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| Good morning everyone! As most of you know, my good gelding is out for the summer...fall...and most of the winter due to a knee injury. He can finally be turned out again though, yay, no more stall rest! As for my filly, she's a late baby, so she JUST turned 2. I'm not going to start breaking her until next spring, she's still SO tiny =/ So, my question is...what do you guys do with your horses, that don't involve riding?? I have taught my filly a couple tricks, bow, lay down, beg and smile. And she's through all the clinton anderson tapes that I have. Any other ideas? Thank you =] | |
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| Not sure where you're located at, but check out Dennis Auslam. He's located in Minnesota. https://www.facebook.com/Bridle.Up/ Lots of neat desensitizing drills! I did a one day clinic with him. We started on the ground working on longeing, moving away from pressure, moving hips or shoulders when asked from the ground, body language cues vs. using halter, etc. Then started to move into some of the "obstacles" so to speak. There was one with lots of small barrels or jugs scattered in a pile that the horses had to walk through, bridges, teeter totters, a raised platform to step up on and turn around...tons and tons of different things! By the end of the day, I was longeing my horse with things dangling off the saddle and a tarp tied to his tail, and riding him around with the tarp on his tail. Awesome exercises for getting them to stop and THINK when they get nervous about something, and to build their trust in you.
Since then, our saddle club has done a couple of obstacle courses that would be easy to adapt for in-hand instead of under saddle. If you want any ideas for obstacles, shoot me a message!
Setting up grids of ground poles with varied spacing to walk and trot over would be great for her too. The sooner they learn to pay attention to how/where they're placing their feet, the better. | |
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| Great ideas! Dang, wish I was closer! I'm in the PNW Washington. I'll try to see if I can find some videos or something on his tactics? I'll shoot you a message also! Thank you for the responses so far =] | |
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| Katielovestbs - 2017-07-21 9:51 AM
Good morning everyone! As most of you know, my good gelding is out for the summer...fall...and most of the winter due to a knee injury. He can finally be turned out again though, yay, no more stall rest! As for my filly, she's a late baby, so she JUST turned 2. I'm not going to start breaking her until next spring, she's still SO tiny =/ So, my question is...what do you guys do with your horses, that don't involve riding?? I have taught my filly a couple tricks, bow, lay down, beg and smile. And she's through all the clinton anderson tapes that I have. Any other ideas? Thank you =]
TURN THEM OUT AND LEAVE THEM ALONE ..
LET THEM BE HORSES!!
If you keep messing with that 2yo ...
You will have a sully and don't want to work filly once you
get in the saddle.
You have to keep a certain amount of "spook" in a young
horse to get your training done correctly ...
otherwise you end up with a spoiled barn brat!!
Restrain yourself to the following ...
Bathing, brushing and general up keep items ..
and a monthly trailer ride around the block.
GOOD LUCK .. | |
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