Pets: Horse Training Secrets For Busy Horse Owners Short On Time

Horse Training Secrets For Busy Horse Owners Short On Time

Written by Andy Curry

Picture this. You're late for work one day. You look at your watch and notice you have about three minutes to feed your horse before you have to leave. Plus, it seems to worsen every day. You notice your life getting busier and you have little time, if any, to spend with your horse.

Should you sell him? Should you keep him? What do you do.

It depends. If you only want a pet that eats a lot of hay, then you can keep him if it is affordable. If you want to ride him but you know you won't have time then consider selling him. (Ouch!)

However, if you know you will eventually have time to ride then you can keep your horse "tuned up" by doing some "quick and easy to do" horse training maneuvers on him.

For instance, you have about two minutes to feed your horse before you go to work. So you rush outside and get some hay for him. Just before you feed him you get beside him and practice his backing up.

Backing him up is a great way to keep him "tuned up". Why? You get your horse to move. When you get your horse to move you earn more and more of his respect. Getting a horse to move is using repparttar horse's psychology to get it in his brain that you are repparttar 125800 boss. The chief. The head-honcho.

There are more exercises to do than just backing.

Say you have a horse that won't come to you. The reason he won't is likely because of fear or doesn't trust you.

But for repparttar 125801 next few weeks go feed your horses with a halter and brush in hand. Horses love to be brushed. Once you get it in his head that seeing repparttar 125802 halter means pleasure you will almost never have trouble getting him to come to you.

Horse Training Facts And Maxims All Horse Owners Should Know !

Written by Andy Curry

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uninitiated horse owner, there are timely facts about horses they should know. In fact, when someone first gets a horse these timely facts should be studied and learned.

These timely facts come from repparttar 125799 Jesse Beery horse training manual. Jesse Beery was a famous horse trainer from repparttar 125800 1800's. Interestingly, Beery's training methods are as powerful today as they were when Beery was alive.

Timely Fact #1:

Make your horse your friend, not your slave.

Timely Fact #2:

Almost every wrong act of repparttar 125801 horse is caused by fear, excitement or mismanagement. One harsh word will increase repparttar 125802 pulse of a nervous horse ten beats a minute. Hoses know nothing about balking until forced into it by bad management. Any balky horse an be started steady and true in a few minutes. I never found one that I could not teach to start his load in fifteen minutes and usually in three.

Timely Fact #3:

Intelligent horsemen have learned that kickers, biters and balkers are natural results of abuse, that not one horse in a hundred is vicious until made so by cruelty; that whipping a horse is as mean and senseless as whipping a baby, and that repparttar 125803 most useful, obedient and long lived horses are those treated from birth with kindness and common sense.

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