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Husbandry skills: hoof care (part IV)

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In this series I will keep you posted about the young horse I am training in order to prepare her for the next farrier visit. I will call her A. in this blog. A was scared to let people touch her legs, especially her hind legs. She kicked out whenever she felt something touching them.

I promised to keep you updated on our clicker training sessions. We had another session since my last post. Progress might seem slow, but I know from over a decade of clicker training horses that slow is the way to go.

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How to Achieve Your Equestrian Goals

1 Comment / Horse training, Set up for Success, Training goals /

In December 2016 I started to offer an online course about Equestrian Goal setting. It\’s one of my fun projects and my students really liked it. What is your goal? I enjoy helping other enthusiastic equestrians with splitting their goals into achievable steps. It has been so rewarding for me to see people achieve their own goals

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Preparing for a hoof stand by HippoLogic

Husbandry skills: hoof care (part I)

3 Comments / Positive Reinforcement (+R) /

The term \’husbandry skills\’ refers to all the behaviours you want to teach an animal in order to take care of them safely. Daily  husbandry skills are haltering, leading, grooming, cleaning hooves, cleaning nostrils, eyes and ears and so on. Medical procedures like drawing blood (important in zoo animals) or administering medication (injections, oral medication, ointments)

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Debunking Myths: \’The Whip is only an Extension of my Arm\’

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There are so many myths in the horse world it is hard to choose where to start debunking them. Since I have seen several advertisements on Facebook with videos of horses at liberty and instructors talking about \’freedom\’, \’connection\’, \’positive training\’ or \’friendship\’ while carrying a whip directing a horse with a swishing tail and

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