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Foal Training Explained: The First Two Years
Mare owners, if you'd like to get your colt or filly started out with a proper foundation, I would suggest the investment of $5.99 in my foal-training course.
- Download and print from your home computer
- 5 days, 5 chapters
- Learn at your own pace
An excerpt from "Your Foal: Essential Training for the Young Horse":
Can't even get the whip to the horse? Back away and lightly smack the whip on the ground, snaking it about, toward the horse but back away before he can move off. If he does move away, keep moving the whip with the same intensity until the horse stops moving, then start again. (If he moves off and you stop your twirling, you're sensitizing him to the whip as described earlier – which is the opposite of what we want to accomplish.) Build on this till you can raise the whip to his shoulder and finally touch him with it, however briefly. In other words, "start where you can." With more timid or younger horses, you may have only a second or two before he moves off. If this is the case, start with a millisecond build from there.
Other available courses include:
Stop Bucking (reviews)
Round Pen: First Steps (reviews)
Rein In Your Horse's Speed (For Owners of Nervous or Bolting Horses) (reviews)
Trailer Training (read the reviews)