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Choosing A Horse Training Bit
By Horse Guy | May 22, 2008
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A horse-training bit is a crucial piece of equipment you’ll need to invest in. This device is a piece of metal or other synthetic material placed in the animal’s mouth to afford bridle control.
As you can imagine, most horses are less than thrilled about the idea of taking the bit. Would you be excited about the prospect of lodging a piece of metal in your mouth so another person could easily direct the motion of your head?
Therefore, when applying a horse training bit, it’s a good idea to use a commonly known molasses trick. Start by placing some sweet molasses on the horse’s lips and letting him/her get into the moment; most horses will love this.
Next, add some molasses to the horse training bit and work it slowly into the horses mouth. Do this for a while and finally leave the bit in loosely so it doesn’t cause any pain.
This exercise creates a pleasurable experience and causes the horse to associate the bit with molasses. Therefore, he/she will actually look forward to accepting the bit.
Over time, your animal will come to accept the bit without any trouble, and you’ll be able to easily move past this initially awkward phase in your relationship.
Topics: traing-bits |
May 25th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
[...] There was a good post on it about choosing bits. [...]
July 23rd, 2008 at 11:19 pm
This was absolutely useless. The title - Choosing a Bit, what I was looking for - in NO WAY describes the actual post.