walkers_dream
Well-Known Member
Sorry an essay (want to try and give as much info as i can to give you the best idea of how this boy is)
I have had the amazing opportunity to own a 4 year old welsh section c gelding who has had a bad start, but had two previous owners to me that treated him very well and understood him well (which helps me alot!)
But although i am doing a lot of ground work and trust exercises with him and a few driving exercises (as found this worked with my other section c who was nervous) i cant help but be concerned as he is always very nervous and just as you think you have cracked it, and we are working well he spooks and bolts, and 9/10 gets him self tangled up in lunge lines or if he is on a loose school he is impossible to catch! (Takes me a total of 2 hours to just get near him (which is when i loose my patience and then use my other gelding or my colt to coax him in to his stable as he is very attached to them both)
however in the field, you cant even get with in arms reach of him! So again i have to use my colt and gelding to bring him in! and then usually a feed bucket in my hand (but i dont let him have it till he is in his stable) will coax him in.
Once in the stable he is ok, hes a little tense at 1st and very tense if there are more than 2 people around, so thankfully my yard is very quiet being its just the livery manager and myself and our seven horses.
Is there anything else i can do to help him along? i would love to be able to start him off riding, but at the moment that wont be happening until he is more mature in the mind so i focus on building his condition/confidence ready for the work to come. Although he has been hacked out, and ridden a few times, and walked alone and is a very good boy considering!
ive read magnesium can help but i would much rather he came round on his own than be calmed by supplements?
bearing in mind, once over his initial fear issues, he is a lovely loving horse who loves his cuddles (shys from kisses still) and his only vice is his nerves and he is a little head shy some times.
it is well and truly testing all my knowledge and patience thats for sure! (Although i love every second of it)
I have had the amazing opportunity to own a 4 year old welsh section c gelding who has had a bad start, but had two previous owners to me that treated him very well and understood him well (which helps me alot!)
But although i am doing a lot of ground work and trust exercises with him and a few driving exercises (as found this worked with my other section c who was nervous) i cant help but be concerned as he is always very nervous and just as you think you have cracked it, and we are working well he spooks and bolts, and 9/10 gets him self tangled up in lunge lines or if he is on a loose school he is impossible to catch! (Takes me a total of 2 hours to just get near him (which is when i loose my patience and then use my other gelding or my colt to coax him in to his stable as he is very attached to them both)
however in the field, you cant even get with in arms reach of him! So again i have to use my colt and gelding to bring him in! and then usually a feed bucket in my hand (but i dont let him have it till he is in his stable) will coax him in.
Once in the stable he is ok, hes a little tense at 1st and very tense if there are more than 2 people around, so thankfully my yard is very quiet being its just the livery manager and myself and our seven horses.
Is there anything else i can do to help him along? i would love to be able to start him off riding, but at the moment that wont be happening until he is more mature in the mind so i focus on building his condition/confidence ready for the work to come. Although he has been hacked out, and ridden a few times, and walked alone and is a very good boy considering!
ive read magnesium can help but i would much rather he came round on his own than be calmed by supplements?
bearing in mind, once over his initial fear issues, he is a lovely loving horse who loves his cuddles (shys from kisses still) and his only vice is his nerves and he is a little head shy some times.
it is well and truly testing all my knowledge and patience thats for sure! (Although i love every second of it)
