Cobiau Cymreig Wyllt
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Have been dawdling on with bringing on my former wild-child project youngster over the last 18mths, as some of you may remember from previous posts...
He turns 4 at end of August and I have six weeks of spare time just now so...have got a bit of a hillwork programme on with him with a view to having a little sit on him at some point over the next month.
He's mentally ready I think....has always had a fab attitude to work (despite being a right git manners-wise, but that is improving greatly).
So we've been doing a lot of walking in-hand, a bit of long-reining in a confined place and ventured out on long-reins further afield today.
He was a proper little star. His brakes and rein-back are good, steering and walking unaided on coming along nicely. He had a bit of a glance at some seriously skittish bullocks galloping along the hedge but was fairly unflappable considering how lairy they were.
Finished off with some tarpaulin draping (yawn, he said) and clicker training for foot lifting (have had serious kick-your-teeth-in issues with this, leftover from his bad old days but clicker has been super brill). We got some nice calm leg handling with no kicking or stamping and a lift on command for each leg. Seriously good progress considering what he used to be like.
Also jumped up and down a bit on the tack box by him, put arms over his neck etc...unbothered.
Very very pleased, bodes well I feel
(Hence gushing 
)
So, onwards and upwards. He will be turned away again if the backing goes well then restarted and ridden on early autumn, all being well. Turned away again then over winter.
Pix:
Having a photographer at work is tedious:
Checking out cows:
Looking beardily handsome:
He turns 4 at end of August and I have six weeks of spare time just now so...have got a bit of a hillwork programme on with him with a view to having a little sit on him at some point over the next month.
He's mentally ready I think....has always had a fab attitude to work (despite being a right git manners-wise, but that is improving greatly).
So we've been doing a lot of walking in-hand, a bit of long-reining in a confined place and ventured out on long-reins further afield today.
He was a proper little star. His brakes and rein-back are good, steering and walking unaided on coming along nicely. He had a bit of a glance at some seriously skittish bullocks galloping along the hedge but was fairly unflappable considering how lairy they were.
Finished off with some tarpaulin draping (yawn, he said) and clicker training for foot lifting (have had serious kick-your-teeth-in issues with this, leftover from his bad old days but clicker has been super brill). We got some nice calm leg handling with no kicking or stamping and a lift on command for each leg. Seriously good progress considering what he used to be like.
Also jumped up and down a bit on the tack box by him, put arms over his neck etc...unbothered.
Very very pleased, bodes well I feel
(Hence gushing )So, onwards and upwards. He will be turned away again if the backing goes well then restarted and ridden on early autumn, all being well. Turned away again then over winter.
Pix:
Having a photographer at work is tedious:
Checking out cows:
Looking beardily handsome:
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