\’Grass Training\’: Teach Your Horse to Stop Grazing
Teach your horse to stop grazing or ignore grass when you lead him
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The clicker, for me a symbol of …
For me the clicker represents force-free horse training, friendship, fun and life time of learning. Let me explain.
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How to … bring your horse to the pasture (safely)
As positive reinforcement trainer you always want to train the opposite behaviour as well. So after writing a post about getting your horse out of the field (effortlessly), it\’s time to write about bring your back to the field (safely).
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How to get your horse out of the pasture effortlessly
I sometimes jokingly call myself a \’lazy horse owner\’. Why? Because I rather spent a bit of time training my horse than to deal with undesired behaviour day in and day out and get frustrated all the time. So I taught my horse to come to the gate. Here is how.
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DIY Target stick for Horse Training
A target stick is such a great tool in clicker training. Read on to make your own safe and sturdy target stick. It\’s really easy so you have no excuse to not at least try it out. With a target stick you can teach a horse practical anything. Read Best basics: Take targeting to the next level if you want
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Reflections on +R vs -R (positive reinforcement vs negative reinforcement)
How valuable is a behaviour to you when it is associated by the horse with aversives (-R, negative reinforcement)? Is a behaviour that is associated with something pleasurable /appetitives (+R, positive reinforcement) worth less, or more to you? Or do you not care at all what your horse\’s associations are with your ways of getting
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Clicker training 101: Tips for Treats
The most important thing about the treats I use is that is has to have enough value to my horse to reinforce the desired behaviour. Here are some other things to consider when you choose treats for training.
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How to… train for a dressage test with clicker training
Dressage riders who use positive reinforcement have asked me: \’I can\’t click and reward my horse during a dressage test. So how can I practice a test and still use clicker training?\’ Or they say: \’I don\’t want my horse to stop in the middle of the test because he expects a treat\’ or \’He stops because he is used to
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Three Best Kept Secrets in Horse Training
I wish every horse owner, trainer, clinician and riding instructor knew about these and shared them…
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How to… shape behaviours
In positive reinforcement training one of the techniques to get behaviour is called \’shaping\’. In shaping the goal behaviour is achieved by splitting the desired behaviour into many tiny steps. Each step is trained separately (clicked and reinforced). A criterion is only raised if the previous tiny step is confirmed. In this way you can build a behaviour from scratch (free
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