Anyone taught anything really useful with clicker training?

[canteron]

Have been clicker training my horse as I want to bond with him more, and looking for useful things to train.

This horse is so good about all aspects of stable management and I don't particularly want to teach him tricks, so does anyone have any other really good ideas about training aims.

What have you trained your horse to do?

 

[Booboos]

All taught behaviour is a trick really so it depends on what you need him to know and what you want to teach him for fun.

I've used clicker to teach a horse to rein back when he sees the feed bucket and to walk right next to me slowly when coming in from the field.

 

[tazzle]

well we used clicker for most of the stuff we do

once she was less terrified of people we CT for even touching her, for walking with me, stopping, backing up .....onto lifting her feet up and holding them herself ( to this days as never "leant" on anyone while having her feet done), standing at mounting block ........ well just about everything involved with riding and driving. Latest I suppose are the horse agility obstacles.

what you might like to teach him depends I suppose on where you are now and what your aims are for him ..... it also depends on whether you want to use CT to do specific things or to change over to training everything with CT

 

[tazzle]

All taught behaviour is a trick really

agree

so it depends on what you need him to know and what you want to teach him for fun.

agree about what you need him to know but imo it can be for "serious" stuff too

I've used clicker to teach a horse to rein back when he sees the feed bucket and to walk right next to me slowly when coming in from the field.

thats a great one..... walking calmly

but yes.. do have fun !!!

 

[trina1982]

Someone on here posted a while ago that they had clicker trained their horse to walk to the mounting block and 'bring the saddle to her' when she stood on the mounting block with her whip held high. My instructer has also taught similar and it makes getting on really easy!