Depending on your horse it might only take one or two time of this exercise to work or it might take more. Unfortunately it might take a while if you can only get out there once or twice a week. There is another method you could use but it will only work if he is not leaving the barn because he is being stubborn and not because he is nervous without his buddies. If he is just being stubborn because he has gotten away with this behavior in the past then the "speak softly and carry a big stick" theory might work faster. Take him out and as soon as he even hesitates about leaving the barn get firm with him use your legs and a crop on the behind to inform him that is NOT acceptable behavior and drive him on. Just a word of caution on this method, as I said before, it will only work if he being stubborn. If his refusal to leave the barn has to do with insecurities then this method will only make him worse.
I'm not sure what your experience is but since you only get out one or twice a week I am going to assume that you don't have a lot of experience with dealing with lots of different horses and behaviors. If you are not sure if the behavior is from stubbornness or insecurity, ask an experience person to come watch you ride him. Have the (good) experienced person get on him see if he does the same to them. A very experienced person will be able to tell the difference between stubbornness and insecurity.
Before people jump all over me about hitting a horse please remember when a horse is misbehaving in the heard the leader will bite or kick him to straighten him out. That can hurt a lot worse then anything us humans can do with one or two swift hits of a crop.
Heather
Ohio
--- In haflingerfriends@yahoogroups.com, "jamiez" <my2zipps@...> wrote:
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> Thanks for all of the ideas of how to solve the barn sour problem..keep them coming!
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> Where I stay he is in a pasture and there is no inside part to the barn to work with him....I only get out once maybe twice a week on the weekends :(
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> I know it will take lot more time then that to work out the problem...I hope that by not being able to work him as much as I would like on the problem in the winter it won't hurt him too much :(
>
> I want us to both behappy and right now I think we both are Budding heads..I want my easy going baby back!
>
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