What is your Horse like to load?

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Just asking as today is the third time Mights has been loaded and now know she does the same thing each time. Lead steadily up to bottom of ramp. She sniffs the ramp then launches herself in, clearing most of the ramp
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, lol, stoopid mare. Although in all seriousness will have to work on this as although I laugh it's dangerous.
 
Lol at your mare - she seems keen
Danny trots on
Maric won't load for anyone but me and then I have to have carrots
Sol used to be a nightmare and wouldn't go within 10ft of a ramp now even my mum (who is petrified of gg's) can load her as she very quietly walks on
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Perfect in the trailer, walks in nice and easy (always have a little food waiting for him and Bodey is very food orientated). Never loaded in a lorry but don’t think it will be a problem.
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Sounds like your mare just needs more practice?!?
 
Ron will put himself in our trailer by himself, and if i travel him in someone elses box or trailer he knows which one he has arrived in and loads himself in it to go home again!

my sisters horse will only go in our trailer and not in anything else... he got scared in a wagon once and now won't go up a wagon ramp, plus his previous owners used to leave him on the wagon on his own while they competed his mum!
 
I can barely keep up with Boo when I load him in the trailer. He went up the ramp like a rocket when I took him out on Sunday - you wouldn't think his previous 6 trips had been to the vets!
I haven't loaded him in a lorry for ages, but he tends to canter up the ramp.
 
My shetlands will load into anything, be it a huge lorry or little trailer, and then proceed to tangle eachother up, my section D is quite happy to load tohugh doesnt like standing around waiting to, and my section B...he stands at the bottom and stares at me most of the time, them with some encouragement stamps his fore legs on and trundles up sighing, then attacks his hay ^_^
 
Merlin walks happily up to the bottom of the ramp..... puts both front feet on it and then you have one of two scenarios...

He will either load immediatly and sedately,....... if there is someone else visible... and ideally behind, although they dont have to actually do anything.

Or if I am on my own he just stops and stands and any attempt to move him further forward results in him pulling back
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I did however load him last wednesday and managed to walk him on and off several times. He then had a crap journey and pulled off a shoe, so will have to see what happens on saturday when we try again!!!
 
Ali will only load if you have two lunge lines around his bottom... If you don't use them he'll NEVER go into the trailer, but when you do use them he goes in straight away... He won't load into a trailer with partitions either...
 
I am soooo jealous of you all. Whisky is anightmare and has been since I got him. He has to travel facing backwards so had to buy an Equitrek trailer and leave beautiful herringbone style box in barn. He takes forever to load and has to be coaxed on very gently. Slightest pressure on leadrope or from other people sends him off like a rocket and have to start again.
 
Toto trots up the lorry ramp and gets all four feet inside but won't swing his bum round to stand sideways (if you try to push him round he backs swiftly out!) the only way I can do it is to turn him all the way round (in a tiny space) and then push him round as he's moving , we do get some funny looks but its the only way he will do it !
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she is a star and just gets on, always has done, even though she had a nasty incident in the back of one years ago, she clearly feels stressed so i don't like to travel her too much, but she will never refuse to get on or even hesitate, even though you can see it scares her, bless her little cottons, such an honest sweetheart of a horse
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I have had my old boy 17 years and 16 years ago bought him a lovely Bedford TK 750 as a present ..... 8 years after I sold it .... I took my friends horses out regularly but mine NEVER went anywhere it in
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He absolutely refused to load and when he nearly hung himself on a gate trying to load him I decided that I would rather hack everywhere than have a lame horse ..... and I did and still do to this day
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This is one thing I will not stop practicing at home with until they load properly everytime! My main horse loads and travels perfectly onto anything but then he would - he never questions mummy! My Welsh Cob was HELL to travel. He came to me as a (very strong!) 3yo and wouldnt load at first (sorted that in a month of daily practice!) but travelling was horrific. In fact as soon as Id close the jockey door he'd flip out and begin rearing right up. I lost count how many times he'd get his front legs over the bar...! I had to go in with him while my mum drove round the field and clicker trained him to behave basically. I then travelled with him to local shows for the first 5/6 times (the only way!) and even after that every nown and again he'd still flip out. He got totally wedged 3 times by jumping over the breast bar (once that included his hind legs too...). Took about a year for him to settle and that was going out most weekends! Only now do I trust him! And only this year am I now happy to travel further distances with him.

I have a little 3yo pony now who Im teaching the ropes. He's loading ok, a tiny bit iffy for about a minute so we're getting over that. Travelling he's ok although first time out he managed to break the string and do a total 180!!!!
 
My lad always does the same thing when he is being loaded into the trailer. He stops about 2-3 mtrs away from the ramp & has a quick look about & then walks on up the ramp without a problem.
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the mare can be a bit of a bugger, sometimes straight in sometimes she takes a little longer!!
the other two are absolute gems and just walk straight on!
 
My pony loads herself in the trailer whilst my horse pretends she can't see the ramp and then trips over it... She goes in eventually, but often with a run up!
 
4 of mine load first time every time and will even load themselves (particularly if there is the possibility of food in there). The other 1 depends. If it is the first show after his winter lay off then it will take 20 mins to load at home (he likes to stand and look and evaluate, no point pressurising him as he digs his heals in and says no, stand there for 10 mins and generaly he will walk up when he is good and ready), after that it is first time every time.

And that is into both trailer and lorry.

travelling is anouther matter entirely, ive got 5 brilliant travelers in the lorry.
but with the trailer 3 of them travel brilliantly. one will stress, sweat and thump around (last time i thought he was going to turn the trailer over he was throwing himself round that much) and anouther will throw himself on the floor then when you open the jockey door to get in to get him up he will come out of it! all 15hh of him.
 
Different every time! Last night he wouldn't go in until I got carrots, the time before that he dragged me up the ramp like a pro. Time before that he wouldn't go in for love nor money, but time before that he dragged me up the ramp. I'm sensing a pattern...
 
Fom the yearlings to the 10yr old everyone is a dream to load.

i cannot abide horses/ponies that "wont" load....
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G will load into a trailer or a box without too much trouble.

Occasionally he'll stop on the ramp in which case you just have to give him a few minutes then he'll walk right in. If you get behind him or pull the lead rope he'll just shoot backwards (or forwards, hit the breast bar and then back again). It took us a while to work out that 2 minutes patience is much easier than 15 minutes of hassle.
 
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