I am reassured by your view of what is "training" a youngster. I'm new with a "baby" horse (he's going on three years old) so I spend a lot of time with Toby just hanging around and letting his snuffle things he's curious about. It's done so much to increase his trust in me and, therefore, the world.
I think the word you were looking for is "lunge line". (Rhymes with "sponge") A long rope between you and the horse that allows the horse to move in a circle around you in the center, correct? Lunge line. Is that the term?
Marilyn
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From: moyra_d <sk_4444@hotmail.com>
To: haflingerfriends@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, January 14, 2010 7:38:11 PM
Subject: [haflingerfriends] Re: Training
Hi, is there any way to safely put a bucket underneath her automated water? Here you can buy a bracket with a ring that holds a bucket in place, I would make sure it is very close to the waterer so that she can't put anything in between the two. I haven't had my haflingers very long but learned right away they will check everything out and push this way and that to play with it.
--- In haflingerfriends@ yahoogroups. com, "Mark Nijhof" <m.nijhof@.. .> wrote:
>
> Hi all there.
>
> I think Emily is correct to say that you need the let the Haflinger do things at an early stage of his/her life. I think that many people think that training is mouthing the horse or letting it pull the carriage, and for those things I think 2 or 3 years old is too early. But what I understand of training you can start when they are a baby. For me training is :
>
> playing with the horse so it gets to know you,
> walking with it so it gets to know your commands,
> showing her things so she knows that that is not scary,
> let her know the bit and harnass,
> letting it run around in a circle with a line between you (in the middle) and the horse (Don't know the english word for it).
> Just do things with her.
>
> This all and much more is very important for the training, because when the Haflinger is ready to be mounted or to pull a carriage she will trust you and want to work with and for you. Than you will have so much more fun whith your Haflinger. I can do so much now with my haflingers of course they still do think somethings are scary, but the difference now is they still do what I ask. But that comes with a responsibility You have to make sure that what you ask is ALWAYS possible.
> Thats how I think it should be done and thats how I do it.
>
> Now My question, one of my Haflingers "Silvia" she has a funny thing, we have automated drinkers in the stables. She puts her nose in the drinker to drink but she doesn't drink I think it feels good to her nose the water. But the problem is , normally a horse drinks the water and a sort of button lets coming more water, now "Silvia" isn't drinking but there still is coming water. So she gets a really wet stable. I have twice as much work with her stable than with the others. I made another button for it same results. Does any body have a solution ( not like shutting off the water ).
>
> Thanks Mark Nijhof
> E-mail : mark@...
> Website : www.nijhof.com
>
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