Dutch commands

[carys220]

My Haflinger was imported from Holland last year as a 3 year old and I believe she has done a little training with her breeder. But obviously she doesn't understand English, she gets a little from your body language etc but I'd rather ask her what she knows.

So, does anyone speak Dutch? Or know how to say, walk, trot etc in Dutch?
She does understand 'stand' very well.

Thanks in advance.

 

[equity]

Hi,

She will understand english commands quickly enough. But I know what you mean, when ours arrived I felt sorry for her as she must not have undertood a word said to her at first. I used to put on a rather bad Dutch accent (don't know any Dutch) and she responded, funnily enough I think it comforted her until she settled in.

 

[hellybelly6]

Ha ha ha putting on a dutch accent for your horse. I think its thoughtful, but it made me laugh.

I know a dutch equine physiotherapist who may help you. if you are interested.

I know what you mean, I used to look after an italian showjumping horse and we had to talk to him in italian, until he understood english. Funny thing was, his italian was better than mine.

 

[equity]

LOL yes it made everyone else laugh too, but as it helped my horse to settle I didn't care.

 

[little_flea]

I speak to my share horse in Swedish (I am Swedish, she is not!) and she seems to understand it fine!

Other riders look at me a bit funny though when I ride in the school saying BRA really loudly though (it means "good" in Swedish...)

 

[arwenplusone]

PMSL - I think it is the tone of voice that is important - not the actual words that you are saying.

Maybe perfect your glutteral stop?

 

[hellybelly6]

As long as she settled and she felt at home, then who cares what people think.

But it still makes me smile in a nice way.

The things we do for our horses

 

[louisem]

Walk is stap.
Trot is draf. (drrrraaaav)
Canter is galop. (gaaa lop)

Halt is, well, halt but find 'Ho' works quite well!!!
Hope this is helpful!

 

[vennessa]

If you do everything in english the horse will soon learn.
The polish warmblood my daughter has schooled came from a polish man. Her owners just thought she did not understand English and got into a mess.
How do youngsters learn? You just have to be repetative and they soon learn. Remember to praise when they do the command.
I know of a few Haflingers from Holland. They are bred for meat and were selling cheap. All learnt English. It just took time, but not a lot, not even 1 month.
Good luck.

 

[equity]

Halflingers bred for meat????? can I rescue any??

 

[vennessa]

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Halflingers bred for meat????? can I rescue any??

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I don't wish to sound harsh or uncareing but how is it rescueing?
Some countries eat horses and breed them for that purpose.
We eat cows and pigs. Some countries don't but don't have the need to rescue cow's and pig's from us.
I know a dealer that imports them but you don't know what you are getting.
We have enough unwanted horses in this country already, 100's looking for homes

 

[vennessa]

P.S. I was putting some people in touch with him who were after Haflingers but when he told me where they came from i stopped. I thought they were from this country. We need to deal with pleasure horses in this country first.

 

[Ezme]

Sliver_florin has a point. We have a meat horse who was "resued" from belguim and he is a complete wreck, most of which can be reasonably attributed to his transport from belguim. Most meat horses live as good life as any other meat animal, they eat alot and get to play with other young horses. Its the live transport thats a problem. I was unaware that they used haflingers, thought it was mainly brabants, boulanaise and other continental draughts but i guess haflingers are cheaper to keep and still have alot of meat.

On a lighter note I wondered where I got "Ho" for halt from but our former coachman was dutch and taught me to drive! Must of picked it up off him!

 

[equity]

I know in other countries they eat horse meat. Still when you hear it, it makes you feel its not right as its not in our culture.
I know we have problems of our own in this country. I have a Halflinger and the thought of anyone eating him makes me feel sick.

 

[rara007]

Alot of dutch horses are taught to stop to a 'brrrr' type noise, you do with shacking you toungue. Can't really explain it, sorry!

 

[carys220]

They do 'breed' Haflngers for meat in Holland but I mean 'breed' as in they stick a load of mares and stallions on the mountains together and then catch the yearlings to sell.
My mare wasn't bred like that, we've been in contact with the breeder and she has good breeding

Thanks sj_mummy and Rara_2008 for the commands, I'll see if she understands me better with them.

P.S. We didn't import her, we bought her from Yorkshire

 

[GermanyJo]

My horse has no issues with English , from day one, I spoke english to him ( he is german :-9 ) .. first lunging, he did everything I wanted .. it is normally the tone of voice they are picking up on , not just the word.

he also understand Russian and Ukrainian (shame he cannot translate my instructor for me during our lessons... but then .... maybe not.. better not to understand completely how bad you are... , I go by tone of voice too, to know if I am doing it right or not - seems to work ok !