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When your horse won’t take a bridle….
By Horse Guy | July 24, 2010
You may or may not know this, but some horses have an intense dislike for the bridle, and sometimes a bit of trickery is required to get them to submit to one- and train this bad habit out of them too….
If your horse is not too vicious, you should go into the stall with him. Find out where he is sensitive. If he doesn’t want to be touched about the ears, work down about the nose first; as his fear stops, work up about the ears.
Touch them very gently at first and, as soon as he will stand it, stroke them faster and a little more carelessly; then lay your right arm over his neck and press down slowly until his nose is nearly to the ground, all the time keeping his attention with your left hand by stroking his nose and forehead.
Should the horse be extremely bad, take him out of the stable, catch hold of the tail with your left hand, and the halter with your right, and whirl him around eight or ten times.
This will make him so dizzy that he will stand perfectly quiet!
After you are able to put on the bridle without force, repeat several times, holding his attention by giving him a little corn. He should be bridled very carefully for a few times.
Bridling a colt is a bit different…Do not attempt to bridle the colt until you have given it the Confidence Lesson.
Take the bridle, which has neither rein nor hitching strap in the right hand, and start away from the colt’s left shoulder.
As the colt approaches you, reach out the bridle and say, “Take Bit.” Make it easy for the colt to take the bit the first few times; remove the bit, and as soon as it moves its head toward the bridle, caress it, or reward it, by giving it a little oats, apple or something it likes.
After it reaches out a time or two and takes the bit, stop working with it for that day.
The next day, take it to the same spot and continue the treatment until it will come to you at command, “Come Here,” and then at the command, “Take Bit,” it will obey.
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Originally posted 2008-06-09 10:25:37. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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