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| Any ideas on getting a horse to unload that wont back off a trailer or turn around? |
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  Shipwrecked and Flat Out Zapped
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | Leave him in the trailer until he really wants to come out. Eventually, he will. |
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| This is where we are at! Just thinking the sucker might hang in there a while like days lol |
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| Yep what she said.
To give a little incentive you could back the trailer up into his pen. Fix it so if he comes out he can't escape. Tie the doors to the trailer open. Turn horse loose. Place horse's feed in bucket on the ground outside the trailer and walk away. |
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | Make it a treat to come off the trailer. Your comfy pen, water and feed are waiting for you buddy. I'd totally back him up to the stable or a paddock and he will come off.
To trailer break mine, I back up the trailer to the round pen and feed them in the trailer. They jump in and out of the trailer like it's another pen. I start tying them in the trailer with the divider closed after a day or so, just while they eat. We gradually increase their standing tied time. It never takes long and teaches them to load, unload, stand tied and it's how we halter break them. When they pull the divider stops their booty and teaches pressure on the halter. It is incredibly easy to teach all of these things for us. I just use a 4 horse stock trailer with a center divider. Works like a charm. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | Not saying this is a good first response, but if you ever find yourself desperately trying to unload a stubborn horse at 5 am, a waterhose sprayed in their face is like magic. |
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | I've been wondering the same thing. I have a 4yr old that is no problem loading but unloading is another story. |
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | Mine love the trailer. Best thing I've ever come up with lol. No more one person pull, while one pushes them in the butt lol. |
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| So far we are waiting it out. Been on the trailer since 4pm yesterday...
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | JR_Horses - 2015-03-30 1:28 PM
So far we are waiting it out. Been on the trailer since 4pm yesterday...
Backed up to a pen or round pen? Not fed in the trailer yet right? How old is he? |
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| If you have time and patience .... teach them to back outside of the trailer. Over things, stepping off things, backing down a hill, etc. Teach them that you aren't going to back them off a cliff. Reward the smallest try -
I back my trailer up to a small hill and get them backing confidently off the trailer onto the safe hill - This reduces the "step down" that most of them fear. Then gradually pull the trailer forward to increase the "step" off the trailer but leaving enough room to step safely and not slip a foot under the trailer.
It takes time and patience but can be taught.
Good Luck!
ETA- my poor spelling :)
Edited by lindseylou2290 2015-03-30 1:32 PM
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Location: Windoming | Had the same problem once. Even had him unloaded and he backed back up into the trailer. We had even taken out the saddle compartment so we could open both doors wide......He was there all day. Finally I grabbed a hand towel that was handy and shook it in his face. It worked, and I used that method until he finally didn't need it anymore. I'm sure you've read about it in all the training manuals. hahahaha |
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Location: EDGE OF INSANITY | Three 4 Luck - 2015-03-30 2:19 PM
Not saying this is a good first response, but if you ever find yourself desperately trying to unload a stubborn horse at 5 am, a waterhose sprayed in their face is like magic.
This. I like to take my young ones to the shows, just to let them see the sights, etc. I had a yearling one time that had been hauled everywhere, and one day (when it was about 100 degrees) he decided when we got to a show that he wasn't getting off. And since he was in the last hole, i really, really needed his stubborn ass to get off so i could at least get the others off. Water in the face was the only thing that worked |
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Location: Sunny So Cal | That is a problem I have never had. Mine don't like to go in but can't leave fast enough. Is he comfortable in there or just doesn't know how to back up? What kind of trailer is it? ramp? step up? 2 horse? 4 horse? slant? Sounds like a tricky situation. |
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Location: N Texas | If it is in there NOW, I don't have a suggestion, but I like the "shake something scary in its face" idea, LOL.
As far as training, you need to take it slow. Start with getting one foot in the trailer, then back it out. Sit for a few seconds, and repeat a few times. Then let it step in the trailer with the two front feet, back out, sit for a minute, and repeat a few times. Then do that with three feet, then four feet.
They need to be good at backing out with only the front two feet in the trailer before you can even consider letting them put all four feet in the trailer.
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| Horse is 10. Broke broke broke just will not back off trailer. I think in a previous life had an accident. My LQ wth the mangers isnt wide enough for her to turn around in. Tried to get her back off trailer it just ****ed her off now shes holding on.. Trailer is open with feed bucket outside. Waiting....
Edited by JR_Horses 2015-03-30 1:54 PM
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | JR_Horses - 2015-03-30 1:52 PM Horse is 10. Broke broke broke just will not back off trailer. I think in a previous life had an accident. My LQ wth the mangers isnt wide enough for her to turn around in. Tried to get her back off trailer it just ****ed her off now shes holding on.. Trailer is open with feed bucket outside. Waiting....
So, is this the first time you've tried to unload her? Did you just buy her? |
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | Is is possible to safely run a long rope around the front of her chest and get people on both sides to pull her out? |
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| Had her a couple months have been turning her around. Which she can do in my bumper pull. Took my LQ this weekend. Got her off at the show after some coaxing got home last night and cant get her off. |
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Location: Texas | put a bridle/bit with long lines and stand behind, ask her to back. might require person # 2 with a buggy whip from the front |
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