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| so this is quite a ways off for my yearling, but I am just curious.....for those of you who train, ride, or compete in cutting...what work can I start doing now with my boy to get him ready for the trainer? I have yet to find one in my area, and am really hoping I don't have to send him out of state, but I want to make sure that after he gets sent to the trainer he's not the horse that the trainer thinks the owner is an idiot :) LOL he's really calm, well behaved, ties, clips, lunges, round pens, comes to a whistle, stands for gun shots, and yields to pressure. is there anything I am missing? He's not scared of cows, usually lunges at them, but i have read thats not necessarily a bad thing. I wanted to start taking cutting lessons with my mare but she has come up comlpetely lame, so we are in a holding pattern. But for my boy is there anything else I can do?? | |
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Location: Bartlesville, OK | Get him halter broke, pick up his feet, and send him off. Trainers I talk to would rather work with a clean slate than go back and correct things.
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Location: Clatonia, NE | I'm sorry, I forgot, what state do you live in?
Otherwise, sounds like he's good to go. Big thing is don't make him numb!!!
Edited by RoyalCattleCo 2010-07-20 10:39 AM
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Location: Loco,Ok | Yearling and you have already done this much too him.
Turn him out.You can handle one as far as I am and the ones I worked for too much.They get numb to all of it.Most I have been around didnt care if they were halter broke or not.So much.And all I want tostart one is I can catch him and tie him up and will let me rub on him and not try to paw me or kick my head off.
Just if you can from now on turn the horse out and let him learn to handle himself.Stall or pen raised horses are always the hardest for us to get along with.Cant handle different ground and outs go out side..
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| I live in Washington, I pretty much halter broke him, got him good for the farrier and round penned him because we had a emergency and I needed to catch all my horses fast, so I taught everyone to come to a whistle, and be led by their manes when needed. The whole gunshots thing well that just came form living out here around my husband who shoots at garden raiders, the winter stalls and pens next to my husbands shop where he welds, saws etc.. Turned him out at the beginning of the year, to be a horse. I did have to pen him about a week ago because of some cherry eating on his part and some swelling in his legs, but he's getting turned back out when I get back from a week trip here soon. | |
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Location: Clatonia, NE | I dunno any trainers up your way, sorry. Utah, Calif, but not up there, anyone else?
Sounds like you've done fine with him, like we've said before- the big thing is not to desensitize too much or numb him up. When someone puts a leg on his side they'll want him to move -not ignore it. When the lead rope causes the halter to touch him he needs to give immediately, not lean on it -that type of thing. Too many people (not implying you at all), baby them too much and it's not fair to do that do them and then send them to a good trainer that wants them to give or get off of pressure immediately..... People as a culture tend to treat horses and dogs like we do kids- ask them so many times for something that they quit "hearing" us and just do what they want. | |
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Location: Bartlesville, OK | I know a trainer in OR that shows alot on the west coast. PM me for his contact info.
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| I work every day not to baby him or his dam, but I don't put up with not giving in to me or any pressure. Doesn't seem like there a whole lot of trainers here in WA. I think everyone is staying away from this state, high taxes, crazy government and snotty people with burnt coffee makes me wanna  | |
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