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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":
This book will be broken into five days or segments. Don't take the word "days" super-literally, as you should take each section at a rate that works for you and your colt. You might move through this material (initially at least) in one business week, but the teachings are more meant to be absorbed, to be ruminated and factored into your everyday interactions at the barn. You've got two or more years until you can first climb aboard, so relax and take things slowly. That's more than enough time to fix your foal, break him, and fix him again. Babies can be exasperating things, seemingly trained today and true hazards again tomorrow. When you're breaking an older horse to saddle, you could very well go from "My horse won't back up" today to "My horse backs like a champ" tomorrow. When you're dealing with a weanling, he may be frightened of you today – fine with you tomorrow – and terrified again next week. Or maybe your vet shows up – and you find that your colt is horrified of white hats. It's an evolving process and when you think you're done, you'll find you ain't. They're youngsters with no rhyme or reason so you'll need the patience of Job or an oyster or maybe both. Stay consistent with your training and, like a human teen, your foal will mature, even out and make you proud.
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)