Post by AnnB (NE) on Aug 28, 2008 10:37:33 GMT -5
Parelli, Lyons, Roberts -- they all have good points and get great results. I like the results Roberts gets with Joining-Up (works for cows too), but I also really like Parelli's Liberty training.
I just bid on one of Monty Roberts' Dually halters (and the training video) on ebay.
Georgia is a great girl -- misunderstood, spoiled, and has definitely been working in the wrong equipment for her. But LOTS of potential there.
She's already pretty much over the fact that we don't give apple-flavored horse treats -- she still asks for them, but isn't upset when she doesn't get them.
She acts very excited to see me, lowers her head and stands nicely to have a lead attached to her halter, stands fairly well to be brushed, and leads fairly well. Her stride is long, so she's having a bit of a problem with slowing down to my pace and she wants to veer to the left. She's a bit jumpy, everything here is new, with most things she checks it out and then she's fine -- but she absolutely doesn't know what to think of the goats! I'm going to have to move some of them closer to her so she can get used to them. Good thing her first up-close exposure to them wasn't under saddle -- poor thing about came out of her skin when that buck goat stepped out from underneath a cedar tree and approached the fence!
Of course, he's quite rank right now (rut), so she really could have just been recoiling from the smell! LOL
I was told by the gal that gave her to me that the farrier hadn't been able to touch her hindlegs since they got her (3 years ago), without having to tie her leg up. I was also told that you couldn't touch her below the hocks without risking having your head kicked off.
I've brushed her all the way down to her hind fetlocks without any reaction at all -- she has scars on her hind legs just above her fetlocks. Luckily, she doesn't need any work done on her hooves, they look pretty good right now. But I think it might be a good idea to go ahead and get ahold of the farrier recommended by our vet and see if he'll just come by a couple of times when he's driving by, not to do anything to her, but just to more or less meet her. Let her meet him when he's not trying to trim her feet. Maybe HE could become the one that gives apple-flavored horse treats! She likes those things well enough, that it might make a difference in her perception of him if he's the only that gives them.
Ann B
I just bid on one of Monty Roberts' Dually halters (and the training video) on ebay.
Georgia is a great girl -- misunderstood, spoiled, and has definitely been working in the wrong equipment for her. But LOTS of potential there.
She's already pretty much over the fact that we don't give apple-flavored horse treats -- she still asks for them, but isn't upset when she doesn't get them.
She acts very excited to see me, lowers her head and stands nicely to have a lead attached to her halter, stands fairly well to be brushed, and leads fairly well. Her stride is long, so she's having a bit of a problem with slowing down to my pace and she wants to veer to the left. She's a bit jumpy, everything here is new, with most things she checks it out and then she's fine -- but she absolutely doesn't know what to think of the goats! I'm going to have to move some of them closer to her so she can get used to them. Good thing her first up-close exposure to them wasn't under saddle -- poor thing about came out of her skin when that buck goat stepped out from underneath a cedar tree and approached the fence!
Of course, he's quite rank right now (rut), so she really could have just been recoiling from the smell! LOL
I was told by the gal that gave her to me that the farrier hadn't been able to touch her hindlegs since they got her (3 years ago), without having to tie her leg up. I was also told that you couldn't touch her below the hocks without risking having your head kicked off.
I've brushed her all the way down to her hind fetlocks without any reaction at all -- she has scars on her hind legs just above her fetlocks. Luckily, she doesn't need any work done on her hooves, they look pretty good right now. But I think it might be a good idea to go ahead and get ahold of the farrier recommended by our vet and see if he'll just come by a couple of times when he's driving by, not to do anything to her, but just to more or less meet her. Let her meet him when he's not trying to trim her feet. Maybe HE could become the one that gives apple-flavored horse treats! She likes those things well enough, that it might make a difference in her perception of him if he's the only that gives them.
Ann B