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i have just got a trailer and sold my lorry. my horse will go in but then backs out really quickly before you can put the back bar on. Has anybody got any ideas on what i can do. a friend said you can get a device that you can operate from the front to put the back bar down please help i'm getting very frustrated.
 
The trailer device your friend is talking about is the Tui Loading Bar. A great idea but pricey from what I remember. You only need this if your'e loading on your own as it does the same thing as a person would in doing the rear breech bar up quick.

Mine used to be out as soon as she was in, so I hung a bucket to the front breech bar with her grub in it, so I could dash round the back and do the bar up.

If yours is panicking though, then you need to be a bit more careful and will have to try the loading and feeding him in it palava every day.
 
give him polos, thay always work
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Actually thinking about it my mate had problems with her mare doing that we got a richard maxwell halter, and it worked a treat, we practised with it first a few times and in the end with a little bit of time and patience it worked
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good luck
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Seriously, get a professional to come and work with you. These things are impossible to address on the internet because there can be a thousand different factors. A person standing there can analyse the situation, make a plan for your specific needs, educate the horse, and then help you implement the new skills. A session or two at most should do it if the person knows what they're up to.

I'd be seriously leery of putting anything down behind a horse that's trying to get off at speed. I have seen so many horrendous accidents involving horses flipping backwards over bars/doors . . .of course they don't mean to do it but they are powerful animals and if they hit anything solid going a good clip backwards they will literally push themselves past the point to no return. I have had so many horses for loading retraining because someone has tried something like that, you have no idea. Until the horse stands calmly and quietly on the trailer it doesn't really know how to load properly anyway so all you are probably doing is putting off the inevitable wreck when you are a millisecond too slow to lock the horse in one day.
 
Practice! One of mine learnt to do this but I just started feeding him in there every night. Id put him in and stand letting him eat his supper while someone behind put the bar up (if he stayed relaxed). I did this for about 4 days and he was fine afterwards. Otherwise, you could get your friend to have one of those sports water bottles, when he begins to reverse she squirts him quickly with it on his bum. He should be so surprised he shoots back in! It just puts them off reversing!
 
if you are by yourself, the easiest way is to teach them to walk in by themselves - ie you walk up to the top of the ramp with them and then you stop, throw the rope over their neck and they walk in. then you can just put the back bar up before walking round and tying them up (obviously have the front breech bar in place so they don't just walk straight through!). take a bit of time and effort but well worth it.

good luck
 
I agree with the walking in on their own, it's quite effective if the horse is in an enclosed area (as you won't have any control if he does do something,) otherwise I try to make the trailer somewhere they want to be, I generally pop it in a small yard, horse loose, and sit in it eating apples or rustling crisp bags - most horses let curiosity get the better of them eventually! Even one foot in on their own gets big 'well dones' and eventually they are happy to come in and stand , when I first leave, they will leave too, but a haynet in there eventually gets them to stand. Make sure it is well lit, either by opening front doors if you have them, or artificial light.
 
i agree with cruiser too. Best thing I ever did was get someone out to help me load my mare (she refused to go in though and bolted straight back out (ive got an Equitrek) ITs been the best money ever spent. From what she taught me, I helped a livery out last night who had been trying to load the pony for aprox 20mins. He went in once but flew back out. I got him in within 5mins and he stayed in their with no force.

Id recommend Lisa Bruin: www.lisabruin.com
 
thank's for all the great advice about loading my horse, found a price for tui loading bar it's very very expensive £460 so just going to have to keep trying. He has been in today only came out backward 5 times while eating his tea will keep you posted on itsu progress.
 
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