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Do you know why horses kick?
By Horse Guy | July 27, 2010
We’ve been talking about training horses recently, and I think you’re probably figuring out by now that there is quite a bit to know if you want to become REALLY good at this…
But that’s why I’m here! And today I want to cover a common problem: Why Your Horse Kicks.
All horses will kick when threatended- It’s the primary means of defense given them by nature. That’s not rreally the issue here…what we are talking about are horses that have the tendency to kick with hardly ANY provocation…
Because it has this disposition is no reason for classing it as an outlaw and thinking it cannot be handled. Its natural tendencies will only require more patient and persevering effort to make it as obedient as those in any other type.
See, most horses do not kick on account of a bad disposition, but because their owners were ignorant and REALLY TAUGHT them to kick by poor management in colt training.
If the horse kicks when the hold-back strap breaks and leaves the cross-piece of the shafts strike the hind quarters, it is only an indication that he was not properly educated when a colt.
Kicking because the line gets under the tail is another indication of poor training when a colt.
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Originally posted 2008-06-06 10:12:23. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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