YorksG
Over the hill and far awa
A bit of back story, we bought the Young Appy last year, as a just broken three year old. She had been left virtually unhandled until she was broken, in about eight weeks. After we got her home, we decided that she was too weedy and immature and she wouldn't be ridden until this year. Then last autumn she cut the sle of her foot, which required vet treatment, under IV sedation and a weeks box rest. The cut then infected, needing further vet treatment, again with sedation and twitching and another ten days box rest. Before this she had been fine to have her feet trimmed, but she then became almost impossible to even pick her feet out! Come this spring, we re-assesed her and again decided that she was too immature to begin ridden work.
She was still very nervous of her feet being touched and our long suffering farrier couldn't get near her to trim. We have spent a lot of time messing about with her and following going to a Demo with an internationally acclaimed dog trainer, on clicker training, we began clicker training with her with allsorts, especially her feet.
Our farrier,(who has shod for us for over 20 years) came this morning and spent the morning picking her feet up and putting them down, a lot! Then drinking coffee, then picking her feet up and putting them down, Rinsing and repeating the above He then trimmed both her front feet and then carried on picking the feet up and putting them down. He has left me a rasp to mess with, with her feet, as she struggled with the feeling before the problem with her feet.
So I am a very happy YorksG, with a Young Appy with neat feet So many thanks to our patient farrier, the dog trainer who gave us the inspriation for clicker training and the other three horses for standing about eating hay and keeping theYoung Appy calm
She was still very nervous of her feet being touched and our long suffering farrier couldn't get near her to trim. We have spent a lot of time messing about with her and following going to a Demo with an internationally acclaimed dog trainer, on clicker training, we began clicker training with her with allsorts, especially her feet.
Our farrier,(who has shod for us for over 20 years) came this morning and spent the morning picking her feet up and putting them down, a lot! Then drinking coffee, then picking her feet up and putting them down, Rinsing and repeating the above He then trimmed both her front feet and then carried on picking the feet up and putting them down. He has left me a rasp to mess with, with her feet, as she struggled with the feeling before the problem with her feet.
So I am a very happy YorksG, with a Young Appy with neat feet So many thanks to our patient farrier, the dog trainer who gave us the inspriation for clicker training and the other three horses for standing about eating hay and keeping theYoung Appy calm