Bloody youngster!!

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My youngster has started to become really stupid when I walk across the field with the water buckets he comes after me with his ears back and tries to kick.iv shouted at him in a firm voice but no luck.he gets one feed a day could it be food related or just a teenager stage..
 
He must learn respect now. I can walk through my field of four, carrying food if i wish, they have learnt to respect human space. For yours and his sake, start laying down the law now. Stay safe, with hat etc. But mean it. Sorry, this is a sore subject for me, had a horse that circled like a shark, trapped my mum in field for half an hour. Then the training began..:eek: :)
 
I used to take a lunging whip when poo picking. Sounds bad, but my boy was awful, he would have trampled me to the ground. He came around though, i could click my fingers point where to stand and he would wait for his bucket. Just stay safe. Dont be fluffy bunny. Horses are big and powerful, stronger than us, dont let him learn this.
 
I had a mare that would present her bottom at me, and be very threatening (I'm not sure if she was "protecting" her pony companion). I shouted at her, jumped up and down, waved my arms, no good and as I had children of around 10 I was concerned. In the end I threw the rubber feed bowl at her bottom and connected. I had to do this 3 times I think, after that she didn't try that trick with me ever again.
 
I went to the aid of one of my sisters friends who was having dominance problems with her pony. He was running backwards at her in the field and lashing out with both hind legs.

Didn't take long to get him sorted. I had a lunge whip and a nice collection of lumps of earth. Each time he presented his hind end a lump of earth met his hindquarters (if my shot was good! :p) and the whip was cracked if he kicked out.
 
As the others have said this needs to be nipped in the bud now before the situation becomes dangerous. Again I'd be chucking the water and then the bucket at him, if that fails then a lunge whip. Please please please wear a crash hat whilst this is getting sorted out.
 
I echo everyone from this thread - do not stand for it! Beast tries on occasion to be a space invader and it's not fun! I have to put him straight back in his box! Today for the first time in months he was a git on the lunge... Looked and spooked sideways at a 1 ft oxer in the centre of the school running straight at me and glancing off sideways - his skin literally touched mine... Kind of my fault as he is fit and full of himself and had a week off until yesterday but my god he got the sheety end of my lunge whip!! You can not stand for dangerous bad behaviour at all!
 
I bring on 1 - 3 youngsters a year and expect them to turn their backsides towards me at some stage and threaten first, then they'll try a kick. I carry a walking stick ready for that occasion and they get a very swift smack! They never do it again!

Rather than waste your water and have to make another trip, I'd keep a handful of gravel at the ready. You want shock value and with gravel it's harmless and you don't need to be a good shot! Also, shout "NO!" as the gravel lands, so next time you can just shout and won't need to throw anything at all.
 
Is he turned out with others? When I first got my boy as an unhandled 2y/o he first went into small individual turnout pen to get used to being caught and handled without the risk of "losing" him in a huge field. He definitely did start to get coltish with me when I went in to do water and poo pick etc, much like you described. I decided to chuck him out in the big field with the herd and he was fine after having other horses to do horse stuff with and to be taught boundries.
 
Merlod said:
Is he turned out with others? When I first got my boy as an unhandled 2y/o he first went into small individual turnout pen to get used to being caught and handled without the risk of "losing" him in a huge field. He definitely did start to get coltish with me when I went in to do water and poo pick etc, much like you described. I decided to chuck him out in the big field with the herd and he was fine after having other horses to do horse stuff with and to be taught boundries.
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He did have a companion but they got too close do had to separate them they can see each other over a gate.i tried the black bucket suggestions he got a sharp suprise he ran off bucking and farting will keep it up and try suggestions...
 
crazycoloured said:
He did have a companion but they got too close do had to separate them they can see each other over a gate.i tried the black bucket suggestions he got a sharp suprise he ran off bucking and farting will keep it up and try suggestions...
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Tbh I think youngsters need socialization and to play and seeing another pony over the gate isn't really enough. He's probably not being naughty, just frustrated. He is a result of his enviroment. If he's too clingy with one other, try more not less.
 
JanetGeorge said:
And it would also help to walk through the field regularly, carrying several loaded water pistols. I have about 10 of the things - loaded - outside the stables of horses who merely kick their doors. Nasty Mummy - but it works!
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OH MY GOD!!! THANK YOU! You've just given me what I hope is the solution to my TB! He pounds the stable door with his front feet continuously when I leave the stable! I've tried smacking his forearms but he never gets the message!!!! Where do you blast them?

I'm literally in the process of saving for a £30 kicker pad for the stable door because it drives me and the liveries insane because he will not stop until you either let him out or come give him attention!! I feel I shouldn't have to buy one but it was my only plan as I've tried so many things.


As for OP, I tolerated this behaviour from my youngster for a long time as I didn't know how to stop it - lunge whips just pissed him off more. He stopped but I did get kicked before I finally stepped it up and starting having to deal with it. He's a very good boy now and respects my space, 6 years on. :)
 
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Haz:) said:
OH MY GOD!!! THANK YOU! You've just given me what I hope is the solution to my TB! He pounds the stable door with his front feet continuously when I leave the stable! I've tried smacking his forearms but he never gets the message!!!! Where do you blast them?
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Ideally, straight between the eyes, lol, but anywhere on head will do.
 
As for OP, I tolerated this behavior from my youngster for a long time as I didn't know how to stop it - lunge whips just pissed him off more. He stopped but I did get kicked before I finally stepped it up and starting having to deal with it. He's a very good boy now and respects my space, 6 years on.
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What did you end up doing to deal with it? OP would probably want to know :)
 
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