Carly Rae
Well-Known Member
I just wanted to share a few photos from the past few days of what Kevin and I have been up to
As most of you already know I gelded him on the 11th of Jan. We now do a bit of training of an afternoon.
Photos at the bottom if you dont want to read
My goal in the future is to be able to have him as a lead line pony, but I'm in no hurry so we are taking it nice and slow and so far I couldn't be happier! My main focus at the moment is leading.
Before I had gelded him, I left him in the paddock and I didn't do much with him at all. When I would try lead him away from the others he wouldn't listen to me and constantly pulled on the lead. When I would ask him to trot he would try bite my legs and bound and rear at me. When I watched him play with Toby (my stallion) it was the exact same, so I am assuming he was treating me like I was Toby.
He wouldn't stand to be bathed, he would kick his legs when I lifted them ect. And getting him to stop walking was near impossible.
NOW, all is improving so much! I took him for small walks around his paddock for the first week after her was gelded (He is no longer with Toby, now with 2 full horse geldings and Texas). He had a go at biting a few times, but after I stood up for myself he got the picture pretty quick.
Now I can take him for long walks with just us and he walks perfect. He now knows when I want him to walk I'll click once with my mouth, when I want him to trot I'll click twice and so on. When I want him to stop or slow down I make a deep "wooo" noise. That seems to be pretty effective for us.
I have also taught him to 'Stay'. He is fairly good with it, and its really handy. Sometimes he still follows me, but I only started that 4 days ago
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He is getting the hang of lunging (so am I lol). We just need to work on slowing down to a walk without completely stopping.
I got a tarp out and he actually loved it, it was apparently the most interesting thing out !
It was very hot today, so after our lesson I hosed him down without a fuss. He is also good with the saddle.
Most afternoons I spend about 10-15 minutes with a mix of lunging, leading, desensitizing and a few tricks depending on how we are going. Then I tie him up for 5 or 10 minutes, then lift all his feet. Then brush him and we are all done! Some days I might not do any training and just spend some time braiding or brushing him.
It has been a big help having our friends with their horses here. Tenae and I chat about a lot of training things and I have found it helps a lot.
Thats all I'll say!
Here are the photos!

As most of you already know I gelded him on the 11th of Jan. We now do a bit of training of an afternoon.
Photos at the bottom if you dont want to read

My goal in the future is to be able to have him as a lead line pony, but I'm in no hurry so we are taking it nice and slow and so far I couldn't be happier! My main focus at the moment is leading.
Before I had gelded him, I left him in the paddock and I didn't do much with him at all. When I would try lead him away from the others he wouldn't listen to me and constantly pulled on the lead. When I would ask him to trot he would try bite my legs and bound and rear at me. When I watched him play with Toby (my stallion) it was the exact same, so I am assuming he was treating me like I was Toby.
He wouldn't stand to be bathed, he would kick his legs when I lifted them ect. And getting him to stop walking was near impossible.
NOW, all is improving so much! I took him for small walks around his paddock for the first week after her was gelded (He is no longer with Toby, now with 2 full horse geldings and Texas). He had a go at biting a few times, but after I stood up for myself he got the picture pretty quick.
Now I can take him for long walks with just us and he walks perfect. He now knows when I want him to walk I'll click once with my mouth, when I want him to trot I'll click twice and so on. When I want him to stop or slow down I make a deep "wooo" noise. That seems to be pretty effective for us.
I have also taught him to 'Stay'. He is fairly good with it, and its really handy. Sometimes he still follows me, but I only started that 4 days ago

He is getting the hang of lunging (so am I lol). We just need to work on slowing down to a walk without completely stopping.
I got a tarp out and he actually loved it, it was apparently the most interesting thing out !
It was very hot today, so after our lesson I hosed him down without a fuss. He is also good with the saddle.
Most afternoons I spend about 10-15 minutes with a mix of lunging, leading, desensitizing and a few tricks depending on how we are going. Then I tie him up for 5 or 10 minutes, then lift all his feet. Then brush him and we are all done! Some days I might not do any training and just spend some time braiding or brushing him.
It has been a big help having our friends with their horses here. Tenae and I chat about a lot of training things and I have found it helps a lot.
Thats all I'll say!
Here are the photos!



