Youngster training

[becca1998]

To train a young horse that's had a poor start you need a plan .
You need to set your self objectives and work towards meeting them .
So if your horse was mine I would be leading it around and teaching it to halt and walk on from the voice .
I would teaching it stand while groomed and all that sort of thing .
The stabling thing must be dealt with .
Roultine is your friend in this sort of situation twice a day I would bring the horse into the stable and do a bit of handling .
You just have to be persistent and have a plan .
You also need advice on the ground from an experianced person who can see the horse and advise you the best training plan .
It sounds as if the horse may have been rough broke to drive when young that's a shame but it is what it is and you just have to work through it .
I would be walk lunging round the school and yard teaching the horse the voice commands and getting standing calmly and obediently .
I would not long rein before the horse is very calm unless you are very experianced and good at it , when you start long reining have a second person to help you .

She used to do all ofthat stuff I have worked through it yea she may not be stabled but I think everyone thinks she does this every day and has not read my posts proplery I know what I am doing and I have shown her in hand very successfully this year my point was that she is very sharp and nervous that's why I stopped backing her at the begging of the year, and yes at the begging of the year she would kick of being brought in but she definatly doesnt do that now. I have a plan and I will follow that the least of my worries at the moment is her being stabled my concern is getting her used to things. My horse definitely trusts me shes a mummy horse and I can do a lot with her I think her behaviour is just her being her something she sees everyday could be scary the next day.

 

[BethH]

Hi

I just wanted to post to say that there are some very useful comments on here from very experienced horse people. Please please don't take it as criticism. I think it is great that you have posted and asked for ideas, a number of these posters have handled and bought on all types of horses and are very experienced in the difficult moments that you have worked through & are working through. My own horse was recommended to be PTS because he was so dangerous as a youngster and it has been quite a learning curve but getting the basics and groundwork done in the right order and in the right way is so important.

Your horse sounds as though she could end up being a lovely horse of a lifetime for you & you clearly care very much for her welfare, some of the ideas mentioned are worth considering. I wish you the best of luck.

 

[becca1998]

Hi

I just wanted to post to say that there are some very useful comments on here from very experienced horse people. Please please don't take it as criticism. I think it is great that you have posted and asked for ideas, a number of these posters have handled and bought on all types of horses and are very experienced in the difficult moments that you have worked through & are working through. My own horse was recommended to be PTS because he was so dangerous as a youngster and it has been quite a learning curve but getting the basics and groundwork done in the right order and in the right way is so important.

Your horse sounds as though she could end up being a lovely horse of a lifetime for you & you clearly care very much for her welfare, some of the ideas mentioned are worth considering. I wish you the best of luck.

I do understand that they are giving me some good advice but everyone is so caught up on her being stabled and the fact that she used to be a cow
Not what I'm working with now I'm not going to be doing it all by myself and when the time come where I do back her again then I will be sending her to get professionaly backed as I want what's best for her (and I put my hands up and admit that I'm not the best person at schooling I can do it but dislike it)

 

[BethH]

I hope it all goes well for you - as an aside when I 1st got my horse he had never been stabled and found it quite stressful, so I bought him a trickle ball and gave him a handful of pony nuts in it a couple of times a day, made up small haynets & hung them up in 3 or 4 different places around the stable for him to investigate and put swedes and carrots on a rope so that everytime he came in it was to explore & for a treat. I also got him used to a stallguard, he is a bit claustrophobic so it helped, but make sure she is happier first as you don't want her to barge through it and learn to break the chain.

He just came in long enough to play with his ball and then I took him back out again, you could teach her to use it in the field first, it might help her settle so she is better in case you need her to be in for anything....

Fingers crossed for you.

 

[ester]

That's what i was going to do I was going to wait until next year but the vet wants me to get some of the weight off as she's 'obese' according to the vet. I tried to do a bit at the begging of the year and she got to the point I couldn't catch her and if I did she would rear buck and canter in circles whilst I tried to bring her in. I have backed quite a few horses successfully but she's her own breed haha, I'm definitely no expert but she's definitely a challenge

It isn't the other poster's fault that they read this and assumed she was still at that stage, as you didn't say she had then improved past this point, which read like you had tried to do some work with her and all it had done was make her worse, which would obviously be worrying.
That taken with she used to be stabled but won't now rather indicated things were going downhill not improving.

 

[Cluelessblonde]

I do understand that they are giving me some good advice but everyone is so caught up on her being stabled and the fact that she used to be a cow
Not what I'm working with now I'm not going to be doing it all by myself and when the time come where I do back her again then I will be sending her to get professionaly backed as I want what's best for her (and I put my hands up and admit that I'm not the best person at schooling I can do it but dislike it)

It's hard to hear all the comments at once when your obviously slightly concerned it's hard not to get defensive and take it as a bashing of your horse and your intentions.

My lad wasn't that great in the Stable at the start but now I've agreed that when they are bringing outer horses in when I'm not there to bring him too so hes always getting handled so that could help... Because it really helped him

I think it's best to address the groundwork issues as much as you can when they are young. He is 4 so he has had time to be a horse and just because your handling him more will take away from that. So I wouldnt feel guilty about asking them to behave it's for your own safety as well as yours.

In my experience the sharp youngsters turn out the best (here's hoping for my boy too) but keep trying different methods and I would have a professional on call if you need it...

Good luck and keep us updated