twiggy2
Well-Known Member
Horses, like many other species, start learning as soon as they hit the ground after birth, so it seems logical to me that they can start to be taught from that moment on, if only from other horses within a herd.
I don't like the traditional way of breaking a horse by starting on such-and-such a date with the training taking x number of weeks!
The title says backing though and for me that is not ground work and preparation that is just the process of getting a rider up on the horses back with a view to riding away.
All the other stuff is just part of life if they are in my hands, my mare had tents and kids and motorbikes and washing on lines, generators, tractors etc in and around her fields from the day she arrived.