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Topic: Exercises to do on lead?
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MiniHorseGrl
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posted May 11, 2004 06:34 PM
well, Harold is behaving on the lead VERY well now, but he seems to be getting bored with it, and there isnt really much else to do..does anyone have any ideas of anytghing i can do with him that i can stil be working with him, besides walking and stopping and trotting around the yard?
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Posts: 381 | From: Lockport,NY | Registered: Apr 2004
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MissBandit
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posted May 11, 2004 08:39 PM
What about driving? If he's behaving so nicely on the lunge line, I don't see why you can't take that next step. You could then drive him all over the arena and around little obstacles. Ie, trotting poles or around barrels or traffic cones.
Posts: 2292 | From: BC, Canada | Registered: Jan 2004
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MiniHorseGrl
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posted May 12, 2004 04:13 AM
i havent really tried longing again, he doesnt seem to understand that, but ill work on that, but i thought u werent supposed to lounge young horses?
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Posts: 381 | From: Lockport,NY | Registered: Apr 2004
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space_cowboy
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posted May 12, 2004 06:15 AM
You could set up an obstacle course to play around with?!?!?
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Posts: 383 | From: houston | Registered: Jan 2004
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MiniHorseGrl
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posted May 12, 2004 08:30 AM
oo, thats a good idea! im surprised i didnt think of that, since i do that all the time with my mini, lol..is it ok to teach big horses to side pass on the lead?
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Posts: 381 | From: Lockport,NY | Registered: Apr 2004
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MissBandit
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posted May 12, 2004 10:24 AM
quote:
Originally posted by MiniHorseGrl:
i havent really tried longing again, he doesnt seem to understand that, but ill work on that, but i thought u werent supposed to lounge young horses?
I appologize, I misread "lead" for "lunge" somehow. I don't know how old your horse is.
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Posts: 2292 | From: BC, Canada | Registered: Jan 2004
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Blistering Winds
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posted May 12, 2004 11:06 AM
Your horse won't understand at first. YOu have to teach him. It takes a bit, but always end on a good note, and you'll start seeing some progress.
Just get between him and the fence, cluck him forward, if you have to swing the other end of the lunge line. If he comes off the fence, circle him around, stop him at the fence, and get him moving. Until he learns, you only want him at a walk. You shouldn't be too far off of him at first either. Stay near him and basically "box him in".
Horses have doors. You have to shut doors, and they will move through the other doors. If you have the fence on one side, that door is shut. If you are ont he other side, that door is now shut. He only has 2 more doors. Front and back. YOu just step slightly behind his shoulder and stay there to get him to move forward. Work on it, and it will come around. Try to stay at a walk. As he and you both get better, then you can start stepping further and further away from him.
Then after you can get him up and down the fence, then you can set up some cones, and move him through them WITHOUT TOUCHING HIM. You should be able to step in front of his shoulder, toward him, and he step away.
Good Luck
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Posts: 4337 | From: Texas | Registered: Oct 2003
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MiniHorseGrl
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posted May 12, 2004 01:15 PM
ok, its kinda bad too, since he is the only horse that cant go out with another one, he has to wait till the end of the day to get out, and get to use a corral, and a lot of the time there isnt time to work him other then stick him out, clean his stall, groom him, and walk him out, kind of annoying
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Posts: 381 | From: Lockport,NY | Registered: Apr 2004
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MiniHorseGrl
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posted May 12, 2004 03:23 PM
yay! i had him out, just brought him in, and we tried the lounging thing, and it ook awhile, but we got it!! he took awhile to realize what i wanted, and it took ME awhile to find out where to stand!! lol, but now that i figured it out, we'll do that a few times a week! thanks for the tip!
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Posts: 381 | From: Lockport,NY | Registered: Apr 2004
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Blistering Winds
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posted May 12, 2004 07:18 PM
Great!!! Keep it up!!!
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MiniHorseGrl
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posted May 13, 2004 03:58 AM
hehe, we will!
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