Follow up - my youngster had a tantrum

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Following on from earlier post a few days ago when my youngster had a tantrum in the round pen.
Took lots of your advice.
This is what happen last night.
Firstly separated him from my old horse.
Upped the disipline and gave him a poke with a stick when he tried to crowd me in the field.
Walked boldly up to him in field and tried to get fieldsafe headcollar on - he mooched off so I chased him away, did this several times, whilst making a fuss of old boy and feeding him. Youngster comes back for a stroke, tried to get headcollar on, mooches off again , he got chased away, comes back stands quietly, headcollar on with no issues, carrot given , Then lead nicely round field, couple of times on 12ft line, backed up, he decided to lunge himself nicely, so I went along with it was it wasn't planning on lunging him but thought I could use it as a training opportunity. Lunged on both reins practicing "whoa" command and was a complete angel stopping gently every time. Tied him up to fine piece of baler twine outside field shelter applied sudo cream to sarcoid and fly repellent no fidgetting about. Then he pulled back broke baler twin and ambled off tripping over lead rope as he went, retrieved him and tied up to two strands of baler twine !! (lol) pulled back and broke it and ambled off. Duely retrieved again tied to rubber inner tyre.- stood quietly for half an hour and had a little groom. finally released and given his dinner!!
(I hasten to say I ve never tied him to field shelter before hence the thin baler twine to start with).
Anyway what a huge change or maybe he is just back to normal, and perhaps a little subdued becausse I ve taken away his "comfy blanket" - my old horse and give him a telling off. I did speak pretty sharply to him and was VERY clear about what I expected from him and what I would do if he didn't comply.
No tantrums, just a little stubborness and behaving like a big lazy irish dope.
Perfect!!
I am sure this will give some people a laugh, but I hope others will see it as a success, I ve just written down pretty much as it happened and I am very happy today as he is just being a normal horse again.

Thanks again everyone
 
well done, sounds like it really was just a blip.

i find horses are much easier to deal with when they know exactly where the boundaries are.

little tip for tying up- clip a lunge line on and feed it through the tie ring and then hold the other end.

the horse can't pull back and break it but if it does have a paddy it won't hurt itself and learns that having a paddy doesn't = getting loose.
 
millitiger said:
well done, sounds like it really was just a blip.

i find horses are much easier to deal with when they know exactly where the boundaries are.

little tip for tying up- clip a lunge line on and feed it through the tie ring and then hold the other end.

the horse can't pull back and break it but if it does have a paddy it won't hurt itself and learns that having a paddy doesn't = getting loose.
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I love this tip, - thats what I did with him first few times I tied him up to my hitching pole, cemented into the ground. Also did this with the 12ft line first last night before actually tying him. The bike inner tube is great too though and cheap!
 
Great news. Sounds like you went back with a clear head which is so hard to do after a bad day! Keep it up, keep being kind but very clear with him, and I'm sure he'll turn into a lovely horse.
 
And today we started on getting the fly rug on, - well he let me hang it over his ears covering his eyes- 'cos he is happy with the fly mask you see, and then when we pulled the rug down over his neck and off him he stood fairly quietly, more happy with it over his eyes and ears, than over his neck and withers, so gonna have to have a think about this one!
 
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