husbandry skills

Husbandry skills are all behaviours you need to train in order to keep your horse happy, healthy and safe. Examples: hoof care, eye care, behaviours to make basic care easy and safe: haltering, leading, tying.

Bonding with horses

Solving Problem Behavior with Clicker Training (Leg Lifting)

One of my horses, Fionn, is not (yet) cool about lifting his legs for cleaning and trimming. I\’ve never had mini horses before but I can totally see how people would manhandle them instead of training them properly. An adult is so much stronger and it\’s enticing to think you can \’win\’ by holding his leg up. But are you really winning that way?

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Husbandry skills: hoof care (part IV)

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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house training horses with clicker training

I accomplished my \’shittiest\’ goal ever!

Yes, this will be a very shitty topic. Sorry about that. The topic is… house-training my horse. In May 2015 I started house-training Kyra. I am a lazy horse owner, so I taught her some tricks to make my life easier. You can house-train your horse too: https://clickertraining.ca Thinking ahead I always, always reinforce Kyra

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