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| How do you teach your 1-2 year old horsey babies patience? |
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Location: Kentucky | When you find out, let me know :)
Mine stands tied while mouthing the lead rope until he unties himself. All while flicking his tail because he is so annoyed that has to stand there and not eat :) |
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| Murphy - 2016-03-24 12:39 PM When you find out, let me know :) Mine stands tied while mouthing the lead rope until he unties himself. All while flicking his tail because he is so annoyed that has to stand there and not eat :)
SAME SAME SAME lol
My filly is an absolute DOLL but she has NO patience to speak of...
She was tied to the trailer and got bored of chewing her lead so she tore the screen off one of my windows--talk about a mad horsey mama right here... I need to put installing my patience pole at the top of my to-do list |
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| I put mine on a patience pole, then on the walker. They will stand there for a few hours. If they paw, winnie, have a hissy, tough beanie weenies. They all get over their tantrums eventually. Handling them a lot helps to. Brushing, leading, cleaning feet. As for chewing leads, hot sauce works wonders for that problem 
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | mine stand tied. I used\ innertubes so they have a lot of give and take while they pitch a baby fit. I start tieing them when they are halter broke as weanlings in the fall. Start off with maybe just a few minutes. They do not get untied until they quit pitching fits if they do decide to. Some never do, they just stand there while I clean the pen etc or work with another one they they get turned loose. It doesn't seem to take them long to realize they will be there until they chill out and relax. Out of 4 this yr I have a super friendly one that likes to walk back and forth and look around. No fits, but she has to check everything out. The other 2 just stand there with a leg cocked. I never leave them for a long long time though, like all day. To me that seems to be a punishment that they don't understand. But I have never had one that didn't relax some after about 20-30 minutes. |
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| okhorselover - 2016-03-24 1:31 PM I put mine on a patience pole, then on the walker. They will stand there for a few hours. If they paw, winnie, have a hissy, tough beanie weenies. They all get over their tantrums eventually. Handling them a lot helps to. Brushing, leading, cleaning feet. As for chewing leads, hot sauce works wonders for that problem
How do you hot sauce the lead without making a total mess and getting it all over yourself? I can see myself being more spicy than the lead rope after it is all said and done lol |
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Location: Where the buffalo roam | I got my colt in 2014 as a long yearling from a ranch where they tie their weanlings to the fence in their indoor arena for 2-4 days (yes, they provide food & water) and do it again when they are yearlings. Let me tell you - this horse has the most respect of the lead rope of any horse I have ever owned. He never pulls back when tied even if something upsets him (can still be a little wiggly now and then). If something spooks him when I am leading him and he jumps back, if he feels that lead rope tighten at all he comes to an immediate stop and steps forward so no rope burns here! |
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| **Cowgirl Up** - 2016-03-24 1:43 PM
okhorselover - 2016-03-24 1:31 PM I put mine on a patience pole, then on the walker. They will stand there for a few hours. If they paw, winnie, have a hissy, tough beanie weenies. They all get over their tantrums eventually. Handling them a lot helps to. Brushing, leading, cleaning feet. As for chewing leads, hot sauce works wonders for that problem
Super spicy dried pepper mixed into water works too ......
I have soaked the lead rope in a plastic bag full of cheap hot sauce. Just one particular way. I'm sure there are others - like a bucket, or a tupperware, or a rubbermaid tub of sorts.
OP - patience pole or a tree. Tie the yearling up so they can't hurt themselves and then go enjoy doing something else while they figure life out. I prefer a lawn chair, an adult beverage, and the chuck-it (for tennis balls) to entertain my dogs while the horse figures life out. I'm there to keep 'em out of trouble but they gotta figure it out on their own. I leave 'em tied until they settle down, sometimes 15-20 mins, sometimes it will take a couple hours. They commonly pitch a fit, whinny, dig to China and eventually settle - and that is when they get untied, petted, and returned to their home. |
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Location: SW North Dakota | Mine stand tied. A lot. I will tie them in the barn or to a solid fence (that they can't stick a leg through) in the morning and leave them for 10+ hours several times a week. They are safe and tied to an inner tube. I offer them water out of a bucket a few times a day. They learn to drink. They can paw, pace, chew lead ropes all they want, and I use several different posts so the scenery changes. Some take longer than others, but they all figure it out. I don't feel sorry for them. haha. |
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Location: Alabama | I had a long weanling stud colt this year. Not mine, but I was keeping him for a friend and trying to teach him some manners. Anyway, that little stink took weeks to learn to tie with any sort of patience. I have never witnessed a "baby" throw a fit like this little dude did. He would paw and pace and paw and pace for well over an hour every day for a week. I mean violently pawing.
After a week he got to where he would sometimes stand quietly and sometimes he would throw a fit.
He stayed at my place three months total and it took half that time to get him to tie quietly. Luckily he finally got over it and would stand tied anywhere. He never was a chewer so I can't help with that. I don't tie with a lead that they can get ahold of generally so mine haven't ever started that habit. At first they get tied to the walker then to a power pole way above their heads. I don't tie anywhere else until they have those two mastered.
Just tie, tie, tie and tie some more. They usually figure it out! |
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| Poor a bottle of hot sauce into a spray bottle. Spray it all over the lead rope or whatever lead your horse is on. That's it. |
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Location: Got Lobsta? | Question - Where you do place your patience pole? Do you have a fence around it? Is it just a large beam planted in the ground?  |
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Location: Northwest | Mainer-racer - 2016-03-25 5:25 AM
Question - Where you do place your patience pole? Do you have a fence around it? Is it just a large beam planted in the ground?
I put a large beam in the ground and attached a tie blocker ring to it. Works well so far. |
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| Mainer-racer - 2016-03-25 7:25 AM
Question - Where you do place your patience pole? Do you have a fence around it? Is it just a large beam planted in the ground?
We cemented a pole in the ground & attached an arm on a swivel on the top of the pole. I have the blocker tie rings on ours also. |
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