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john
 IP: 71.248.232.116 Apr 18, 06 - 4:23 PM |
Hi oh silver!
Today I was selling a trail horse I had. I saddled up the trail horse along with my reining stud colt. He's doing great. So we set off down the road to the trail. I was in the lead on the colt as we came up to where my mares are. Two of them are in season and been teasing him. When he saw them running up to the fence he reared up three times, pawing in the air and screaming. I sat forward both times thinking he was gonna go over and trying not to pull on the reins. The time he went up again I sat forward and was able to swat him in the head and when he came down I made him give me his face and started bending him down in circles until he calmed himself and then off we went into the woods with out an other incedents. Later today I put a lead chain over his nose and took down to the mares. Everytime he thought about talking to them I jerked his chain. Everytime he dropped out I swatted it. We stood there about 10 minutes until he could stand there and not pay attention to the mares. Any advice on this, is what I did acceptable and will it work? I am thinking of taking him down once a day as a new training ritual in hand with the lead chain over his nose. |
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Dean Brown
IP: 68.15.96.49 May 12th, 2006 - 7:26 PM |
Re: Hi oh silver!
Here is the deal. You are on a trail ride. This horse is not in a working frame of mind. He is on a trail ride. He is a stud. The fact that you missed the cue and did not get his attention and get him out of there before this problem arose is more your fault then his. IF this happened in a working enviroment I still would have noticed the deistratciton coming before it got to the point where he had lost forward motion and was able to rear! The horse would have been pushed up into the bridle as soon as I saw his attention being distracted. I am not going to bait my stud to misbehave. I am going to try to react before he does thus teaching him to pay attention before it gets that bad. No I am not going to take my stud and lead him up to some mares and expect him to behave. Some people might want to but I think we need to pick our battles and be out there looking for one. As long as when I am ridding them I have 100% of their attention I am ok. Some studs talk and react some do not when you are leading them around. Yes it is fixable I guess everything is fixible but is it worth the time. It is not like you need him to be lead around by a 10 year old girl. He is a stud, studs can be ******* some of thier behavior needs to be expected and accepted to a point. Dean Brown |
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