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Posted on 01/02/2007 9:57:39 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
I’m going to try really hard to get video. I find that it helps because you can watch and pick up on all kinds of things that you missed the trainer saying.
He is a good boy. I love that horse.
Jake has his moments of not wanting to load. We have spent many hours at the trail head after a long ride trying to convince him to get on the trailer or stay tied to a tree. Usually what works is a butt rope or just standing with tension on the lead rope until he give in. Jerking, whipping, yellling all makes it worse.
Jake will be glad to hear that! LOL.
Well it would be an interesting bet on how easy he would go:)
Becky
Yeah, sometimes it’s hard to know whether to help or not. With my oldest horse, having a stranger behind him just made him worse, but then some horses just need a nudge from behind and they’ll hop right in. Speaking of my oldest horse, I need to take TheNewTrailer down to the barn sometime when I’ve got nothing else to do and work with him on loading into it, coz I’m sure that he’ll balk until he gets used to it. I’d just like to know that he’ll get into it when I need him to, just in case I need to take him to the vet or something. I do have another, larger trailer that he will get into, but I want him to be able to load into this one too.
People are fun to watch aren’t they.
A horse that won’t load has happened to all of us, it can sure get EVERYONE’S adrenalin pumping tho:)
At the playday I went to Sat. we saw some things that gave us pause....I guess that’s going to happen everywhere tho. I just always feel bad for the horses.
Becky
Yeah, but Jake would eventually go, and you DID work with him on it a LOT. And he’s much better about it now. I don’t remember when the last time he had a problem was.
It is really hot and humid here also. We had rain yesterday, but not enough to do much. I did mow the yard today, because it was getting weedy. The pasture is about gone too. All that work last year, with seeding. We have been letting the horses out, at least for the exercise. This is much better than the wash out last year, so I am not complaining.
Well, I probably let mine schlep along on a loose rein more than I should, especially when we’re just walking. But when they’re gaiting I try to keep just enough pressure on the rein to keep them from rooting their nose out because when they get strung out and on the forehand they really don’t gait very well and tend to pace. But I don’t like super-tight reins either. I would think it would tend to give them a dead mouth after a while.
I was using a hack on Ellie this time because the trainer said that’s what he was using the last week he had her, but I don’t think I’ll use it the next time because it seemed to make her want to throw her head up and hollow her back. I may try a sweet iron Wonder Bit next time and see how that does. The trainer had used one of those prior to the hack but switched to the hack because he said that her mouth got sore from wearing the bit every day. Lord knows I won’t be riding her every day so it may do fine. Bitting issues are so confusing!
He gives us some attitued everytime we load to go home. But it has gotten the point that if I jsut walk in and go through the escape door he will load right up by keeping pressure on the lead. That works so we stick to it. He does not deal well with changes to his routine.
Yeah, I know whatcha mean. That's kinda like Tennessee and the old trailer and the butt rope. Didn't really have to use it, just had to have it. Horses are really strange creatures of habit.
Kinda like husbands ;-)
LOL!! Ain’t that the truth!
I noticed in Frog's picture that a couple horses had even stopped to poop on the bridge... it's just like getting in a trailer ;~)
Yeah, and one of them was Ellie when she went across the first time. I guess they're both high pucker-factor events, except in horses the pucker-factor works in reverse. ;o)
He looks good :~)
Wow! He’s really grown up! He’s a very nice-looking young fellow, but then he’s always been very striking. You sure raise some nice babies!
It's from this: PICS of 'Extreme Judged Trail Ride'!
I mean... I've never handled one of those round bale feeders, but I'm assuming you could get it rolling pretty easy if a horse stepped wrong and bumped it. And the gaps in the pipes look like a broken leg waiting to happen.
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