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Location: Wisconsin | How does everyone break out their young horses?? |
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 Chasin my Dream
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Location: Alberta | I send my colts to the trainer for the first 30 days! I do a lot of ground work and being saddled before they go..... |
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Location: Somewhere around here | Ground work a lot with our colts, work them in a round pen, and we do all of the first rides and everything. My barrel horse was started by my husband and after 15 rides I took it from there. |
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Location: White Mountains of AZ | Alexisleno12 - 2015-01-13 2:35 PM
How does everyone break out their young horses??
I do ground work... I love how it can bond you and the horse. After they are responding well on the ground I switch to saddle. Start off in the roundpen just easy walk, bending, flexing, moving off pressure. When I'm comfortable, I move on to the 7 acre pasture and walk trot fence lines, making sure I still have the response and flexion I like. I just take it slow. Before I do any fast, I like my colts to have a solid stop on them. I'll start that at a walk...stop..back up, then pivot and do it again. It really makes them understand they need to set down their hind end. |
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Location: Montana | dream_chaser - 2015-01-13 3:43 PM I send my colts to the trainer for the first 30 days! I do a lot of ground work and being saddled before they go.....
Same here...I can't consistently put 30 days of training on a colt...I can keep one in shape and keep them going. So I send them for their first 30 days so they get a good foundation, then I go from there. |
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Location: East Tennessee but who knows?! | I'm old so I make sure they're broke before I step up and riding is just a formality. I do a lot of ground work and have control before I throw a leg over the first time. My blog talks a lot about my thoughts on colts-- it's one of my favorite things to do.
https://qheventer.wordpress.com/ |
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Chasin my Dream
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Location: Alberta | mtcanchazer - 2015-01-13 5:05 PM dream_chaser - 2015-01-13 3:43 PM I send my colts to the trainer for the first 30 days! I do a lot of ground work and being saddled before they go..... Same here...I can't consistently put 30 days of training on a colt...I can keep one in shape and keep them going. So I send them for their first 30 days so they get a good foundation, then I go from there.
After thinking I could train my own and then sending them off to a trainer, I'll do ground work till the cows come home but I'm not capable enough to start them under saddle......boy did I learn how awesome a good trainer foundation can be   |
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Total Germophobe
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Location: Montana | dream_chaser - 2015-01-13 8:21 PM mtcanchazer - 2015-01-13 5:05 PM dream_chaser - 2015-01-13 3:43 PM I send my colts to the trainer for the first 30 days! I do a lot of ground work and being saddled before they go..... Same here...I can't consistently put 30 days of training on a colt...I can keep one in shape and keep them going. So I send them for their first 30 days so they get a good foundation, then I go from there.
You and me both sister! |
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| I have broken my own colts all my life but I am old now and send mine to a trainer. I don't bounce as well as I used to and seeing some young people that I know,who by the way were good riders, get hurt so badly that they cannot drive much less ride a horse, I think sending them to a trainer is an excellent idea. |
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Location: Where the pavement ends and the West begins Utah |       In that order. |
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Location: La Vernia, TX | I used to start colts, and I still do my own on occasion, but I'm just not home enough to ride with any consistency, so off they go. I do a ton of groundwork for body control, round-penning for mind control, ground-driving to get used to bridle cues and ponying to learn to balance weight- when I do get on, the only thing colt really needs to figure out is how to put it all together.
Edited by Phoenix98 2015-01-15 8:02 AM
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Location: Got Lobsta? | What age do you all send them off? I see people put 2 year old - but is it a true 2 year old or their 2 year old year?(Jan 1st) My friend started hers at 1 year 9 months - he was huge. |
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Location: La Vernia, TX | Depends on the horse. Each one develops at a different rate physically and mentally. I've started them as young as 20 months but I've chosen to wait until the fall of the 2 year old year as well (2.5 years)
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Location: White Mountains of AZ |
Hahah I like this! It made me smile ! |
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Maine-iac
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Location: Got Lobsta? | Phoenix98 - 2015-01-15 10:25 AM Depends on the horse. Each one develops at a different rate physically and mentally. I've started them as young as 20 months but I've chosen to wait until the fall of the 2 year old year as well (2.5 years)
Thank you! |
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Location: Missouri | Catch them, love on them for a few days, then load them on the trailer and take them to the trainer |
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | All I have to add is do your homework on the breaker/trainer. Even if they sound wonderful.....There's nothing like sending one off only to get it back starved and not broke. |
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Red Bull Agressive
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Lol too funny! |
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