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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":
Note before we begin: I can't stress the following enough. Young horses can be damaged forever very easily. You've got to keep your aggression in check. They've got baby lungs, baby legs, baby necks and baby brains. They may weigh five hundred pounds, but they've got all the physical and mental maturity of your infant niece. This advice may be more appropriate for my male readers, but we'd all do well to remember that while an older horse can be worked to a sweat in the round pen, the legs and lungs of a young horse will simply not hold up to extended exercise. This is an important point: If you work a very young horse in the round pen, for instance, he'll run like a frightened deer – and you might be tempted to keep him going to make your point (whatever it is at that moment) but your baby is in survival mode, running out of fear and could very well be doing permanent damage to himself. That's damage you may not see today – but damage that will come back to haunt you in the future. To put a point on this, think of it this way: If you've got a young gelding, and three years from now you find that he's virtually crippled from "those days back in the round pen," what do you do with him then? Bluntly put, he's an expensive yard ornament for twenty-something years or he's dog food. So listen up.
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)