:34.7 | What makes a good mule? |
| 1:36.0 | Where do you buy a mule? |
| 1:37.2 | How much does a mule cost? |
| 1:38.6 | What makes a mule better than a horse? |
| 1:41.4 | Or why would people use them over a horse is a better question. |
| 1:47.6 | Lloyd Hawley is a national expert on mules. |
| 1:51.3 | He's been raising, training, selling riding mules for over 30 years and he is an expert. |
| 2:04.6 | We have a really good conversation that gets into the nuts and bolts of mules. And if you listen to this whole thing through its entirety, you'll know more |
| 2:11.5 | about mules than most people do. And so this can be used as a resource for you if you're interested in getting in mules |
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