I whole hardily agree with you about the use of the crop.
It gets the message to the horse that we want you to do as we ask and now,
just like the herd leader without bruises or blood, but a slight sting, a
wake up call.
Once the horse complies always follow up with praise, that makes the
negative incident go away as Clinton Anderson says.
Vicki Baturay
From: haflingerfriends@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:haflingerfriends@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Heather
Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 9:07 AM
To: haflingerfriends@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [haflingerfriends] Re: thanks for the ideas on barn sour
You don't need to work him in the barn for the work at barn rest away to
work. You just need to have an area around the barn where he is comfortable
and is not trying to go back to the barn. If you have to trot circles around
the barn or right in front of the door the key is to only let him rest when
he is away from the barn. You could even work him in the pasture if he is
reluctant to leave.
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
<mailto:haflingerfriends%40yahoogroups.com> , "jamiez" <my2zipps@...> wrote:
>
> Thanks for all of the ideas of how to solve the barn sour problem..keep
them coming!
>
> 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 :(
>
> 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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