Retraining a working farm horse after a bolting incident at home
2016 ж. 21 Қаң.
18 345 Рет қаралды
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6yo Joe had bolted with his owner when a calf jumped onto his tip cart while working on his farm. He was then sent to us for retraining. In this film Barry explains the horses issues, what we are doing to overcome them and how he needs to learn to walk calmly on a loose rein. We show some of the training we have done getting him to accept unusual noise behind him, and show how we works out on the roads.
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Best of luck with him. As you say, he will make an excellent draft. Thank you for sharing.🐴
And that, is what you talk about...in the cold, wind, rain with a whole lot of patience and persistence. That horse walked a very calm walk through that last puddle.
Once again, I learn so much. The number of horses I've " broken " to ride, and schooled to be lovely mounts, and your wisdom tells me how much I don't know. Thank you. My Orion is benefiting from your videos. I will be sending you more pictures and videos today.
I try not to think of it as "breaking;" more and more I think of it as "educating." It goes both ways too, I learn something each time. :)
@@comesahorseman I used the term breaking simply because it means a level of training. I understand that can have negative intonation, but it is still a commonly used term. And does not mean old western movie style training. Many an old cowboy uses similar methods as seen here and are extremely kind and gentle with their animals.
@@jeanviarengo231: oh, I wasn't criticizing in any way. I was just thinking out loud. I was taught, later in life, to look at things from the horses point of view to help the training process go smoothly. Cheers!
@@comesahorseman then we agree. That is lovely! Good horsemanship is good horsemanship in any language. I was very fortunate to be taught from a very young age, "how would you feel?" Again, I just love Barry's approach to training, and it is clear the horses do too.
Super well explained video. Hope you'll show us more of Joe's progress. He's seems to be a really nice horse in looks and in character..
Nice strong horse, nasty weather and a special "River test" for you...
love u r videos don't have any horses or ponies but if i do get one in the future and has these problems i can look back at u r videos
People sometimes write cobs off as dull and lazy....this boy looks as honest as the day is long to me and intelligently sensitive without being scatty. I can see him really trying to please....a less experienced driver would miss his subtle signs.Its great to see a video of an 'unfinished' project....am hungry to see more training from the beginning. ..like a 'before and after' view of things. I'm sure I'm not alone in wanting to see more of these sympathetic methods from start to finish! x
+Jennie Law Thanks for your comment; sometimes a horse's "true" personality/character can be distorted based on bad experiences for example, that then lead a horse to get given a label that is entirely unfair - as you say, not all cobs are dull and lazy, just as not all TBs are hyperactive and strong! We are currently producing some videos that will be for sale which go into more depth about our training philosophies, however its also worth bearing in mind that a lot of our films do actually show the "before" and "during" training process, and all that happens is we repeat a particular exercise until it is solid in the horse's head. For example, this film shows how we taught a fidgeting horse to stand still: kzhead.info/sun/oZZ8c6uscJqPknk/bejne.html - he was not "finished" in this film, and what we do in the film IS the training method that we used to teach him to stand still. By repeating this exercise during the following weeks, he was perfect at standing still by the time he left our yard.
Really appreciate you taking the time to reply to me. I viewed the clip on the link. Its great to see such a patient and sympathetic approach while still maintaining firm but fair leadership with realistic boundaries and consequences when these boundaries are inevitably pushed. I'll look forward to seeing the new more in depth video's u mentioned.
cobs are lovely can be cheeky but there honest and kind
He is awesome!
Interesting to see you have a strap around shaft to keep traces towards the shaft, can I ask why? Is this because your swingle tree isn't very wide?
+Beverley Birch Thanks for your comment; it is reasonably wide (we have a selection of swingle trees we could use if one doesn't suit) but sometimes we don't want the traces to rub on the horse's legs or belly too much. This can often be a problem with "larger" equines who have quite a lot of fat on their stomachs, making it wider than their chest, so even with a wide swingle tree the traces still pull in and rub. The traces are distorted out round the belly then pull back in straightaway, which can chafe the hair on their sides and make them tender (as the trace is constantly moving). Putting the straps on the shafts up nearer to the horse allows the traces to be held away from their stomachs a bit better. As they get a bit fitter, before they go home we drive them without the straps but during training, depending on how much they are rubbing, we prefer to use the straps.
+barryhook2 Interesting, never seen that done before, what a good idea, might have to do that with my cob if he keeps expanding! Have you fitted something on the shaft to retain the strap in place?
+Beverley Birch We fit the strap between the 2 nuts that adjust the shafts; usually we wrap it round the shaft between them once (so that tightens up and stops it slipping over, as it would if its a big single loop) then we leave the remaining large loop to go round the trace, so that it can slide through there freely. It only has about 2 inches to travel forwards and backwards up the shaft before it hits one of the nuts which keeps it in place.