First rides..

[imasassycowgirl]

For those of you who read my gloating post about my new filly from my boyfriend, we put her first ride on her today. We left off the bridle and lunged her in all her tack, and after a really nice workout had my friend put her weight on her as I led her around. She was awesome... She is really ouchiy on her feet thoguh so if I am going to put many miles on her I am going to have to shoe her early i think... But oh welll she is taking to training really well.
Bridle intro tomorrow
I am excited. You should have seen her thought when she first met and electric fence for the first time ... LMAO... ( we were no longer riding her) We put her in a new electric fence paddock and she wlaked up and tried to stick her head between the lines ( cause she is really pushy and alwyas in peoples space... that is changing too..) and touch ed the fence got a shock... ran and then got PISSED off it was so funny, her facial expressions were pricelss.. she was mad, stomped snorted swiching the tail, tossing her head, glaring at the fence... of course you never have a camera when this is going on..
LOL

So after we finished this mare, We deceide to restart a gelding ( 3 years) that is have that I had only put one ride on around Thanksgiving last year, and haven't been able to work with since... He did great.. really soft right from the start and we worked him under saddle walk and trot ( his first ride we were already trotting way back in Oct.)
The we went out and brought allm y young horses into my dads heifer barn and caught the little wild colt I have. We had to push gtates up against him and kinda squeeze him in, as as soon as you were scratching him he was ok but if you even reached forwards towards his head he would strike. I have been afraid his halter would be growing into his ead as ih ave beem unable to catch him for months as the last time i caught him he backed into and electric fence and hates me for it... So we squessed him in and he struck the gates numerous times and then I got him settled down, changed halters, worked with him over and hour, ( and he was back to being loving) byut I know once I put him out it will go back to being afraid again so i left a drag line on him.. the first time I have ever used this meathod. but he was stepping on it few times while grazing, and it no longer seems to bother him under his chin, so hopefullly this desensitises him to beig scared to have a rope on.
What and exlierating day!!

[Carri]

That's great, I am so glad it went so well! Congratulations!

[Nynx]

If you're little colt is a smart one, he'll figure out to carry his head sideways to avoid stepping on the rope. Hopefully, you'll get him niceified before he always cocks his head to one side when walking!

Isin't it nice to have one of those days where everthing goes well? I say H*#% yes for you, and your good work!

[foreveryours]

Hey!!! No fair... you were supposed to do all that with me this weekend!!! lol jk... at least i can come ride with you this weekend since it sounds like you got all the other stuff on the list done.... unless you come up with more before then.....lol

[gbarmranch]

Sounds like you did great with all of them - congratulations. What a great training session on everyone...

[Smilie]

Hi
The drag rope does help with the inicial halter breaking-in an enclosed area like a corral. I never, never turn a horse out is a pasture with a halter on. Leaving a halter on so long that they actualy start to grow into a horse is not the way to go. You work with them , until they are at a point where you can halter them daily to work with them. Only then do you turn them out-no halter. This early correctly hnadling is so important.
One can start at horse many ways, but getting them responding to the bit properly before riding is the preferred method. Leading someone on the back of a horse doesn't teach him much. Hope I'm not being too critical, just trying to make helpful suggestioned based on years of experience both raising colts and training them

[imasassycowgirl]

well we woke up this morning only to find that a saftey snap ( Big) that attached my drag line to my colt was missing... how in the world he managed to get it off I have no idea, so tonight we re-led the other 2 colts over to the barn, and very easily proceeded to catch my little wild one. he was sooooooo much better This makes me happy. For the rest of the evening we proceeded to put rides 2 on both the gelding I am working and the new filly... at the end of each session we were doing direction changes for both at a trot... how awesome!!!! the little filly is a little slower to but that is ok, she is only 2. There is no need to compare..
Smilie... not to worry, I do all my ground work immaculety first. I am a certified trainer with Chris Irwin and unless the horse is ready for backing I don't do it. Secondly I hardly have any pressure on the bit, as I steer using my body, they adjust so much faster to the body language than the bridle... bum girth and then neck and head. We tend to leave the head almost alone for a long time, and only create barriers with the bit so they can't go out of the bounds I have set for them.
To stop... and yes we need to do this, it is a total relaxation of your body with a deep exhalation of breathe and my young horses just about slide to a stop beneath me... LOL I love it when you go to a show on a VERY yong horse to orientate them and you bring them to sliding stops in front of all those who reef hard to stop theirs... It brings so much satisfaction to know my horses and I can communicate this way

Cheers for your concerns however.

[foreveryours]

hey guys kyla asked me to post some pics of them horses for you. so here they are first is dustin

dazzle

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