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Teach your horse some cool tricks
By Horse Guy | June 27, 2010
One of the coolest things you can teach your horse, and a great way to develop an incredibly deep bond with your animal is by teaching them a few easy tricks.
The most essential thing necessary for the trainer to possess, in teaching tricks, is an unlimited amount of patience or self-control.
You cannot teach your horse a trick in a single hour or even in a single day; but only by persistent efforts on your part. You must repeat one time after another until the trick becomes a habit.
In fact, the teaching of tricks is merely the forming of unusual habits.
But here’s a warning: Never try to teach a horse tricks until he thoroughly understands the “Confidence Lesson” from book 1 of Train Wild Horses!
Give the first lessons in an enclosure and at the same spot each time, as the horse will grasp your idea much quicker. When he will perform his trick perfectly at this place, then take him to other places.
Types No. 2 and No. 4 are not suitable for a horse to be taught tricks as they are inclined to be willful, stubborn or treacherous and ill natured. A combination of types No. 1 and No. 3 makes the best trick horse.
No. 1 gives you docility, kindness and tractability, while type No. 3 adds the nerve and ambitious temperament, which enables you to exhibit a horse with nerve and fire, and still he is obedient to your commands.
Always remember that the horse cannot reason from cause to effect and can only grasp your meaning by having an action associated with the command, and a lesson must be repeated until firmly fixed.
Never attempt to teach a horse but one thing at a time, and have this point taught PERFECTLY before beginning another.
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Originally posted 2008-06-11 10:41:06. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Topics: training | 1 Comment »
April 16th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
Hi,
I would like a safe way to catch any one of a group of brood mares. They either run away,so I have to slog through huge muddy pasture, or crowd up if I have feed. Ideally I could call a mare and she would come to gate, put her head over gate for haltering,then be led out quietly. This would let me supplement the mares that need it and groom them, and exercize each as needed.
One horse ran past me, her rear hoof caught my knee, and I have permanent problems due to the damage. If I fall I can’t get up. (two BAD knees, now) Any slipping causing either torque or hyperextension results in severe pain and a long recovery period,
These are spirited Saddlebreds all over 16.2 hands, all trained by pro. Excellent stall behavior, but wild in pasture. Can they be safely caught and trained to come when called?
I would like to trick train them. One looks like Roy Rodger’s “Trigger”, though a mare, and another resembles Buttermilk.
I also have a yearling golden stud colt who will mature well over 17H. His parents both racked well, so I have high hopes for him. He is being professionally handled as I plan to promote him as a breeding stallion. Here again, some tricks might make his video stand out from those “outstanding in the field”
Thanks Liz Gray